FC Barcelona's Nike Kobe 3 Low Protro releases September 4 at $200, Team USA opens the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup against China in Berlin, and OpenAI's Astra becomes the first model to cross its Critical cybersecurity threshold.
The Converse SHAI 001 Lace Up "Cheetah" drops today at $120, college football Week 1 opens tonight with Colorado at Georgia Tech at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN, and Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs as it pivots toward robotaxis.
JENNIE's first adidas Originals collaboration releases today in Korea at $150, Mariano Navone put Novak Djokovic out of the US Open in the first round, and Coyote vs. Acme opened to $15.5 million three years after Warner Bros. shelved it.
The Salehe Bembury x PUMA Velum 2 NITRO releases today at $160 in Terracotta and Alloy, Aaron Donald unretires on a one-year, $20 million deal with the Rams, and Amazon closes Mechanical Turk on September 30.
FC Barcelona's Nike Kobe 3 Low Protro releases September 4 at $200, Team USA opens the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup against China in Berlin, and OpenAI's Astra becomes the first model to cross its Critical cybersecurity threshold.
OpenAI is ending Cursor's access to its models on November 12, weeks after SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding tool. OpenAI says it cannot trust SpaceX to honor its terms of service; Cursor says OpenAI models are only about 5% of its traffic.
The Converse SHAI 001 Lace Up "Cheetah" drops today at $120, college football Week 1 opens tonight with Colorado at Georgia Tech at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN, and Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs as it pivots toward robotaxis.
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon on August 31, 2026, alleging it added a secret surcharge to its ad auctions in 2019 and overcharged more than a million brands and sellers. Amazon calls the suit misguided.
John Ternus took over as Apple's chief executive on September 1, 2026, with Tim Cook moving to executive chairman after 15 years as CEO. Ternus joined Apple in 2001 and has led hardware engineering since 2013.
JENNIE's first adidas Originals collaboration releases today in Korea at $150, Mariano Navone put Novak Djokovic out of the US Open in the first round, and Coyote vs. Acme opened to $15.5 million three years after Warner Bros. shelved it.
DeepSeek is finishing a roughly $7.4 billion raise at a $74 billion pre-money valuation, with CATL, Monolith and Shixiang returning. Investors get direct equity for the first time ahead of a targeted 2027 Shanghai STAR Market listing.
The Salehe Bembury x PUMA Velum 2 NITRO releases today at $160 in Terracotta and Alloy, Aaron Donald unretires on a one-year, $20 million deal with the Rams, and Amazon closes Mechanical Turk on September 30.
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, after 21 years, along with SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI. The platform listed over 500,000 workers across 190 countries and paid cents per task.
Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1 billion for the Machine Age Fund, a dedicated hardware vehicle backing the chips, memory, data centers and robots AI runs on. Hardware is now over 20% of the firm's deal flow.
Instinct, the year-old personal AI assistant from 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn, raised a $250 million Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5 billion valuation while still in private beta.
Westside Gunn's Saucony Grid Jazz 9 "Awesome God" releases at $225, Chris Sale strikes out 11 in a 1-0 shutout to sweep the Dodgers, Alabama Shakes return after 11 years, and a judge voids the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic.