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September 16, 2025, 7:55 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 …
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.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and reports $134M in 2024 sales  —  Vanara, a spinoff of TPG, led the latest funding round.  —  Add us on Google  —  Artificial intelligence startup Invisible Technologies …
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.
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.

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