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Lightship, a Colorado-based EV trailer maker, displayed its AE.1 model outside Yeti's flagship Austin store, letting visitors tour the interior. The trailer, which starts at $157,500 and sleeps up to six, features a modern kitchen with a hidden dishwasher, microwave, full bathroom and an electric motor called TrekDrive that assists propulsion while towing.
Tinder announced Group Hangouts, a feature letting groups of three to fifteen friends create a shared profile around an activity, which can appear in the app's main card stack for other groups to discover. If members from two groups like each other, they're connected in a group chat to plan a meetup, with options to leave, block, or report participants. The feature is rolling out in phases in the U.S. and select markets.
Charter Space, based in El Segundo, California, has closed a $5 million seed round to expand its space insurance business. The company already serves more than 50 clients across the U.S. space and defense sector since launching its nationally licensed insurance brokerage in May. Crystal Venture Partners led the round, with participation from QED, Blank Ventures, Hustle Fund, and Gaingels.
An amended franchise disclosure document from Checkers Drive-In Restaurants shows the Checkers and Rally's burger chains have seen a net decline in store locations. The filing details where closures have been concentrated as the chains' overall U.S. footprint shrinks.
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop using the terms 'artificial intelligence' and 'AI' and instead use 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' wherever legally possible. The order, issued after a White House lunch with AI industry leaders, argues that today's AI capabilities have outgrown the original terminology coined 70 years ago.
At its DevDay conference in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled a new always-on AI agent called Dots, powered by its GPT-6 Astra model. During a live demonstration, product team member Holly Li called the agent by phone and asked for a testing update, but it took an extended pause and never gave a substantive answer, only repeating that it was 'still checking.'
Asus has received an FCC exemption dated September 9th from the new US ban on foreign-made consumer routers, allowing it to sell its upcoming Wi-Fi 8 routers domestically. Under the rules, manufacturers must submit a 'detailed, time-bound plan' to build or expand US manufacturing to qualify, and Asus says it has submitted such a plan, but it has repeatedly declined to confirm whether that plan involves actually manufacturing routers in the United States.
Android Authority ran a reader poll asking how often people upgrade their smartwatch, offering options ranging from yearly upgrades to waiting until the device stops working. With seven votes recorded so far, 57% said they upgrade only when their smartwatch malfunctions, while 43% said they replace it every three to five years; no respondents chose annual, biennial upgrades, or not using a smartwatch at all.
AI research firm Epoch AI has published a report finding that the cost of running AI models has dropped by thousands of times over the past several years, at a pace it calculates as nearly 50% cheaper per quarter and 13 times cheaper annually. The firm says this rate of decline outpaces historical cost drops in lithium batteries, DNA sequencing, and computing power under Moore's Law.
CNBC's Eamon Javers published an investigation into John Harold Rogers, a former senior Federal Reserve official arrested by the FBI in January 2025 on suspicion of passing central bank information to a Chinese government agent. Investigators say a personal relationship exploited by the alleged agent became entangled with Rogers' professional access, though his lawyers maintain he shared no valuable information. The Fed and its Inspector General's office declined to comment, and Rogers declined to be interviewed.
Apple has embedded the Face ID TrueDepth module beneath the iPhone 18 Pro's screen by redesigning the pixel layout in that area to allow infrared light through. iFixit's microscope analysis found pixel density there is halved, with Apple confirming the brightness is boosted to compensate and an IR pass filter reportedly used to keep the components hidden from view.
CNET tested the Bluvol I11 Apex, a $90 cordless hair straightening comb that offers three heat settings (320, 365 and 410 degrees Fahrenheit), an LCD display showing temperature and battery level, and up to 45 minutes of use per charge. The reviewer, who previously used a Tymo Ring straightening brush, tried the device on curly, thick hair and found it straightened effectively in a single pass thanks to ceramic-glazed plates designed to prevent hair damage.