AI news for Monday, September 28, 2026
18 stories
- Modal Labs Raises Financing at $16B Valuation AI funding & deals
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 unveiled with faster performance and cost savings Anthropic coverage
- Claude Marketplace opens, aggregates integration tools PC Watch
- Google announces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS PC Watch
- AMD acquires World Labs for $820 million to strengthen AI strategy Reuters (AI)
- Nvidia announces largest-ever share buyback Reuters (AI)
- Shopify adds browser-based AI agent to assist checkout TechCrunch AI
- Open-source tools for agents released Open models
- Agent safety platform released to bolster security Open models
- Instinct hits $10B valuation after $1B funding round AI funding & deals
- Meta unveils enterprise AI platform TechCrunch AI
- Practical guide to automating Textract adapter lifecycle AWS Machine Learning
- AWS opens Strands harness for easy AI agents Publickey
- Workplaces set to change as AI agents surge WIRED AI
- Gemini and Adobe collaborate to streamline AI workflows ITmedia AI+
- AI computing in space to be tested on TPU satellite PC Watch
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 Claude
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini