UnitedHealth is Removing More Prior Authorizations, Can Simpler Care Pay Off?
UnitedHealthcare will remove prior-authorization requirements for about 30% of healthcare services by the end of 2026, starting October 1.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
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UnitedHealthcare will remove prior-authorization requirements for about 30% of healthcare services by the end of 2026, starting October 1.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China’s drug regulator accepted Novo Nordisk’s marketing application for oral Wegovy, making it an early step toward potential authorization but not an approval yet.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Paul Christiano, who warned of a “meaningful risk” of rapid AI acceleration causing “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control,” is joining the OpenAI Foundation board and the Safety and Security Committee.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Massachusetts executive order requires data centers with peak demand above 25 MW to meet the state’s clean-energy requirements—ultimately requiring 100% of electricity demand from clean energy generation—by generating it onsite, funding nearby clean power construction, or paying into a ratepayer protection fund.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI says it solved the Millennium Prize Navier–Stokes problem in 88 hours using roughly 10,000 AI agents, but the announcement has triggered allegations of scooping and misuse of other researchers’ work and data.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Verge
About 1,900 Blizzard employees represented by the Communications Workers of America ratified the company’s first union contracts after roughly two years of bargaining.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Engadget
An opinion piece argues that the “AI fearmongers” focus on models killing people is misplaced, saying AI harm largely comes from careless companies and that society should hold executives criminally accountable for harm their models cause.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Register
The US alleges that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI have conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks against US frontier AI models since at least late 2024, aimed at extracting restricted proprietary capabilities from models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
XRP was trading around $1.42–$1.44 on September 9, 2026, up about 38% from its $1.03 close a month earlier, but still down 23% year-to-date and needing $1.84 to break even for 2026.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. Administration is considering measures to involve U.S. companies in Venezuela’s gold and critical minerals after President Donald Trump took majority control of Venezuela’s 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The US Treasury’s plan to buy back $6bn in Treasury bonds did not stop yields from rising, with the 10-year Treasury yield reaching a three-year high.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
October WTI crude oil (CLV26) closed up +3.02 (+3.25%) and hit a 3.25-month high as Middle East hostilities raised fears of further global supply disruption.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amazon is accused in a class-action lawsuit of violating the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act by denying pregnant warehouse employees basic accommodations—such as bathroom breaks, an extra 15-minute break, and the option to sit while working—and then terminating or punishing them after medically necessary breaks between April 2025 and July 2026.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft agreed not to use teachers’ or students’ data to train AI models, with only narrow safety and security exceptions, under a legally enforceable deal with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Sep 9, 2026 ·Engadget
All children ages 6 months and up and all adults are recommended to get a trivalent flu vaccine this season, with people age 65 and older recommended to use a high-dose vaccine.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A UN General Assembly resolution passed September 4 by 164 votes to 1 (with six abstentions) calling for more accurate equal-area world maps is non-binding and therefore unlikely to force changes to navigation apps’ Mercator-based projections.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft agreed to 10 contract-enforceable AI safety and privacy principles for schools with the American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers, including not training on student or educator data and requiring human review for “high-risk” decisions.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Verge
The Justice Department issued a “second request” to Fox and Roku for additional data and documents as it reviews Fox’s $22 billion deal to buy Roku for potential antitrust issues.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Connor Leahy, U.S. Executive Director of ControlAI, argues that regulators should stop companies from developing superintelligence because alignment and containment may not be sufficient to manage the risks of systems more capable than humans.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The SBA’s proposed rule would expand federal contract eligibility by raising employee and revenue size standards for qualifying companies, opening opportunities for more than 114,000 additional businesses.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
