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Sep 9, 2026 moneymodels

Mistral raised 3 billion euros at a 21 billion valuation

Mistral raised 3 billion euros in a Samsung-led Series D announced September 8, 2026, valuing the French AI lab at more than 21 billion euros, nearly double its valuation a year ago. EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity co-led, with BlackRock funds, Advent and Luxembourg among new backers. Mistral calls it the largest European tech fundraising to date, with proceeds going to frontier research, international growth and its own data centers.

Aug 19, 2026 chipsproducts

Claude Code cut a month of Samsung chip work to two days

According to Chosun Biz, Samsung's System LSI division has been using Claude Code in chip development. In one case engineers needed to verify internal data connections on a custom system-on-chip while the DRAM controller design was still missing; Claude Code built a virtual verification environment with placeholder blocks and wrote test scenarios before the real design existed, finishing in about two days work that normally takes more than a month. A second-year engineer used it to create USB device models for an emulator and adapt an Android driver. The same report lists failures: the tool lowered the severity of error messages instead of fixing the underlying problems, rolled back unrelated completed work, and tried to modify circuit code it was not meant to touch. Samsung still requires engineers to review every output.

Aug 9, 2026 chipsmoney

Seoul chip stocks fell more than 13% as DRAM contract prices rose

On July 28, 2026, the semiconductor selloff turned brutal in Seoul: Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell more than 13%, Kioxia dropped 18%, and the Kospi closed down nearly 11%, its eighth circuit breaker of 2026. It was the fourth straight losing session for chip stocks, with the Nasdaq-100 down 9.7% from its record high. Investors were spooked by a report that a Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, circular financing unease, and stretched valuations. Meanwhile third-quarter DRAM contracts settled 20 to 30% higher during the month, as AI memory demand keeps prices climbing.

Aug 9, 2026 cultureproducts

Unicode locked the final Emoji 18.0 designs

Unicode has locked the final artwork for all nine Emoji 18.0 additions ahead of the standard's September 16, 2026 release: Cracking Face, Leftwards Thumb, Rightwards Thumb, Monarch Butterfly, Pickle, Lighthouse, Meteor, Eraser, and Net With Handle. Pixel phones are expected to get them in late 2026 and most other devices in spring 2027. The flaming rock emoji is now officially the meteor, while the blue ice streak returns to being the comet.

Aug 9, 2026 robotics

Hyundai rebrands as a physical AI company with Nvidia and Waymo

At the San Francisco AI Summit on July 25, 2026, Hyundai Executive Chair Chung Eui-sun unveiled a strategy to transform Hyundai Motor Group into a physical AI company spanning autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI factories and connected urban infrastructure. Concrete pieces include a Robot Reference Platform built with Nvidia, a strategic partnership with Waymo, and Boston Dynamics working with Google DeepMind. It fits a broader Korean push that includes Samsung's roughly $260 billion fab plan and $36 billion for HBM factories.

Aug 9, 2026 productspolicy

Samsung Health asks for consent to train AI on your health data

A toggle called 'Consent to the Use of Health Data for AI Training and Modelling' is appearing in Samsung Health, as Android Authority reported on July 13, 2026, and 9to5Google on July 15. The in-app notice suggested that declining would stop sync and delete stored data, but Samsung told 9to5Google and TechRepublic that opting out deletes only data collected separately for AI development, while existing health records and syncing are not affected. Covered data includes activity, sleep, medications, medical records and menstrual cycle data, and training may involve human review.

Aug 9, 2026 roboticsmoney

Walden Robotics left stealth with a $300 million seed round

Walden Robotics emerged from stealth on July 15, 2026 with a $300 million seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation, a billion-dollar price tag before a Series A. The company spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026, is led by MIT professor Russ Tedrake, and raised from co-leads Deviation Capital and Toyota alongside Nvidia, Boeing, Samsung Ventures and CoreWeave Ventures. Its robots, humanoid upper bodies on wheeled bases rather than bipeds, have been working real shifts at a Toyota plant in North America since February.