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
Connor Leahy, U.S. Executive Director of ControlAI, argues that regulators should stop companies from developing superintelligence because alignment and containment may not be sufficient to manage the risks of systems more capable than humans.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Within 14 hours, Jim Cramer first said Anthropic’s IPO “could be a gigantic” and investors would sell other stocks to participate, then rejected Anthropic execs’ “10% chance we’re all gonna die from AI” odds as “just plain bad,” using a surgery-fatality analogy.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
IBM’s Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2, a ~385M-parameter time-series foundation model, ranks #2 overall among replicable, zero-shot models on the GIFT-Eval leaderboard as of September 8, 2026 and is the top-performing zero-shot model under permissive, commercial-friendly licenses (Apache 2.0 and OpenMDW 1.0).
Sep 9, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Instinct is rolling out dedicated Instinct email addresses at mail.instinct.com so the AI assistant can create and run accounts and handle email-based tasks on users’ behalf without cluttering their inboxes.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Berkshire Hathaway authorized an additional $10 billion investment in Alphabet’s parent, making Alphabet its third-largest common-stock holding.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that unrestrained development of self-improving AI could kill all humans by the end of the decade and calling it “gambling with our lives.”
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Shipt’s “Ask Shipt” AI shopping assistant turns customer prompts and uploaded food photos into customized, ready-to-buy carts, adding identified ingredients to the cart.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Tesla’s steering-wheel-free Cybercab is offering paid rides in Austin, with riders reporting long wait times (about 45 minutes for an “hour-plus” booking), issues like butterfly doors occasionally tied to passenger strikes, and software behavior that can feel uncertain at moments despite mostly smooth rides.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Verge
56% of Ramp customers paid for AI products in August, increasing only 0.4% from the prior month, while AI spend per employee at the top 1% of firms in Ramp’s sample fell nearly 10% to $7,205.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
