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AI news, Wednesday 23 September 2026

4 stories from AI Pulse, newest first.

Wednesday 23 September 2026

  1. Startups & funding

    DeepSeek doubles its revenue run rate to $1bn after hiking prices

    DeepSeek's annualised revenue has passed $1bn, up from under $500m a few months ago, according to The Information. The jump followed an August price rise of 2.3 to 4.5 times, which CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors cost it no customers. Its models are still among the cheapest of the major LLMs, and that's the likely reason demand held. It now wants to raise about $7.5bn at a $75bn valuation by the end of October ahead of a Shanghai listing, which works out at roughly 75 times revenue on numbers that were half the size in the spring.

    UK angle: UK developers on DeepSeek's API have watched prices multiply since July. Worth benchmarking the alternatives before the next bill.

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  2. AI agents

    Meta builds Connect around Muse, with glasses support and a keychain gadget on the way

    Meta put its Muse personal agent at the centre of Connect on 23 September. Muse is coming to Meta's AI glasses in the next few months, woken by saying your agent's name, and it gets its own email address plus computer use on Mac, where it can drive any app with your permission. Muse Charm, a small keychain device, got a brief look with no price or date. Meta has already sold millions of glasses, so distribution isn't the problem. What it hasn't shown is why you'd want an agent listening all day.

    UK angle: Some of the new glasses are already on sale in the UK. There's no date for Muse on glasses anywhere yet, so don't plan around it.

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  3. EU & global regulation

    Sanders and Casar table a bill to ban superintelligence outright

    Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on 23 September. It would permanently ban building or deploying superintelligent AI and pause advanced AI development until a new cabinet-level Department of AI writes safety rules, with prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who breaks it. It won't pass a Republican-controlled Congress. Its value is as a marker: criminal penalties for AI development are now a live proposal in Washington, and a year ago they weren't.

    UK angle: Nothing changes for UK companies today. What has changed is the tone of the US debate, from voluntary pledges to talk of prison sentences.

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  4. Generative images & video

    Google opens free 1080p AI video in Vids to every Google account

    Anyone with a personal Google or Workspace account can now generate AI video in Google Vids for free, using the Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash model. You can create scenes in 1080p, upscale older clips, and set a first and last frame so the model fills in the motion between them. Every clip carries an invisible SynthID watermark. Free accounts get six generations a month, desktop only. For a product clip or a job advert, that's plenty to be going on with.

    UK angle: A UK small business with no video budget now has a decent free option. Try it before paying for anything.

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