California voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ net worth (for those who were California residents on Jan. 1, 2026), with payment due in 2027.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The Social Security trust fund is projected to be depleted by the end of 2032, which could lead to automatic benefit cuts of up to 22% on average, but the proposed Social Security 2100 Act would delay depletion by as much as 32 years while raising average benefits by 2%.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Social Security trust-fund reserves are projected to be depleted in about six years, and CRFB estimates this would mean a 24% benefit cut starting in 2032 (about $18,100 less per year for a typical dual-income household).
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NextEra reaffirmed 2026 adjusted EPS guidance of $3.92–$4.02 and targets at least 8% adjusted EPS growth (and ~10% annual dividend growth through 2026), while expecting the Dominion acquisition to be immediately accretive and to drive 9%+ adjusted EPS growth through 2032 and the same growth rate through 2035 (off NextEra’s 2025 base).
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Humble Baron Inc., the bar owned by Keith Weaver that operates at the Uncle Nearest distillery, to be converted from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 and placed under an independent trustee rather than its current management.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
India’s telecom regulator (TRAI) amended anti-spam rules to require caller-ID and call-management apps that let users flag spam or junk calls to send those user spam reports to a blockchain-based platform maintained by telecom operators.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) jumped 16.39% to close at $153.92 after the SEC issued a five-year “temporary approval” allowing tokenized stock trading 24/7 effective immediately.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A partially AI-generated intelligence report nearly led the US military to attack a Chinese ship in the Middle East after it was assessed to be carrying components for a nuclear weapons program, but officials later found the conclusions were AI-generated.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Bitcoin rose 6% to $80,850 on Sept. 18, following the Fed’s 25-basis-point interest rate hike on Sept. 16.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Internal Microsoft documentation in the unsealed New York Times court filings says its “AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,” because it threatens the economics of its “content supply chain.”
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Sony Music Entertainment and UMG allege Suno’s v6 AI models were trained through users’ interactions and preference signals derived from earlier copying, making Suno potentially liable for infringement of at least 60,202 sound recordings and damages up to $9 billion under US copyright law, plus up to $2,500 per YouTube anti-downloading circumvention event.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Engadget
A nationally representative survey of 3,000 people found net favourability for capitalism at -2%, but support for capitalism as the system running the economy at +8%.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The SEC is seeking interviews with current and former Guggenheim Investments employees who managed insurance-company asset portfolios as regulators expand their probe of CEO Mark Walter’s business empire.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
S&P 500 finished up +0.17%, Nasdaq 100 up +0.67%, while Dow fell -0.18% as crude oil prices dropped more than -1% and short covering emerged.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger issued an executive order limiting large datacenter development by requiring local approval for projects over 25 megawatts, removing future large datacenters from expedited permitting, banning nondisclosure agreements, and tightening environmental protections including limits on water-intensive cooling towers in water-scarce areas.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Register
The dollar index finished down 0.03% after softer-than-expected US data—Aug manufacturing production fell 0.3% m/m and Aug leading indicators fell 0.1%—replacing earlier gains.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
EU would ban social media access for children under 13 and require age verification plus “safe by design” proof from platforms (including Meta, Google/YouTube, and Roblox), with enforcement targeting investigations to finish within 90 days and new features subject to a European Commission “positive opinion.”
Sep 18, 2026 ·
CNET
Microsoft and OpenAI executives discussed that chatbots posed an “existential threat” to publishers and that training on copyrighted text was effectively “theft,” according to quotes cited in court filings unsealed this week.
Sep 18, 2026 ·CNET
FleetCor (now Corpay) and CEO Ronald Clarke agreed to pay $100 million to resolve FTC litigation over hidden fuel-card fees that regulators say offset promised gas savings for small-business customers across the U.S.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. Department of Commerce filed to sell up to 9,907,399 GlobalFoundries (GFS) ordinary shares, and GlobalFoundries will not receive any proceeds from the sale.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
