John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO, as Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/technology/apple-tim-cook-john-ternus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/technology/apple-tim-cook-john-ternus.html
Nytimes
John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/dyson-announces-499-camerajet-smart-toothbrush-with-ai-built-in-camera
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/dyson-announces-499-camerajet-smart-toothbrush-with-ai-built-in-camera
Bloomberg.com
Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera
Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback, the latest in a growing subset of gadgets that put AI and video in sometimes unconventional places.
A look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987043/tim-cook-biggest-wins-misses
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987043/tim-cook-biggest-wins-misses
The Verge
Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses
A look back at Tim Cook’s legacy.
Nvidia plans to launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986378/nvidia-dlss-5-launch-nba-2k27
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986378/nvidia-dlss-5-launch-nba-2k27
The Verge
Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
It seems to look better than the terrible initial examples.
Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs, starting at $999 for 55" and 65" 120Hz models and $1,299 for 144Hz models, sold exclusively via Amazon (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/roku-launches-its-first-oled-tvs-with-prices-starting-at-999
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/roku-launches-its-first-oled-tvs-with-prices-starting-at-999
Bloomberg.com
Roku Launches Its First OLED TVs, With Prices Starting at $999
Roku Inc. introduced its first self-branded smart TVs with organic light emitting diode, or OLED, display technology, which will lend the new models greater contrast and punchier black levels than previous first-party Roku TVs.
Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/987247/mozilla-firefox-ad-blocker-ios-launch
https://www.theverge.com/news/987247/mozilla-firefox-ad-blocker-ios-launch
The Verge
Mozilla launches ad blocking for Firefox on iOS
Mozilla is using Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter to block ads in Firefox.
Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/saudi-video-game-giant-savvy-ceo-brian-ward-is-stepping-down?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI2NzQ1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzg4ODcyMjUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS05DSklUOTZPU0kwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGRUIzODlCNUI2ODI0RTY0QjY5MENEODE1RTBDREZGRCJ9.y225ht8jDlTbFQN7glMJ1PY4kfglpkZsnfo3vBz4dd4
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/saudi-video-game-giant-savvy-ceo-brian-ward-is-stepping-down?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI2NzQ1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzg4ODcyMjUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS05DSklUOTZPU0kwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGRUIzODlCNUI2ODI0RTY0QjY5MENEODE1RTBDREZGRCJ9.y225ht8jDlTbFQN7glMJ1PY4kfglpkZsnfo3vBz4dd4
Bloomberg.com
Saudi Video Game Giant Savvy CEO Brian Ward Is Stepping Down
Savvy Games Group Chief Executive Officer Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government’s $38 billion investment in the video-game industry, is stepping down, according to a message he sent to staff on Tuesday that was reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/indias-unacademy-sells-to-rival-upgrad-for-206m-about-94-less-than-its-peak-valuation/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/indias-unacademy-sells-to-rival-upgrad-for-206m-about-94-less-than-its-peak-valuation/
TechCrunch
India's Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation | TechCrunch
"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."
Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox plans to start testing in Houston and San Diego (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/waymo-and-zoox-expand-into-more-us-markets-as-robotaxi-race-heats-up.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/waymo-and-zoox-expand-into-more-us-markets-as-robotaxi-race-heats-up.html
CNBC
Waymo and Zoox expand into more U.S. markets as robotaxi race heats up
Waymo is bringing driverless rides to three more cities, and Amazon plans to start testing in two additional U.S. markets.
Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/sonos-debuts-449-ace-ultra-headphones-699-beam-ultra-soundbar-chatgpt-tie-in?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI3MzkwNiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4ODc4NzA2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS09XUVBWVFREMEEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDOTYyQ0UxOUMyOTc0NDBGQkMyNEQxQkQ2RDQ4MjczNSJ9.rCH_iYEMZYXKm5tiFOPgVSJNpynIGH0Do2sRMMwTz0U
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/sonos-debuts-449-ace-ultra-headphones-699-beam-ultra-soundbar-chatgpt-tie-in?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI3MzkwNiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4ODc4NzA2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS09XUVBWVFREMEEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDOTYyQ0UxOUMyOTc0NDBGQkMyNEQxQkQ2RDQ4MjczNSJ9.rCH_iYEMZYXKm5tiFOPgVSJNpynIGH0Do2sRMMwTz0U
Bloomberg.com
Sonos Unveils New Headphones, Soundbar and Major Push Into AI
As the company opens its platform to AI assistants, Chief Executive Officer Tom Conrad wants to reposition Sonos as something bigger than a speaker brand.
Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits workloads between frontier cloud models like Opus 5 and local LLMs, for all users of its Mac app (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2248548/perplexitys-hybrid-compute-splits-sensitive-tasks-between-cloud-and-local-ai/
https://www.engadget.com/2248548/perplexitys-hybrid-compute-splits-sensitive-tasks-between-cloud-and-local-ai/
Engadget
Perplexity's Hybrid Compute splits sensitive tasks between cloud and local AI - Engadget
Local processing could keep costs down too.
Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro in an all-cash deal valued at $285M, a premium of 29.5% to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a market cap of $4B in 2014 (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/gopro-be-acquired-by-starman-optical-285-million-deal-2026-09-01/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/gopro-be-acquired-by-starman-optical-285-million-deal-2026-09-01/
PE firm Epiris agrees to buy European enterprise communications provider Gamma Communications for about £1B, a 53% premium to Gamma's share price on April 7 (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p24#a260901p24
https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p24#a260901p24
Techmeme
PE firm Epiris agrees to buy European enterprise communications provider Gamma Communications for about £1B, a 53% premium to Gamma's…
Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: PE firm Epiris agrees to buy European enterprise communications provider Gamma Communications for about £1B, a 53% premium to Gamma's share price on April 7
DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1vdhnvoge
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1vdhnvoge
ctech
DataAgent emerges from stealth with $10 million pre-Seed to build self-healing infrastructure
The Israeli startup is taking aim at the cost and complexity of observability by putting autonomous agents directly inside production environments.
A consortium of 21 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, plans to establish a company and launch its stablecoin venture in H1 2027 (Gina Heeb/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/these-banks-are-banding-together-to-launch-a-stablecoin-6de07eff
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/these-banks-are-banding-together-to-launch-a-stablecoin-6de07eff
The Wall Street Journal
These Banks Are Banding Together to Launch a Stablecoin
Twenty-one firms including several megabanks plan to establish a company that would help guard against competition from digital assets.
Air Security, which builds a security service for extensions and other tools installed on AI agents, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Sequoia and Greenoaks (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r13apdnugg
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r13apdnugg
ctech
Six-month-old AIR Security raises $50 million to build a firewall for AI agents
The Israeli startup emerged from stealth with research showing thousands of AI add-ons rely on untrusted sources, as companies give autonomous agents access to more data, tools and systems.
Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987423/google-pics-ai-image-editor-generator
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987423/google-pics-ai-image-editor-generator
The Verge
Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI
By more, we mean it’s all generative AI.
AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is "substantially dependent" on OpenAI (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/sb-energy-ipo-softbank-open-ai-nvidia.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/sb-energy-ipo-softbank-open-ai-nvidia.html
CNBC
Softbank's SB Energy files for IPO, says it's 'substantially dependent' on OpenAI
SB Energy hasn't generated any revenue from its data center business, and none of its data centers are operational yet.
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' "field, machine, and operational data" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987486/john-deere-jd-ai-chatbot
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987486/john-deere-jd-ai-chatbot
The Verge
John Deere launched an AI chatbot for farmers
Farmers can ask “JD” about their equipment and trends.
LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/ai-token-prices-lows.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/ai-token-prices-lows.html
CNBC
AI token prices are hitting new record lows
A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows.
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-whatsapp-remittance-startup-felix-raises-200m-a16z-general-catalyst/
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-whatsapp-remittance-startup-felix-raises-200m-a16z-general-catalyst/
Crunchbase News
WhatsApp Remittance Startup Félix Secures $200M Series C Led By A16z, General Catalyst
Félix, a Miami-based AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.