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September 16, 2025, 9:20 AM

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David Heaney / UploadVR:
A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD visible to the right eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation  —  Meta's HUD glasses with sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked clip which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.
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Brandon Russell / The Verge:
Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from October 7 at 12:01am PT through October 8, exclusive to Prime subscribers  —  The event jumpstarts the holiday shopping season, giving Prime members two days to save on TVs, headphones, and more. … Amazon has announced its fall Prime Big Deal Days event.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts  —  Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.  —  The last time Apple gave macOS a fresh design was in 2020's macOS 11 Big Sur.
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Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
Google plans to invest £5B in the UK on AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, and expects to add 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the country  —  The company said the investment would add more than 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the U.K.
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Filing: the Internet Archive and major music labels settle a copyright infringement lawsuit against IA over its project to preserve early music recordings  —  A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project …
Reuters:
A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to  —  Major AI chatbots were happy to help.  —  Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
Yasmin Khorram / Politico:
Tech executives say the Trump administration's stake in Intel and its intervention into other private businesses have had a chilling effect on decision-making  —  In one case, a tech executive turned down a dinner invitation to the White House earlier this month — and sent a deputy instead.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Apple Watch Series 11 review: 5G, better battery, and intuitive Sleep Score, but the most exciting updates are coming to older watches through watchOS 26  —  No one is going to wax lyrical about the Apple Watch Series 11.  Not because it's a bad smartwatch — it's a great smartwatch, actually.
Bloomberg:
Investor docs: Revolut reported Q2 revenue up 46% YoY to £1.01B and is on track to deliver more than £4.1B in 2025 annual revenue, up from £3.1B in 2024  —  Revolut Ltd. is touting a 46% revenue surge from a year ago as it courts investors for its primary fundraising, which is set to value the fintech at $75 billion.
Alicia Park / Forbes:
A look at prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket; Kalshi has ~$1B in current monthly volume and processed $6.9B in total, including $6.4B since October 2024  —  Kalshi co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara  —  The savviest billionaire traders are placing their bets on budding prediction marketplaces.

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