September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Latvia's abstention kept the EU list for 36 months
Member states removed Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman and set the territorial-integrity sanctions to run 36 months, until 22 September 2029. Latvia withheld a yes.
Mekelle's civilian air link stops
Ethiopian Airlines stopped flights to 3 Tigray airfields. Who holds the runway is still a claim.
NADI's 40 million euros fund chip-design teams
NADI and SPRIND put 40 million euros over 20 months into chip design. That sum is a budget for small teams. The process Costard described is measured in years.
RAIBO2's marathon sits on a three-part loss budget
Lee's KAIST group publishes RAIBO2 as a three-part loss budget that finished a marathon on one charge at a transport cost of 0.25.
SWE-Serve's live server counts what the other tests leave out
On 19 tasks the same patches pass 69.4 percent of the time once the live server is removed and 45.9 percent when it stays. That gap is not a ranking; it measures where the verifier stops.
The CMA's yearly search question does not change the phone yet
The proposal would put a qualifying AI assistant on Google's choice screen and ask again every year. Until 9 October it is a consultation text.
The multiple printed on a $3 billion cheque, and the EBITDA left off it
Royal Caribbean stated about $3 billion and a forward EBITDA multiple of about 10 times for half of Sandals and Beaches. The EBITDA amount and the interest rate on the Morgan Stanley debt are not in the release.
The PAC-3 missile is still on the Lockheed line; Pistorius wants the licence
Berlin already builds the PAC-2 GEM-T at COMLOG. The missile Pistorius wants is Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 MSE, and that work still sits behind a US licence.
The pipeline restarted and the diesel premium set a record
Brent returned to 100.40 dollars while Europe's gasoil premium reached about 95 dollars. The East-West line resumed on Tuesday, and US stocks rose by 1.8 million barrels.
The Sahel is the denominator for 239,000 extra heat deaths
Climate Impact Lab writes 239,000 extra heat deaths for September 2026 to February 2027. The Sahel share is 66,800, and 31,400 of that is Nigeria.