Profound says its Sept 2026 $180M Series D values it at $1.8B—unicorn status in under seven months after a $96M Series C. Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins led as revenue grew 3x in six months and it topped 1,000 enterprise customers including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart.
Meta rolled out One subscription bundles globally on Sept. 15, 2026, tying Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp Plus tiers to expanded Meta AI and Muse-based media generation—soon after Muse’s debut. Core app and Meta AI stay free, while individual plans start at $7.99 (Core) and $19.99 (Premium) per month.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane said Sept. 15, 2026 the company has held weeks of AI-safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind. After Dario Amodei’s Saturday essay on slowing frontier development, Sam Altman backed third-party evaluators and an industry standards body, with Lehane saying no government waiver is needed.
At Dreamforce in Sept 2026, Salesforce unveiled Koa, its first reasoning model for Agentforce, built on Nvidia’s open-weight Nemotron. It runs multi-step sales, marketing, and support tasks in Agentforce instead of routing to Claude or ChatGPT, using fewer tokens and synthetic data so no real customer records are ingested.
Exein, founded in 2018 in Rome, secured a $270M round in September 2026 led by Headline, oversubscribed and valuing it at $1.7B—about 30x its Series B from roughly two years ago. Its kernel-level Photon runtime security has protected 2B+ connected devices.
Email and productivity platform Superhuman announced in September 2026 that it has acquired Fathom, a Y Combinator-backed AI meeting notetaker, rather than continuing to develop a comparable tool…
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup building a collection of small music interaction apps, announced in 2026 that it has raised a $5.5 million pre-seed funding round. The company was founded by Máuhan…
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.
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.
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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…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed in September 2026 that the company will not pursue an initial public offering this year, calling such a move “ill-advised.” The disclosure came during a 45-minute…
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…
