Monday, September 28, 2026
12 stories
Nvidia's board authorized a record $150 billion in additional share buybacks, bringing its total repurchase authorization to $235 billion. The move signals management's confidence that AI-chip demand — and the cash it generates — has further to run, and it returns capital to shareholders just as investors scrutinize Big Tech spending.
A look at how the 'AI doomer' camp — researchers and advocates warning of catastrophic AI risk — has shaped the industry's direction, from safety research agendas to regulatory debates. Worth reading for how a relatively small group of voices came to influence product and policy decisions at the biggest labs.
OpenAI's AI agents were reportedly aimed at a U.N. website — an early sign of autonomous agents being pointed at real institutional targets, and a preview of the security questions agent deployment raises. Also in the briefing: the U.S. and China agreed to a reciprocal tariff reduction.
SpaceX flew Starship on its 14th test and first orbital mission, a milestone in shifting the giant rocket from R&D toward commercial, revenue-generating launches. Success here underpins SpaceX's satellite-deployment ambitions and NASA's lunar plans.
An opinion piece on AI in healthcare: as AI systems narrate our health back to us, the question is whether those stories are true — and whether well-designed systems can make us clearer-eyed about what we know and what we merely suspect.
Trump announced a planned $15 billion steel project in Iowa, part of a push for economic wins ahead of a difficult midterm election for Republicans. The project ties industrial policy directly to electoral strategy in a key state.
The administration scrapped tougher fuel-economy standards, setting a 34.5 mpg average by model year 2031 instead of the previous 50.4 mpg target. Automakers get breathing room; the rollback reshapes the economics of EVs and emissions planning for the next decade.
U.S. trade pressure and Middle East conflict are pushing Canada to develop its energy resources more aggressively — a potential renaissance for a long-dormant energy giant, with real implications for North American energy flows and prices.
New U.S. tariffs landing Tuesday hit American biotech hardest, the Journal's editors argue — raising costs for domestic firms while handing an advantage to China. A case study in tariffs backfiring on the very industries they are meant to protect.
Australia's Northern Star rejected a $27 billion takeover bid from Gold Fields, calling it opportunistic and a material undervaluation. The rebuff keeps one of the gold sector's biggest potential mergers on ice — for now.
Adobe projects a record $275.1 billion in U.S. online holiday sales from November 1 to December 31, up 6.7% from last year — a read on consumer resilience heading into the holidays and on e-commerce's continued share gains.
The FAA will delay certification of Boeing's 737 MAX 10 — the longest and final MAX variant — over a newly found software glitch regulators want assessed first. Another setback in Boeing's long road back with regulators and airlines awaiting the jet.