Texas homeowners who turn 65 can freeze the school-district portion of their property tax bill for life, but the freeze is portable only as a percentage (not a fixed dollar cap) and only if they request a new tax-ceiling certificate and file it with the new school district plus a fresh homestead exemption.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Android Auto connection issues can be caused by outdated car infotainment firmware, and Google recommends restarting the infotainment system and—if it’s an aftermarket Pioneer or Kenwood unit—checking the manufacturer for a firmware update.
Sep 12, 2026 ·
Engadget
Block, Inc. filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on September 8 to charter Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. as a national trust bank to provide federally supervised custody for bitcoin and stablecoins.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
LG says its smart TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations, and that speech-to-text processing starts only after a user activates a voice interaction via a supported wake-word feature or the remote’s voice button.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Engadget
BioMarin shares rose about 5% after BioMarin and Ascendis entered binding agreements to resolve a global patent dispute over Ascendis’s achondroplasia drug Yuviwel, including BioMarin agreeing to drop its US International Trade Commission Section 337 investigation.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI training and development (“pacing the frontier”) and proposed a three-step plan to do it, including giving third-party evaluators access to Anthropic models for safety verification.
Sep 12, 2026 ·
The Verge
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to “embedded evaluators” from third parties to verify AI companies’ pacing/safety commitments and require reporting of safety incidents.
Sep 12, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Sri-Kumar Global Strategies president Komal Sri-Kumar says the Fed should raise its policy rate by 50 basis points next week, warning that the long end is already near his “danger zone” with the 10-year Treasury at 4.95% and the 30-year at 5.37%.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Environmental Protection Network (EPN) says the Trump administration has taken 30 federal actions since January 2025 that exacerbate health risks from data center pollution, including 17 that specifically mention AI or target data centers.
Sep 12, 2026 ·The Verge
Revolut confirmed it disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party after fraudulent information requests sent from a legitimate government agency email domain, and it said its systems and customer funds are unaffected.
Sep 12, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Ten-year Treasury yields rose to 4.94% even as the Treasury reported buying $5.2 billion in longer-term bonds as part of an effort to suppress further yield increases.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
From Sept. 9’s snapshot with Republicans holding 53 Senate seats and 218 House seats, the article argues 2026 midterm elections are a key stock-market uncertainty because losing one or both chambers would make major legislation harder to pass and complicate debt-ceiling negotiations that can raise near-term uncertainty.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia spent $20B to license Groq AI accelerator technology and hire Groq engineers in an acquihire deal that the DOJ is now investigating as an antitrust probe.
Sep 12, 2026 ·
The Register
The White House is reportedly drafting a rule that would let certain married couples qualify for existing federal child care subsidies worth about $9,000 per child each year if one spouse works at least 35 hours per week while the other provides at-home care.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI says it used roughly 10,000 agents, tens of millions of dollars of compute, and 88 hours to find a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier–Stokes problem, which carries a $1 million bounty.
Sep 12, 2026 ·The Verge
J.P. Morgan upgraded Lithium Americas (LAC) to overweight and set a $6 price target weeks after four banks cut theirs.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
American Airlines will match the federal government’s $1,000 “Trump Account” seed contribution with an additional one-time $1,000 per eligible employee child, and will also allow pretax payroll contributions of up to $2,500 annually starting in 2027 once Treasury finalizes rules.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel said communities across the U.S. are mounting “pushback” against new data center construction, with electricity bills near major hubs rising as much as 267% over five years and data centers using 4% to 5% of all U.S. electricity.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The European Commission is seeking information on whether Oracle’s licensing terms could involve anticompetitive practices, in a matter similar to one involving SAP that was settled with concessions in July.
Sep 12, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Micron labor unions in Taiwan, representing nearly 10,000 of the company’s roughly 15,000 Taoyuan and Taichung employees, said more than 80% of surveyed members backed strike action unless Micron overhauls its bonus system and shares more profit with workers.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
