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Everbridge acquired Open Measures on September 2, adding public-source threat analysis to crisis management while preserving the acquired company’s team, brand and research program.
Andreessen Horowitz launched a $1.1 billion fund on August 28 for the chips, memory, networks, power systems and data centers needed to deploy AI.
On August 31, 2026, a16z expanded its fifth Growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding $1.75 billion as AI megadeals concentrate more late-stage capital among fewer companies.
Socure announced a $5.2 billion valuation and the acquisition of Fravity on Aug. 27. The $156 million financing combines growth capital with liquidity for employees.
Retro’s financing was company-confirmed on August 28, 2026: a roughly $21 million Series A backing a friend-focused social app that relies on subscriptions rather than advertising.
On September 2, 2026, astronomers unveiled a moving, ten-sided atmospheric wave at Saturn’s south pole, giving the planet a less stable counterpart to its northern hexagon.
Before sharing personal details with an AI character, check model training, deletion, other data uses, age rules and safety review—because no single setting makes a chat private.
On September 1, 2026, Google launched agentic video understanding for Gemini Flash models. It targets long or moment-specific analysis; static remains the better fit for short clips and full-timeline precision.
On September 2, GitHub made content exclusions generally available in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, but symlinks and remote filesystems remain outside the protection.
On September 1, 2026, GitHub made Enterprise Live Migrations generally available for supported GHES-to-GHE.com repositories, using continuous synchronization to reduce final cutover to minutes.
GitHub will apply Actions retention settings to checks, workflow runs and statuses from October 1, 2026. Teams needing longer audit history should archive linked evidence before cleanup begins.
GitHub Classroom closed on August 28, 2026, but its repositories remain. Recover separate course records from saved exports and institutional systems before migrating coursework.
GitHub plans to enable a unified Copilot experience no earlier than September 28, with account-lifetime chat retention. Separate seat-billing changes start October 1 for affected customers.
GitHub put Copilot pull-request approvals into public preview on September 1, 2026. Once enabled, an approval can satisfy a repository’s required-approvals rule.
Evaluate the complete LLM application on representative inputs and explicit launch gates. A benchmark winner can become the configuration you reject before rollout.