September 2026 saw Florida and Texas move to drop Flock license-plate readers over privacy and misuse. Florida DOT ordered removal from state highways within 30 days after Ron DeSantis called it “out of control”; Texas halted funding after a Lufkin officer was indicted on 100 felony counts over alleged unauthorized database tracking in the ~130,000-camera network.
Emerging from stealth on Sept. 1, 2026, AIR raised $50M in two seed rounds ($10M led by Sequoia, $40M by Greenoaks) to vet what enterprise AI agents can use. Its platform continuously checks skills, plugins, MCP servers and add-ons, blocking failures and filtering out about 27% of what it finds.
Mozilla rolled built-in ad blocking to Firefox iOS in September 2026, using Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker + EasyList to block third-party ads and trackers before they load (off by default). Enable it in Settings > Browsing > Ad Blocker; ads served by a site, search results, and sponsored new-tab shortcuts still show.
Apple has filed new evidence in its lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former employee Chang Liu used stolen Apple trade secrets in his work at OpenAI and then destroyed evidence after learning he…
In August 2026 the Pentagon added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to GenAI.mil, a secure portal launched last year with 1.7M unique users out of roughly 3M DoD personnel. The military versions are exempt from common commercial data collection, with ChatGPT Mil aimed at unclassified admin/logistics and Grok delivered via SpaceX’s Starshield AI.
The European Commission announced in August 2026 that ChatGPT has been classified as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), subjecting OpenAI to tougher…
A security researcher has disclosed nine vulnerabilities in disk encryption and pre-boot authentication software used in ATMs and across multiple other industries, raising concerns about how software…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and more than 100 other companies co-signed a letter in August 2026 warning that organizations have only months to prepare for a surge in AI-enabled cyberattacks. The letter calls…
Fraudsters in China are exploiting Microsoft Teams to run romance and cryptocurrency investment scams, tricking victims into transferring large sums of money through the enterprise messaging…
Brave adds email aliasing to block real-address tracking: after creating a Brave account, users choose an alias via a pop-up or right-click; mail is forwarded and then deleted from Brave servers. Brave doesn’t read contents beyond spam/virus filtering; notes are local (E2E if synced).
While India pressure builds on Meta, Sandhya Devanathan (Meta VP for India & Southeast Asia) is set to join OpenAI on Aug. 28, 2026, based in Singapore and reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. She’ll lead consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across Southeast Asia and Australia after Meta apologized in August for a July Instagram restriction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian officials summoned Joel Kaplan.
A federal judge (Rita Lin, Aug. 28, 2026) ruled the Trump administration’s move to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” was illegal retaliation under the First Amendment, also citing “arbitrary and capricious” action and Fifth Amendment due process violations.
