Sep 7, 2026 ·
CNBC
China’s finance ministry led a recapitalization of state-owned banks and insurers totaling 360 billion yuan ($53.6 billion), smaller than market expectations, with the Ministry and China National Tobacco Corp among the institutions providing the injection.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal expected to close next year if regulatory requirements are met and Hugging Face is allowed to keep operating largely as it already does.
Sep 7, 2026 ·
The Register
Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council has paused all datacenter builds and approvals in the country while it works out an appropriate regulatory framework.
Sep 7, 2026 ·The Register
Phil Schiller reportedly stepped down from App Store leadership partly because he was wary that John Ternus and Eddy Cue’s push to improve App Store margins and increase recurring revenue would heighten conflict with governments and developers.
Sep 6, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
BP is locking out workers at its Whiting, Indiana, refinery since March 2026 while seeking contract concessions that include an average 13% raise (over $7 per hour) over four years and shifting some non-core craft line work to specialized third-party contractors.
Sep 6, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Regulatory approval has been cleared in 68 jurisdictions for Paramount Skydance (PSKY)’s $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), but a lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general—including California Attorney General Rob Bonta—remains the final obstacle.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Chevron signed a deal to significantly expand its Venezuela operations and aims to double output over the next five years, building on its plan to boost production by 50% from 280,000 barrels per day by the end of 2028.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
President Donald Trump disclosed purchasing between $15,001 and $50,000 of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) shares on June 23, as part of more than 1,000 stock trades in that month.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Vanguard estimates five hyperscalers (Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle) issued $132 billion in bonds so far in 2026—up from about $35 billion annually from 2020 to 2024—helping create a supply-demand imbalance that Mohamed El-Erian says is pushing U.S. Treasury yields higher.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CME Group’s FedWatch Tool shows a 50-50 chance the Fed hikes rates at its Sept. 15–16 meeting, and an analysis of rate-hike cycles since 1990 finds the S&P 500 fell one month later 100% of the time after the first 50-basis-point move.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DIY plug-in solar kits can cut electricity costs from hundreds of dollars per year toward nearly $0 by plugging solar output into standard wall outlets, with typical starting prices around $300 for panel-and-microinverter kits and optional batteries starting around $500 for 1kWh or $1,500 for 3kWh.
Sep 6, 2026 ·
The Verge
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum became the first fully commercial European launch vehicle to reach low-Earth orbit, lifting off Saturday at 4:12 pm EST (20:12 UTC) from Andøya Spaceport in Norway and reaching orbit seven minutes later.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Norway’s marine-based feed for farmed salmon fell from 90% of feed ingredients in 1990 to about 23% by 2020, as soy and other crop-based inputs increased.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A draft General Conference on Weights and Measures resolution would make Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) continuous from May 20, 2027, letting UTC drift from Earth-rotation time (UT1) by as much as one hour instead of inserting negative leap seconds.
Sep 6, 2026 ·The Register
Congressional lawmakers asked the Defense Department Inspector General to investigate why troop location data from purchased commercial sources is still partially available despite steps meant to stop it—turning off advertising identifiers on government devices and requiring their disabling on personal devices brought into DoD facilities or overseas.
Sep 6, 2026 ·The Register
Flows through the Strait of Hormuz fell from close to 20 million barrels per day of crude exports to an estimated 6–8 million barrels per day, while LNG exports have been disrupted by Qatar’s Ras Laffan hub force majeure after Iran retaliation.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged use of their journalism to train generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Copilot.
Sep 5, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Three hikers on California’s Mount Shasta were rescued after using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini for trip planning and being advised to bring far less food and water than their group required.
Sep 5, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI confirmed the “wiki incident,” saying it involved agent misalignment and that it is working on a framework to share more information about incidents like this in upcoming weeks.
Sep 5, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging the companies trained generative AI models on copyrighted articles “methodically” scraping content in ways that bypass paywalls.
Sep 5, 2026 ·
Engadget
A US federal court barred Operation Bluebird from using the “Twitter” name because it would likely confuse consumers and infringe trademarks, but allowed it to use the “Tweet” mark and the bird logo because X likely abandoned both.
Sep 5, 2026 ·Engadget
