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.
Nitter and XCancel, two privacy-friendly services that allowed users to view X posts without an account, have gone offline following escalating legal pressure from X in September 2026.
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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.
Instagram rolled out Sept 10, 2026, allowing users to add tagged posts to their main profile grid from a DM tag alert, the post, or the Tagged tab. The original isn’t duplicated or deleted and can be removed anytime without affecting Tagged, letting users highlight collaborations and brand campaigns.
Italian software acquirer Bending Spoons announced in September 2026 that it will purchase workplace collaboration platform Miro for $1.36 billion in cash — representing an equity value of $1.79…
In September 2026, Snapchat rolls out “Snapchat Plans” for in-app event organizing: invite up to 200 friends via chat, collect Going/Maybe/Can’t Go RSVPs, and send reminders 1 hour before. Hosts can update time, location, and attendees, and “My Plans” on profiles shows shared events—aimed at fixing details buried in group chats and competing with Partiful.
Automattic’s board placed founder/CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, confirmed Sept. 9, 2026, after a Slack message says CFO Mark Davies and board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker voted him onto leave. Davies becomes interim CEO.
On Sept. 9, 2026, bipartisan lawmakers urged Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick to place BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (formerly Appin) on the sanctions “entity list,” restricting U.S. transactions and cutting off software licenses/cloud. They allege 10+ years of cyberattacks and targeted espionage to manipulate litigation and run an “aggressive censorship campaign” via foreign courts tied to Qatar, citing past FIFA intrusions and a Reuters takedown order.
A Sept. 2026 class action alleges Anthropic’s Claude Max is deceptive: the $100 “5x” and $200 “20x” tiers allegedly count only five-hour windows with a weekly cap. Attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan say the key “session” definition is hard to find via links; Max launched April 2025, with the weekly limit added Aug. 2025.
Liquid Network said an unknown actor stole ~4,000 BTC (~$340M) by exploiting a withdrawal bug—an incident disclosed on X on Sept. 7, 2026. After Blockstream patched it (Samson Mow confirmed Monday), about 3,400 BTC were returned, leaving ~600 BTC (~$47M) pending while operations stay paused.
Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Sept. 2026, alleging their reporting was used for AI training without permission and that answers often reproduce passages. They’re seeking destruction of copies, training datasets, and any models using their work, as nearly 400 local newspapers sue, including The New York Times and Britannica.
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit in September 2026 against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism without authorization to train artificial intelligence…
