US stock futures were lower at the start of the holiday-shortened week, with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures down 0.7%, S&P 500 futures down 0.2%, and Nasdaq-100 futures slightly below flatline.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Release 6 is now generally available and adds native ransomware detection while extending HPE’s disaggregated, scale-out architecture to support both block and file workloads with independent performance and capacity scaling.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Register
Renault says its Dacia Spring EV will be built in Europe and can cost as little as €12,200 after French EV credits, down from the €17,900 list price for the base model.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Engadget
Xiaomi’s Xiaomi 18 Fold is a 219g “mid-size” foldable with a 7.68-inch inner display and a 5.38-inch outer display, both at 4,000 nits peak brightness with 1–120Hz LTPO adaptive refresh rates.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Xiaomi’s 18 Fold is a short, wide book-style foldable with a 6,000mAh battery, 67W wired and 50W wireless charging, up to 4,000 nits peak brightness, and a 200MP (1/1.56-inch-type) triple rear camera with 3.5x 50MP periscope telephoto and 50MP ultrawide—powered by Xiaomi’s Xring O3 chipset with Arm’s Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU and “Snapdragon 8 Elite-level performance” claims.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Verge
Australia will introduce a “digital duty of care” requiring digital platforms to offer Australian users the option to switch from an algorithmic feed to a feed that only shows content from accounts they already follow.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Huawei says its Kirin 950 Pro—used in the $2,979 Mate XT2 three-screen folding phone—has 42% higher performance than the chip Huawei used in its prior three-screen phone and is built without US technology, with its own LinxiCore CPU/GPU/NPU designs plus a “Tau Scaling” architecture aimed at reducing die size and improving performance.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
NavigateAI launched in late May with $25 million in seed funding at a $225 million post-money valuation, building AI copilots for construction workers to address staffing shortages as larger data center projects now require about 4,000 to 5,000 workers.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Brent crude stayed below $100 a barrel despite U.S.-Iran conflict disrupting Gulf exports, because Middle East flows through the Strait of Hormuz fell to under 2 million bpd but a moving average of 4 million to 5 million bpd still supported a “fair” price of about $95.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Arm’s CSS for Mobile 2 and its Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU are designed to use AI inside the graphics pipeline to upscale graphics (e.g., 540p to 1080p) and improve framerate (e.g., 30fps to 60fps), while Arm says a proof-of-concept game hit up to 70% lower external memory traffic and 4x better performance efficiency than conventional rendering.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
CNET
Xiaomi 18 Fold’s custom Xring O3 chip includes Arm’s Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU with an AI gaming graphics accelerator that enables “neural graphics” like AI upscaling and frame generation, aimed at PC-like graphics without raising phone power use (Arm says an entire device can stay under 2.5W, with 1.5W for the GPU).
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Verge
Genesco closed 25 stores in Q2 fiscal 2027 (including 17 Journeys Group locations), but opened 3 for a net decrease of 22 stores, leaving it with 1,186 stores—down 5% year over year.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kimberly-Clark has requested European Union permission to complete its proposed $40 billion takeover of Kenvue, which was announced in November 2025.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Roivant and Priovant launched Lisraya immediately after FDA approval, pricing it at $35,000 for a 30-day supply (as a daily pill).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oukitel’s RG14-P rugged solar-charged laptop uses a photovoltaic panel behind its 14-inch display for about a 50% battery charge in roughly 6 hours under “optimal sunlight.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·CNET
FDA authorized Philip Morris International to market 11 nicotine-pouch products under its Zyn line, including 9-milligram Zyn Ultra pouches in Citrus, Menthol, and Wintergreen varieties, citing lower harmful constituents than other oral and smokeless tobacco products.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The European Commission is conducting a preliminary antitrust inquiry into whether Oracle’s software licensing terms unfairly lock customers into keeping their workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) rather than switching to rivals like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund (EMLP) charges a 0.95% expense ratio and targets North American fossil fuel and utility infrastructure, while iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN) charges 0.39% and targets a more global renewables portfolio.
Sep 7, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Piper Sandler raised its ExxonMobil (XOM) price target from $158 to $185 on Sept. 3, a 16% implied upside from current levels while keeping a Neutral rating.
Sep 7, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy shareholders overwhelmingly approved their all-stock merger on September 3, clearing a key hurdle toward creating the world’s largest regulated electric utility by market capitalization.
Sep 7, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
