Meta is rolling out Muse for small business owners, extending its AI agent to Facebook and Instagram analytics, ad accounts, and integrations with tools including Canva, Figma, Slack, Shopify and QuickBooks.
A post says Oura postponed its IPO due to “market conditions” and calls the delay part of a trend.
Spotify appeared to suffer a partial outage on Sept. 29, with users reporting search errors, playback trouble, profile access issues and being unable to sign back in after logout. 9to5Google later reported Spotify said it was aware of the problems and investigating.
Opera for Android now lets users buy, install and manage a travel eSIM inside the browser. Opera says it works across the whole phone in 47 destinations, with a free 3GB three-day trial in selected markets.
9to5Google reports that Anthropic’s status dashboard listed a partial outage affecting Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, the Claude API and Console.
A Google Analytics for Firebase issue briefly caused iPhone apps to crash Monday before Google fixed it. Android Authority reported thousands of iOS apps were affected, and some crashes lingered for hours because of caching.
Bloomberg reports Apple CEO John Ternus is pursuing a leaner, more engineering-focused company, with more frequent product launches, management cuts and new revenue pushes as services growth slows.
Polaroid has unveiled the Mod, a $170 all-analog instant camera that reports place between the I-2 and Flip, with dual lens options, exposure-focused modes and wider retail availability from Oct. 6.
Dutch police say a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in a ShinyHunters investigation and is due in Rotterdam court Tuesday. Police have not publicly detailed the alleged conduct or tied him to any specific attack.
RemoteThreat, founded by former IBM X-Force Red leaders Chris Thompson and Shawn Jones, launched with $7 million in pre-seed funding and an AI-enabled offensive cyber platform for vetted enterprise, defense, and U.S. government customers.
WIRED says Gebru believes AI is not an “existential threat” and that doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
Shopify says its Muse connector is live. The company says users can connect a Shopify store and talk to Muse about orders, inventory and analytics, while the connector remembers goals and follows up proactively.
Axios held its AI Across America event in Boston on September 29, 2026, with a livestream scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Dan Primack described the venue as just across the road from Fenway, and the broadcast was titled “AI Across America: What’s Next for Boston.”
A Verge report on research from Northeastern University and Consumer Reports found all 21 tested late-model vehicles sent data to third-party domains over Wi-Fi, with more than half contacting advertising, tracking or analytics services.
A former EVGA product manager alleges the company felt compelled to sell at least one GeForce card at NVIDIA’s advertised starting price or risk lower GPU allocation, with pricier custom models making up the difference.
Take-Two Interactive has reportedly halted Paralympics Productions’ unofficial native GTA V Android port. Project lead Mojso said the group will shut down on October 3, 2026, and neither the code nor builds will be released publicly.
AMD’s published EPYC 9006 Venice server CPU lineup covers 31 Zen 6 models, spanning from the 8-core EPYC 9016 at $700 to the 256-core EPYC 9996 at $14,904 across SP7 and SP8 platforms.
Google is challenging EU Digital Markets Act decisions that would require deeper Android access for rival AI assistants and some Google Search data sharing by 2027, while warning the search changes could threaten user privacy.
Axios reported that OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate had grown more than 70% since the start of the third quarter, while business-to-business revenue rose more than 100% over the same period.
OpenAI is reopening new $200 ChatGPT Pro subscriptions on September 30 after a pause earlier this month, but Android Authority reports the plan returns with roughly half its previous API-dollar allowance.
