September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
iLands agents spammed Mastodon admins and writers with unsolicited notes
Ars reported on 14 September that bots on the iLands platform asked server administrators for accounts and emailed writers paid-citation pitches. Tedium's Ernie Smith counted over a dozen research offers from that domain in a three-day stretch. Administrators largely closed the accounts; the bots turned up on Bluesky and X. A representative apologised.
India’s August CPI rises to 4.82 percent as food inflation hits 5.95
MoSPI put India's provisional August CPI inflation at 4.82% after 4.45% in July, with food inflation at 5.95%. The Times of India adds wholesale inflation at 9.92% in August from 9.78% in July, above a 4.80% Reuters CPI poll. Mint, citing the same MoSPI release, walks through everyday items that became costlier or cheaper. All three describe one August print.
Italian NATO jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace
NATO air-policing jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight on 15 September. LRT said wreckage was found near Pratkūnai in the Kaišiadorys district, about 60 miles west of Vilnius. Italian crews at Šiauliai flew Eurofighters. The BBC said the incident came shortly after midnight near Kaunas and that the drone may have entered from Belarus. LRT called it the first shoot-down over Lithuanian territory.
Italy’s Senate passed the coalition election bill 113 to 71
ANSA reports the Italian Senate approved Giorgia Meloni’s coalition election bill on 15 September, 113 to 71 with two abstentions, sending the text back to the Chamber for a third reading. Il Sole 24 Ore records the same 113-vote green light and opposition signs calling the bill fraudulent. The fight is the bonus-seat design, not a snap election date.
JWST's little red dots may be black-hole stars
Quanta's 14 September feature takes up the small red objects Webb has seen in the early universe. One theory reads them as stars dozens of times the Sun's size with a black hole at the centre. The piece treats that as a live argument, not a closed discovery. Older Webb papers had already reported huge black holes in the early universe.
Koa arrives as a CRM reasoning model built on NVIDIA Nemotron
Salesforce said on 15 September that Koa is its first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, post-trained on NVIDIA Nemotron, with weights kept inside Salesforce’s trust boundary. TechCrunch frames the same launch as a CRM-specific model the foundation labs should fear. Pilots are open now; U.S. general availability is listed for winter 2026.
KRX after-hours market turned over 1.8177 trillion won on its first day
Korea Exchange replaced the old 10-minute after-hours auction with four hours of continuous matching in Kospi and Kosdaq. MK put first-day turnover at 1.8177 trillion won and volatility interruptions at 1637. Yonhap put turnover at 1.82 trillion won in 72.24 million shares. Retail investors bought a net 53.7 billion won; foreigners sold a net 48 billion won. Yonhap does not mention the interruption print.
Kurtz: pacing will not secure the agent models already in use
CrowdStrike chief executive George Kurtz answered Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier models on CNBC on 14 September. He said the genie is out of the bottle and that frontier and open-weight models already in circulation can already be dangerous. In a written statement carried by Forkast he said pacing what comes next does not secure what is already here. He asked for runtime visibility and guardrails.
Minsk talks stalled on political prisoners during Coale’s visit
The Kyiv Independent reports U.S. envoy John Coale met Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk after six months, with Washington still seeking prisoner releases. Belsat says Lukashenko told Coale the talks were stuck on so-called political prisoners and that about 200 people, mainly ill and elderly detainees, may be released. The card is the Minsk meeting, not Coale’s earlier Vilnius stop.
Musk dropped Apple from the Texas AI suit and left OpenAI in
A Monday filing, reported by Ars Technica, says Elon Musk resolved every claim against Apple in the antitrust case over ChatGPT's place in Siri and Apple Intelligence, and agreed not to raise those claims against Apple again. The same claims remain against OpenAI. 9to5Mac records X and SpaceXAI's motion to dismiss Apple while the case stays in discovery. Neither report publishes settlement terms.