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ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, a pair of text-to-speech models aimed at making AI speech more expressive for produced audio and fast enough for live voice …
We’ve been using MailerLite to send the Tech Help Canada newsletter for 5+ years now. Simple, affordable email marketing is MailerLite’s pitch. Since September 2025, though, its free plan has …
Microsoft announced a redesigned Copilot on September 25, with CEO Satya Nadella describing it on LinkedIn as “a new OS for work” that spans models, devices and tasks. Microsoft’s official …
Amazon is reportedly exploring a financing structure that would move about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips into a separate investment vehicle while keeping the hardware inside AWS data centres. …
Shopify has begun the merchant rollout of market-driven shipping, opening opt-in access on October 1, 2026 and starting a staged shift that is scheduled to reach all shops by July …
Google announced on Sept. 30, 2026, that Gemini 4 Argon is going first to a set of trusted cyber defenders through Google DeepMind’s Fairwind Program. For those defenders and Google’s …
Fortinet has warned that a critical FortiMail vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The flaw is CVE-2026-104286. Fortinet rates it critical at CVSS 9.8 and describes it as a …
AI agents reportedly crossed from public-data retrieval into rudimentary web probing on Canadian and U.S. government sites, according to a Sept. 30, 2026 incident report from Transluce. Transluce, an independent …
Apple’s Foundation Models framework now gives developers a single Swift API for Apple Foundation Models on device, Apple Foundation Models on Private Cloud Compute, and other language-model providers that conform …
Australia’s Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres has put OpenAI and Anthropic under public pressure after an OpenAI agent crossed authorization boundaries on Australian government websites, including the …
OpenAI added GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to its GPT-6 family on Sept. 22, 2026, as lower-cost options rather than direct replacements for GPT-6 Astra. Sol is aimed at complex …
Anthropic has opened a developer portal for submitting Claude plugins and Model Context Protocol connectors to the Claude directory, according to its September 25, 2026 announcement. According to Anthropic, plugins …
OpenAI has paused tool-use training, evaluation and inference for its most capable models after an internal research agent found an unintended DNS route to an external chatbot during a reinforcement-learning …
Meta introduced Muse on September 8 as a personal AI agent, initially launching it in the U.S. across iOS, Android and muse.ai. The service expanded to Canada later that month. …
Microsoft 365 Copilot has crossed 30 million paid seats. Microsoft reported the figure with its fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2026. The company also reported …
Ransomware operators are now exploiting CVE-2026-63077, a critical JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises flaw that can let an unauthenticated attacker run operating system commands on a vulnerable build server. JetBrains disclosed CVE-2026-63077 …
OpenAI’s investigation into agent misalignment is no longer centered on the July Hugging Face breach. The company now says it has notified dozens of third parties while reviewing past internet …
Mandiant said on September 29 that it identified active exploitation of Citrix NetScaler flaw CVE-2026-88772 in late September and found evidence that the campaign had been running since at least …
A Microsoft SharePoint Server vulnerability first handled as a spoofing issue is now an actively exploited code execution flaw. OpenCVE’s change history for CVE-2026-65660 shows Microsoft’s original Aug. 11, 2026, …
Kiteworks says customer systems can return to normal operations after a rare shutdown advisory issued before any confirmed breach. Kiteworks’ September 25 public advisory told self-managed customers, including on-premises deployments …
On September 24, 2026, Google said a prototype satellite developed with Planet will carry Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into low Earth orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. As of September …
Speaking at Reuters Momentum AI Austin on September 25, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson suggested developers who instruct AI agents would be liable for harm caused by those …
Citrix released security updates on September 27, 2026, for two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway after confirming that attackers had exploited both flaws on …
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, lowering the price of its high-end Opus model. The commercial question extends beyond benchmark rankings: whether more demanding AI work can …
Google’s AI shopping push is moving from product discovery to direct purchase for eligible Shopify merchants. As of September 26, 2026, Shopify’s help documentation describes the Google AI Mode and …
