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HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, too expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-20 HTC

Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Robot Algorithm

New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Startup AI New York

Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% YoY to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20

Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets (9to5mac.com)
2026-9-20 Apple

The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Intel IPO AI Silver

OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety (www.politico.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce (siliconangle.com)
2026-9-20 AI Salesforce Nvidia CRM

The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 China Iran

Meta says it plans to start deploying MTIA 450, its third-generation in-house AI chip, in data centers during H1 2027, followed by MTIA 500 at the end of 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 AI Intelligence

OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-9-20 Google AI

GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Android Apple

India's UPI, which has been free for merchants since January 2020, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 India

Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-20 China AI Elon Musk

Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied (www.semafor.com)
2026-9-20 AI

DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20

Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 Budget

Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents (blog.google)
2026-9-20 Google

CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025 (fortune.com)
2026-9-20 AI

The US Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework; crypto falls (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-20 Senate

Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Iran

During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Salesforce

At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 AI Bannon

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