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Today’s highlights
- PNOE’s new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair — 2026-09-27
- PNOĒ, the Malden, Mass.-based startup whose breath-analyzing mask used to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Bane’s, is launching a sleeker self-serve version on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure their VO₂ max and ot
- Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India — 2026-09-27
- The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
- Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents — 2026-09-26
- Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC, “The lawsuit centered around
- Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs — 2026-09-26
- Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
- TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement — 2026-09-26
- TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.
- Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song — 2026-09-26
- I don’t think I’m going to hurt anyone’s feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn’t have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well
- Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all — 2026-09-26
- Two companies now say they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, following earlier reporting that a number of social media platforms had rejected the ads.
- Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat — 2026-09-26
- Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR’s Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life