DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, September 17, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, September 17, 2026 OpenAI weighs a new private round at roughly a $1.5 trillion valuation ahead of its planned listing, and ten banks assemble a $22 billion loan for Crux AI, the Blackstone and Alphabet cloud venture, secured against Google TPUs. Judge Leonie Brinkema orders Google to open its advertising stack to Prebid and accept a six year compliance monitor while rejecting a breakup, and a federal appeals court clears Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI of DMCA claims over Copilot. Huawei unveils the Ascend 960 SuperPod with near packaged optics linking 4,096 accelerator cards, Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger creating a transatlantic sovereign AI group, and Manus nears $500 million at a $4 billion valuation in its first raise since splitting from Meta. Plus DeepMind spinout Emulate approaches $700 million at $3.7 billion, ByteDance closes $290 million for drug discovery unit Anew Labs, Arcee AI crosses $1 billion on roughly $20 million of training spend, a stealth model called Union Alpha lands free on OpenRouter, and Databricks commits $350 million to Singapore. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIFunding #AIChips #DXToday