Addigy has launched an Intelligence Suite inside its device management platform for MSPs and IT teams overseeing Apple devices. The suite includes AI Script Assist for writing and auditing scripts, natural language reporting, and an MCP server that lets AI agents interact with the management control plane under admin-defined guardrails. Addigy says all processing happens within its own environment, with no customer data sent to outside AI models.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-17
NVIDIA, Google, and startup Emerald AI have created the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a coalition aimed at making AI data centers more flexible in their power consumption. The group wants facilities to be able to shift workloads, tap batteries, and cut usage during peak demand, in exchange for utilities granting faster grid connections and potentially sharing infrastructure costs.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-17
Al Gore, speaking with TechCrunch alongside Generation Investment Management's Lila Preston, argued that AI data centers' emissions are far smaller than critics claim, comparing them to landfill emissions and global air conditioning use. He said what worries him more are warnings emerging from within the AI industry itself.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-16
Pulley, a cap table management platform founded by Yin Wu in 2020, is ceasing operations on December 8. The company has arranged to transfer its customers to competitor Carta and is directing new prospects there as well, despite the two firms having been rivals in the space.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-16
A former corporate communications executive recounts the chaos of 2017, when the Charlottesville violence and CEOs' ties to a presidential business council forced companies into snap decisions about public statements. The account describes how internal drafts kept shifting because leadership hadn't already agreed on core values, making crisis response slower and less confident.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-16
A technical blog post reintroduces CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns), a code-quality metric that combines cyclomatic complexity and test coverage to flag risky, poorly tested code. The author traces its origins and argues teams should apply it as a practical check during software projects.
testing.googleblog.com
· 2026-09-16
Binance is expanding its Capital Connect platform, previously reserved for institutions, to allow wealthy individuals meeting a $1 million asset threshold to invest in professional trading strategies. The platform runs on Binance's Portfolio Account system, which manages fees and risk metrics while trading teams handle strategy execution, similar to separately managed accounts in traditional finance. The platform has grown from 106 portfolios and 35 trading teams in May to 212 portfolios and 77 teams by September.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-16
Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman joined a conversation moderated by Mansueto Ventures' Stephanie Mehta to discuss how design shapes business outcomes and what the future of design might look like. The session, titled 'The Business of Design—and the Design of the Future,' explored the intersection of investment strategy and design thinking.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-15
An Entrepreneur contributor explains that many startups fail not from lack of profit but from running out of cash, a pattern dubbed the growth paradox. Rapid expansion forces companies to pay upfront for hiring, inventory and fulfillment while customer payments lag 30 to 90 days behind, draining bank accounts even as income statements look strong.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-15
Evvy, a women's health startup, has closed a $40 million Series B funding round led by Catalio Capital Management. The company operates an at-home vaginal microbiome test that uses mNGS sequencing, serving over 100,000 patients and 3,000 practitioners across the US, and has produced 15 peer-reviewed publications from its data.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-15
Fleet Device Management has been admitted to Project Glasswing, Anthropic's controlled-access program for its Claude Mythos Preview model. Fleet will use the early access to explore how frontier AI could help IT teams detect and remediate device vulnerabilities faster, aiming to shrink the delay between when threats appear and when organizations patch them.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-15
A software engineering essay makes the case for proactively doing other people's jobs when they won't act themselves, citing Intel engineers who reportedly added 32-bit CPU support directly into Microsoft's compiler rather than waiting for Microsoft to do it. The piece extends this logic to dealing with unresponsive managers and slow-moving 'Scaled Agile' planning processes, suggesting direct patches often beat waiting for bureaucratic scheduling.
yosefk.com
· 2026-09-15
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