Thursday, 3 September 2026
South Korea's 2027 budget bets big on AI
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A record 821 trillion won budget nearly doubles AI, chip, and physical-AI spending to 21.3 trillion won, funded by a Samsung and SK Hynix memory-chip windfall.
Lasso Security's guardrail skips the GPU
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LEAP screens AI traffic on ordinary CPUs in under 5 milliseconds, and the $30M raise funds a second engine that handles the judgment calls LEAP can't.
Lyte raises $165M to help robots see
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The Apple Face ID veterans' sensing startup tripled its valuation to $1.6B, fusing 4D vision and inertial data onto custom silicon for robotics customers.
Wonderful raises $550M, hits $5B valuation
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The enterprise AI-OS startup more than doubled its valuation in six months as customers use it to automate workflows and coordinate agents company-wide.
Palo Alto Networks buys Console for Cortex
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Console's natural-language agent platform will let Cortex security teams describe an objective and have AI agents investigate and act on it automatically.
Perplexity adds a local AI mode for Mac
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Hybrid Compute splits each task between the cloud and a Mac-resident model, keeping private files on-device with no API key or cloud credits spent locally.
Gemini 3.8 Flash ships weeks after 3.7
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Google's third Flash release in six weeks adds agentic and coding gains plus a gated Cyber variant that patches Chrome bugs for vetted defenders.
JetStream adds pre-execution agent checks
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Clearance checks each agent action against an approved design before it runs, catching a legitimate-looking email send with a data-exfiltration bcc added.