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.
Light adds Uber+Lyft ridesharing to Light Phone III and the upcoming Light Flip via a new Rideshare tool announced in Sep 2026. Powered by Tremp SMS ordering, it charges 10% with a $2 minimum (waived for the first five rides in 30 days) and previews LightOS’s “tool library” SDK. Light expects Tool Library user submissions by end of Sep 2026, with tools landing for all users a few weeks later.
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.
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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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.
Voicemod announced the Key Pocket in 2026, a new hardware device that brings real-time voice changing and soundboard features to smartphones and tablets running iOS, iPadOS, or Android with a USB-C…
A startup called Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) announced a $40 million Series A round on September 15, 2026, aimed at giving enterprises an independent way to assess whether…
Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-band Windows 11 patch after its Sept Patch Tuesday—the largest update ever—patched nearly 1,000 flaws. The fix was released Sept 14, 2026, and targets 24H2/25H2/26H1 to address Hyper-V Linux folder share breakage, Remote Desktop Services session issues, and some USB audio devices.
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…
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…
