DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, September 21, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, September 21, 2026 SoftBank Group launches a bond sale of more than eleven billion dollars, ten billion in senior unsecured notes plus one billion euros, to help fund its next payment to OpenAI. The United States proposes a direct notification channel with China for artificial intelligence incidents that cross a national security threshold, days before the Trump and Xi summit. Microsoft A.I. chief Mustafa Suleyman argues China should not be used as a reason to delay A.I. safety rules. Alibaba's Qwen team open weights Qwen Image 2.1, a seven billion parameter unified generation and editing model with native transparent image support. Apple cuts Fitness Plus roles in its second layoff round in under two months. Marvell prepares the first two nanometer optical interconnect demonstrations for A.I. data centers. ABB launches Infinitus, a source to rack direct current power portfolio for A.I. facilities. Aolani and NVIDIA expand A.I. factory capacity past one hundred megawatts across Southeast Asia. GreenSquareDC signs Sharon A.I. to a fifteen megawatt, ten year anchor tenancy in Western Sydney. Insilico Medicine discloses a joint development deal worth up to tens of millions of dollars for biology foundation models. Metris Energy raises five million dollars to bring A.I. agents to renewable assets. And Yann LeCun joins the scientific advisory board of Cellular Intelligence alongside Moderna cofounder Bob Langer. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #AISafety #DXToday