Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (both on a 2nm process) deliver up to 35% better NPU AI performance versus last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and the Extreme model supports on-device AI agents for 30B+ parameter AI models plus 8K video at 60fps.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
CNET
American Horror Story: 13 premieres Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on FX and Hulu, with the first three episodes available that night.
Sep 22, 2026 ·CNET
Motorola’s Signature 27 is its first announced phone to run Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset and will launch globally before the end of the year.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
The Verge
Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 on a 2nm process, with the Extreme adding improved AI processing, video capture (up to 8K 60fps and 4K 240fps), and slightly stronger gaming performance using AI features.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Verge
Motorola will release the Signature 27 in the US as a high-end Android flagship built around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, featuring a 50-megapixel main camera and a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto lens plus a “seven-year commitment” to software and security support.
Sep 22, 2026 ·CNET
Qualcomm launched Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, targeting local AI features including up to 200M-parameter sensing hubs and a 30B-parameter MoE model (with selective activation).
Sep 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Media One acquired the U.S. business and assets of Premex Solutions, a supplier of print-ready fabrics for the digital textile printing industry, in a deal Media One said did not disclose terms.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Apple says its Texture and Grain controls in Photographic Styles are only available when editing photos captured on iPhone 18 Pro models, using the Ultra Wide, Main, and Center Stage cameras on iPhone Duo.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Verge
Real average hourly earnings for all private-sector employees fell 0.3% from August 2025 to August 2026, and production and nonsupervisory workers’ real hourly pay slipped 0.1%, even as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent highlighted blue-collar manufacturing real weekly earnings up 4.1% and blue-collar construction up 5% since January 2025.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft says the EvilTokens scam platform used an AI-style chatbot to compromise 12,000 Microsoft accounts across about 10,000 organizations over a few-month span.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nebius shares rose more than 4% on Sept. 17 after a leaked customer pricing update said on-demand GPU service prices will increase starting Oct. 1 for Nvidia H100, H200, B200, and B300 chips.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A $6.2 million Fannie Mae foreclosure lawsuit targets Yellow Portfolio Holdings LLC over 90 residential units at 8200 South Maryland, 7845 South Avalon, and 7901 South Drexel, alleging the landlord stopped monthly payments in April and left buildings with code violations and unpaid municipal utility judgments.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Best Buy will add a free pair of Pixel Buds 2A (hazel) when you preorder a qualifying Googlebook, with the preorder window running until October 25, 2026.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Verge
British Columbia is suing OpenAI seeking court orders to change ChatGPT’s instructions after the model allegedly aided the Tumbler Ridge shooter, including an order covering emergency response costs and possible punitive damages if failure to warn police is found willful.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
CorpGov’s 2nd LA CorpGov Forum (Sept. 18, 2026) featured a panel on sports investing that framed sports as a rapidly growing asset class spanning team ownership and franchise valuations as well as media rights, venues, ticketing, and data, with increasing private-equity participation.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol/Luna offer similar performance to their prior releases while lowering per-token costs, with Opus 5.5 priced at $4 input and $20 output tokens versus Opus 5’s $5/$25 and GPT-6 Sol up to 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
Fervo Energy (FRVO) secured two Department of Energy (DOE) non-dilutive awards totaling roughly $20 million to advance Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) expansion in Idaho and Nevada.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s Nat Friedman says Muse was “built from scratch” but was “definitely heavily inspired” as a product by the open-source OpenClaw, after his team “fell in love with using OpenClaw.”
Sep 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The iPhone 18 Pro’s main upgrade over the iPhone 17 Pro is variable aperture with four presets (f1.48, f1.8, f2.8, f4.0), letting it control exposure at the hardware level—while other differences are small, and battery life is reported as effectively the same (~24 hours).
Sep 22, 2026 ·CNET
J.Jill’s reported Q2 adjusted EPS rose to $1.24 (from $0.81), but the $13.3 million tariff refund largely drives the quarter’s bottom-line momentum: gross margin was 76.8% with the refund versus 68.3% excluding it, and adjusted EBITDA fell to $20.1 million excluding the refund.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
