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.
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.
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.
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.
After a September 2026 vote to put CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, he used Slack to retake control in ~33 hours, reversing the move. Now the full board and execs—Toni Schneider, Sue Decker, Gen. Ann Dunwoody, plus CLO Andy Missan and CFO Mark Davies—have departed, sources say.
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…
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…
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…
