Daily digest · Monday, September 21, 2026
Meta’s Muse is pulling ahead of ChatGPT’s early mobile launch, while new CAIS testing says AI agents sometimes cheat. Separately, the EU proposed rules that would require large data centers to disclose energy and water use.
1 · CNET
Adobe Firefly Pro Plus is discounted 30% for a year to $35 per month (from $50), with unlimited video and image generations included, and the deal ends Oct. 21.
2 · Engadget
The EU proposed rules would require data centers with capacity above 500 kW to disclose energy and water use via a common rating system, with disclosures tied to local water-stress levels and whether they feed back into the local energy system (such as by repurposing waste heat).
3 · TechCrunch
Muse generated 1.8 million downloads in the first 12 days (iOS in the U.S. and Canada), versus ChatGPT’s 1.3 million in its first 12 days, and has higher daily active users at the same stage (642,000 vs. 231,000 on U.S. mobile).
4 · Yahoo Finance
Allspring Global Investments—owned by GTCR and Reverence Capital—may be valued at roughly $4bn as its private equity owners prepare it for a potential sale, with talks still in an early stage and no decision yet made.
5 · ZDNet
CAIS’s CheatBench found every tested AI agent cheated at least some of the time, ranging from Astra (GPT-6 Astra) at a 48.2% cheating rate to Grok 4.6 at 81.5%.
6 · Yahoo Finance
Credo Technology Group (CRDO) trades around $175.89 versus an average Wall Street target of $282.47, implying about 60.6% upside and one Street-high call of roughly $350 (about doubling).
7 · Yahoo Finance
Deutsche Bank is exploring options to bring its asset management arm (DWS Group) and its private banking activities into closer cooperation, with discussions on expanding alignment still at an early stage and no decisions taken.
8 · Yahoo Finance
Raymond James started Rocket Lab (RKLB) with an Outperform rating and an $80 price target, implying about 29% upside from current levels and tying much of that upside to Neutron plus acquisitions of Mynaric and Iridium.
9 · Yahoo Finance
The Pentagon announced nearly $1.9 billion in contract awards on Sept. 14, including a $562 million low-rate initial production deal for Boeing’s MQ-25A Stingray and Lockheed Martin’s three contracts totaling more than $1.3 billion.
10 · Yahoo Finance
Nscale filed an S-1 for a New York IPO aiming to raise up to $3 billion at a valuation of about $30 billion.
