> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://tech-24.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tech 24 - September 22, 2026 - URL: https://tech-24.ghost.io/tech-24-september-22-2026/ - Published: 2026-09-22T11:55:58.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-22T11:55:57.000Z - Description: Amazon locks out Meta's shopping agent, AMD joins the trillion-dollar club, and Alibaba answers Nvidia with its own chip. - Author: Tech 24 Good morning. Here's what happened in tech over the last 24 hours. FEATURED ![App icons on a phone screen](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1611162617213-7d7a39e9b1d7?w=1200&h=440&fit=crop) AI / MACHINE LEARNING • YESTERDAY ## Amazon Locked Meta's Shopping Agent Out Of Its Store Amazon started blocking Meta's Muse agent from Amazon.com on Sunday night, twelve days after the app launched. Shoppers who try it now get a pop-up saying an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's terms of use. Amazon's complaint has three parts. Meta never told it Muse would be shopping the site. The agent doesn't identify itself when it browses. And it appears to capture and store customer credentials. Meta says Muse cannot see passwords or payment methods, and that credentials go into secure storage the agent uses without reading. Muse is not a side experiment. It passed ChatGPT as the top free iPhone app and has cleared 2.5 million downloads since September 8\. Claude and Grok managed 400,000 and 200,000 over the same stretch. The agent era just hit its first border dispute, and it's about who gets to shop. Source: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/metas-ai-agent-has-been-blocked-from-using-amazon-com/) ### Latest Stories [See all →](https://tech-24.ghost.io/archive/) ![Stock chart](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1611974789855-9c2a0a7236a3?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) STARTUPS / BUSINESS • YESTERDAY #### AMD Is Now A Trillion-Dollar Company AMD passed a $1 trillion market cap for the first time yesterday. The stock hit $613.92, up nearly 10% on the day. That caps a five-day run of about 24%, and a year up more than 180%. AMD is the fourth American chip company to reach a trillion, after Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron. Two years ago the AI trade was one company. Now it's four. That's a different market, and it changes who holds pricing power next year. 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The list reportedly includes work on Navier-Stokes, one of the seven Millennium Prize problems. Those carry a million-dollar bounty and have stood unsolved for decades. Mathematicians need months to check claims like these, which is presumably why the group exists. If even a fraction survives review, the argument that AI can't do original research is over. Source: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems/) CONSUMER TECH • YESTERDAY #### Ireland Fined Google €403 Million Over Location Data Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million yesterday, about $463 million. The case covers Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy. The inquiry ran six years and examined conduct between May 2018 and February 2020\. It is the fourth-largest fine the Irish regulator has issued under GDPR. Google has six months to bring its location processing into line. The money is a rounding error for Alphabet. The compliance order is the part that costs. Source: [BleepingComputer](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fined-403-million-over-location-data-privacy-violations/) ![Wind turbines at sunset](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1466611653911-95081537e5b7?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) ENERGY / CLIMATE TECH • YESTERDAY #### Brussels Wants To Put An Energy Label On Your Data Center The European Commission proposed rating data centers from A to G on energy efficiency, the same scale Europe uses for fridges and washing machines. It applies to sites above 500 kilowatts. The first labels are due by 15 August 2027. Rating a building is simple. Rating one whose workload triples the week someone ships a model is not. Expect a long fight over how the score gets calculated. 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Pricing lands Thursday, settlement the following Tuesday. **Tencent** shipped Hunyuan Hy Image 3.5 Preview today, with 4K output and editing across 20 reference images. Its Hong Kong shares rose about 7%. **StepFun** opened API access to Step 5 Preview, a 600-billion-parameter model with a million-token context window. Weights follow on October 15. STAT OF THE DAY SoftBank's total bet on OpenAI once the next tranche closes $64.6B for a stake of roughly 13% Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow. Same time. Same place. Every day.