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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, September 24, 2026
Meta used its Connect showcase to bring its Muse agent to a new glasses lineup, including 1,299 dollar Meta VR Glasses due next spring, the 449 dollar Ray Ban Meta Gen 3 and a 349 dollar camera free Ray Ban Meta Audio. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash Lite TTS, its most expressive voice models yet, and Microsoft committed more than 10 billion dollars to cloud and AI infrastructure across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait through 2030. In Washington, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would create a Cabinet level Department of Artificial Intelligence, while OpenAI asked a Texas judge to throw out xAI's antitrust suit over its Apple partnership, citing SpaceX disclosures to the SEC. A BlackRock and IFM consortium entered exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia Pacific data centers in a deal worth up to 25 billion dollars, and Supermicro began shipping Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 racks. Inference platforms Modal and Baseten are in talks at roughly 15 billion and 26 billion dollar valuations, Bessemer Venture Partners closed 5.75 billion dollars in new capital, Enveda raised a 311 million dollar Series E at about a 2 billion dollar valuation, and Ema raised 77 million dollars for its AI employees. Finally, Upwind acquired AI security startup Aegis and launched Upwind AI Security Labs to tackle threats from AI agents.
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