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September 16, 2025, 5:50 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 shown to one 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.
Zachary McAuliffe / CNET:
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  —  It's been a long three months since Apple announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but the wait is over.
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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.
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.
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 …
New York Times:
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  —  This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025  —  Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Filing: the SEC settles a lawsuit accusing crypto exchange Gemini of failing to register the Gemini Earn lending program before offering it to retail investors  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused an exchange run by billionaire twins Tyler …

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