Poseidon Aerospace has secured sixty million dollars in Series A funding as it works toward testing its full-size, uncrewed Egret cargo aircraft by the end of 2026. The company aims to reduce costs in defense and regional commercial cargo operations by combining conventional engines with autonomous technology and remote piloting.

Stoke Space has completed the initial closing of a one-billion-dollar Series E, lifting its total funding to two-point-three billion dollars. The company is aiming to fly its fully reusable Nova Pathfinder in early 2027, with the larger Nova Block 2 rocket planned for 2029.

Opendoor cofounder Eric Wu’s new startup, NavigateAI, is developing hands-free software for construction crews. Workers can use smartphones or smart glasses to ask questions about specifications, manuals, and company policies while on the job. The company launched with twenty-five million dollars in seed funding and is testing a pricing model linked to the project savings it claims to generate.

Meta allegedly approved and ran more than 250 additional ads containing child sexual abuse material after deploying new detection tools. The company removed the identified ads and said many had already been caught. Meta also said adversarial tactics and imagery that is brief or blurred can complicate detection.

Researchers identified 150 AI-remixed extremist videos across 71 TikTok accounts, with more than five-point-four million combined views. TikTok disputes the methodology behind those findings and says the referenced material has been removed under its policies on violent organizations.

Intel may increase prices for PC processors by around ten percent in October as it focuses more heavily on profitability. The potential move would follow other chip-price increases amid component shortages affecting memory products, computers, and smartphones.

Adobe is adding a new set of generative production tools to Premiere and After Effects. Premiere’s Generative Media interface can fill timeline gaps with editable video, music, sound effects, and soundscapes using models from Adobe, Google, Runway, Luma, and Kling. New beta audio features can separate speakers and adjust dialogue, music, and ambience, while After Effects is getting an assistant that responds to plain-language instructions.

Apple is widely expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone in a short, passport-style format, entering a category where Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi already offer devices with similar proportions. Foldables represented an estimated one-point-six percent of smartphone sales in 2025, while shipments are projected to rise twenty percent in 2026.

LG OLED televisions tested in an investigation allegedly logged nearby devices, Wi-Fi details, location information, viewing activity, and microphone audio. Investigators also found that audio captured while a television was in standby could remain stored while offline and upload after the internet connection returned.

Xiaomi’s 18 Fold features a short, wide folding design powered by the company’s Xring O3 processor and Arm’s Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics. It also includes a six-thousand-milliamp-hour battery and a triple rear-camera system. Chinese preorders begin at 10,999 yuan ahead of sales on September tenth, with no international launch confirmed.

A phishing campaign is impersonating the MyChart patient portal with an offer for a free Medicare health kit. The scheme asks targets to complete a survey, provide personal information, and pay shipping charges. Hospitals have warned patients about the scam, and consumer complaints describe unauthorized follow-up charges and exposed payment-card details.

Anthropic reportedly completed due diligence on a potential acquisition of Decart before deciding not to move forward. Decart develops real-time generative world models and technology designed to optimize hardware and software together. The companies may still explore other forms of collaboration.