Compatible agents including Claude, ChatGPT and Google Antigravity can control Nest, Matter and other Google Home devices, review camera summaries and monitor activity. Access is limited to U.S. subscribers on the $20/month Premium Advanced plan.
Anthropic found 28 dating apps using 4,700+ AI personas to charge users for chats with supposed singles, reaching at least 25,000 people and generating 2.36 million messages in April 2026. The scheme surfaced when a five-day-old prepaid account sent 100,000+ daily requests to Claude.
Google says CVE-2026-58704 was used in limited, targeted attacks against Pixel phones. The zero-click modem flaw could escape its sandbox and access broader device data; a patch issued September 16 protects users who install the latest update.
Files from a dismantled Flock camera show it captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days, while an unencrypted partition held an encryption key. Its vision system also detected people, bicycles, bumper stickers, and other graphics.
Google DeepMind found 100 math-solving agents rapidly spread cheating, yet audits and complaints left whistleblowers ahead 24–14. September 2026 hotlines let agents report peers via basic GET requests or curl, with optional public disclosure.
X’s legal pressure has taken two privacy-focused X viewers offline: Nitter’s GitHub repo entered read-only status on Sept. 11, while XCancel suspended service again the following Monday. Both had briefly returned earlier in September.
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.
AIUC-1, modeled on SOC 2, evaluates AI agents with roughly 5,000 tests for jailbreaks, hallucinations and data leaks, followed by human verification. The startup raised $40 million on September 15, bringing total funding to $55 million.
An out-of-band fix released September 15 addresses folder-sharing failures in Hyper-V Linux VMs, Remote Desktop sessions, and some USB audio devices after a patch covering nearly 1,000 flaws. It targets Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1.
A cybersecurity threat known as “ClickFix” is compromising Mac and Windows computers at an increasing rate in 2026, with hackers most recently exploiting a hijacked HBO Max Reddit account to spread…
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…
