Brent crude futures rose $1.67 (1.58%) to $107.35 a barrel as attacks disrupted Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and deepened concerns about faster-than-expected supply shortages and longer repairs.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Paul Tudor Jones says buying the S&P 500 at today’s valuations could produce negative 10-year forward returns, which he links to the index’s current P/E of 22.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump’s administration will send $500 rebate checks in October to 1 million Americans in 30 states who the White House says were overcharged through Affordable Care Act HealthCare.gov “user fees,” which it says produced a surplus unused for enrollees’ benefit.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A federal appeals court rejected marijuana opponents’ request to temporarily block the Trump administration’s broader marijuana rescheduling process, keeping it alive while lawsuits proceed.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
India’s Central Consumer Protection Authority has escalated its probe into Apple’s iOS 18 software warranty terms after complaints that iOS 18 rollout in late 2024 damaged iPhone functionality and led customers to pay “exorbitant” repair sums because no software warranty is provided.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Open weights let people download and run the trained weights and deploy or fine-tune a model, but the Open Source Initiative says weights alone provide only “a fraction of the information required for full accountability,” which critics argue is why “open source” labels are often disputed in AI.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
The Register
China’s State Security minister Chen Yixin argues AI poses risks to national security, the Communist Party’s governance, and social stability, and calls for “special laws and regulations” covering AI R&D, application, supervision, and accountability focused on algorithm security, data protection, ethical norms, and privacy rights.
Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the US has “on-orbit space control weapons” that are capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action, without providing any details or timing for deployment.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft released a draft “Humanist AI Code of Conduct” saying AI models should stay “subordinate to humanity” with “meaningful human oversight and control,” but it contains little concrete detail on the actions it will take to enforce those limits.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
Computerworld
China’s retail sales rose 0.4% year over year in August, down from 0.6% in July and missing a Reuters forecast of 0.8%.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
CNBC
Australia’s Taxation Office CIO Mark Sawade says he’s letting administrative staff use Microsoft Copilot for everyday tasks to build “muscle” and AI literacy, not to directly improve efficiency or core services in the near term.
Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register
Corporate tax receipts fell 25% in the first 11 months of fiscal 2026, dropping by $96 billion from $390 billion to $294 billion.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The EPA announced it wants to erase limits on greenhouse-gas pollution from power plants by seeking to rescind the Biden-era requirement that most greenhouse emissions be eliminated by 2039 or face closure, and by arguing the Clean Air Act does not allow EPA regulation of power-plant emissions.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
Engadget
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk agreed to “pace the frontier” via a proposal that includes third-party auditors, regulation of domestic AI labs, and a global slowdown, but critics argue it could function as a “cartel” that blocks competitors and open-source progress without enforceable safeguards.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
The Verge
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) says its September 17 “health freedom movement” conference sold out in-person tickets priced at $250, with limited $125 seating passes and $100 livestream access still available.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told President Donald Trump that the U.S. “we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen,” after Trump characterized calls to slow AI progress as a “hoax.”
Sep 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
14 of the 17 public companies that accepted Trump administration government involvement ended this past week with share prices lower than the day after the deal was announced, with many also trading below their initial post-announcement prices.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Leaked iOS 27 and macOS “Golden Gate” frameworks suggest Apple’s Siri AI will be able to delegate tasks to third-party LLM agents, including Anthropic’s Claude models, rather than relying only on Apple’s own model pipeline.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
CNET
NASA selected Blue Origin for its $700 million Mars Telecommunications Network spacecraft award earlier this month, prompting Rocket Lab to file a protest with the US Government Accountability Office on Friday.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Dario Amodei argued that AI development should be “paced” rather than halted, proposing embedded third-party evaluators, coordination between frontier AI companies in democratic countries on standards and limits, and global coordination between democratic and authoritarian governments “to the extent this is possible.”
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Verge
