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Humanoid, a London-based robotics startup, is seeking $200 million in funding from Saudi Aramco at a valuation of around $1 billion. The funding round would value the company at $1bn based on a $200m investment. This investment would establish Humanoid as a major player in the robotics sector backed by significant corporate capital.
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14 September 2026
AI governance took center stage today, but it wasn’t the usual think-piece version. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said policymakers may need to require a third-party-checkable “kill switch,” arguing labs have different shutdown methods and verification shouldn’t be left to internal process. That call landed in the same news cycle as Microsoft’s new AI code of conduct, which sets “absolute constraints” forbidding cyberattacks, nuclear weapons and deepfake production, and frames model behavior as governed by overarching system rules rather than user instructions. Separate but related, Dario Amodei urged pacing capability gains over roughly 6–12 months, with embedded third-party evaluators inside frontier labs. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman then pushed for industry coordination on safety, unveiling a plan to solicit feedback for six weeks.
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