In a September threat report Anthropic said the two Chinese labs used intermediary services to send large volumes of requests to Claude, a distillation tactic. The report also said the company blocked attempts to use Claude for bioweapons research and state surveillance.
Read more →Suhas Subramanyam, the Virginia Democrat who in 2024 became the first Indian American elected to Congress from the East Coast, filed four bills September 8 covering siting, cost sharing, energy measurement and grid risk for data centers. His district includes Loudoun County's data center alley, the largest concentration in the country, where residents carry the electricity bills that come with it.
Read more →OpenAI published what it describes as a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, produced with its models. Independent mathematical verification has not been completed, and the Clay Institute has not ruled.
Read more →A week after Mayor Zohran Mamdani barred AI in New York City schools, Microsoft signed a binding agreement with the AFT and UFT not to train on student data, track students, or offer companion chatbots. Districts can cancel contracts over violations.
Read more →A week after Mayor Zohran Mamdani paused student-facing generative AI in New York City schools on September 2, covering about 600,000 students from 2-K through eighth grade, Microsoft signed a National AI Safety and Privacy Standard with the AFT and UFT on September 9: no training on student or teacher data, no student tracking, human review on high-risk decisions, and districts can cancel contracts over violations.
Read more →Twenty-five years on, the anniversary week opened with a tribute built around a recovered World Trade Center steel beam. Ceremonies run through the weekend in New York, Arlington and Shanksville.
Read more →At the GOP midterm convention in Dallas the president pledged a $5,000 payment to every American adult if Republicans hold both chambers. Lawmakers and economists in both parties questioned the legality, the math against $40 trillion in debt, and the inflation risk of another round of checks.
Read more →At the GOP midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday the president pledged $5,000 to every adult citizen if Republicans hold both chambers in November, with a spend-it-in-America caveat and almost no mechanism. Cost estimates run $1 trillion to $1.35 trillion against gross federal debt of about $40 trillion, and a president cannot write that check without Congress. Economists in both parties also flagged the inflation risk of another round of checks.
Read more →Iran-backed Houthi forces captured Perim, or Mayyun, island in the Bab al-Mandab strait after Yemeni government troops withdrew, extending their control over one of the world's busiest shipping chokepoints days after taking the port of Mokha. It is a second maritime artery under pressure alongside the Strait of Hormuz, and it sits astride the route Saudi oil takes to the Red Sea. Crude holds above $100.
Read more →After Yemeni government forces withdrew, Iran-backed Houthi forces took Perim, or Mayyun, island in the Bab al-Mandab on Friday, a day after seizing the port of Mokha and Dhubab, with some reports adding Zuqar and Hanish. That hands them Yemen's Red Sea coast and the approaches to one of the world's busiest chokepoints, a second maritime artery under pressure alongside the disrupted Strait of Hormuz, astride the route Saudi oil takes to the Red Sea. Crude holds above $100.
Read more →The White House turned down a Saudi request for American strikes on Houthi positions, according to reports. Six months of disrupted Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic keep the Gulf at the center of oil prices.
Read more →In its September threat report Anthropic said Alibaba's Qwen ran the largest distillation campaign against Claude, about 151 million exchanges from May to July, with Moonshot, DeepSeek, Xiaomi and Zhipu also routing user queries through intermediary services to train their own models. The report also said the company blocked attempts to use Claude for bioweapons research and state surveillance.
Read more →OpenAI published a claimed finite-time singularity proof for the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, produced with its models and accompanied by a Lean formalization, and says it will not claim the $1 million. Independent scrutiny is ongoing, the Clay Institute has not ruled, and there is a credit dispute with earlier work by Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpoge.
Read more →Formal sessions run Saturday and Sunday at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Xi Jinping arrives Saturday, his first India visit in seven years, and Putin is at his first in-person BRICS outside Russia since 2022. On Friday, Modi used the Business Forum to pitch intra-BRICS trade over bloc-versus-bloc politics, then met Putin and Iran's Pezeshkian on the sidelines. Separately, US Ambassador Sergio Gor, speaking Monday at the Bengaluru Space Expo, said Washington is going back to the Moon and wants India on the lunar surface with it; NASA has invited ISRO into its Moon-base program and India is an Artemis signatory.
Read more →New Delhi chairs the 2026 BRICS summit this week and framed its agenda as partnership rather than dominance. On the sidelines Modi met Russia's Putin and Iran's President Pezeshkian, with defense, energy and fertilizer on the table. Sergio Gor, the US envoy, said Washington wants India alongside on its return to the Moon.
Read more →At their BRICS sideline meeting Modi handed Putin a Russian edition of the Thirukkural, the roughly 2,000-year-old Tamil classic by Thiruvalluvar: 1,330 couplets on virtue, wealth and love, secular enough that every Tamil household and party claims it. Modi has made it a signature gift and has quoted it at the UN.
Read more →At their BRICS sideline meeting Modi handed Putin a 2026 Russian translation of the Thirukkural by Naira Mkrtchyan of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil: the roughly 2,000-year-old Tamil classic by Thiruvalluvar, 1,330 couplets on virtue, wealth and love. Modi has made the text a signature diplomatic gift. The moment drew more than 9,000 posts within the hour.
Read more →The two governments agreed to aim for $100 billion in bilateral trade by 2030. The stated goal is to rebalance a relationship built on discounted Russian oil toward a larger share of Indian exports.
Read more →India and Russia restated a $100 billion bilateral trade target by 2030, from a base of about $60 to $65 billion still dominated by discounted Russian oil. New Delhi's stated aim is to push pharma, engineering, chemicals and food the other way; a $50 billion two-way investment target sits alongside it.
