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Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion in Record Haptic Patent Verdict as Foldable iPhone Push Continues
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Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion in Record Haptic Patent Verdict as Foldable iPhone Push Continues

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
The AI Price War Heats Up: OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna vs Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
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The AI Price War Heats Up: OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna vs Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22, cutting prices by up to 50 percent. Hours later, Anthropic answered with Claude Opus 5.5 at 40 percent lower cost. The synchronized releases mark a real price war at the AI frontier.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20265 min read
Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot, Betting the Work Surface Is the Moat
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Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot, Betting the Work Surface Is the Moat

Microsoft has rebuilt Copilot around three capabilities β€” Home, Code, and Autopilot β€” turning the AI assistant into a unified work surface where users chat, build apps in natural language, and delegate to persistent agents billed by usage.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20265 min read
Meta Connect 2026: Muse Charm Pocket AI Device, Camera-Free Ray-Bans and Lightweight VR Glasses
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Meta Connect 2026: Muse Charm Pocket AI Device, Camera-Free Ray-Bans and Lightweight VR Glasses

At Meta Connect 2026, Meta unveiled the Muse Charm pocket AI device, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, and lightweight VR Glasses β€” recasting its wearables around Muse, its personal AI agent.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20265 min read
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion, Betting on 'Physical AI'
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AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion, Betting on 'Physical AI'

AMD has agreed to acquire the spatial-intelligence startup World Labs in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal, bringing founder Fei-Fei Li in as executive vice president and chief scientist. The move signals that the AI industry's next race is not about bigger language models, but about AI that understands the physical world.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
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What Is the Cloud, Really? A Plain-English Explainer

Everyone uses the cloud and almost no one can explain it. Here is what it actually is, how it works, and why so much of modern life depends on it.

James Carter24 Sept 20265 min read