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Google puts Lyria 3.5, its best-sounding music generation model, into the Gemini app for all users worldwide and into the Gemini API, generating full songs with vocals and lyrics at 44.1 kHz from text or images for $0.08 a song.

On 4 September 2026 the Navy gave Newport News Shipbuilding a $336 million undefinitized contract for reactor equipment, heavy forgings and propulsion hardware for CVN 82, the fifth Ford-class carrier, due to be laid down in 2027.

The final of the 13th LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers took place September 4, 2026 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where Belgian designer Julie Kegels won the top prize and a 400,000-euro endowment; Chinese designer Zane Li (Lii) won the Karl Lagerfeld Prize and Kenyan designer Anil Padia (Yoshita 1967) won the Savoir-Faire Prize.

The state-security spy drama The Long Watch (交锋), led by Wang Kai, Zhou Yiran, Ou Hao and Peng Yuchang, premiered on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video on 6 September 2026. It was written under the guidance of the Ministry of State Security.

Alo signed actor, singer and racing driver Wang Yibo, who has more than 41 million Weibo followers, as a global ambassador weeks after opening its Tmall store in China.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 to every ChatGPT tier, generating images up to 50% faster, and two API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare for fast everyday images and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst for precise editing.

Verizon agreed to buy more than 80 million miles of Corning optical fiber from 2027 to 2032 to push toward 40-50 million broadband passings and build long-haul fiber between AI data centers.