The Senate’s August spending bill includes a provision that would block the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from implementing rules giving political appointees full control over what science is funded and allowing them to cancel grants at any time, and the House passed a stopgap measure that delays that risk until the stopgap expires on December 11.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Shell completed its $16.5-billion acquisition of ARC Resources, with ARC shareholders receiving C$8.20 in cash plus 0.40247 Shell shares per ARC share (updated enterprise value includes $2.5 billion of net debt and leases).
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Broadcom’s fiscal Q3 beat on revenue ($29.59B) and adjusted EPS ($3.32) was offset by its fiscal Q4 revenue guidance midpoint of about $34.8B, slightly below the ~$35.0B–$35.05B consensus, pushing the stock down more than 3% in after-hours.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Broadcom shares fell more than 4% after fiscal Q3 results, despite adjusted EPS of $3.32 (vs. $3.23 expected) and revenue growing 86% year over year to $29.6 billion (vs. $29.45 billion expected).
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Technip Energies is a contender for a potential $10 billion rocket-fuel deal with SpaceX, which the article says would imply healthy revenue growth over the next 36 months and helped drive a sharp rally in THNPY stock.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Uber plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce, including roughly 3,300 roles, as part of a broader restructuring.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft’s C# 15 preview arriving in November will add union types via the new union keyword, letting developers compose multiple custom data types into a single compiler-verified “umbrella” contract that can’t be expanded.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Register
Gemini-3.8-flash was correct only 65% of the time on a single top guess (and 85% correct within its top five), with several models mistaking deadly species for edible ones at rates as high as 48% for the fool’s funnel and 31% for the fatal dapperling.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Dell reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $46.97B (+58% year-over-year) and adjusted EPS of $7.04 versus $4.92 expected, driven by AI-optimized server revenue of $16.4B and a raised FY27 revenue outlook to $192B from $167B (+69% year-over-year).
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Almost 400,000 more driver’s licenses appeared for sale within 24 hours, indicating the breach was ongoing and new cards became available shortly after being harvested.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee argues Nvidia (NVDA) remains undervalued because its valuation multiples are still low and its “P/E keeps contracting,” despite record quarterly results and a 2028 revenue guide he expects could help the stock regain all-time highs.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alphabet’s GOOG/GOOGL shares have fallen about 18% from their May peak above $400 and are approaching bear-market territory (a 20% drawdown from recent highs).
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI’s Astra reasoning model is reported to use a technique called “recurrent depth” (also known as “opaque recurrence”), which loops over queries in a less linear way that could make a model’s chain of thought harder to monitor.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A UN Environment Programme report says global temperatures are set to rise more than 1.5°C, and lays out strategies to limit how long temperatures stay above that Paris Agreement threshold rather than keeping them below it.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Engadget
Southern Copper (SCCO), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), and Newmont (NEM) are among the mining-related stocks included on the Investor’s Business Daily Breakout Stocks Index that trade in or near a buy zone.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
VC investment in quantum computing hit a record $2 billion in Q2 across 23 deals, PitchBook reports—about a third of the chips and datacenters vertical.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Bloomberg gauge of global government bond yields hit 3.72%, its highest since mid-2008, as Japan, the US, and Europe sold off in synchrony.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The FCC plans to create robocall mitigation scorecards that could rate domestic wireless, wireline, and VoIP providers on how effectively they block illegal spam calls, using both call-blocking metrics and measurable outcomes like how often illegal robocalls still reach consumers—rather than only administrative “checklist” factors.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The New York Times will release a weekly Wednesday drop of 5 to 6 new puzzle games—Wordle-spinoffs included—available only to subscribers of New York Times Games or All Access.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
CNET
NASA is pursuing a simpler “Sortie Suit” variant of its planned lunar spacesuit, developed with Axiom Space under Artemis Program Manager Jeremy Parsons, to speed Artemis landings and reduce suit mass, complexity, and interface complexity with lunar landers.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
