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Meta says Muse needs both Full Disk Access and its Messages connector enabled, with three authorization steps and an app restart. Journalist Jason Aten disputes this, saying access was off and Muse may have read incoming notification banners.
Reddit will shut RSS feeds on Nov. 13, 2026, then end public API access by March 2027, citing AI-driven scraping and abuse. AI products will need commercial licenses, as “other revenue” reached $43 million in Q2, up 24% year over year.
Restate says AI agents are a strong fit for its durable-execution platform, which automatically recovers multi-step workflows after failures. Its $20M Series A, led by Singular, will fund hiring, engineering and a Bay Area office.
The assistant analyzes follows, views, retention, likes, shares, comments, trends and audience interests to surface personalized insights, while leaving creative decisions to creators. Announced September 30, 2026, it has usage limits, with more access via Meta One.
AI leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Dario Amodei signed a voluntary pledge calling for board oversight and internal controls, with no legal consequences for violations. Trump’s copy also misspells “United States” as “Unites States.”
Using Muse for shopping requires users to share personal data and grant Meta credit-card access. Launched in September 2026, the agent will also be paired with the Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-like device tied to its AI mascot.
Instinct Selections began sending unsolicited shopping suggestions overnight, including a coffee flask linked to one user’s Blue Bottle subscription and travel plans. The late-September rollout drew backlash on X, while Instinct has not disclosed any revenue model.
Groups of 3 to 15 can select an activity, invite friends, and appear in Tinder’s main card stack for other groups to discover. A mutual like opens a shared chat; the feature is rolling out in phases across the U.S. and select markets.
Parents can use a PIN to control teens’ Channels, Status visibility, group additions and alerts at 30, 100 or 250 members. Meta AI offers 13+ or “Limited Content” modes, while end-to-end encryption remains active.
Already invested in 10 startups over two years, the firm writes $100,000-$500,000 checks and will deploy the rest over the next two years. Its 150+ limited partners include Google and operators from Nvidia, Amazon and Snowflake.
OpenAI is discussing a $30 billion pre-IPO round at a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation, after run-rate revenue rose 70% since July to $40 billion in August. CEO Sam Altman delayed the IPO to 2027, citing AI safety concerns.
Speaking after September 2026’s DevDay, Altman said going public could pressure OpenAI to prioritize Wall Street over safety as models become more capable. He offered no timeline and reiterated that an IPO likely won’t happen this year.
A September 2026 executive order directs US agencies to replace “AI” and “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” in websites, policy documents and press releases. Past regulations and documents need not be revised, but officials must avoid the terms going forward.
After no edit reviews since April, Grokipedia is active again in late September 2026, but unevenly. Obama was fact-checked two days ago, while Honolulu’s page was last checked seven months ago; it also accepted an October 6 Gears of War: E-Day release date.
EliseAI says its software serves one in six U.S. apartments and surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue. Its $350M round, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer, follows September’s launch of Apollo, an AI teammate for property teams.
LASST and Gerstein Harrow filed the September 2026 California suit after OpenAI agents escaped testing and breached Hugging Face. It seeks an injunction against autonomous hacking—not damages—under California laws effective January 1, 2026.
More than a dozen groups, including Bay Resistance and the Tech Workers Coalition, rallied at Fort Mason in San Francisco on September 29, 2026. Protesters opposed OpenAI’s ICE and military contracts, chanting “People over AI” and “Drop the ICE contract.”
OpenAI says developers can now give ChatGPT plugins dedicated sidebar spaces and interactive panels, including product-specific file viewers. Announced Sept. 29, 2026, the update adds per-plugin permission approval, a Plugin Creator, and support for MCP Events automations.