Elon Musk said “Humanity is dying out” after noting that people aged 65 and older now outnumber children aged 5 and under worldwide for the first time in recorded history.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
USD/JPY fell to a seven-month low as markets priced in a high probability of a 25-basis-point Bank of Japan rate hike and looked ahead to U.S. inflation data and the Fed’s Sept. 15–16 meeting.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Humain, a Saudi AI company backed by the $900 billion Public Investment Fund, has begun preparations for an IPO with a target listing in both Saudi Arabia and New York by 2029 after PIF signaled portfolio companies should reduce their draw on sovereign capital.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Switzerland’s Federal Chancellery will offer a browser-based FOSS workplace suite alongside Microsoft 365 to about 3,000 employees, with the first phase costing CHF 9 million and expected to start for selected staff from the end of 2027.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Register
The Philippines’ PAIIM calls for $34.4B in investment in infrastructure, connectivity, and datacenters—rising the national datacenter fleet from 50MW today to 1.5GW by 2033 and housing about 152,000 GPUs.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
The GCWM will vote in October on a proposal to keep Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) continuous from May 20, 2027, without any leap seconds, allowing UT1 and UTC to drift by up to one hour.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Computerworld
NSA, FBI, and CISA accuse Chinese AI companies—including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of making “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation” a core part of their AI strategy at an industrial scale to extract restricted capabilities from US frontier models.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
OpenAI announced a solution to the Millennium Prize Problem for Navier-Stokes, but the breakthrough is tied up in a dispute over whether it drew on unpublished work and how credit would be assigned in publication.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Engadget
C.H. Robinson said it expects to prevail on appeal of a more than $600 million late-July verdict tied to a fatal 2021 Jackson, Mississippi crash, after plaintiffs asked the Dallas County Court to enter judgment.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gamers Nexus and security researchers’ Wireshark packet captures indicate LG OLED65G3PUA TVs scan the home LAN to identify dozens of unrelated devices (including smartwatches and phones), even when the TV is off.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft’s September patch release fixes about 972 vulnerabilities, including 112 rated critical (997 if counting ported Chromium fixes for Edge).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI says it found a solution to the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem using an internal AI model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra and 10,000 concurrent agents, but says it will not pursue the $1 million Millennium Prize reward.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Verge
NIH says it will use part of its budget to fund Department of Defense research into “future pandemic strains,” “CBRN threats,” and other emerging infectious diseases, despite NIH leadership and NIAID leadership previously arguing for dropping biodefense/pandemic-preparedness work in favor of focusing on “the most impactful infectious diseases that Americans currently face.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
U.S. unleaded gasoline averaged $4.15 per gallon on Monday—30% higher than a year ago and above the prior Labor Day record of $3.83 in 2012—while diesel averaged $5.90 per gallon (up from $3.70 a year ago).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Supreme Court ordered that, during the 60-day election-ad discount period, broadcast TV stations must charge political parties and joint fundraising committees the “lowest unit charge” rates reserved for legally qualified candidates, cutting the prices for party-bought election ads at steep discounts.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google says it will change EU Search results to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act by prioritizing vertical search services (e.g., Expedia, Hotels.com) and reducing features like real-time prices in a move it calls the largest decrease in search quality in the product’s history.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
A Dallas County judge still has not affirmed C.H. Robinson’s $604 million verdict in the Lipa v. Lupus Superior case, and the delay means the ruling must be confirmed before any appeal can proceed.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nike shareholders rejected a climate proposal that urged more transparency about how the company plans to reach its emissions-reduction targets, and Nike did not disclose the vote tallies.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, bought 650,000 troy ounces (about 20 tonnes) of gold in August—its biggest single-month purchase since 2023 and the 22nd consecutive month of buying.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
TTP reported that Meta’s ads for “nudify” apps collectively reached more than 29,000 people in the EU and 6,800 in the UK, with about 80% served in the US, while at least one Facebook page (“Divine Productions,” claiming to represent the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) ran a CSAM ad that Meta disabled only after TTP flagged it.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
