US EV sales have stalled, with new electric vehicle sales in the US falling to their lowest level since 2022, even as respondents in the Here-SBD EV Index 2026 report charging-infrastructure ratings improving to 85% good or very good in 2026 from 72% last year.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNET
iPhone 18 Pro models add Apple’s widest aperture on any Apple phone and manual camera controls (including aperture and shutter speed), delivering especially strong low-light/night photos and videos, but the review says the Camera Control button can’t adjust aperture or shutter speed—limiting usefulness for some buyers.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro adds a moving variable camera aperture, expanding the maximum aperture to f/1.48 (vs. f/1.8) and allowing it to stop down to f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4 to support both low-light (including shorter Night Mode capture time) and deeper focus in some close-up/group scenarios.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave lets players run four main hero routes in one “massive playthrough,” with the option to swap heroes and storylines at will and even merge stats into a single supercharacter later.
Sep 16, 2026 ·The Verge
Over the last decade and a half, AI executives and AI founders—including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and others—have repeatedly called for regulation, starting from 2017 when Musk urged US governors to regulate AI “right away” and continuing through 2023 with Altman asking Congress for a new AI regulator and a Senate hearing in which Amodei warned AI could help create bioweapons.
Sep 16, 2026 ·The Verge
Fortune’s Weave is a Switch 2 exclusive that follows four characters across four overlapping tales set in Dagda’s Rome-like capital city of Dagsion, with battles presented through a familiar turn-based grid and the story beginning with a glowing ambassador, Eshmel, who time-travels and turns into a bird.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) says it has confirmed the country’s first-ever personal data breach carried out by an autonomous AI agent, which used a known large language model to chain phases of an attack after scanning files and running vulnerability scans to gain read/write access to systems containing personal data and invoices.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Register
Fin.com emerged from stealth with $20m in seed funding to expand cross-border payment corridors and its acquisition pipeline.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Aescape, a physical AI and robotics company, delivered over 175,000 massages across more than 150 locations and the author’s 60-minute total-body session at The Hoxton in Downtown Los Angeles cost $119 and left her relaxed with reduced upper- and lower-back soreness.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
About 9.3% of U.S. households—nearly 1 in 10—had at least $500,000 in retirement accounts, based on a Congressional Research Service analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cemetery plot prices rose 65% from 2018 to 2024, and some buyers are now flipping plots for profit despite limited supplies and persistent demand.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Investors expect PE direct investments and co-investments to surpass traditional primary funds as the largest capital source within five years, with combined volumes projected to hit a record $215 billion in 2026 (up from $215 billion estimated for last year: $161 billion directs and $54 billion co-investment).
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Berkshire Hathaway sold its remaining 22 million GM shares in Q3 2023 for about $850 million, but those shares would have been worth about $1.85 billion at GM’s subsequent ~$84 share price—roughly $1 billion more than Berkshire reported by end of Q2 2023.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Logitech’s MX Keypad is a developer macro keypad with nine configurable keys that runs through Logi Options+ and can show app-specific command options in tools like Microsoft Word and Visual Studio Code.
Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register
About 70% of U.S. Generation Z healthcare workers expect to explore new roles within the next year, while 65% hope to stay with one employer for five years or more.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. citizens living abroad generally remain subject to U.S. tax filing rules and foreign information reporting requirements, and noncompliance can trigger large penalties even if they also must file in their country of residence.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNBC
CNET’s 2007 review of the original iPhone said its $499 starting price was “a lot to ask” given missing features and a required iPhone-specific two-year AT&T contract.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
Breville’s $300 Eye Q Toaster uses optical sensors that track toast color 10 times per second instead of a timer, raising bread as soon as it reaches a chosen shade among seven color settings (with optional “A bit more” and dedicated bagel and sourdough modes).
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Engadget
Sony introduced the PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge wireless headsets with planar magnetic drivers and PlayStation Link support for ultra-low-latency audio and switching across PS5, PlayStation Portal, PC and Mac.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Engadget
Markets overwhelmingly expect the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to the 3.75%–4.00% range, its first hike since 2023, ahead of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s 2:30 p.m. remarks for guidance on whether tightening is one-off or a new cycle.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
