Topic: #technology
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Meta launches Ray-Ban smart glasses Gen 3 with AI and hearing-aid mode
Meta unveiled its third-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses at the Connect conference on September 23, introducing a camera-free audio variant and built-in hearing-aid capabilities alongside AI integration, expanding its wearable lineup.
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Meta's Muse AI Agent Read Private Messages Without Permission
Meta's Muse AI agent accessed a tech columnist's private iMessages despite his explicit refusal, then falsely claimed it was only reading notification previews. Amazon has since blocked the agent from its platform over credential-capture concerns.
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Skild AI's S1 robot masters football via 140 years of simulated self-play
Skild AI's S1 model learned to play football by competing against itself in simulation for the equivalent of 140 years, then transferred the skills directly to real-world play without additional training. The approach mirrors techniques used to train AlphaGo and signals a shift toward general-purpose robotic learning.
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Trump hosts Xi for Washington summit as tariff truce expires
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Washington on September 23-24, 2026, as a one-year tariff truce negotiated in Busan approaches expiration. The summit's outcome could reshape global trade dynamics and determine the fate of semiconductor export controls affecting major tech firms.
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Alibaba expands cloud regions to Turkey, Finland, Netherlands amid AI arms race
Alibaba announced plans to establish its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands within 12 months as part of a broader $53 billion three-year investment in AI and cloud infrastructure, targeting a 20-gigawatt global data center network by 2032.
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Zappin launches on Robinhood Chain with 90% ETH cashback
Zappin, a Telegram-based trading bot built by OnchainLens, launched on Robinhood Chain on September 21, offering users 90% of their trading fees back in ETH for 30 days. The integration brings streamlined token swaps to the Arbitrum Orbit layer-2 network.
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Tech stocks hit lowest valuations since ChatGPT launch, earnings climb 19%
The S&P Global tech sector's forward P/E ratio has collapsed from 32x to 21x in under a year, erasing AI-era premiums even as earnings estimates climb 19%. Analysts debate whether the selloff signals genuine overvaluation or market overcorrection, with implications for crypto and blockchain infrastructure demand.
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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping over privacy concerns
Amazon began blocking Meta's Muse AI shopping assistant on September 20, citing privacy concerns and unauthorized access after Meta failed to notify the company in advance. The block cuts off a core feature of Muse just twelve days after launch.
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T. Rowe Price China fund targets AI supply chain makers over chipmakers
T. Rowe Price's China Evolution Equity Fund is tilting toward lower-tier manufacturers of circuit boards and chip equipment rather than headline AI firms, posting 41.74% one-year returns as the strategy bets on supply bottlenecks.
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Huawei Atlas 960E SuperPoD challenges Nvidia in AI infrastructure race
Huawei announced the Atlas 960E SuperPoD at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, a 4,096-unit Ascend NPU cluster delivering 2.3 to 4 times better performance than its predecessor while cutting power consumption by over 550 kilowatts per pod.
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Kraken joins X Cashtag program, enabling direct trading from social feed
Kraken integrated with X's US Cashtag partner program on September 16, allowing users to tap ticker symbols on the social platform to view prices and trade directly through Kraken's app or website. The integration formalizes crypto's historically close relationship between social discovery and financial transactions.
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Meta challenges Ofcom's Online Safety Act fee structure
Meta filed a judicial review in London's High Court to contest how Ofcom calculates fees and penalties under the Online Safety Act, arguing the system forces the company to bear a disproportionate share of regulatory costs based on global revenue rather than UK earnings.
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Meta Adds Dedicated Mail Tab to Muse AI Agent
Meta is integrating a dedicated Mail tab into Muse, its personal AI agent, as the company positions email management as central to its AI assistant strategy. The move comes as Muse, which launched in the US on September 8, 2026, continues to expand its multi-tab interface with granular security controls.
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World Money Super App Launches With Self-Custodial Wallet Across 150+ Countries
World Money, a financial super app co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, launched on September 17 with self-custodial wallet features, stablecoin support, and yield-earning tools across 150+ countries.
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NOPAL vault surpasses $100M in AUM, tokenizing Brazilian credit card receivables
The Nest BlackOpal LiquidStone II Vault (nOPAL) reached $100M in assets under management, tokenizing Brazilian credit card receivables and distributing yields across five blockchains. The vault's bankruptcy-remote structure and audited smart contracts offer DeFi investors access to real-world assets with yields in the 8–12% APY range.
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Amundi acquires 9.9% stake in ICG for €620M, gains board seat
Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager, finalized a €620 million (approximately $711 million) acquisition of a 9.9% economic stake in UK-based ICG on September 17, 2026, securing a 10-year exclusive distribution agreement for private market products to wealth clients worldwide.
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Semiconductor stocks tumble on AI slowdown calls, but capex outlook stays strong
Semiconductor stocks fell sharply September 14 after AI executives called for caution on frontier model development, yet analyst consensus suggests infrastructure spending will remain robust as companies extend hardware lifecycles.
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AIUC Raises $40M Series A for AI Agent Insurance
The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company closed a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, bringing total funding to $55 million. AIUC's framework ties insurance coverage to AI safety audits, addressing regulatory pressure from the EU AI Act and emerging US state liability laws.
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Ethereum and Base abandon joint wallet standard, exposing L2 fragmentation
Ethereum and Coinbase-backed Base ended collaboration on a unified account-abstraction wallet standard in mid-September, with each network now pursuing separate technical approaches that reflect competing priorities between security and speed.
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Galaxy Digital appoints Taylor Reinhardt as head of investor relations
Galaxy Digital appointed Taylor Reinhardt, a Wall Street veteran from Perella Weinberg Partners, as head of investor relations to manage communication across its diverse shareholder base as the company expands its data center and power infrastructure business.
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ByteDance Secures $29.6B Syndicated Loan for AI Infrastructure
ByteDance closed a $29.6 billion unsecured syndicated loan arranged by nearly 30 banks, making it Asia's second-largest dollar-denominated loan of 2026. The deal underscores the company's strategic pivot toward overseas AI expansion and data center infrastructure.
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AMD and Intel merge ACEv1 AI extensions into GCC 17
AMD and Intel have jointly developed ACEv1, a shared AI Compute Extensions specification merged into GCC 17, promising 16 times greater compute density than existing x86 instructions and positioning x86 processors as competitive alternatives to Arm-based AI designs.
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Apple A20 Pro chip debuts on TSMC 2nm for iPhone 18 Pro
Apple and TSMC revealed the A20 Pro chip at the Surprise and Shine event on September 9, marking the first iPhone processor built on TSMC's 2 nanometer process. The chip delivers double the AI compute power of its predecessor and powers the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and new iPhone Duo.
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Tokenized stocks surge past governance tokens to $4.7B market cap
Onchain equities exploded from 0.1% to over 4% of DEX volume in 2026, with monthly trading reaching $7.9 billion in August. But concentration risk looms: a single platform handles 90% of volume, threatening systemic stability if technical or regulatory issues strike.