September 2026
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TensorRT 11.0 spreads one model across multiple GPUs
NVIDIA integrated TensorRT 11.0 multi-device support into Dynamo-Triton 26.07, serving a distributed model behind one endpoint. In the company's Cosmos 3 Nano test, a 189-frame video fell from 157 seconds on 1 GPU to 34 seconds on 8 GPUs; model loading and encoding were excluded. AI Brainer confirms the integration, while concurrent-request throughput and total cost of ownership were not measured.
Trade tension could pull Canada's growth below 1 per cent
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said fourth-quarter growth could be roughly halved to below 1 per cent if new US tariffs remain in place. The measures affect about 5 per cent of goods exports, while trade uncertainty could delay investment and hiring and higher oil prices could add inflation pressure.
Trafigura plans an Oslo listing for tanker company Volare
Trafigura placed 14 supertankers under a new company, Volare Shipping, and plans to raise about 500 million dollars before those shares trade on Euronext Growth Oslo around 5 October. Six of the very large crude carriers are already on the water and eight are still on order. Trafigura will remain the majority shareholder. The listing still needs a completed share sale and approval from the Oslo exchange.
United Russia takes a wartime Duma majority as veterans enter
Official results put Vladimir Putin's United Russia above 58 percent and on course for more than three quarters of State Duma seats. Russian officials said 49 veterans of the war in Ukraine entered the new chamber after an earlier public figure of 86 was revised. The vote largely excluded genuine opposition and included occupied Ukrainian territory.
US and Denmark sign defense areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig
A White House text says a defense update signed in New York provides US defense areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig, and that it takes effect only after Danish and Greenlandic parliamentary procedures. The BBC reports the same two sites and says the deal reaffirms Denmark's sovereignty. The White House account also records President Trump telling the UN that the arrangement gives the United States permanent control over Greenland's security; the published text the BBC describes reaffirms the Kingdom of Denmark's sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination.
US boat strikes may amount to crimes against humanity
UN special rapporteur Ben Saul found reasonable grounds to believe that 68 US strikes on boats in international waters between September 2025 and August 2026, which killed at least 223 people, constituted crimes against humanity. His report says drug trafficking does not amount to an armed attack, rejecting Washington's self-defence rationale and intensifying scrutiny of the military campaign's legality.
Xiaomi opens MiMo-V2.6 weights alongside its training tools
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash weights together with a technical report, task environments, and a reinforcement-learning framework. The model cards list an MIT license, 524 billion total and 42 billion active parameters for Pro, plus a 1 million token context. IT之家 confirms the release event, while Xiaomi's performance and training-cost comparisons have not been independently tested.
7,000 sales do not measure productive capacity
Humanoids now have a separate market count. Its meaning depends on where the machines perform productive work and for how long.
A 129,000-barrel Korean bridge trails Europe's 510,000-barrel jet-fuel gap
Europe is pulling jet fuel from farther away, with South Korean flows at a four-year high in September. The size of the gap and seven-year-low stocks show why that bridge can carry only part of the load.
A ton of iron on the Danube is a public store of skill
Five hundred half-made bars in a gravel heap are journal-reported evidence that Iron Age Europe moved metal as a bulk good, before anyone has to decide whether that cargo was a wreck or a rite.