Indian edtech startup Unacademy has been acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal valuing the company at ₹19.55 billion (approximately $206 million) — about 94% below its 2021 peak valuation of $3.44 billion. The deal closed on September 1, 2026, nearly six months after it…
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.
Blue Voice, a Boston AI startup, surfaced from stealth in Aug 2026 with $6M led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC to give officers real-time, department-specific policy guidance. It answers questions every minute for daily use at 225 county agencies in 25 states, aiming to avoid consumer-AI errors cited up to 30%.
Microsoft confirmed a multi-hour Outlook/Exchange Online outage on Aug. 31, 2026, traced to a failed “authentication component.” Downdetector saw reports from ~11:30 AM ET, topping 5,000 by 2:00 PM, while users faced auth errors, message send/receive failures, and mailbox search issues.
Instagram announced in August 2026 that it will restrict the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that fail to disclose that fact, and is renaming its existing disclosure label to make the…
Clipto, a San Francisco AI search startup, raised $15M in an all-equity round at a $250M post-money valuation (announced Aug 2026). Its system indexes files on users’ devices—no cloud—and lets people search by descriptions or via ChatGPT/Claude, with new MCP support gated by explicit authorization.
VideoLAN says VLC has topped 7B downloads on all platforms as of Aug 2026, about 18 months after hitting 6B in Jan 2025. President/lead dev Jean-Baptiste Kempf cites a port to Amazon’s Vega OS for TVs and ongoing work on VLC 4, plus last year’s local-model translation/subtitle tease.
Phil Schiller, one of Apple’s longest-serving executives, is stepping down from his roles overseeing the App Store and Apple events, according to a report from Bloomberg published August 31, 2026….
Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and CEO of checkout startup Bolt, announced in August 2026 that he is raising a bridge round of up to $27 million to keep the company operational while it works toward a larger Series E2 funding round.
Meeting note-taker app Circleback announced in August 2026 that it is introducing a free subscription tier alongside revised paid plans starting at $14 per month, down from a previous entry price of…
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…
