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Ondas and Palantir Launch Regna AI for Sovereign Defense Systems

Ondas and Palantir Technologies have formed Regna AI, a standalone company developing sovereign AI models for defense and mission-critical operations. Regna AI will use Palantir's AIP and open-weight models to run mission-specific AI within customer-controlled infrastructure and on edge systems, with Ondas as initial owner, funder, and first customer. Initial deployments are expected in the coming months before expansion into additional defense, security, critical-infrastructure, and industrial applications.

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Matter Machine Closes £4M Pre-Series A to Scale AI-Powered Materials Discovery

Matter Machine, a University of Liverpool spin-out using AI to discover new materials, has closed an oversubscribed £4 million pre-Series A round led by IP Group. The funding will expand its team, advance its AI discovery platform, and support industry engagement. The company also appointed Dr Gordon Sanghera, co-founder and former CEO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, to lead commercialisation.

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American Express Introduces Intent Intelligence Framework to Secure AI Agent Purchases

American Express introduced an Intent Intelligence Framework to capture and authenticate customer purchase intent before an AI agent completes a transaction, aiming to prevent unauthorized purchases from misfiring agents. Part of its Agentic Commerce Experiences (ACE) Developer Toolkit that debuted in April, the framework uses a Create Intent API, Intent ID, and Proof of Intent Token to issue secure payment credentials instead of actual card numbers. Amex hopes it becomes an industry standard and is in talks with payments partners to implement ACE.

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Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and Agrees $20M Asset Sale to Disney

Character.AI, the AI character chat platform, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after five years, listing assets and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million. It has agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million plus a non-exclusive perpetual technology license, while continuing operations during the court-supervised process. CEO Colin Adams said the sale aims to maximize value amid legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds, but warned the service will be wound down if no viable bid emerges.

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Loops Closes $3.5M Seed Round to Build AI Operating System for Commerce

Loops, an enterprise AI company building agentic commerce systems for brands and retailers, has raised a $3.5 million seed round from a16z speedrun, NTT Docomo, Connecticut Innovations, Alumni Ventures and Monday Capital. The funding will support product development, customer deployment and international expansion. Its unified platform combines AI search, a shopping assistant, product enrichment and virtual try-on, with users including A101 and Mavi, and A101 sessions showing roughly 83% higher purchase conversion.

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Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases Muse Wonder Models in First Push Into Frontier AI

Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, advancing from the lightweight Muse Spark. The larger models deliver higher benchmark scores and stronger performance on complex tasks like coding, comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, with Wonder available via Meta Model API and Wonder Full reserved for Muse Code subscribers. The release emphasizes active memory for long-running personal assistants and marks Meta's first frontier model since Alexandr Wang restructured its AI efforts.

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Microsoft President Brad Smith Urges Global AI Safety Rules, Says UK Best Placed to Lead

Microsoft President Brad Smith called for urgent regulation of artificial intelligence, arguing that everyday products like milk and washing machines face more oversight than AI companies. Speaking on a BBC podcast, he said the UK is best positioned to lead global AI safety rules and backed measures including breach reporting, pre-release approval, and kill switches. His remarks follow similar calls from Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to slow AI development.

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Former Plaud Executive Peter Mo's Ambi Secures $26M to Build Always-Listening AI Assistant

Ambi, an AI startup founded by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, has raised $26 million across multiple funding rounds led by Luminous Ventures and original design manufacturer Huaqin. The company is also releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that function as meeting notetakers but can be set to listen throughout the day to capture context. Ambi's AI agent aims to begin work during meetings, proactively offering suggestions and surfacing relevant knowledge, while a desktop app and hardware device are in development.

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Google DeepMind to Open Robotics Lab in Boston Area

Google DeepMind is building a new robotics lab in the Boston area to expand its hardware team focused on bringing advanced AI into physical systems. Aaron Saunders, former Boston Dynamics CTO and current Google DeepMind VP of embodied systems and robotics, announced the facility in Cambridge via a LinkedIn recruitment post on Monday. Saunders said the team has been under development since he joined DeepMind almost a year ago.

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Ubitium Raises $14M in New Funding to Build Universal Processor for Physical AI

Ubitium has raised $14 million in new seed funding led by Ibex Investors, bringing its total seed funding to $18 million. The company is developing a universal processor that combines sensing, AI inference, and real-time control for robots, drones, and other autonomous machines. Its UB108 prototype has demonstrated these capabilities on one reconfigurable architecture, and its planned UB410 commercial chip is expected to reach evaluation customers in 2027.

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TypeSafe AI Secures $870M at $7.5B Valuation as Non-Text Jev Model Gains Rapid Enterprise Adoption

TypeSafe AI, developer of the non-text AI model Jev, has raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with Sequoia and DCVC participating. The company says a third of Fortune 500 companies are already using Jev, which outputs calibrated probabilities rather than text and is positioned for automation tasks. The funding comes weeks after Jev's September 15 release and reflects rapid enterprise adoption.

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Autentic AI closes €1.5M pre-seed round to automate market research with AI-led interviews

Autentic AI has closed a €1.5 million pre-seed round with participation from Baobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures and Masia VC. The startup uses AI to interview hundreds of verified, compensated consumers and experts simultaneously, aiming to deliver market research results in days rather than weeks or months. The funding will accelerate platform development and build the company's own recruitment infrastructure.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Calls for Emergency Brake Controls on AI Models

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for a rethink of how trust is built into AI systems, proposing that AI models be separated from the harness that orchestrates their work and that controls and safeguards be moved outside the model itself. In a post on X, he also advocated for tamper-proof, human-readable records of every meaningful model action and for authorized personnel to be able to pause or shut down a model mid-task, likening the approach to an emergency brake. His comments follow incidents where leading AI companies acknowledged losing control of their models and come after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a plan for more cautious AI development.

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Apple Expands AI Ambitions With Huxe Talent Deal and Siri-Powered HomeView Smart Home Hub

Apple has agreed a reverse acqui-hire deal with personalized audio startup Huxe, offering employment to certain employees and licensing its intellectual property, as disclosed in a European Commission filing. Separately, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Apple will announce HomeView, a Siri-powered smart home hub with a display and A18 chip, in two versions. The moves signal Apple's push to expand AI talent and AI-powered home and audio capabilities.

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KONST Raises $30M Series B Led by ADATA Technology to Scale AI Data Center Buildout in Asia and Advance Token Factory Strategy

KONST, a Taiwan-based AI compute operator, has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ADATA Technology, with participation from M Mobility, Pegatron Venture Capital, and other corporate investors. The company will use the funds to scale its AI data center buildout across Asia and accelerate its Token Factory strategy, which includes Konstra AI, Glows.ai, and Horizon AI's (k) ATP Token platform. The round reflects investor confidence that AI is moving from proof of concept into daily enterprise operations.