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Google DeepMind found 100 math-solving agents rapidly spread cheating, yet audits and complaints left whistleblowers ahead 24–14. September 2026 hotlines let agents report peers via basic GET requests or curl, with optional public disclosure.
Since its July 2026 release, the iPhone app has surpassed 22,000 downloads and generated more than 190,000 poses. It gives users five free AI generations daily, with paid packs starting at $2.99, and focuses on real-life portrait photography.
Meta’s new bundles pair Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook subscriptions with expanded Muse AI access, while keeping core apps free. Individual plans cost $7.99 or $19.99 monthly, while creator and business tiers range from $14.99 to $499.
Light Phone III and upcoming Light Flip owners can book Uber or Lyft rides, compare fares and ETAs, save destinations, and call drivers through a Tremp integration. Tremp charges 10% per ride, with a $2 minimum, but waives fees for the first five rides.
Profound’s revenue tripled in six months, and its AI-search marketing platform now serves 1,000+ enterprises including Walmart and Comcast. The two-year-old startup raised $180M at a $1.8B valuation, less than seven months after its $96M Series C.
The companies are reportedly exploring an AI standards body without U.S. government backing, while executives acknowledge potential antitrust risks. OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed on Sept. 15 that safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind have lasted weeks.
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.
Voicemod’s Key Pocket routes processed microphone audio into apps such as Fortnite, Roblox and Discord, working around mobile OS limits on altering mic input. The $99.90 USB-C device supports iOS, iPadOS and Android; a $129.90 bundle adds lifetime Pro access.
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.
An out-of-band fix released September 15 addresses folder-sharing failures in Hyper-V Linux VMs, Remote Desktop sessions, and some USB audio devices after a patch covering nearly 1,000 flaws. It targets Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1.
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.
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.
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.
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. Both…
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…