Pearson agreed to acquire AI-native skills platform Workera, with the deal expected to close in H2 2026 and Workera joining Pearson’s Enterprise Learning & Skills business unit.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Trump’s “morally binding” Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities has Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia’s leaders agreeing to self-police AI safety via internal monitoring, internal remediation teams, independent external evaluations, and a board-level oversight committee.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
BAG Ventures, run by Bonita Stewart and Jackson Georges Jr., closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups with check sizes of $100,000 to $500,000.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The Galaxy SmartTag 3 adds pet activity monitoring, recording how much a pet moves, how long it’s been active, and how much it sleeps through the SmartThings app.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Engadget
Airbnb’s fall update will add social discovery features letting users share trip details with connections and browse a new interactive Travel Map showing where their social network has stayed and what they booked.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag 3 is 35% smaller, 10% more power-efficient, and rated for up to 550 days of normal CR2032 battery life (790 days in power-saving), while adding iPhone support via cross-OS tracking updates.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
Galaxy Tab S12 Plus (upgrading from Tab S10 Plus) adds a larger 12.6-inch brighter display, a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset, and a bigger 10,600mAh battery, while starting at $1,199 after a $200 increase.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
A caller using Microsoft FrontPage to build a Van Halen fan site became increasingly drunk during a support call and demanded to “talk to Gates.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Register
Apple is reportedly set to reveal its long-rumored smart home hub, HomePad, on October 13 alongside a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
Plasma 6.8 will be the first KDE Plasma release without an X11 desktop session, with the desktop running on Wayland while X11 apps continue to work via XWayland (Plasma 6.7 still offers the X11 session as an optional installation).
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Temasek plans to open offices in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh in the first half of 2027 to expand its Middle East footprint, with hubs expected to support co-location by some of its portfolio companies.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
CNBC
Japan PS5 Pro buyers must have a Japan-registered Sony account and be signed in with at least 60 hours of play on a PS5 or PS4 from September 27, 2024 to September 27, 2026 to apply for purchase.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Airbus’s A350F freighter—featuring a 4.3-metre door—flew for the first time on a four-hour-10-minute flight, climbing to 25,000 feet.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
OpenClaw announced an “OpenClaw Enterprise” (OCE) version 1.0 with an enterprise-grade control plane, multi-tenancy, hard security boundaries, and standardized agentic primitives aimed at letting organizations deploy agentic platforms despite common IT bans.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, and XAI signed the non-binding “White House Accord on Superintelligence” that sets out four layers of internal controls and audits but does not require any specific actions or define key terms like “robust” controls.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Meta announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, aiming to evolve its Muse AI stack into products and services enterprises can deploy in operations via a connected suite including Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Sam Altman said OpenAI won’t go public until it can make “confident safety claims” about its models, with no firm IPO timeline.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
Open TTS Leaderboard evaluates multilingual text-to-speech and voice cloning models with objective metrics—WER/CER via Qwen3 ASR, inverse real-time factor and time-to-first-audio on H200 (plus cosine speaker similarity via WavLM embeddings)—so leaderboard updates drop from weeks to a couple hours instead of arena-style voting.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Google put Gemini Enterprise for Legal into preview in late August with four major firms, and Anthropic released Claude Legal Solutions in the three months before that, as AI vendors move faster into legal work than courts can fine lawyers for filing AI-generated fictitious citations.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Nearly a quarter of Anthropic’s revenue last year came from two customers, and its prospectus warned many large clients aren’t locked into long-term contracts—giving enterprise CIOs potential leverage to negotiate terms like price protection, advance notice before model retirements, and data portability.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Computerworld
