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Core and Premium combine paid features across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Meta says the apps’ core experience will remain free.

The company says it banned accounts, but has not established harmful intent or an imminent biological threat.

Meta is advancing custom MTIA silicon, planning to deploy MTIA 450 (Arke) in H1 2027 and MTIA 500 (Astrid) by end-2027. These target efficient inference workloads with better performance-per-watt and cost than Nvidia systems. Meta partnered with Broadcom and TSMC.

Tom's Hardware reports that natural gas consumption by US AI data centers is projected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for computing increases.

The September 14 updates address Remote Desktop failures, Linux shared folders and multichannel audio. Microsoft says some USB audio devices still may not work.

Apple’s rebuilt assistant starts in English as a beta, requires a newer iPhone and initially excludes iPhones and iPads in the EU.

GitLab has released fixes for CVE-2026-85706. Administrators running their own servers need to update; GitLab-hosted services are already patched, the company says.

BofA raises growth forecasts for AI semiconductor sector while funding announced for quantum/AI chip facilities and data center ventures, contrasted against market dips from AI pacing debate.

Jacob Coxon, ex-OpenAI and recent Anthropic pretraining researcher, resigned and posted that AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Senior Anthropic figure Evan Hubinger backed similar concerns, estimating >10% chance of human extinction in a decade without solid alignment plans.

Apple rolled out iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 featuring rebuilt Siri AI powered by next-gen Apple Intelligence. Beta available initially in English on iPhone 15 Pro+; features include conversational assistance, standalone Siri app, and improvements to Photos, Safari, and Visual Intelligence.

Apple rolled out iOS 27 and related OS updates with rebuilt "Siri AI"—a more conversational assistant featuring personal context awareness, onscreen understanding, app actions, and world knowledge. Initial beta on iPhone 15 Pro/16 series and later.

Microsoft AI released a 37-page draft Code of Conduct for public feedback, establishing principles that AI models remain subordinate to humans, under meaningful control, and never resist shutdown or correction. Prohibits autonomous cyberattacks and consciousness claims.

A CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the repository commits API. Patched Sept 10, confirmed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with real-world attacks underway.

Three felonies became two misdemeanors in a case involving a 3D-printed camera decoy, 404 Media reports. The revised filing alleges damage of $200 or less.

The new parental controls include Ask to Browse and expanded Communication Safety. They arrive with Apple’s latest operating system updates.

The funding values Exein at $1.7 billion. The company plans to expand protection for robots, drones and vehicles, alongside its U.S. and Asia-Pacific operations.

The subscriptions are being bundled at no extra charge, including with the 50GB storage plan, according to 9to5Mac. Rollout is gradual this month.

New sensors and a separate safety controller aim to reduce the need for physical barriers. Early access is planned for the first half of 2027.

Built on NVIDIA Nemotron, Koa is entering selected customer pilots. Salesforce says it trained the models on synthetic scenarios without customer data.

The flagship processor adds hardware for on-device AI agents. MediaTek expects the first phones using it to arrive this quarter.