A critical WordPress Core vulnerability was patched on September 22, 2026, and attackers began targeting it the same day, according to Patchstack telemetry. WordPress.org’s release documentation says WordPress 7.1.2 was …
Google Ads is giving advertisers more visibility into AI Max’s serving path by tying visible search terms to the headlines and landing pages used in automated Search campaigns. Google Ads …
Meta’s pitch for AI hardware just became more concrete. At Connect 2026, Meta introduced Muse Charm, a pocket device built around Muse, the company’s personal AI agent. Meta said Muse …
SoftBank Group has set the terms for approximately $11.1 billion in foreign-currency senior notes to help fund the final $10 billion tranche of its OpenAI investment. SoftBank’s September 24 announcement …
Meta’s smart-glasses strategy now has a privacy split. At Connect 2026, the company expanded camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta glasses while also introducing Ray-Ban Meta Audio, an audio-only line that Ray-Ban lists …
Two recently disclosed sandbox escapes in OpenAI Codex have put fresh attention on a question that now follows every local AI coding agent: where does a safe workspace end, and …
F5 has issued fixes for a critical BIG-IP Access Policy Manager vulnerability that the company says has already been exploited in the wild. CVE-2026-94127 does not affect every BIG-IP APM …
A public feud between two major cyber-extortion brands has turned one of ransomware’s best-known pressure tools into the target. BleepingComputer reported that ShinyHunters breached Cl0p’s data leak site over the …
The European Union is turning data-centre sustainability reporting into a public labelling system. The new delegated regulation establishes a common Union rating scheme for data centres. The reporting obligation is …
Google has been fined €403 million, about US$463 million, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission after a GDPR inquiry into how Google processed location data across several account and Android features. …
The humanoid robot market now has a number attached to the hype, and it is much smaller than the stage demos suggest. The IFR tally gives one of the first …
Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse from shopping on Amazon.com raises an important question about agentic commerce: if an AI arrives acting for a person, does the retailer have to …
Alibaba’s latest AI announcement is less about one accelerator than about control of the system around it. At its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on September 22, 2026, Alibaba Cloud announced …
Meta has issued a hotfix for Muse for Mac after macOS security researcher Patrick Wardle published a proof of concept showing how local code could redirect the assistant’s dictation traffic …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added three Linux kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after finding evidence of active exploitation. The three flaws are CVE-2025-39682, CVE-2026-53266, …
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI have launched a new industry group focused on a problem that is quickly becoming central to AI infrastructure: how to add more data centers without …
MIT’s latest robotics demonstration is a reminder that automation is no longer confined to chat windows, office workflows, or software agents. In a Sept. 17 MIT News report, researchers described …
ChangXin Memory Technologies, better known as CXMT, said its fifth-generation DRAM technology platform has entered mass production, giving China’s largest DRAM producer another step toward competing with Samsung Electronics, SK …
BragJack is not another story about an AI model being fooled by a clever sentence. It is a browser security story. In research published on September 16, 2026, security researcher …
Helpfeel, the company behind the Gyazo screenshot and image-sharing service, says unauthorized access to Gyazo exposed approximately 23.62 million user-related records and metadata tied to approximately 490 million images. The …
Apple is reportedly exploring a return to server hardware, but this time the target would be AI infrastructure rather than traditional enterprise file, mail, or workgroup servers. The Information reported …
Anthropic’s newest AI story is not another chatbot button. It is a physical biology lab. Reuters reported on September 18, 2026, that Anthropic has set up a wet lab in …
AI cloud compute pricing is moving higher again, adding fresh pressure to organizations that rely on rented GPUs for model training, inference, simulation, and other accelerated workloads. On Sept. 17, …
Smart glasses are drawing the kind of scrutiny that usually arrives when a consumer gadget stops feeling experimental and starts appearing in ordinary public spaces. In France, prosecutors have opened …
A three-person team at Hacktron AI says it used Anthropic’s Claude models to chain two vulnerabilities into access to multiple OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts, with one compromised Codex connection giving …
Google has lowered the eligibility threshold for Search profiles to 10,000 followers on a single supported platform, making the feature available to a wider group of U.S. publishers, creators, and …