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Briefings and posts from the research team
Last updated: 22 September 2026
Posts and analysis as they happen. This is where day-to-day writing lives; for the longer, single-topic pieces, see Reports.
- Graphwise secures VC backing to expand semantic AI layer
Oakley Capital acquires a majority stake in Graphwise to push its GraphDB knowledge-graph technology into global enterprise markets. - Legal Responsibility for Autonomous AI Harm Rests With Users and Developers
Australian legal experts warn that deploying autonomous AI agents exposes users and developers to strict liability when software acts unpredictably. - Google Allows Users to Remove Visible AI Watermarks From Generated Media
Google introduced a setting to disable visible sparkle watermarks on Gemini media while keeping embedded SynthID markers. - SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion after Grok collaboration
SpaceX has bought coding AI startup Cursor for $60 billion, binding a popular developer tool to SpaceXAI's compute and model stack after Grok 4.5 and 4.6. - Google Play Adds Venmo: A Small Crack in App Store Payments
Google Play now accepts Venmo for U.S. digital purchases, a modest widening of wallet choice inside a tightly controlled platform payment system. - First anti-AI protester jailed reshapes boundaries of AI activism
Court action against Wynd Kaufman shows how disruptive anti-AI protests can trigger criminal enforcement while safety arguments move through courts and institutions. - White House finalises AI safety review but keeps testing criteria secret
A new voluntary framework will require advanced AI models to undergo pre-release government review, yet the criteria will not be made public. - Nvidia's $500bn AI financing plan turns compute into credit
Nvidia signed preliminary deals with six major financiers targeting over $500bn to treat AI compute as collateral-backed credit infrastructure. - Zijin Gold’s Reworked Bid Signals Caution on Chinese Mining M&A
Zijin Gold’s recalibrated Canadian investment points to a wider, more cautious stance by Beijing on outbound Chinese mining M&A. - US Tax Incentives Fund AI Infrastructure Without Necessarily Creating It
Accelerated tax write-offs reduced Microsoft's tax bill, but evidence shows tech firms planned data centre spending before the policy passed.