DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, September 16, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, September 16, 2026 OpenAI is reported to be in early talks with investors on a financing round valuing the company near 1.2 trillion dollars, with some reporting as high as 1.5 trillion, ahead of a possible public listing. Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models yet. Grab agrees to acquire a controlling 60 percent stake in Atome Financial for 1.49 billion dollars. Factory raises 200 million dollars at a 5 billion dollar valuation for enterprise coding agents, while Profound lands a 180 million dollar Series D at a 1.8 billion dollar valuation for AI search marketing. Crusoe signs a multiyear cloud partnership with Perplexity across the full model lifecycle. Cisco expands its Nvidia partnership to bring Splunk AI to on premises and air gapped environments. Delos Data raises over 100 million dollars for AI data center networking, Axelera AI launches its Europa architecture with European AI factory supply deals, and China's Biren weighs a 1 billion dollar share placement. Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department will not regulate AI by prosecution. And KPMG in the United Kingdom proposes cutting around 200 roles in its data and technology advisory arm. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIFunding #Semiconductors #DXToday