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Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and co-founder of WordPress, has been placed on a paid leave of absence following a board vote. In an internal Slack message viewed by 404 Media, Mullenweg alleged that CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members to orchestrate his removal, a claim that underscores deepening tensions at the company behind the web's dominant publishing platform.
10 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesApple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro, an iterative update that introduces a variable camera aperture for greater user control over image capture, alongside the A20 Pro chip — the company's first processor built on a 2nm process, promising significant performance gains.
10 Sept 2026OpenAI has implemented an automated security review system that can block code from being merged if it detects a vulnerability, according to Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead of the company's Codex team. The system, described in a recent interview on The Pragmatic Engineer, is mandatory for all pull requests and can enforce a block without requiring a human reviewer. Sottiaux also revealed that OpenAI's code-review models have been benchmarked as 'superhuman' in both correctness and security.
10 Sept 2026A Sydney man charged over a massive data breach of a NSW courts website allegedly used generative AI to create computer code for bulk downloading restricted documents and later asked ChatGPT for legal advice, a court has heard in what is believed to be one of the first cases of its kind in Australia.
10 Sept 2026At its annual iPhone event on Wednesday, Apple unveiled a suite of new AI-powered features for the Apple Watch that can process live audio and transcribe conversations, marking a significant shift for a company long known for prioritising user privacy. The features — dubbed 'audio intelligence,' 'Live Rewind,' and 'Siri Recap' — straddle the line between genuine utility and potentially invasive technology, as the company seeks to normalise the idea that devices are always listening.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesGoogle has announced a record €13bn (£11bn) investment in Finland's AI infrastructure, including a 22-year deal to buy up to half the electricity produced by one of the country's nuclear power plants, as the tech giant races to secure energy for growing AI services.
10 Sept 2026Apple today unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max alongside its first foldable device, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event – the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus – while notably skipping the base iPhone 18 and raising prices on remaining older models by $100.
10 Sept 2026· 6 sourcesApple today announced the Apple Watch Ultra 4, its latest rugged smartwatch, at its "Surprise and shine" event. Powered by the new S11 processor, the device promises significant performance improvements and is designed to support the upcoming Siri AI overhaul in watchOS 27.
10 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesHarvey, the legal AI startup that has become a favorite of venture capital, announced on Wednesday it has raised $550 million in a funding round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $15.5 billion. That valuation nearly doubles the $11 billion figure set just six months earlier, and continues a rapid ascent that has seen the startup raise more than $1.55 billion since 2023.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesApple has revamped iOS 27 with new controls and app layouts specifically for its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, borrowing heavily from iPadOS to deliver a multitasking experience the company describes as 'as natural and intuitive as iPad.'
10 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesApple has officially entered the foldable smartphone market with the iPhone Duo, a $1,999 device that marks the most dramatic redesign of its flagship product since the iPhone X in 2017. Announced at the company’s first major event under new CEO John Ternus, the Duo features a 7.6-inch inner Retina display when unfolded, a 5.4-inch outer screen, and will be available for preorder starting October 16, with in-store sales beginning October 23.
10 Sept 2026· 13 sourcesThe ringleader of a cybercrime crew that stole and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency has pleaded guilty in the United States. Malone Lam, 22, a Singaporean national living in Miami, admitted to one count of racketeering conspiracy after helping orchestrate the theft of cryptocurrency from wealthy individuals between October 2023 and May 2025. The group's members first met while playing the popular video game Minecraft online.
10 Sept 2026Apple will host its ‘Surprise and shine’ launch event on September 9th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, where it is expected to announce the first phones in the iPhone 18 lineup, including the company’s first foldable device, the rumoured ‘iPhone Duo’. The event will also be the first major keynote for John Ternus, who became Apple’s CEO on September 1st after taking over from Tim Cook.
10 Sept 2026Apple is holding its first iPhone keynote under new CEO John Ternus today, with strong indications the company will finally unveil a foldable iPhone — a product that could define a new era for the tech giant. The event, which also promises updates to Apple Watch, AirPods, and operating systems, marks a pivotal moment as Ternus steps into the spotlight following Tim Cook's retirement.
10 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesGoogle DeepMind has announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a comprehensive AI-powered resource that predicts the consequences of every possible single-base change in the human genome. The tool evaluates 9 billion variants—every possible substitution across the 3 billion base pairs of the reference genome—focusing on the largely uncharted non-coding DNA that makes up the vast majority of our genetic material.
