Adobe has integrated a new Generative Media tool directly into Premiere Pro's timeline, letting editors fill gaps in video or audio tracks with AI-generated clips without leaving their project or switching apps. The tool supports multiple AI models, including Adobe Firefly, Google Veo, Runway, Luma, and Kling. Premiere is also gaining beta AI audio features for separating speakers and balancing dialogue with music, while After Effects is getting a plain-language AI Assistant for project organization and effects creation.
Stoke Space Technologies has completed the first close of a $1 billion Series E funding round, led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital with participation from Y Combinator and other investors. The company says the capital will support scaling production and flight frequency of its current rocket while funding development of a larger, second-generation vehicle, bringing its total funding to $2.3 billion.
Grass Valley Police Department ended its contract with Flock Safety and removed the company's license plate cameras, but Flock reinstalled at least two of them without authorization weeks later. Flock says its automated maintenance system misread the city's early camera removal as an equipment failure, triggering repair crews to dispatch and replace units. GVPD says it continues to monitor for and remove any cameras Flock puts back up.
Google has rolled out Play Services version 26.35, which lets Android users tap their physical transit cards against an NFC-enabled phone to import the card and its balance into Google Wallet. The update also adds a redesigned 'Add a card' success screen and various account management and location-sharing improvements. Separately, Google Play Store version 53.1 introduces a new navigation bar and short feature descriptions in the 'Similar Apps' section.
Cleveland.com reporter Kaitlin Durbin says the outlet's AI-driven 'Express Desk' published a story about a Cuyahoga County official under her byline while she was on her honeymoon, though she never wrote or reviewed it. The story, unrelated to her prior work, was later corrected to remove her name after she publicly objected on X.
Many users are reporting that their YouTube feed, including grids and video titles, fails to load across Android, iOS, web browsers, smart TVs, and even the YouTube TV app. YouTube has acknowledged the problem in a support forum post and is investigating, while suggesting switching networks or disabling Wi-Fi as a temporary workaround.
CipherCue analyzed 44,143 European companies with an identifiable content delivery network and found 39,547 of them, or 89.6%, run behind Cloudflare. Amazon's CloudFront trails far behind at 3,112 companies, followed by Fastly with 1,299 and Akamai with 396. The figures only cover firms that use a CDN at all, excluding those serving sites directly from their own servers.
BleepingComputer will host a live webinar on September 23, 2026, in partnership with Material Security, examining real, documented breaches of Google Workspace caused by forgotten third-party app permissions. Speakers Rajan Kapoor of Material Security and Rick Fitzgerald of Fireside Consulting will walk through case studies and outline which security controls matter most for fast-growing companies with limited resources.
George Lucas's long-delayed Museum of Narrative Art has opened after being shopped to three different cities over 16 years and costing roughly $1 billion to build. Early reviews of the museum, which houses Lucas's personal collection of illustration and film art, are decidedly mixed.
Samsung and TSMC, the world's two largest chipmakers, have confirmed plans to deploy ASML's High NA extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, machines that can cost roughly $400 million each and etch finer circuit patterns onto silicon wafers. Samsung plans to use the tools for DRAM production starting in 2028 and expand its scaling roadmap by 2030, while TSMC expects broader adoption driven by increasingly complex transistor designs needed for AI chips. Both companies join Intel as customers of the technology.
Xiaomi has released the 18 Fold, its first book-style foldable phone and the debut device for its self-made Xring O3 chip built on a 3nm process. The phone pairs a redesigned hinge and dual 120Hz displays reaching 4,000 nits with a Leica-tuned triple camera system led by a 200-megapixel main sensor, priced from 10,999 yuan (~$1,638). Xiaomi also unveiled a tablet using the same chip and three electric vehicles under its Pengcheng brand at the same event.
Samsung has released One UI 9 Beta 2 for the Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Ultra in South Korea, a 643MB update expected to expand to other beta markets soon. Beyond bug fixes for Wi-Fi drops, Contacts crashes, and translation errors, the build adds four AI features first seen on newer Samsung flagships: Call Brief, Custom Cards in Now Brief, Now Nudge, and My FanCam.
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