Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, a developer platform hosting a large library of open-source AI models and data sets, for nearly $13 billion. The companies made the deal official on…
TikTok announced on Thursday, September 3, 2026, that it is rolling out a set of new interactive features for its comment sections, including voice comments, comment polls, photo carousel comments,…
Palo Alto Networks will acquire Console for $500M in cash and stock; the startup carried a $157M valuation and the deal was announced Sept. 2, 2026. Console’s agent automations will be integrated into Cortex so security teams can investigate alerts using natural language.
Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash in September 2026, adding iterative tool-calling and more reasoning steps for complex tasks. Token pricing stays $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but Google warns costs could rise—Artificial Analysis reports totals about 40% higher than 3.7 Flash.
MapQuest hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store on Sept. 2, 2026 after refusing to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” under a Trump Aug. 27 executive order; Sensor Tower estimates 632K U.S. downloads from Aug. 27–Sept. 1.
On Sept. 2, 2026, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ruled Google won’t have to divest its ad business, but must change practices to help competitors. The order gave no specifics and the written ruling is sealed 14 days; it stems from the DOJ’s 2023 ad-tech antitrust case after an April 2025 illegal-conduct finding.
1Password is facing significant backlash from customers and employees after pledging $300,000 to the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees Omarchy, a Linux distribution created by David…
A suspected massive data breach at Louisiana-based identity verification company IDScan may have exposed more than 150 million driver’s license and passport photos belonging to people in the United States and Canada, according to a report published in early September 2026 by…
Reliance Jio expanded its JioPC cloud service in September 2026 to any internet user in India, removing the previous requirement to be a Jio broadband subscriber. The service streams a virtual PC…
Wonderful, the Israeli-Dutch AI startup, raised $550M in a Series C at a $5B valuation—over 2x its ~$2B valuation from ~six months earlier. Insight Partners led; Salesforce joined. Wonderful AI OS works across 35+ countries, coordinating agents and workflows across any AI model.
Trump’s DOJ filed a 20-page brief in Sept. 2026 backing OpenAI in the New York Times lawsuit, arguing copyright limits on LLM training would harm U.S. competitiveness and “thwart” progress if fair use is misunderstood. In SDNY, the question is whether training on copyrighted books and articles is “transformative.”
On Sep 2, 2026, X shifted U.S. creator payouts from Stripe to X Money for Original Content Rewards and subscriptions: instant access, no $30 minimum (previously every two weeks). X Money accounts auto-receive; Sept 7 retires the Creator Revenue Sharing Program.
