DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, September 18, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, September 18, 2026 Crusoe closes the initial tranche of a $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion post money valuation, co led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a legal industry configuration of GPT 6 Astra with a case law search index. Huawei pulls its Ascend 960DT processor forward three quarters to the first quarter of 2027 and says Chinese demand outstrips supply. Manus nears a $500 million round doubling its valuation to $4 billion in its first raise since Beijing forced it to unwind the Meta acquisition. GlobalFoundries and Marvell expand silicon germanium capacity in Vermont for AI data center optics. MIND raises a $72 million Series B for AI native data loss prevention. SoftBank lifts its Arm backed margin loan by $5 billion to $25 billion to fund AI bets. Alibaba ships Qwen3.8 Omni Flash, a native omnimodal model. Nokia and Microsoft extend their partnership to accelerate AI driven network automation. Raindrop raises a Series A led by CRV, reaching $50 million in total funding for AI agent monitoring. An unsealed publishers filing reveals a Microsoft internal document warning of an AI content doom loop. And Treble Technologies raises $18 million to build acoustic simulation training data for robots. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIInfrastructure #AIChips #DXToday