My free bedtime-story app DjamgaMind Kids (600+ ad-free stories on Black history, African & Caribbean folktales) is a Top 10 finalist in Melamoon, a national pitch competition for Black founders in Canada. Next round is a public vote: Top 5 go to the Toronto Grand Finale in October. One vote, ~20 seconds, one per person, closes Sept 22:
OpenAI Terminates Cursor Partnership: OpenAI announces it will cut off Cursor’s access to its models by November 12, citing trust issues following SpaceX’s acquisition of Cursor parent Anysphere.
Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion: Nvidia agrees to acquire open-source repository Hugging Face at an 80x ARR multiple ($150M ARR), securing control over the dominant distribution hub for open-weights models.
PULSE Framework Decodes Blood Metabolomics: Published in Nature Computational Science, Macau University’s PULSE AI reads 61 routine blood markers to generate 251 expensive metabolomic biomarkers, matching costly specialized laboratory panels.
PLOS Study Exposes FDA Medical AI Gap: An analysis of 1,357 FDA-cleared AI medical devices reveals that only 3 devices were ever evaluated in clinical trials measuring real patient outcomes like mortality or hospitalization.
Live AI Assist Used in Brain Surgery: Surgeons at UCLH complete a pituitary tumor removal assisted by a real-time computer vision AI that monitored camera feeds to flag hidden arteries and optic nerves.
Anthropic Launches Model Hardware Standard (MHS): Anthropic introduces an open protocol letting LLMs like Claude control laboratory microscopes, liquid handlers, and industrial robot arms without custom code.
South Korea Provides Free AI to Every Citizen: South Korea selects SK Telecom, KT, and Kakao to build free, unlimited basic AI services for all citizens, backed by 512 government-supplied Nvidia B200 GPUs.
Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.1B “Machine Age” Fund: a16z unveils a $1.1 billion fund dedicated exclusively to AI hardware infrastructure, targeting semiconductors, robotics, storage, and data center energy.
100+ Tech Firms Warn of Imminent AI Cyberattacks: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft publish a joint call to action warning that agentic cyberattacks will soon become significantly harder to stop.
Federal Judge Overturns Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklist:
OpenAI Reveals Custom “Jalapeño” Chip:
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