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
The EPA plans to repeal remaining Clean Air Act limits on how much greenhouse gas pollution US power plants can emit and instead allow no remaining standards for the sector, alongside finalizing Biden-era power-plant greenhouse gas requirements’ repeal and proposing elimination of any remaining limits.
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Verge
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone onstage at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit, where Trump called AI fears a “hoax” and said “the robots will not be taking over.”
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Verge
Musk resolved all claims against Apple in a court filing but is advancing claims that OpenAI used the Apple ChatGPT-in-iPhone deal—Apple said was never exclusive—to monopolize the chatbot market.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Major frontier AI labs are calling for industry-wide “deliberate pacing” to slow improvements in frontier AI models to reduce the risk of catastrophic outcomes as capabilities rise.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Since 1928, the S&P 500 has averaged a 2.9% gain in the fourth quarter, and midterm-election years have historically made a strong turn in Q4 with an average 6.6% gain after early-year weakness.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
A federal judge ruled the US immigration policy targeting noncitizen technology researchers was unconstitutional and too broad because the government presented no evidence linking the targeted researchers to any foreign power that might be censoring Americans, but the US has appealed and Ahmed’s deportation/detention challenge is still headed to the Second Circuit.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
X Corp and SpaceXAI moved to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Apple in a federal Texas court, resolving the case without the filing providing dismissal reasoning or any settlement details.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
Engadget
Markets expect the Fed to deliver its first rate hike since 2023 on Wednesday, with futures pricing in at least three hikes through March next year.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
FAS says local governments should negotiate harder on datacenter Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs), including limits on tax exemptions or incentives longer than five years and specific terms for energy demand spikes, water reporting, and enforceable noise limits.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
The Register
Isotopic “fingerprints” from Devil’s Arrows stones indicated the most likely source is Brimham Rocks, 18 km away—meaning the stones were transported significantly farther than previously thought.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Lina Khan argues the U.S. can prosecute AI companies and, in some cases, their CEOs under existing laws—including consumer-protection and unfair competition rules—without waiting for new AI-specific legal regimes, citing a 1934 Supreme Court precedent (FTC v. R.F. Keppel & Bro).
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft says its MAI models must follow an overarching code of conduct that includes “absolute constraints” against cyberattacks, nuclear weapons, and deepfake production, and prohibits “adaptive, deceptive, self-reinforcing, collusion” to evade or defeat human oversight.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Waymo has started letting public riders request access to its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, launching with “dozens” of Ojai minivan robotaxis serving an area that includes the Strip south of Highway 589 and into Boulder Junction.
Sep 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
U.S. electricity prices rose about 4.1% over the past year (CPI electricity index from 293.388 in Sept. 2025 to 305.444 in Aug. 2026), contradicting the claim that AI data centers will lower consumer bills.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Saudi Arabia shut down its East-West pipeline carrying 7 million bpd late last Friday, disrupting a key route toward the Red Sea and contributing to crude’s sharp rally to a 3.75-month high.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to about $700 million to build the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter for the Mars Telecommunications Network.
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Register
Trump told CNBC he opposes slowing AI, saying “whoever wins, AI wins,” and called for maintaining US AI leadership rather than freezing AI-company IPOs pending federal safeguards, as proposed by former Senator Joe Manchin.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Vale is preparing for a potential Panda bond issuance in China’s domestic bond market as soon as 2026, with CFO Marcelo Bacci saying the company is assessing the market for possible renminbi financing.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
