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In Brief 2:51 PM PDT · September 29, 2026 AI startup EliseAI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, double what it was worth when it raised its Series E last August. This latest round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures.
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For roughly 40 years, Microsoft Excel has operated around one basic rule: one cell, one value. Microsoft is now changing that. Excel is introducing lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, allowing a single cell to contain multiple distinct values that Excel can still use for filtering and calculations. The
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 29, 2026 05:06 PM ET All three OneGov partnerships that were set to expire at the end of September are continuing under either an extension or a new agreement. * GSA * Industry * Artificial Intelligence Federal
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Quick Answer: Antivirus software protects your devices from malware and other threats, a VPN makes your internet connection private and scam protection helps flag suspicious texts, emails and videos before you fall for them. McAfee bundles all three protections in its security plans, with higher tiers adding features such as
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Why you should update your iPhone 18 Pro to iOS 27.0.1. Filipe Espósito for Engadget If you recently bought an iPhone 18 Pro and have been experiencing problems with Face ID, you're not alone. Apple confirmed in September to9to5Mac that the new iPhones may "restart
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined, the AI company’s announcements pointed towards a bigger plan: a disruption of the traditional app store model. Taken together, today’s announcements turn
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a “remarkably capable, always-on” artificial intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday where he avoided any reference to security concerns around the company’s most advanced models. At the company’s annual developer conference, Altman made a slew of product announcements and updates, including the company’
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The redesigned browser brings back compact mode and adds a theme picker. Firefox Firefox is now looking quite different for most users after Mozilla started rolling out a redesign to everyone across desktop and mobile. The new look may not be too much of a surprise for some, though. Beta
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Florida’s attorney general is seeking an injunction to prevent OpenAI from developing more advanced large language models in the wake of a growing number of cybersecurity incidents caused by models in poorly contained test environments. The string of websites infiltrated or targeted by AI agents in test environments this
