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News and markets
- Global headlines: Saudi Arabia cancels star-studded film fest amid Middle East war (The Red Sea International Film Festival has drawn such Hollywood A-listers as Emily Blunt, Adrien Brody, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Caine); Trump seeks fertilizer deal with Russia ally Belarus amid Canadian tensions (The proposed potash purchases would expand trade with a country that helped Moscow launch its invasion of Ukraine); and Ukraine marks Putin’s scripted election win with assault on Moscow refinery (The air attack hit an oil refinery in Moscow, contradicting President Donald Trump's claim that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to halt strikes on energy targets).
- Markets leaned higher, with 5 of 7 tracked indexes up; NASDAQ Composite up 2.26% was the largest move.
- Benchmarks tracked: S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite, Euronext 100 Index, and Public Joint-Stock Company Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS plus 3 more indexes.
Hacker News and Product Hunt
- Hacker News: MiMo v2.6 (Introducing the MiMo-V2.6 series: frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public); Spymarks, Not Watermarks (Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks); and Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station (The tech giant has built its own concert hall, but says its not in competition with small venues).
- Product Hunt features Keet (Learn Anything), Valori (The deterministic memory layer for AI), and Shootsolo 2.0 (Voice-controlled camera + teleprompter for solo creators).
Global Headlines
Top stories across selected outlets, presented in a fast daily brief format.
Saudi Arabia cancels star-studded film fest amid Middle East war
The Red Sea International Film Festival has drawn such Hollywood A-listers as Emily Blunt, Adrien Brody, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Caine.
Trump seeks fertilizer deal with Russia ally Belarus amid Canadian tensions
The proposed potash purchases would expand trade with a country that helped Moscow launch its invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine marks Putin’s scripted election win with assault on Moscow refinery
The air attack hit an oil refinery in Moscow, contradicting President Donald Trump's claim that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to halt strikes on energy targets.
Iran’s economy cracks under U.S. pressure, but Tehran won’t bend to Trump
As Iranians face shortages, President Donald Trump’s blockade, more so than new sanctions, is eroding the country’s economy, analysts say. Tehran seems to be uncowed.
Trump heads into a week of diplomacy, hampered by a lack of allies
At the United Nations on Tuesday and in meetings with China's Xi Jinping on Thursday, the president will largely stand alone.
Iran’s IRGC says the US and Israel must withdraw from the region
Revolutionary Guard says US and Israel 'must accept region's freedom from their vile and criminal presence'.
G7 foreign ministers demand Houthis halt strikes on Saudi Arabia
Ministers demand an end to maritime shipping attacks and urge Iran to stop arming the Yemeni group.
Houthis battle for strategic heights in Yemen as thousands more flee homes
Fighting intensifies as US media say Trump called off strikes against Houthis at the last minute on Sunday.
UN General Assembly 2026: Who is speaking and when?
September 22 marks the start of the general debate, where all 193 UN member states are invited to address the UNGA.
US strikes on alleged drug boats may be ‘crimes against humanity’, UN says
UN expert says US forces have killed 223 people in 68 attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific in the past year.
What the equinox 'henge' effect tells us about U.S. cities
The fall equinox, which arrives Tuesday in the U.S., brings shorter days, and chances to witness alignment between Earth and the sun. It's a modern version of ancient observances of a celestial shift.
Aviation regulators turn to AI to help manage the nation's airspace
The Federal Aviation Administration launched an ambitious $875-million-dollar push to make the U.S. airspace more efficient. But critics say it won't solve bigger problems with air traffic control.
Paramount makes concessions to salvage $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal
Paramount's owners have made concessions to 12 Democratic state attorneys general to settle a lawsuit that endangered the media company's bid for its larger Hollywood rival, Warner Bros. Discovery.
World leaders convene for UNGA. And, Trump says D.C. arch will be a 'military complex'
This week, world leaders convene for the U.N. General Assembly as war continues in Ukraine and the Gulf. And, President Trump has proposed that his arch serve as a military complex.
Many GOP candidates still echo Trump's 2020 claims. Lots of voters want to move on
While many Republican candidates, even in some critical tossup races, still back President Trump's baseless claims about election integrity, some GOP voters say they are ready to move on.
