Anthropic expanded Claude for Small Business on September 15, 2026, bringing the small-business plugin to 43 workflows and adding 27 new integrations with tools including Shopify, Salesforce, TikTok, Atlassian, Zoom, Xero, Gusto, Square, Stripe, and Zapier. The release arrives with a fall schedule of free in-person workshops, partner webinars, and community-run training. New Workflows and…
Lectra on September 15, 2026 announced the launch of Apogy, a cloud-based solution that embeds agentic artificial intelligence in fashion product development, the phase between garment design and production. Irish sportswear brand O’Neills and international fashion group Oniverse are among its early customers. Lectra describes Apogy as a single digital environment that brings together the…
G5 Labs, an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) spinout, has emerged from stealth with $14 million in seed funding and an ambitious thesis: the next major programming language may not look like a programming language at all. The Boston-based startup is developing an abstraction layer for AI-native software development in which natural-language…
Michael Rangel, Founder of Novo, is a fintech entrepreneur who founded the company in 2016 and served as its CEO for more than nine years, helping transform Novo from an early-stage concept into a financial platform serving small businesses. During his tenure, Rangel worked across product development, fundraising, hiring, operations, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy, helping…
Anthropic announced the beta release of Salesforce in Claude on September 15, 2026, a plugin built with Salesforce that brings a seller’s accounts, opportunities, and pipeline into Claude under their existing Salesforce permissions. Anthropic said the plugin includes 37 skills for the work account executives do daily, including account research, call prep, pipeline review, and…
Crusoe on September 15, 2026, announced a multi-year partnership with Perplexity under which Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud, training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters and serving them in production through Crusoe’s Managed Inference service. The announcement, datelined San Francisco, also commits Crusoe to adopting Perplexity Enterprise Pro…
Meta introduced Meta One on September 15, 2026, a subscription service that adds paid tiers across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta AI, with plans for individuals, creators, and businesses. Meta said the service launches with more than 50 features and 15 million subscriptions and trials to date. The company said the core experience across its…
IBM Research on September 15, 2026, published an account of work proving unconditional theoretical separations between shallow quantum circuits and large language models: one functional problem and one sampling problem for which shallow quantum circuits hold a provable advantage over LLMs. The post’s byline lists Srinivasan Arunachalam, Arkopal Dutt, Hari Krovi, Rik Sengupta, and Ryan…
Profound announced on September 15, 2026, that it has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. The round arrives less than seven months after the AI marketing company closed its $96 million Series C. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures, Evantic,…
Radical Ventures announced on September 15, 2026 the first close of the Radical Breakouts Fund, a new late-stage strategy that secured more than US$1 billion in commitments and that the firm describes as the largest-ever venture capital fund in Canada. Commitments came from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the Canada Pension Plan…