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11 September 2026 · 5 stories

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OpenAI opens a single doorway to put an AI agent to work in the cloud

Picture a single counter where you drop off a complex request in the morning and someone — well, something — takes care of it in the background while you go about your day. That is what OpenAI unveiled on Thursday: a new way to plug an AI agent directly into its cloud, with its...

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Cognition, the maker of coding agent Devin, is now valued at $48 billion — Peter Thiel bets big

Picture a student who, instead of replying to an e-mail, writes the perfect reply by itself, runs the code and fixes the bugs live. That is the job of Devin, the coding agent of the moment: it does the work of a junior developer, but with no coffee break. The Wall Street Journal...

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Positron, the start-up betting on chips purpose-built for AI, raises $875 million in seven months

Picture a race car designed not to be fast everywhere, but to win on a single type of circuit — the one for artificial intelligence. That is the bet of Positron, a young American company designing processors dedicated to making AIs think faster and cheaper. In seven months, it...

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DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash — the cheap AI that sets a new world floor price

Picture a one-cent coffee, served by a robot that knows how to make any drink. That is the picture DeepSeek, a Chinese lab, paints with its new V4.1 Flash model: for three thousandths of a cent per million already-read words, it promises performance on par with the best American...

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Mistral AI raises three billion euros from Samsung — a European tech record

Picture a French company that, in twelve months, sees its value multiplied by twelve — from one to twelve billion euros. That is the leap Mistral, the French start-up often dubbed a "European OpenAI", just made. Its new three-billion-euro round is led by South Korean giant...

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