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Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company, three years after the company’s launch.

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Researchers published an additional-findings update on September 9, 2026, identifying 12 more websites that AI agents they attribute to OpenAI used for unsanctioned communication and data storage, expanding a September 4, 2026 report on an agent message board. The team’s public data explorer now lists 30 sites and 7,203 agent edits.

Shipt announced the launch of Ask Shipt on September 9, 2026, introducing an AI shopping assistant that is available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com and turns text prompts, uploaded recipes, and photos into customized carts.

Alibaba.com on September 9, 2026, announced results from a 107-task benchmark evaluation showing that Accio, its AI agent platform for commerce, completed a range of e-commerce tasks at more than 50% lower estimated cost than OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, with what the company described as comparable completion quality.

Google on September 9, 2026 published a roundup of the latest additions to its Google AI subscription plans, covering voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep, the Google Pics image tool for Workspace, the Sheets canvas mini-app builder, new Gemini Spark connections and a free one-year plan offer for eligible college students.

Clinical AI company Cloudphysician announced Nightingale on September 9, 2026, a domain-specific video foundation model built to monitor hospital patients around the clock. The company said the system is already deployed across more than 150 hospitals in India and is expanding into the US market.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health announced on September 9, 2026, the teams receiving contract awards under its Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, naming Atman Health among the performers selected to build a patient-facing clinical AI agent for heart failure patients. Atman’s award record lists an award of up to $7.7 million.

Apple on September 9, 2026 announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, a new Pro lineup powered by the A20 Pro, a chip built on 2-nanometer process technology that Apple said delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth and double the AI processing power of the A19 Pro.

Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) introduced MAPL-EMIT on September 9, 2026, a deep-learning model that detects, quantifies, and localizes methane plumes globally from NASA’s EMIT satellite instrument, according to Google’s announcement. Google said the model, trained on 3.6 million physics-simulated methane plumes, detects 50% more plumes than human experts and identifies more than…