September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Unsealed NYT filings quote Microsoft notes on news scraping
404 Media wrote that unsealed New York Times-led filings quote Microsoft executive Brent Hecht calling scrape-based training a labour theft. The same report said Satya Nadella’s sworn account put the drop in Bing clicks to news sites at more than 90%.
US 30-year mortgage average rises to 6.95 per cent
Freddie Mac put the 30-year mortgage average at 6.95 per cent for the week of 17 September, up from 6.76 per cent. NAR said August pending home sales rose 0.3 per cent month over month but remained 4.7 per cent below a year earlier as Lawrence Yun noted higher mortgage rates.
US grants Pezeshkian UN High-Level Week visas with travel curbs
The BBC said a State Department spokesman cited host-country obligations so Iran’s core delegation, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, can attend UN General Assembly High-Level Week under travel limits. Al Jazeera, with AFP and AP, said the in-person group will be smaller than last year.
Waymo sets a 2028 Singapore robotaxi, with 2027 safety-driver runs
Singapore's Land Transport Authority named Waymo a new autonomous-vehicle operator on 18 September, beside ComfortDelGro and Grab. CNA and The Verge say an electric Jaguar I-PACE fleet arrives in the coming months, trained specialists drive manually in 2027, and fully driverless ride-hail in the Waymo app remains a 2028 aim after LTA approval and a CETRAN safety assessment.
Zelenskyy seats Poland in the European anti-ballistic coalition
TVP World said Zelenskyy seated Poland inside a European anti-ballistic arrangement at Friday talks in Ukraine, while Tusk called July’s Paris exclusion a misunderstanding. The piece relayed a Carpathian Eight summit setting and nine named participants without listing Polish hardware.
Bank of England cut the gilt auction; the 20 billion pound pace stays on the books
Bank Rate stayed on a 6-3 vote. APF auctions paused; the 20 billion pound annual sales pace stays in the Committee decision.
Google Home MCP still starts with a Cloud project
The home agent opens in the US for Premium Advanced subscribers, and only after a Google Cloud project. Door locks stay off-limits; Gemini for Home still talks on the speaker.
Hormuz's open lane is held under a blockade
CENTCOM calls the strait open because it cleared mined lanes and redirected more than 100 ships. Traffic has been down since February; the barrel count the spokesman gave leaves the old daily queue unrestored.
Mendelian ranking on hyperbolic embeddings still stops before a patient decision
The 16 September preprint carries lower-dimension hyperbolic scores from ontology subgraphs to patient-level link prediction; the measured object is a ranking, not a diagnostic decision.
Pre-relapse blood passed through a 90-day door and a 150-day door
Single-cell discovery used 15 people from a screen of 85 in the CLIMB cohort. Pre-relapse means 90 days for RNA and 150 days for protein and viral transcripts. The signature is interesting. Until a locked window repeats it, it is a hypothesis.