AI Metaverse Leaps, Cyber Attacks, and Space Triumphs – Global Tech News Roundup (Sept 26–27, 2025)
AI and Big Tech Developments Meta bets on the Metaverse + AI: Meta Platforms grabbed headlines with a suite of announcements blending augmented reality and generative AI. At the Meta Connect 2025 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced “Horizon AI,” a new service for creating personalized virtual worlds on the fly theverge.com. Using Meta’s latest large language model (Llama 4) and user data, Horizon AI can “stitch” together custom 3D environments via an intelligent assistant theverge.com. In a demo, Zuckerberg showed how speaking a few prompts (or even scanning your room) could generate an immersive scene – for example, recreating a