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Amazon has slashed the price of the flagship Bowers & Wilkins Px8 noise-cancelling headphones by 36%, bringing them down to $479 from their original price. The discount currently applies to the Royal Burgundy colorway, though stock at this price is limited.
Several U.S. states that previously granted multi-decade tax exemptions to lure data center investments from Amazon, Meta and Google are now reconsidering or rolling back those deals. The reversal follows growing public backlash over the facilities' strain on local resources and limited job creation relative to the tax revenue forgone.
Reddit users report receiving personalized win-back offers on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, with one subscriber getting a 30% discount ($16.09 vs $22.99 monthly) after repeatedly canceling and resubscribing over two years. Other users have shared similar discounted offers, including an $18 rate for 12 months on a secondary Xbox account.
Uber has put another $10 million into Indian fleet operator Carrum Mobility through a Series B round, pushing the startup's valuation to about $168 million, up from $63 million after Uber's earlier $7 million investment in January. Uber now holds a mid-teens stake in Carrum, which operates roughly 5,100 vehicles and over 18,000 drivers across six Indian cities and generates about $45 million in annualized revenue.
Private equity firm Silver Lake is combining two of its portfolio companies, French business software maker Cegid and payroll platform Silae, into a single entity valued at over 10 billion euros. The merged company will unite payroll, accounting, e-invoicing and finance data under one roof, with a 1,400-person developer team dedicated to AI investment. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval, with combined annual revenue projected at 1.9 billion euros.
Payments firm Ramp's survey of 70,000 businesses found only 56% paid for AI tools in August, up just 0.4% from July, marking a sharp deceleration in adoption. Spending per employee among the top 1% of firms fell nearly 10% to $7,205, which Ramp economist Ara Kharazian attributes partly to seasonal vacation effects and partly to falling token prices, now averaging $0.68 per million tokens versus a March peak of $1.15.
Goodyear and Spirit Halloween have partnered on a new Halloween costume shaped like the Goodyear Blimp, priced at $80 and set to launch for the 2026 season. The inflatable, one-size-fits-all outfit includes a battery-powered cooling fan and a matching cap, requiring no crafting or sewing. CNET was invited to preview the costume and take a ride on the actual Goodyear Blimp over Atlanta to mark the collaboration's debut.
OpenAI announced its AI resolved a long-standing open question about the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems, claiming it did so within days using roughly 10,000 agents. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster disputes the credit, saying he and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge had already developed the key approach before OpenAI learned of it and rushed to finish the proof over a weekend.
Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum, the artist's former home on the French Riviera, and made off with two paintings valued at $10.5 million combined. The artworks remain missing, and investigators say the theft fits a pattern of recent high-profile art crimes targeting museums worldwide.
Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 at its September 9th event, featuring a new Siri-powered Audio Intelligence system with live rewind and ambient 'Siri Recap' note-taking. The watch runs on a new S11 chip, starts at $399, and ships September 18th with health upgrades including continuous heart rate sensing and a new Readiness score.
Autodesk is offering a limited-time 40% discount on its Media and Entertainment Collection, a software bundle that includes Maya, 3ds Max, Arnold and MotionBuilder. The collection comes in four variants tailored to modeling, motion capture, animation, and rendering workflows, all priced identically with the same discount applied.
Corsair has released the TC80 Gaming Chair, a $200 seating option built for PC gamers that it says has passed over 30 durability and safety tests meeting BIFMA X5.1 and EN 1335 office chair standards. Testing included dropping heavy loads onto the seat, repeated weight cycles on the seat and armrests, and swivel tests with over 100kg applied at varying heights.