TECH NEWS
The third and final round of CNET’s Big Guessing Game is now closed, which completes our contest. We’ll be back after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to share the final answers and determine the winners The CNET Group’s Big Guessing Game contest
TECH NEWS
Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, live-streamed events the company usually puts on – an odd choice for the launch of a product CEO Elon Musk has spent years building towards. In fact, it doesn’t even appear that
TECH NEWS
In recent years, there has been a broader trend in Silicon Valley of tech companies diverging from conventional governance norms, making it harder for shareholders and the public to hold them to account. Anthropic and OpenAI, the two major AI labs, have both designed unusual company structures, with self-appointed “guardians”
TECH NEWS
Making a connection Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice. On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The “connectome” provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also
TECH NEWS
TL;DR G42 executives have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies to secure chip access past April 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company already stripped out Huawei equipment for Microsoft’s $1.5bn in 2024 and built US-specified monitoring into its own data centres this February.
TECH NEWS
TL;DR John Ternus runs his first Apple event on 9 September, days after replacing Tim Cook. Bloomberg reports it opens the biggest run of device releases in Apple’s history, from a foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook. The argument here is that a hardware engineer is answering a
TECH NEWS
TL;DR Moonshot AI is weighing a Hong Kong listing of up to $5bn as soon as this year, Bloomberg reports, having filed confidentially and added Bank of America alongside CICC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Zhipu and MiniMax already listed in Hong Kong in January, ahead of OpenAI and
TECH NEWS
TL;DR Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September with a licensed driver in every car. The reason is the legal route they chose: TfL licensed the vehicles as private hire vehicles, which legally requires a human in the driver’s seat, rather than through
TECH NEWS
This week, Nvidia released a free tool called Personal AI Router (PAIR) that connects unused computers on your home network to create a personal AI data center. The software is currently in public beta and is for users who run local AI agents and LLMs. PAIR finds compatible devices using
TECH NEWS
Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
TECH NEWS
Netmore Group has added Kinéis satellite connectivity to its LPWAN network to support hybrid terrestrial and orbital IoT operations. The integration provides single-platform management for customers across the utilities, water, infrastructure, and smart city sectors. Kinéis operates a sovereign European constellation of 25 satellites dedicated to IoT and Automatic Identification
TECH NEWS
IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin, and while the event officially opens to the public today, press events have been going on already and giving us a peek behind the curtain at the TVs, wearables, smart home gear and more making their debut. Our Picks Bottom Line The Omni E35
