Paul Christiano, an AI alignment researcher who believes AI development poses a meaningful risk of catastrophic and irreversible loss of human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation’s board of…
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.
Apple unveils iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, from $1,999. Explore its displays, cameras, iOS 27, preorder date and release date.
Apple announced a suite of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features at its iPhone Duo launch event on September 9, 2026, and simultaneously released a document explaining how the company intends to…
Legal AI startup Harvey announced on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, that it has raised $550 million in a new funding round, valuing the company at $15.5 billion.
The round was co-led by Diffusion and…
British politicians are moving to regulate and potentially ban superintelligent AI systems in September 2026, responding to a series of incidents involving AI agents going rogue and growing warnings…
Apple announced in September 2026 that its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 will include four opt-in “audio intelligence” tools that continuously use the devices’ microphones to…
One week after New York City and Los Angeles announced 1-year bans on student-facing AI, Microsoft agreed in Sept. 2026 with the AFT (and its NYC affiliate, UFT) on 10 enforceable school privacy/safety principles that districts can add to contracts starting November. The pledge includes no training on student/educator data, limits on collected data, plain-language family disclosures, a ban on AI companions, and human review of “high-risk” decisions.
iOS 27 arrives Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, led by a redesigned Siri AI beta limited to English devices; French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish are planned for October. It also adds a Liquid Glass opacity slider and separate volume controls.
An Anthropic pre-training researcher resigned in September 2026, publicly warning that AI labs are “gambling with our lives” by racing to build self-improving AI systems that could end human control…
Instinct (valued at $2.5B) announced Sep. 9, 2026 that users get dedicated Instinct email addresses so the agent can create accounts and contact businesses without accessing personal inboxes. It can act on forwarded messages—for example returns—and summarize long or group threads to flag decisions and deadlines.
Suno launched Suno v6 on Sept. 9, 2026, trained on licensed music from WMG, BMG, and Believe, as suits from Sony, UMG, and Jason Isbell remain active. Base, Wild, and Mini debut with prompt/lyric editing, text/image/video references, and instrument separation; remixing requires artists to opt into Suno’s label program.
