1 · Engadget
The Apple Vision Pro was used for a successful hip surgery
Stryker’s SportSuite Vision Apple Vision Pro app was used during the first real-world SportSuite Vision procedure, a hip arthroscopy at Duke Health.
Daily digest · Thursday, September 3, 2026
A packed tech news day ranged from Oura filing with the SEC to SpaceXAI apologizing for an outage affecting Grok. Alongside new AI model releases, Tesla floated Cybercab fleet interest and Zoox expanded robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport.
1 · Engadget
Stryker’s SportSuite Vision Apple Vision Pro app was used during the first real-world SportSuite Vision procedure, a hip arthroscopy at Duke Health.
2 · TechCrunch
Oura filed with the SEC to go public, reporting revenue rising from $697 million in the nine months ended June 30, 2023 to $1.2 billion in the corresponding nine months in 2024.
3 · TechCrunch
Tesla posted an interest form inviting businesses to buy Cybercab fleets or provide infrastructure for its robotaxi network ahead of its Cybercab event in Austin.
4 · Engadget
SpaceXAI said a Memphis compute-center outage took Grok offline for about 3.5 hours starting at 6:30AM PT, with services restored and “functioning nominally” afterward.
5 · CNET
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, positioning it as its most intelligent model yet with strengths in cybersecurity, software engineering, and multi-step agentic workflows, and rolling it out first to Daybreak access before expanding to Plus, Pro, and Business users over the coming days.
6 · Yahoo Finance
Rivian has steadily improved gross profitability since 2023, while Lucid has wavered and moved in the wrong direction for about a year and a half, making Rivian the stronger “unit economics” story on gross profit.
7 · TechCrunch
Zoox will begin Thursday hailing robotaxi rides to and from Harry Reid International Airport, adding airport trips to its already-running commercial service in Las Vegas.
8 · Engadget
Audacity released Version 4.0—its biggest update since Version 3.0 about five years ago—adding a dark mode and expanding non-destructive editing with overlapping clips, trimming that reveals covered audio, and sample-level editing down to the sample level.
9 · The Register
OpenAI is pledging $1B in credits under its “Daybreak for Frontline Defenders” initiative to subsidize access to its services and training for under-resourced cyber defenders over the next six months.
10 · The Verge
The NBA suspended Steve Ballmer for a year and fined the Clippers $30 million while requiring the team to forfeit five future draft picks, after a league report found Ballmer’s claims about a $28 million “endorsement” deal involving Kawhi Leonard were “inaccurate (at best)” and “clearly false.”
