The chief executive told staff the company would consider easing the pace of its most advanced work, and hopes rivals do the same.
Friday, September 11, 2026
24 storiesA threat report from the AI company describes attempts to build missile guidance software, run propaganda networks and compile dossiers on dissidents.
The D.C. Circuit found the Energy Department failed to justify forcing the J.H. Campbell plant to keep running past its retirement date.
Markets have rapidly repriced the odds that Japan's central bank tightens again, days after the Federal Reserve's own decision.
Export controls meant to blunt China's AI build-out have made its domestic accelerators dearer rather than cheaper.
The University of Michigan's preliminary September index dropped from 51.7 in August as gasoline prices climbed and inflation expectations rose.
The first sign of diplomacy over the world's most important oil chokepoint moved crude further than any macro release this week.
The canal authority is rationing slots into next year, putting up to US$10 billion of Caribbean imports at risk.
Foreign investors took nearly 80% of a $22 billion long-bond sale, complicating the story that overseas buyers are walking away.
Analysts had predicted no growth at all, and the surprise arrives with borrowing costs and inflation risks both climbing.
August's shortfall came in far below forecast on timing shifts, leaving the year-to-date gap essentially flat against last year.
With American refineries running flat out and diesel at a record, the administration is examining wartime industrial powers to add capacity.
An Anthropic researcher quit over safety concerns, Congress began scrambling for a response, and the Pentagon's technology chief publicly rejected the warning.
Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 3.4% in August, and futures markets now put the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike next week at 90%.
The Treasury Secretary is sanctioning a large bank, talking the yen higher and buying back long-term debt, with the bond market so far unmoved.
A Washington nonprofit has sued the Federal Reserve and its vice chair for supervision over private contacts with Wall Street banks during an open comment process.
India is hosting a BRICS summit attended by both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, while trying to steer the expanded bloc away from an explicitly anti-Western turn.
The European Central Bank delivered its second quarter-point increase of the year, taking the deposit rate to 2.5% as oil above $100 a barrel feeds euro-area inflation.
Vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz dropped to seven in a day, even as Washington says it has loosened Iran's grip on the waterway.
Iran-backed Houthi fighters have captured the island that divides the Bab el-Mandeb strait into its two shipping lanes, completing their hold on Yemen's Red Sea coast.
Both major crude benchmarks are on track to end the week above $100 a barrel, and the US average diesel price has passed $6 a gallon for the first time.
Direct lending is being tested from two sides at once, with input costs rising for leveraged borrowers and the benchmark yield they refinance against moving higher.
A weak long-bond auction and an enlarged Treasury buyback failed to halt a selloff that has pushed the benchmark US yield to the edge of 5%.
The president has promised every US adult a $5,000 payment if Republicans win the midterms, and independent estimates put the cost above $1 trillion.