Read more →Anuradha and Vikas Sinha gave $20 million to the University of North Texas to launch a named college focused on AI and analytics. It lands the same week a second Indian American couple gave $4 million to the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering.
Read more →The 17th CSAFF opens September 18 with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the actress, director and writer, followed by a Q&A.
Read more →The Kenyan-Indian designer took the 2026 LVMH Savoir-Faire Prize for his label Yoshita 1967.
Read more →Manmohan Singh Kalsi and his wife Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi gave $4 million to the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, funding two endowed professorships, a faculty research fund, graduate fellowships and a seminar series in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Kalsi earned his master's and PhD in mechanical engineering at UH under the late Gabriel Fazekas and in 1978 founded Kalsi Engineering, a pioneer in hydrodynamic rotary sealing. The couple endowed a professorship in Fazekas' honor in 2014.
Read more →The Punjabi music star met Apple's hardware chief at Apple Park the week Apple unveiled a foldable iPhone.
Read more →The comedian previewed the stand-up special from the US Open, in his words violating the dress code.
Read more →The Oak Brook gala features Mohanbir Sawhney, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi, Desh Deshpande and MR Rangaswami, with a live set from Priyani Vani Panditt. Proceeds fund school meals in India.
Read more →The Perplexity CEO brought the F1 champion in to meet the team the week of the Spanish Grand Prix.
Read more →Jimmy Kimmel said he will not air his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on ABC and will post it to YouTube instead, outside FCC reach. He said the agency had threatened the show over guest bookings. ABC is already suing the FCC on First Amendment grounds.
Read more →Headline inflation held at 3.4% while core rose 0.3% on the month, a tenth above forecast. It is the last read before next week's Fed decision, and markets now price about a 69% chance of a quarter-point hike. For anyone with a variable rate, a hike shows up first in credit cards and HELOCs.
Read more →Six months of disrupted Strait of Hormuz traffic keep WTI near $102 and Brent above $104. Diesel at a record feeds into freight and food prices before it reaches the pump.
Read more →The 30-year fixed rose above 7% for the first time since May, per Mortgage News Daily, as 10-year Treasury yields climbed on inflation, oil and debt worries. Existing home sales fell 2% in August to the lowest pace since June 2025, the NAR said.
Read more →Apple's fall event led with the iPhone Duo, its first folding iPhone. AAPL rose about 1.6% on the day, a rare hardware catalyst in a jittery tape.
Read more →The funds rate sits at 3.5% to 3.75%, and markets now price roughly a 69% chance of a quarter-point hike at next week's meeting after the firm core reading. Nationwide flipped to expecting a hike.
Read more →Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani said the next wave of Indian jobs will come from startups and small businesses building on AI, not from large incumbents.
Read more →Headline inflation held at 3.4% while core rose 0.3% on the month, a tenth above forecast. It is the last read before next week's Fed decision, and markets now price about a 69% chance of a quarter-point hike. For anyone with a variable rate, a hike shows up first in credit cards and HELOCs.
Read more →Headline inflation held at 3.4% while core rose 0.3% on the month, a tenth above forecast. It is the last read before the Fed's September 16 decision, and markets now price about a 90% chance of a quarter-point hike. For anyone with a variable rate, a hike shows up first in credit cards and HELOCs.
Read more →Brent sits in the mid-$100s after a Thursday spike toward $107 and WTI hugs $100, six months into the Strait of Hormuz disruption that began in late February. US diesel printed a new record around $6.06 a gallon; it feeds into freight and food prices before it reaches the pump.
Read more →Apple's fall event led with the iPhone Duo, its first folding iPhone, at $1,999, with preorders October 16 and on sale October 23. Shares rose on the event, a rare hardware catalyst in a jittery tape.
Read more →The funds rate sits at 3.50% to 3.75%. Markets had priced roughly a 69% chance of a quarter-point hike at the September 15 to 16 meeting before the release; after the core miss, CME FedWatch moved to about 90%. Nationwide flipped to expecting a hike.
Read more →The Games run September 19 to October 4 across 35 sports. India's contingent is its largest yet for an Asian Games.
Read more →Formula 1 races Madrid's new Madring for the first time: 5.4 km, 22 corners, 57 laps, and a half-kilometre banked turn called La Monumental where cars pass 45,000 spectators at 24 percent banking. Practice is Friday, qualifying Saturday at 14:00 local, the race Sunday at 13:00. Kimi Antonelli arrives off his Monza win with a 59-point championship lead. In the F2 support series, Kush Maini's teammate walked away from a fiery practice crash.
Read more →Aryna Sabalenka reached her fourth straight US Open final, beating Jessica Pegula 7-6, 6-2, and will face Elena Rybakina, who ended Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 and had already taken the No. 1 ranking. The final is Saturday, September 12 at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The men's semifinals are today, top seed Alexander Zverev against Karen Khachanov, then an all-American night session between Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, with the final Sunday.
Read more →Aryna Sabalenka reached her fourth straight US Open final, beating Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-2, and will face Elena Rybakina, who ended Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 and had already taken the No. 1 ranking. The final is Saturday, September 12 at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The men's semifinals are today, top seed Alexander Zverev against Karen Khachanov, then an all-American night session between Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, with the final Sunday.
Read more →India's top doubles player is carrying a right-leg strain ahead of the tie, leaving the doubles rubber in question.
Read more →The Games open September 19 in Aichi-Nagoya and run to October 4 across 35 sports. The sports ministry first cleared 492 athletes, then added names, mostly in athletics plus surfing, taking the roster to 503 athletes and a contingent of about 768 with staff. Neeraj Chopra will miss the Games with an injury.
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