Profound’s revenue tripled in six months, and its AI-search marketing platform now serves 1,000+ enterprises including Walmart and Comcast. The two-year-old startup raised $180M at a $1.8B valuation, less than seven months after its $96M Series C.
Meta’s new bundles pair Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook subscriptions with expanded Muse AI access, while keeping core apps free. Individual plans cost $7.99 or $19.99 monthly, while creator and business tiers range from $14.99 to $499.
The companies are reportedly exploring an AI standards body without U.S. government backing, while executives acknowledge potential antitrust risks. OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed on Sept. 15 that safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind have lasted weeks.
Koa brings complex Agentforce reasoning in-house, aiming to use fewer tokens and cut costs versus routing tasks to Claude or ChatGPT. Built on Nvidia’s open-weight Nemotron, it was trained on synthetic sales and customer-service scenarios, with no real customer records ingested.
Exein’s $270M round, led by Headline, values the Rome-based startup at $1.7B—30 times its Series B valuation roughly two years ago. Its kernel-level Photon platform has secured more than 2 billion connected devices across six industries.
Superhuman chose acquisition over building its own meeting notetaker after testing one internally in 2026. Fathom brings 400,000+ monthly active users, over 1 million meeting recordings, and a product backed by more than $30 million in funding.
Backed by 11 investors including Mantis VC and former Spotify executive Dawn Ostroff, the startup releases music-interaction apps as “singles” on an album. Its lineup includes a 3×3 stem player, YouTube sampler and iOS remix app bop; multiplayer is in development.
Microsoft’s September 2026 AI code of conduct is a two-tier system of principles and safety constraints that overrides user or task instructions, aiming for human flourishing. It absolutely bans cyberattacks, deepfake production, and nuclear weapons assistance, and warns superintelligent AI could surpass humans on most tasks within a decade.
AI fashion app Daydream launched two new features in September 2026 that let iPhone users shop directly from saved outfit photos and search for clothing through Siri without opening the app.
Both…
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology company, in a deal valued at over $300 million, according to a September 2026 report from The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI did not…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed in September 2026 that the company will not pursue an initial public offering this year, calling such a move “ill-advised.” The disclosure came during a 45-minute…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post in September 2026 outlining three strategies to slow the pace of AI development, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk both publicly…
