Week 39
21 Sep EN
Weekly Bulletin · Sep 21–27, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence
- Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
- Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
- Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the ‘SNL’ treatment
- Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
- AI Coding Agents for Enterprise: IP Indemnity, Data Residency and 500-Seat Cost Compared
Mobile
- Report: Apple working on new Vision Pro, with different form factors on the table
- Google Pixel can use Tensor as long as it wants; it’s all the other specs I’m jealous of
- Apple hit with $5.7 billion verdict over Taptic Engine patent infringement
- I turned my Android phone’s annoying AI button into its most powerful shortcut key
- 5 of my favorite Android features you won’t find on Samsung or Pixel phones
Software
- Gemini app replacing Gems with skills in November
- What new Google Messages features are rolling out [September 2026]
- A Coding Guide to Google Research’s MSEB: Writing Sound Encoders to the Benchmark Contract and Scoring Them Across Classification, Clustering, Retrieval and Segmentation
- TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement
- Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all
Hardware
- Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises
- These are the best MacBook deals right now: September 2026 Buyer’s Guide
- Weekend Apple deals: Beats 360, AirPods Pro 3, Mac Studio, MacBook Air, more
- At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere
- Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Gaming
- The Sunday Papers
- ‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children
- TALON TOWERS is a Fumito Ueda-coded parkour platformer about hopping around massive structures while avoiding falling to your foggy doom
- Suplex and shatter glass enemies after being in prison for committing a cardinal crime in the psychological horror beat ‘em up Brokensides
- This Nintendo DS-themed launcher is coming to dual-screen Android handhelds
Startups
- Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
- Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
- The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cybersecurity, AI And Health Take The Lead
- The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics — see it at TechCrunch Disrupt
- Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Cybersecurity
- Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee
- Why the CISO-CFO Relationship Is a Key to Cybersecurity Success
- AI Sandbox Escapes: Why Forensic Readiness Matters More Than Containment
- Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack
- Stopping IT Worker Scams Requires Revamped HR Process