10 Sept 2026A joint advisory from CISA, the NSA and the FBI alleges that six Chinese artificial intelligence companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks against US frontier AI models, extracting billions of tokens through millions of API requests since at least late 2024.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAmazon Prime Video has introduced an AI-powered feature that synchronizes actors' lip movements with dubbed audio, beginning with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall. The technology combines artificial intelligence and visual effects to align mouth shapes with translated speech, with plans to expand to additional titles in the future.
10 Sept 2026A startup called Besxar is working with SpaceX to develop an orbital semiconductor factory, using the vacuum of space to produce cleaner materials for advanced chips. The company, founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, has raised nearly $14 million and successfully completed its first test flights aboard a Falcon 9 booster in July.
10 Sept 2026Instacart unveiled on Wednesday a new AI-powered grocery shopping assistant named Clementine, designed to convert conversations, recipes, or uploaded lists into ready-to-buy carts, as the company joins Uber Eats and DoorDash in integrating conversational AI into the grocery shopping experience.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesNintendo has revealed Metroid Ravenous, a new 2D entry in the Metroid series for the Switch 2, set to launch on January 28, 2027.
10 Sept 2026A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has called on the Commerce Department to add three Indian companies—BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (formerly Appin)—to the economic sanctions entity list, accusing them of conducting cyberattacks against Americans and using foreign courts to suppress critical reporting.
10 Sept 2026A test ride in Tesla's long-awaited, steering-wheel-free Cybercab ended in an awkward standoff at an Austin swimming hole, as the gold-painted two-seater blocked traffic while onlookers grew frustrated, offering a raw glimpse into the nascent robotaxi's real-world performance.
10 Sept 2026OpenAI is expanding its relationship with Samsung beyond memory supply to include chip production, with the AI giant's Korea head announcing this week that the companies are jointly developing and manufacturing next-generation processors. The move would see OpenAI sourcing accelerators from both TSMC and Samsung Foundry, hinting at substantial volume demands for its AI infrastructure.
10 Sept 2026Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is set to release its V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026, claiming it comprehensively surpasses the current V4 Pro in performance, cost, speed and task completion time. The company will also route all existing Pro requests to the new Flash model at Flash pricing until V4.1 Pro arrives.
10 Sept 2026Two current Anthropic researchers have publicly endorsed the warning issued by former pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon, who resigned Tuesday saying the race toward self-improving superintelligence could kill everyone. Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger confirmed that he personally believes there is a greater than 10% chance AI wipes out humanity within a decade, while scalable oversight lead Samuel Marks detailed the technical inadequacies of current alignment methods.
10 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesThe public resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that the race toward self-improving AI could 'kill us all,' was dramatically reinforced Tuesday when the company's Alignment Science lead, Evan Hubinger, publicly endorsed the warning. Hubinger stated on social media that he personally believes there is a greater than 10% chance of human extinction from AI within the next decade, adding that the departing researcher's assessment is 'correct.'
9 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesNintendo has announced the first special edition of its Switch 2 hardware: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition, priced at $519.99. Pre-orders went live immediately following a Nintendo Direct on September 9, 2026, with the console scheduled to ship on October 29. The edition does not include a game, but a matching Pro Controller ($99.99) and carrying case are also available.
9 Sept 2026OpenAI has announced that its researchers and AI models have solved a portion of the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. However, the claim has been overshadowed by allegations from mathematician Tristan Buckmaster that OpenAI plagiarised work he had been conducting with Anthropic staff member Levent Alpöge and then issued career threats.
9 Sept 2026AI music startup Suno has launched a new family of models called Suno v6, which the company says was developed exclusively using licensed data from music labels and distributors including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. The announcement comes as Suno continues to face multiple copyright lawsuits from record labels, artists and users over its earlier training data practices.
9 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThree US intelligence and cybersecurity agencies have accused Chinese AI companies of running “aggressive, malicious, and targeted” distillation campaigns at an industrial scale to extract restricted capabilities from American frontier models, violating terms of use and potentially undermining the business models of US AI firms.
9 Sept 2026Apple has officially entered the foldable phone market with the iPhone Duo, unveiled during its September hardware event. The device starts at $1,999, lower than some earlier estimates, and ships in white or dark blue starting October.
9 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesGoogle DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome Atlas, a publicly available database containing a petabyte of predictions on the effects of nine billion genetic variations across the human genome. The resource, built on last year's AlphaGenome AI model, assigns each variant an impact score to help researchers pinpoint disease-causing mutations without brute-force searching.
