Artificial Inteligence feed for Friday, September 4, 2026

• XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
• OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
• AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
• Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
• Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
• What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
• Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
• Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
• Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
• Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
• Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
• Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki
• Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)
• Why AI food looks like that
• Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers
• Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users
• This NAS company wants to run your local smart home
• Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
• The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
• Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation