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India's food regulator initiates penal action against Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart, Bigbasket, and Zepto over alleged misbranding and misleading claims (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 India Amazon

Sources: Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to acquire Bulgaria-based smart home device maker Shelly Group at a €1.27B valuation, excluding debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24

AI agents, including those from OpenAI, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in May and June (transluce.org)
2026-9-24 Australia U.S. AI Welfare

Sources: Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B valuation, up from $4.65B in May; Baseten is in funding talks at a $26B valuation, up from $13B in June (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption (9to5google.com)
2026-9-24 AI

Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released “much earlier” than the end of the year (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-24 Google

OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts (openai.com)
2026-9-24 AI

Seattle-based Hubble, which is building a 60-satellite low-Earth orbit network for global Bluetooth connectivity, raised a $200M Series C at a $1.6B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 Seattle

SoftBank raised ~$11B in debt through its junk bond sale, making the Japanese investment firm one of the biggest corporate junk-bond borrowers in the world (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 Japan

During a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend (www.nextgov.com)
2026-9-24 Senate

Meta says it will allow its AI glasses users to opt out of having their “visual data” used to train its AI or shown to third-party contractors outside the US (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-24 AI

An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products released at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the “pervert glasses” backlash, more (thenewthings.com)
2026-9-24 Interview Zuckerberg

Sources: the Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote use of dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, including via JVs with private firms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 Trump

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismisses the idea of joining Meta's multistate child safety settlement, saying YouTube already has measures to protect young users (www.cnn.com)
2026-9-24 YouTube

Meta announces new features for Meta Ray-Ban Display, including expanded heads-up navigation tools, a new Explore app, and Dolby Atmos audio support (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-24 Ban

Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 with better battery life, a programmable action button, an added microphone, and two new frame styles, starting at $449 (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-24 Ban Battery

Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-24 Trump

Meta plans to bring Private Processing to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, letting their AI assistant fulfill users' requests without Meta accessing their data (www.wired.com)
2026-9-24 AI Ban

Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-24 VR Apple Ban

Meta says users will be able to video chat with Muse, agents will get their own email addresses, and Muse will get computer use on Mac and smart glasses support (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-24

Meta VR Glasses hands-on: supremely comfortable to wear, excellent for multitasking, immersive content looks beautiful, and relatively low cost (www.techradar.com)
2026-9-24 VR

Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2-inch OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by year's end (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 5G

Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery life, ~2.5K resolution per eye, on sale spring 2027 for $1,299 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 VR Battery

Meta adds an FDA-cleared hearing enhancement feature to supported Meta Glasses for Meta One subscribers or a one-time cost of $149, rolling out later this year (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-24

Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 3 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24 Ban Battery

Court docs: OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones “dramatically underperformed” after it launched in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-9-24 Apple Intelligence

A live blog of Meta Connect 2026, where a new pair of Meta Glasses without cameras onboard and a new VR headset are expected (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-24 VR

Placeholder domain used in dev docs now serves ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-24

A livestream of the Meta Connect 2026 opening keynote (www.youtube.com)
2026-9-24

Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $1.1B in junk bonds at 98.5 cents on the dollar to yield 9.25%, ~2.7 percentage points above similarly rated debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-24

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