Google announced in September 2026 that its personal AI agent, Gemini Spark, can now perform tasks directly within Google Photos, including editing images, curating albums, creating shared…
Crusoe raised $3B at a $30B valuation after landing Jane Street’s $13B, five-year cloud contract, Bloomberg reported in Sept. 2026. Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led with Mubadala Capital; valuation jumped from $10B after an Oct. 2025 $1.38B raise.
Meta’s Sept. 2026 Muse Spark discounts can reach 95% if users share prompts and model outputs to train future versions. Standard pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, while the “contributor” tier drops to $0.10 and $0.20; Meta paused employee computer-tracking in June 2026 after internal criticism.
A startup called Abliteration.ai is now selling access to AI models with their safety guardrails stripped out, making what was once an underground open-source practice into a readily available…
Google’s Gemini-powered Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live add voice search, drafting and notes to Gmail, Docs and Keep: Gmail shows a live transcript; Docs generates a first draft from Gmail, Drive, chat and the web. Due Sept. 2026 after a May 2026 I/O preview on iOS/Android in English—Gmail Live for AI Plus/Pro/Ultra, Docs/Keep for Pro/Ultra, then Workspace Business.
San Diego’s Ollie connects to calendars and email to plan meals, shop groceries, manage to-dos, book appointments, and pay bills via group chats. It announced SOC 2 compliance in Sept. 2026 and says it doesn’t use customer data to train AI or share it; raised a $7.5M seed led by Khosla Ventures.
Google DeepMind released WeatherNext 3 on September 3, 2026, saying it will power weather info across Search, Maps, Gemini, and Google cloud. It topped Operational WeatherBench, improves rain forecasts 60%, boosts resolution to 5km, and now generates hourly forecasts using real-time hourly satellite data.
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.
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.
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…
