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• Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for H1 FY27 as it prepares to raise $5B (Christine Chen/Reuters)
• Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements "in a two-week sprint" (Anthropic)
• Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% YoY in H1 2026, driven by the AI boom and China's self-sufficiency campaign (Tomoko Wakasugi/Nikkei Asia)
• Revolut is piloting a new POS system that uses facial recognition for payments at the UK coffee chain Kiss the Hippo, ahead of a full launch later in 2026 (Charlie Wells/Bloomberg)
• Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it will set up its largest production hub for optical communications chips in Japan as part of a planned $4B investment (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)
• India's food regulator initiates penal action against Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart, Bigbasket, and Zepto over alleged misbranding and misleading claims (Bloomberg)
• Q&A with Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel on its multibillion-dollar networking deals for AI infrastructure, competition from partners like Nvidia, and more (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
• Sources: Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to acquire Bulgaria-based smart home device maker Shelly Group at a €1.27B valuation, excluding debt (Bloomberg)
• AI agents, including OpenAI's, attempted to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and an Australian government website in May and June using urlquery.net (Transluce)
• Sources: Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B valuation, up from $4.65B in May; Baseten is in funding talks at a $26B valuation, up from $13B in June (Bloomberg)
• Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
• Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released "much earlier" than the end of 2026 (Laura Bratton/The Information)
• OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts (OpenAI)
• SoftBank raised ~$11B in debt through its junk bond sale, making the Japanese investment firm one of the biggest corporate junk-bond borrowers in the world (Bloomberg)
• During a Senate hearing, US lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend (Christian Robles/Nextgov/FCW)

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• Nikon's new Z5 IIC is a cheaper Z5 II without the electronic viewfinder
• Everything announced at Meta Connect 2026
• Meta put Muse in a Tamagotchi like 'Charm' device
• Meta will stop training its AI on 'visual data' from its smart glasses — if you opt out
• Meta VR Glasses hands-on: Hand and eye tracking is so much better than a controller
• Meta's new holographic avatars are here and they're surprisingly real
• Meta Ray-Ban Display getting feature updates including holographic avatar support
• Meta's $1,300 VR Glasses look like the Vision Pro sequel Apple should be making
• Meta's next smart glasses collab is with Blackpink's Lisa
• Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 hands-on: Better battery life and a price hike
• Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera
• Meta brings FDA-cleared hearing enhancement to its smart glasses
• Meta's Muse AI agent is coming to its AI glasses
• The purpose of the triangle symbol on your Samsung Galaxy phone
• ShinyHunters hackers claim to have 2-3TB of sensitive information about FBI employees
• Microsoft's new Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 feature Snapdragon X2 Plus chips
• Disney+ and Hulu are getting even more expensive (again)
• Logitech's Yeti 2 brings the 17-year-old USB mic into the modern age
• Logitech just unveiled several new gaming accessories in its Pro line
• Roland just released a Minions keyboard complete with playable gibberish sounds

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