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A Google executive says users increasingly want "contextual answers and summaries", but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides "10 blue links" (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

Disney and Webtoon announce a new digital platform with 35K+ Disney comics; Disney plans to acquire a 2% equity interest in Webtoon; WBTN jumps 70%+ after hours (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD shown to one eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation (David Heaney/UploadVR)

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality-of-life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished (Zachary McAuliffe/CNET)

Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, featuring Liquid Glass design, new Apple Intelligence features, and more (José Adorno/BGR)

OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its "thinking" time more dynamically than previous models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

A look at emerging faith tech apps like Hallow that use AI chatbots for digital chaplaincy, amid concerns over data privacy and their quality of faith guidance (Lauren Jackson/New York Times)

A detailed look at iOS and iPadOS 26 with Liquid Glass, which brings a cohesive UI story across Apple's platforms (Federico Viticci/MacStories)

How UAE's $2B investment in Trump family's WLF is linked to the deal allowing the UAE's G42 to access AI chips, in which David Sacks played a key role (New York Times)

Snap announces Snap OS 2.0 for its Spectacles glasses, updating first-party apps and adding new features like Travel Mode and support for WebXR (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Tel Aviv-based Remedio, which uses AI to detect risky misconfigurations on corporate networks, raised $65M led by Bessemer, a source says at a $300M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

CoreWeave says it has signed a new $6.3B order with Nvidia that guarantees Nvidia will purchase any cloud capacity not sold to customers through April 13, 2032 (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting AI researchers to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (Will Knight/Wired)

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Alphabet becomes the fourth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple, after its stock jumped 4%+ on Monday (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Spotify adds new features globally that let free users search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs out of 696M in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Amazon schedules its annual fall hardware event for September 30 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Echo smart speakers, Kindles, and possibly other gadgets (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

PayPal launches PayPal Links, which lets users create personalized, one-time links to send money to or request payment from other PayPal users, including crypto (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

Sources: Google adopts risk-based Android security updates, prioritizing fixing only high-risk vulnerabilities in monthly releases, and others in quarterly ASBs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Conceivable Life Sciences, which wants to use AI to automate embryologists' work, raised $50M led by Advance Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $70M (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has reached a TikTok deal with China, as Trump cites "a 'certain' company that young people" in the US wanted saved (CNBC)

Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: a significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)

Riyadh-based Hala, which offers payment services to 142K+ small businesses in the Gulf region, raised a $157M Series B, a source says at a ~$900M valuation (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Tel Aviv-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Divergent Technologies, which makes automated assembly systems and 3D printers to make missile parts and other equipment, raised $290M at a $2.3B valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its next flagship mobile chipset, before its 2025 Snapdragon Summit, and Xiaomi says its 17 series will use it (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)

The London Stock Exchange debuts a blockchain-based platform, initially focused on private funds and increasing efficiency, marking its push into digital assets (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US state, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of business uses involve automation, and more (Anthropic)

OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

In a preliminary probe, China rules that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws by acquiring Mellanox in April 2020, as the US and China negotiate tariffs in Madrid (Bloomberg)

A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies, like Zoox, to teach first responders how to handle emergencies involving self-driving cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which is optimized for long-context AI tasks and the prefill phase of inference (SemiAnalysis)

The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)

Japan is becoming a test bed for whether logistics companies can overcome labor shortages, as the aging country lags behind US and China in logistics automation (Harry Dempsey/Financial Times)

How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the government builds a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west (Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Goldman Sachs partner Kerry Blum on how the company's ~46,000 employees are using GenAI-powered GS AI Assistant and the risks of over-reliance (Joshua Franklin/Financial Times)

How Coinbase is navigating the easing regulatory environment, increasing acceptance of crypto in the financial system, and intensifying competition (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Google's Gemini app is the #1 free app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch (Abner Li/9to5Google)

World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet contrasts with the Trump sons' complaints about being "debanked", the issue they said inspired the project (Molly White/Citation Needed)

A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage (Washington Post)

i.AI, a UK government unit offering a median salary of £67K to develop tools to improve civil service efficiency, is struggling to attract top talent (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times)

Q&A with Bret Taylor on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, Mark Zuckerberg's superintelligence rebrand and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (Gregory Gondwe/Associated Press)

An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI "doomers" fade in prominence (Peter Guest/Bloomberg)

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (Google Research)

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 (Hajime Tsukada/Nikkei Asia)

Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Malaysia reins in data center expansion amid power and water shortages, hindering Chinese companies that use the region as a backdoor to access US-made AI chips (Reuters)