Denmark, Greenland, US to sign Arctic security agreement
OSLO -- Denmark, its autonomous territory of Greenland and the United States will sign an agreement in New York on Tuesday to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic region, the Danish Prime Minister's Office said on Monday.
France supports closer ties between Canada, EU: Macron
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that France supports the agenda of rapprochement between Canada and the European Union (EU).
EU weighs windfall tax as war drives up fuel prices
The European Union's economic commissioner has said there are no plans "at this stage" for a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies, but that it is "ready to engage in discussion", and individual member states are free to impose their own taxes, amid warnings of an imminent energy shock driven by spiralling fuel prices.
Tourists in Washington DC visit giant pandas from China
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Collective efforts urged on advancing world peace
Amid mounting conflicts and rising challenges, political leaders and experts from China and abroad have called for greater collective efforts to advance global peace and development through inclusive dialogue, solidarity and cooperation.
Class 10 girl and boy returning from coaching groped and assaulted in Bihar’s Jamui, sparking a political row
Two Class 10 students in Bihar were harassed, sparking political outrage and police action after a viral video emerged.
17-year-old Naga youth shot dead in Manipur, say police
A Naga youth, NK Wiphenbou, was shot dead amid ongoing clashes in Manipur, raising the death toll to over 40.
New high-speed corridors to get boundary wall to prevent cattle menace
New guidelines mandate a one-meter boundary wall on high-speed corridors to prevent cattle access, enhancing road safety across India.
Opposition candidates raise allegations of intimidation during bypoll campaigning in West Bengal
Opposition candidates in West Bengal's bypolls allege intimidation and harassment, raising concerns over electoral fairness.
IIT Bombay to replace ceiling fans with wall-mounted fans after student’s death
IIT Bombay is replacing ceiling fans with wall-mounted fans following a student's tragic death, sparking debate on student safety measures.
EXCLUSIVE: China's Xi expected to press Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under 1982 agreement, sources say
Reuters: EXCLUSIVE: China's Xi expected to press Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under 1982 agreement, sources say.
G7 foreign ministers call on Iran to stop arming Houthis
Reuters: G7 foreign ministers call on Iran to stop arming Houthis.
Tech rally boosts Asian stocks, dollar firms on rate-hike wagers
Reuters: Tech rally boosts Asian stocks, dollar firms on rate-hike wagers.
Macron says he discussed Ukraine-Russia energy truce ideas with Trump
Reuters: Macron says he discussed Ukraine-Russia energy truce ideas with Trump.
EU and Philippines reach 'substantial agreement' on free-trade deal
Reuters: EU and Philippines reach 'substantial agreement' on free-trade deal.
Market Snapshot
Latest completed sessions across the selected benchmark indexes.
| Index | Region | Session Date | Value | Change | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S&P 500 | US | 2026-09-22 | 7764.70 | 114.20 (1.49%) | Up |
NASDAQ Composite | US | 2026-09-22 | 27122.09 | 599.55 (2.26%) | Up |
Euronext 100 Index | Europe | 2026-09-22 | 1903.97 | 6.06 (0.32%) | Up |
Public Joint-Stock Company Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS | Europe | 2026-09-22 | 85.20 | -0.11 (-0.13%) | Down |
HANG SENG INDEX | Asia | 2026-09-22 | 25079.54 | 36.83 (0.15%) | Up |
Nikkei 225 | Asia | 2026-09-22 | 65018.95 | 882.75 (1.38%) | Up |
S&P BSE SENSEX | India | 2026-09-22 | 74631.04 | -227.95 (-0.30%) | Down |
Hacker News
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MiMo v2.6
Introducing the MiMo-V2.6 series: frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public.
Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
The tech giant has built its own concert hall, but says its not in competition with small venues.
Transformers Explained Visually
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MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Analysis of Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
What Sun got wrong
We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies. Thanks to our designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, all of these homage shirts are amazing — but one of them was simply too hot to leave as a surprise:
Can gzip be a language model?
A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
I don't want to read what you didn't write
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
We cut PR wait time and running costs by rethinking CI as a system, from the infrastructure underneath it to how work gets scheduled and tests get parallelized.
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