Wheaton Precious Metals expects attributable production to rise from about 804,000 to about 1.2 million gold-equivalent ounces by 2030—roughly 50% growth—without requiring additional capital commitments, exploration success, or a major permitting milestone.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
A Charlotte couple with about $250,000 in student loans on roughly $190,000 combined income (plus about $18,000 car loan, $5,500 in credit cards, and $3,000 in back taxes) was advised to sell their house and use the equity to pay off the debt, because their non-mortgage debt is above 1.25× their gross annual income.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Salesforce experienced a roughly 7.5-hour outage starting at 3:50 a.m. EDT on Sept. 16, disrupting user access with “severe delays” and intermittent errors, with a resolved status posted around 2:59 p.m. EDT (impact marked resolved at 2:59 p.m. EDT).
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Computerworld
AXT Inc. shares rose 11.49% to close at $64.30 after Needham & Company named the company a co-packaged optics beneficiary, citing its indium phosphide substrate as central to debottlenecking AI networks through 2028 and beyond.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BitMine Immersion Technologies says it owns 4.88% of all ETH in circulation after massive buys in the past 30 days, and it plans to push above 5% by the end of the year.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A hawkish Fed hike is expected to weaken Asian currencies—especially the yen—ahead of the Bank of Japan’s Friday monetary-policy meeting, with strategists pointing to yen weakness toward the 200-day moving average near 158 per dollar.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google Home will soon let any AI agent that can call Model Context Protocol tools interact with Google Home devices and event history, with Anthropic’s Claude and the open-source agents OpenClaw and Hermes named as early options.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
CNET
Wordle #1916 (Sept. 17) was THETA and it repeats one letter, has two vowels, starts with T, ends with A, and refers to the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Sep 17, 2026 ·CNET
Amtrak received more than $696 million in federal funding for Chicago rail projects, including $572 million to modernize its Midwest maintenance operations.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AMD shares closed near $512 and are about 12% below the 52-week high of $585 after a mid-week selloff tied to calls to slow AI development across chipmakers.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Standard Chartered expects continued US-Iran stalemate and escalating physical risks to keep oil prices supported above a higher floor even as Brent fell 2.88% to $105.6/bbl and WTI fell 3.33% to $102.3/bbl.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Valor Equity Partners transferred 8.5% of its SpaceX holdings—worth about $8.5 billion—to its limited partner investors, while still owning more than 460 million shares after the giveaway.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Tyrannosaurus rex’s body temperature was likely around 36.3°C (about 97°F), putting it in the same warm-blooded range as humans (98.6°F) and similar to large mammals and large flightless birds like ostriches and emus.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
Al Gore says AI data-center emissions “aren’t what should keep people up at night,” arguing total AI data-center emissions are only a fraction of emissions from uncovered landfills and that air conditioning demand could be a bigger pressure on the grid.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Snap Specs are augmented-reality glasses that function like a “portable mixed reality device” in session-based use, with see-through waveguide 3D display and snap-in lens inserts that let the lenses be swapped up to -8 (tested for about an hour).
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
Snap will launch “Specs Intelligence,” a standalone anticipatory AI assistant for its AR Specs glasses plus dedicated mobile and desktop apps, with features that surface reminders, travel plans, and meeting “questions to ask” based on connected accounts.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Engadget
Snap’s $2,195 Specs augmented-reality glasses show shared, “pinch-and-drop” experiences and a standalone, waveguide-display setup, but a first consumer-ready demo was described as finicky, hard to use outdoors, and prone to digital elements slipping out of view due to a 51-degree field of view.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
Snap Specs are $2,195 standalone AR glasses that can run mixed-reality-like experiences without a separate puck, controller, or tethered connection, but they rely on trade-offs like a chunkier form factor.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Engadget
Snap is launching “Specs Intelligence,” an anticipatory AI assistant that can connect to apps like Gmail and Slack to surface relevant info and actions (such as meeting prep and trip planning) across iOS, Specs AR glasses, and an early-access Mac experience.
Sep 16, 2026 ·The Verge
Cricket Wireless offers its 5G Home Internet service at $60/month for unlimited data on AT&T’s 5G network (with Auto Pay enabled), with a one-time $50 Cricket Gateway modem purchase required.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
