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Cisco (CSCO.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) expand the Splunk Intelligent Agent artificial intelligence cooperation agreement.

Rome-based Physical AI cybersecurity company Exein announced the completion of a new funding round of 234 million euros (approximately 270 million dollars), with a valuation of 1.4 billion euros (approximately 1.7 billion dollars), making it the highest-valued cybersecurity startup in Europe.This funding round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, the European Investment Bank Group, KfW Capital, and T.Capital, while J.P. Morgan simultaneously expanded its revolving credit facility.

According to Bitcoin News, The Smarter Web Company plans to issue perpetual preferred shares under the stock code MORE, with a fundraising target of £15 million to £25 million, and a minimum fundraising scale of £10 million, with listing access requiring support from three market makers.Holders will receive cumulative weekly dividends and liquidation priority, but will not have voting rights, and the company may redeem shares. As of mid-2026, SWC holds 2,878 bitcoins; after the High Court approves the capital reduction, the company will have £132.5 million in distributable reserves for payments.

According to Bloomberg, due to the impact of the El Niño phenomenon, the inflow to Ethiopia's hydropower dams has significantly decreased, and Ethiopian Electric Power Corp has reduced electricity supply to the Bitcoin mining industry by three-quarters.Data shows that Bitcoin mining companies contributed 35% of the company's revenue in the past fiscal year, with their electricity consumption accounting for nearly one-third of the country's total power generation (9,730 megawatts). This large-scale power restriction may severely impact the operations of local mining companies.

Stablecoin company Fin.com announced the completion of a $20 million seed round financing, led by Expa and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, Figure founder, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, Second Sight Ventures, and Gulf and African sovereign and royal family offices.Fin.com was co-founded by Bangladeshi founder Nabeel Alamgir and Pakistani founder Mustafa Dar, dedicated to solving the "last mile" problem of stablecoin conversion to local bank accounts or digital wallets, providing white-label payment infrastructure to financial service companies, consumer platforms, and prediction markets. Its client platforms collectively serve over 800 million users. The company focuses on markets in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with offices currently in New York, Las Vegas, Dubai, Dhaka, Bangalore, and Lahore.

According to the Industrial and Commercial Times, with the expansion of HBM and advanced logic below 2 nanometers, it is estimated that the global silicon wafer supply-demand gap will widen from about 8% by the end of 2026 to 15% in 2027 and 24% in 2028. GlobalWafers, Siltronic, and TSMC are expected to benefit from this. It is noted that mid-2027 will be a critical turning point; if the pace of supply expansion does not keep up, a new wave of shortages and rush buying may occur from the second half of 2027 to the first half of 2028.SEMI statistics show that the global silicon wafer shipment area reached 3.573 billion square inches in the second quarter of 2026, an increase of 9.1% quarter-on-quarter and 7.4% year-on-year. It is estimated that the global monthly production capacity of 12-inch silicon wafers will be about 10.69 million pieces in 2026, an increase of 7% year-on-year, with only about a 3% increase to 11 million pieces in 2027, and an increase of about 6% to 11.7 million to 11.76 million pieces in 2028. The new supply includes about 300,000 pieces from the second phase of GlobalWafers and about 100,000 pieces from Siltronic.It is estimated that the consumption of HBM silicon wafers will increase by 23% and 28% in 2027 and 2028, respectively; new general DRAM production capacity will gradually come online starting in 2027, with an additional monthly capacity of about 350,000 to 450,000 pieces by 2028. In terms of advanced logic, the consumption of logic process silicon wafers is expected to increase by 12% and 11% in 2027 and 2028, respectively. Currently, customer silicon wafer inventory remains at about 100 to 120 days, and it will take time to digest to the normal level of 50 to 70 days.

According to a report by Reuters, U.S. Senate negotiators are discussing legislation that would require artificial intelligence companies to demonstrate that they are taking reasonable precautions to prevent their tools from causing harm. The proposal aims to grant the U.S. Secretary of Commerce the authority to require developers to provide proof of reasonable steps taken to prevent harm, referred to as "duty of care," and to authorize the dispatch of government auditors to test relevant products. Reuters was unable to immediately determine what constitutes "reasonable," and the related legislation is still under discussion.Even if Congress passes the measure, its prospects of becoming law still face significant resistance. U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Monday that existing authorities are sufficient to regulate and prosecute technology companies, suggesting that he would not sign a bill that sets new rules for artificial intelligence. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is involved in the negotiations, are discussing the proposal. Thune told reporters on Monday that Congress could set safeguards against more significant threats without compromising the U.S.'s leading position in the artificial intelligence race.Klobuchar stated in a statement that she is continuing to push for bipartisan legislation to oversee the greatest risks posed by artificial intelligence models, including requiring developers to work with government experts to validate and test models to ensure safety. Senior Democratic member of the Commerce Committee Maria Cantwell is also involved in the discussions. Reuters reported on Friday that negotiators are also discussing the possibility that if the government determines that certain artificial intelligence models are unsafe and wishes to prevent their release, it could be brought to federal court, where companies could challenge that decision. The portion of the measure involving federal courts would also prevent states from enforcing their own laws regarding specific risks associated with artificial intelligence models.

