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Entrepreneurship & Digital Business

YouTube Plans AI Sponsor-Pitch Tools as Creator Partnerships Expands

YouTube will add Ask Studio tools for brand briefs, proactive pitches and Media Kit guidance while expanding sponsorship reporting and paid boosts.

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Virtual reality

Meta VR Glasses Cost $1,299.99 and Launch in Spring 2027 With a Tethered Puck

Meta VR Glasses put micro-OLED displays in a 100-gram frame connected to a compute puck. Here is what $1,299.99 buys and how they differ from Quest.

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Video games

Rockstar’s $400 GTA 6 Vice City Collection Doesn’t Include the Game

Rockstar’s $399.99 GTA 6 Vice City Collection has 11 collectibles but no game. See what is included, the total cost and why fans object.

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YouTube

YouTube’s Custom Feeds Let Viewers Prompt Their Own Recommendation Tabs

YouTube Custom Feeds let U.S. viewers create reusable recommendation tabs with natural-language prompts. Here’s how they work and what remains unclear.

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Major AI Industry News

Meta’s $349 Ray-Ban Audio Glasses Drop the Camera as Privacy Scrutiny Grows

Meta’s $349 Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses remove the camera, extend claimed battery life and test whether privacy can broaden demand for wearable AI.

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AI Policy & Regulation

OpenAI Urges Global AI Standards as U.S. Pitches China on Incident Alerts

OpenAI wants common frontier-AI measurements and incident protocols as Washington proposes a national-security alert channel with Beijing.

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Major AI product and service launches

Googlebook Preorders Open From $899 Ahead of October 4 Release

Googlebook preorders are open from $899 for five Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo models. Here are the specs, Gemini tools and caveats.

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Streaming platforms & entertainment tech

Disney+ Says Ad-Free Movies and Shows Aren’t Changing After Terms Backlash

Disney says Europe’s revised terms do not add commercial breaks to Standard or Premium movies and shows, despite viral claims and subscriber anger.

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Video games

Silent Hill: Townfall Reviews Praise Its Scottish Horror, but Stealth Divides Critics

Silent Hill: Townfall reviews arrived Sept. 21, praising its Scottish setting and first-person horror while warning about divisive stealth sections.

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Movies & entertainment

‘Resident Evil’ Opens to Record $60 Million, Reaches $108.3 Million Worldwide

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil debuted to an estimated $60 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide, crushing the series opening record.

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Major AI Industry News

AI Slowdown Lawsuit Targets OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI

Four AI giants face a proposed class action alleging an illegal development slowdown, testing where safety coordination crosses U.S. antitrust law.

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Entrepreneurship & Digital Business

MrBeast Releases $10 Million Ghana Build, Putting His Business Model on Display

MrBeast’s $10 million Ghana village video is live, linking philanthropy, Feastables and a high-stakes test of creator-led media economics at scale.

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