AI agents are learning to book, buy, send, and edit on our behalf. The missing product is a clear permission system that shows their limits, asks at the right moments, and leaves a record behind.
ZTE and ByteDance certified the NaviX Ultra with China's MIIT on September 1. Doubao runs the OS, apps grant it credentials via MCP instead of being scraped, and the primary model runs on-device. On sale in China this month.
Zhipu ran a global hit on Chinese chips the same week Nvidia guided China to zero. OpenAI taped out an inference ASIC. Apple told you to stop counting tokens. The quarter is fine. The customer list is building an off-ramp.
Mac mini with M6 starts at $899. M5 Pro is $1,699. Mac Studio with M5 Max holds $2,499, while the first quad-die M5 Ultra opens at $5,499. Same chassis, higher lists, September 22 shipping.
Xiaomi's second flagship SoC stays on 3nm, ditches little cores, and ships native LPDDR6 before Snapdragon Summit. Xiaomi 18 Fold and Pad 9 Pro Max get it in September.
Seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices on August 17, 2026. Suyu's entire 311-repo fork network went with them. Nintendo's argument is keys and decryption, not a clean trial on emulators.
Gameplay and a Leonida map hit the internet days before Rockstar's Netflix Extended Look. CyberLeek framed it as a protest over disc-free boxes and pre-orders. Take-Two answered with DMCA strikes.