According to TechCrunch, AI networking technology company Cornelis announced the completion of a $205 million financing round, led by IAG Capital Partners. The company was spun off from Intel in 2020 and develops networking technology that helps AI chips communicate more effectively. It has released a product called Active Compute Fabric, which addresses the issue of a significant amount of GPU time being wasted waiting for data to arrive by allowing chips to process and send information simultaneously.Cornelis competes with Nvidia using an open architecture, allowing customers to use various GPU and accelerator hardware on its network architecture. Although Nvidia chips can technically run on other network architectures, they are optimized for their own software, making customers more inclined to use the full Nvidia GPU stack. Cornelis has begun shipping products and is developing a new generation of products expected to be released later this year.

Apple announced that Siri artificial intelligence will begin testing in English today, with plans to expand to 5 languages in the future. Siri AI will initially be unavailable in the European Union on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.

Court documents show that Elon Musk's company X and xAI have resolved the antitrust lawsuit against Apple (AAPL.O).

According to The Information, Nvidia, Palantir, and Booz Allen Hamilton will restrict the use of advanced AI models from companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) expands the open-source CUDA-Q platform for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

According to Business Insider, the Seattle-based artificial intelligence company Nuance announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, NVentures (a subsidiary of NVIDIA), South Park Commons, and Define Ventures.Nuance was founded last year by three former Apple researchers, aiming to develop multimodal AI models with stronger emotional understanding capabilities. The company completed a $10 million seed funding round led by Accel last July.

Market news: Japanese NAND giant Kioxia Holdings is considering raising $10 billion through an IPO in the United States.The company is in talks with Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase to seek more liquidity in the U.S.

On September 14, the Japanese stock market's real estate, retail, and IT service sectors performed actively. According to Gate platform's Japanese stock market data, Rand (8918) rose by 10.00%, currently reported at approximately 0.07 USD; Kobe Bussan (3038) increased by 6.35%, currently reported at approximately 21.00 USD; SHIFT (3697) saw an increase of 6.05%, currently reported at approximately 6.00 USD.

According to EU-Startups, Zurich-based preventive healthcare company Aeon announced the completion of its seed round extension financing and simultaneously acquired the German blood diagnostics platform Aware Health, bringing the total amount of seed round financing to over 12 million euros (approximately 14 million dollars).This round was co-led by Araya Ventures, with existing investors Concentric, GoHub Ventures, Kadmos Capital, Calm/Storm Ventures, N&V Capital, and Bigwave Capital participating.

The final rules from the Central Bank of Brazil for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) set the minimum capital requirement based on business and risk at approximately 10.8 million to 37.2 million Brazilian Reais (approximately 2.11 million to 7.2 million US dollars), significantly higher than the 1 million to 3 million Brazilian Reais range (approximately 195,000 to 586,000 US dollars) in the consultation draft, and adds requirements for governance, internal controls, anti-money laundering, auditing, and ongoing reporting.Industry estimates suggest there are currently about 150 to 300 related companies, with around 20 to 25 meeting the conditions or willing to apply, and ultimately only about 10 may obtain licenses. Some small platforms have ended or restructured their retail operations.

According to the official announcement, Binance Pay has announced the expansion of its enterprise payment capabilities, launching a set of on-chain solutions aimed at wallets, trading platforms, dApps, payment service providers, merchants, and digital platforms, including On-ramp as a Service, Pay On-chain, and AgentPay based on x402.This service allows enterprises to leverage Binance's infrastructure to provide users with features such as cryptocurrency asset purchases, on-chain fund transfers, and programmatic payments.

According to "Du Jia," Huya is developing an AI emotional companion product "24:01," which has not yet been officially released or tested. This product focuses on multi-role and long-term relationship accumulation, integrating interaction forms such as rooms, dating, voice, and storyline instances, with four character settings launched initially.The product is based on Huya's self-developed VAM 1.0 digital human technology, and relationship progression does not rely on check-ins or paid unlocks, with system memory supporting viewing and deletion. Huya has not yet responded to this, and specific information will be based on official statements.