Apple Watch Series 12 keeps the same familiar design but adds an S11 processor and reengineered health sensors, enabling higher heart-rate accuracy, a new readiness score, and Audio Intelligence features that can transcribe the last 15 seconds of missed conversations with “Rewind.”
Sep 9, 2026 ·
CNET
Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, months after a prior $200 million round at an $11 billion valuation and an earlier $8 billion round in December.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Apple’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 and includes a 2T (2TB) model priced at $3,199.
Sep 9, 2026 ·CNET
iOS 27 is set to roll out to all users next week on Monday, Sept. 14, bringing new features including Messages drawing, expanded widget sizes, FaceTime Dual Capture, more photorealistic Image Playground results, receipt-based Apple Cash bill splitting, Spatial Reframing in Photos, new Ask to Browse parental controls, faster app and media loading, and generative-AI Siri capabilities later this year.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
ZDNet
TRM Labs’ valuation doubled to $2 billion after raising a $70 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation in September 2025 and securing additional (unspecified) funding from existing investors six months later.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Apple Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 add Audio Intelligence features that identify ambient sounds (like alarms and doorbells), transcribe the last 15 seconds of missed conversation via Live Rewind, and create saved conversation “recap” notes via Siri Recap.
Sep 9, 2026 ·CNET
Adobe Acrobat’s paid enterprise plans add an AI assistant that can scan selected PDFs, answer questions, and generate charts, images, and navigation, plus convert documents and web links into podcast-style audio summaries.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Apple says iPhone 18 Pro photos will be able to produce an “unalterable image” reference—generated from signed sensor data via Private Cloud Compute—so the Photos app can compare versions and help determine whether the image was altered
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
AirPods 5 reduces background noise by 50% more than the previous generation, according to Apple, and offers up to five hours of listening with active noise cancellation on a single charge (up to 22 hours with the case).
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple Watch Ultra 4 adds up to 84 hours battery life in low power mode and introduces a revamped health system that powers a daily 0–10 “readiness” score and an Apple Intelligence “insights” tab in the redesigned Health app.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Engadget
Apple Watch Series 12 adds Siri “Audio Intelligence,” including Live Rewind that shows a text transcript of the last 15 seconds of recently detected audio and Siri Recap that uses ambient listening to summarize recent conversations in the Siri app.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Verge
Apple CEO John Ternus said iPhone is already the best “intelligent personal hub” for AI, and described Apple’s approach as running AI on-device whenever possible to keep personal data under users’ control.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Siri AI will roll out to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish-speaking users in October, following its current availability in English via the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 betas.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Engadget
Alphabet (GOOGL) trades at about 17 times earnings, and Jim Cramer says $342 is the price for the stock as its businesses—especially Google Cloud—are “monster grower” drivers despite investor focus on the prior secondary offering.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 and iPhone 18 Pro Max starts at $1,299 (both with 256GB), with preorders on Sept. 14 and sales starting Sept. 18.
Sep 9, 2026 ·CNET
Amazon is trading at about 20 times this year’s earnings and Jim Cramer called it a “screaming buy” based on AI-driven growth that he says is already happening via AWS and compute sales.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
John Ternus opened Apple’s Wednesday product event with a new CEO address after succeeding Tim Cook as chief executive, and Cook will continue as executive chairman of Apple’s board.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Verge
Payroll data through June 2026 shows no economy-wide AI-driven job losses, though Stanford found declines for young workers aged 22–25 in AI-exposed jobs are about 19% behind their less-exposed peers in June.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Computerworld
The Dow fell 0.8%, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.7%, and the S&P 500 declined 0.5% despite Meta gaining 6.3% after launching Muse, a free AI assistant for U.S. users.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google’s AlphaGenome AI system evaluates mouse and human non-coding DNA variants by estimating their potential impact on functions including gene expression, transcription initiation, chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, transcription factor binding, chromatin contact maps, and splice site usage and splice junction strength.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
