Daily digest · Thursday, September 24, 2026
Meta is bringing New York Times Cooking to Ray-Ban Display and expanding its AI glasses rollout, while Waymo shows fast robotaxi growth concentrated in California and Texas. Other stories cover Marathon’s roadmap, a Warzone skins toggle, CDC vaccine ordering, Google’s TPU satellite test, Microsoft’s communications shuffle, and Meta’s teen-safety disclosure legal fight.
1 · Engadget
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses and other Meta AI non-display smart glasses will get New York Times Cooking integration with a “hands-free mode” that provides audio cues for recipe steps, with steps restructured into brief instructions and ingredients/measurements aligned to the dish.
2 · Engadget
December’s Symbiosis update will add a team deathmatch mode and a permanently available PvE mode, along with an overhaul to the Perimeter zone and the introduction of the Tick Queen boss, plus a new shell archetype (“Bishop”) and a new social space with a firing range for onboarding.
3 · The Verge
A recently unsealed document shows Meta’s Teen Accounts team ordered baseball caps labeled “a/c priv.” amid lawsuits arguing Meta is using attorney-client privilege too broadly to keep teen-safety research disclosures out of public view.
4 · CNET
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can be customized via each app’s settings to control response tone (including emoji and “warmth/enthusiasm”), with the article finding ChatGPT was the most “coachable” and most closely followed user instructions overall—while Gemini most consistently cited sources on the first try but later stopped citing without prompting.
5 · TechCrunch
Waymo averages 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week but 80% of its ~4,000-vehicle fleet is concentrated in California and Texas, where Texas grew 49% in the past three weeks to 1,102 registered vehicles as of Sept. 24.
6 · Engadget
Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 will add a Warzone toggle (off by default) that hides player skins from other Call of Duty universe sources by replacing them with standard Operator appearances for the game mode.
7 · Ars Technica
CDC confirmed that ordering for COVID-19 vaccines is now open, after a previous unexplained delay.
8 · The Register
Google will launch a test satellite carrying lightly modified TPU/Trillium compute from its Project Suncatcher on October 1 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to evaluate whether its homegrown AI hardware can survive launch, space radiation, and cooling in orbit.
9 · The Verge
Microsoft is moving communications into its Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization, with vice chair and president Brad Smith taking over while chief communications officer Frank Shaw departs later this year.
10 · Engadget
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 starts at $449 (up $70 from Gen 2) and improves battery life to up to 9 hours per charge (+1 hour) and up to 50 hours with the charging case (+2 hours), plus a 6-mic array (+1 mic).