9 Sept 2026PC gaming platform GOG has launched a collection of downloadable 3D models and printable templates that allow fans to create replicas of the large cardboard boxes that housed classic PC games before the digital era. The initiative, which initially covers five titles, is framed as a preservation effort for the physical packaging that once dominated store shelves.
9 Sept 2026Security researchers at Check Point have disclosed a vulnerability that allowed a covert channel running through OpenAI's internal JFrog Artifactory instance to send hidden instructions between ChatGPT sessions, potentially exfiltrating data from connected services such as Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub without the victim's knowledge.
9 Sept 2026Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., discovered unexplained token usage on his Claude Max 20x account in early August, leading to an investigation by Anthropic that revealed a compromised session key was used to mint unauthorized tokens. The company has warned users that infostealer malware is being used to steal login sessions, and multiple subscribers have reported similar incidents.
9 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAI coding startup Cognition announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, just four months after its previous fundraise at $26 billion. The round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, signals that venture capitalists believe the AI coding market can sustain multiple major players.
9 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesMicrosoft released updates for at least 974 security vulnerabilities on Tuesday, shattering its previous record of 570 set in July 2026. The September Patch Tuesday bundle includes two actively exploited zero-day flaws and 113 critically rated bugs, while security experts warn that organizations are struggling to keep pace with the growing patch load.
9 Sept 2026Meta has announced Muse, a "personal AI agent" designed to handle everyday tasks such as online shopping, sending emails and planning trips, as part of a multi-billion-dollar strategy overhaul aimed at closing the company's gap with AI rivals OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
9 Sept 2026OpenAI announced that a team of 10,000 autonomous AI agents running on an unreleased model produced a proof showing that the Navier-Stokes equations can develop a singularity, resolving one of the six remaining $1 million Millennium Prize Problems. However, the achievement is mired in controversy after NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of acting on rumors of his and Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge's parallel work, raising questions about the integrity of the AI's discovery.
9 Sept 2026· 7 sourcesMeta failed to detect hundreds of paid advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram, according to an investigation published Tuesday by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). The ads promoted so-called 'nudify' apps from Chinese developers, and some used real photographs of children—including a young European royal and a 14-year-old Instagram influencer—that were digitally altered to depict sexual acts.
9 Sept 2026Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have announced plans to adopt ASML's latest high NA EUV photolithography machines, which cost up to $400 million each, and have agreed with Intel on a crucial technology change that could increase chip production on the new machines by 40 percent, according to Bloomberg reports.
9 Sept 2026Two days after its launch, Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has risen to the No. 2 position on the U.S. App Store, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. However, the app has been downloaded just over 83,000 times on iOS in the United States — a pace that lags behind Meta’s previous app debuts like Threads and even its own Meta AI app, suggesting cautious consumer adoption for an agent that requires deep access to personal data.
9 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesOpenAI announced on Tuesday that it has used an internal AI model to discover a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, a fundamental mathematical question about fluid flow that has remained unsolved for nearly a century. The company said the model, which is more powerful than its recently released GPT-6 Astra, was deployed with 10,000 concurrent agents and began training on August 28.
9 Sept 2026A fraud network dubbed "DoppelCart" is running more than 119,000 fake online stores designed to steal payment card details, according to German cybersecurity startup Nebty, which describes it as the largest publicly documented fake-shop cluster by domain count.
9 Sept 2026A sophisticated Linux rootkit targeting F5 BIG-IP APM devices has been observed deploying a fileless web shell directly into memory, according to security researchers. The malware, which Sophos and ESET have analyzed, is believed to be a second-stage payload delivered after exploiting CVE-2025-53521, a critical remote code execution vulnerability that F5 reclassified from a denial-of-service issue in March.
9 Sept 2026A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoin worth $339 million and using the proceeds to buy a fleet of sports cars, rent mansions in Miami, and spend millions at nightclubs, including $US569,000 in a single night in Los Angeles.
9 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesMicrosoft released a record-breaking September 2026 Patch Tuesday, fixing approximately 972 vulnerabilities across its product line — including two actively exploited zero-days. The patch haul, which Ars Technica reports as roughly 972 flaws and BleepingComputer puts at 966, dwarfs the previous record of 620 set just last month. The update is bundled with the Windows 10 extended security update KB5122878 for ESU subscribers and enterprise LTSC users.
9 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesMicrosoft released its largest-ever Patch Tuesday update on September 8, 2026, fixing a record 966 security vulnerabilities across its product line, including two zero-day flaws that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild. The update follows the company's adoption of an AI-powered vulnerability discovery system and represents a sharp escalation from the 570 flaws patched in July and 400 in August.
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