XRP has fallen 9.3% over 24 hours, more than three times bitcoin’s 2.8% decline, in the hours since the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act. The token traded at $1.29 late Tuesday, according to CoinGecko data…
OpenAI is in talks at a $1.2 trillion valuation, days after calling for an AI slowdown
September 15, 2026
OpenAI is in early talks with investors about a funding round that would value it at more than $1.2 trillion, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday evening, three days after Sam Altman said the company…
Coinbase and Circle fall 10% as CLARITY Act fails. Their stablecoin income runs on rates
September 15, 2026
Coinbase fell 10.1% to $172.11 and Circle Internet Group fell 11.5% to $86.25 on Tuesday after the Senate voted 49-50 against advancing the CLARITY Act, the crypto market-structure bill the industry spent the year pushing…
The 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is two-thirds decided, and the last third is being set at the gas pump. Official consumer price data for July and August put the raise at 3.3% so far….
10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, a 19-year high, and AI's borrowing bill goes up with it
September 15, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield rose above 5% on Tuesday morning and touched 5.04%, its highest level since 2007, as oil near $106 a barrel and a Federal Reserve rate increase priced for Wednesday pushed the…
Roblox Announces New Updates for Players and Developers at RDC
September 15, 2026
Roblox has announced several new updates at its 12th annual Roblox Developers Conference (RDC). The event brings together developers, artists, designers, brands, and influencers from the Roblox creator community. This year, the company focused on…
Roblox Announces New Updates for Players and Developers at RDC
September 15, 2026
Roblox has announced several new updates at its 12th annual Roblox Developers Conference (RDC). The event brings together developers, artists, designers, brands, and influencers from the Roblox creator community. This year, the company focused on…
KRAFTON Introduces Kiaraa, the First Made-in-India BGMI Character
September 15, 2026
BGMI has introduced a new character designed especially for the Indian community. KRAFTON India has introduced Kiaraa, its first character designed from scratch by its internal India team. She will be introduced in BGMI 4.6,…
KRAFTON Introduces Kiaraa, the First Made-in-India BGMI Character
September 15, 2026
BGMI has introduced a new character designed especially for the Indian community. KRAFTON India has introduced Kiaraa, its first character designed from scratch by its internal India team. She will be introduced in BGMI 4.6,…
Redmi Note 17 Pro Hands-On: Xiaomi’s Best Note in Years?
September 15, 2026
After the iPhone, the Redmi Note is perhaps the best-known phone series, at least in markets like India. Millions have bought a Redmi Note, including me, because it’s a faithful companion. Today, Redmi introduced the…
Redmi Note 17 Pro Hands-On: Xiaomi’s Best Note in Years?
September 15, 2026
After the iPhone, the Redmi Note is perhaps the best-known phone series, at least in markets like India. Millions have bought a Redmi Note, including me, because it’s a faithful companion. Today, Redmi introduced the…
Trump calls AI risk a 'hoax.' Microsoft, Google and Anthropic are writing their own rules
September 14, 2026
Donald Trump spent Monday telling the AI industry that the danger it is warning about is a hoax, and the industry spent Monday writing rules for itself anyway. In a run of posts on Truth…
CrowdStrike, Zscaler jump 15% as cybersecurity becomes the AI-risk trade
September 14, 2026
Cybersecurity stocks are having their best day in years on the same call that is sinking the chipmakers. CrowdStrike rose 14.9% to $237.57, a record, Zscaler 15.2%, SentinelOne 15% and Palo Alto Networks 12.8% by…
Oracle falls 5%: $700 million more in layoff costs, and Ellison's $7.5 billion sale is off
September 14, 2026
Oracle is cutting staff to pay for the data centers it is building, and its founder has decided not to sell the stock he is asking shareholders to hold. Shares fell about 5% to around…
The AI chip chain is being sold before the bell and the software that sits on top of it is being bought. At 9:17 a.m. ET, Intel was down 6.8%, Micron 6.2%, AMD 5.8%, Arm…
CLARITY Act gets Trump's ethics deal and a Tuesday vote. Bernstein: a pass isn't priced in
September 14, 2026
The crypto market-structure bill that stalled in March is one procedural vote from the Senate floor. Late on Sunday, Senators Cynthia Lummis, John Boozman and Tim Scott released what they call the final text of…
iPhone 18 Pro Series Battery Capacities & Geekbench Scores Revealed
September 14, 2026
Apple has revealed the battery capacities of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max for the first time. Apple doesn’t usually include battery capacity in new iPhone announcements. But with the EU Energy…
iPhone 18 Pro Series Battery Capacities & Geekbench Scores Revealed
September 14, 2026
Apple has revealed the battery capacities of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max for the first time. Apple doesn’t usually include battery capacity in new iPhone announcements. But with the EU Energy…
Firmus kicks off a A$7 billion IPO: OpenAI anchors Australia's biggest float since Telstra
September 14, 2026
Firmus Technologies began pitching investors on Monday for an initial public offering that could raise as much as A$7 billion, about US$5 billion, on the Australian Securities Exchange, with a listing targeted for the end…
AI slowdown has no enforcer: Trump, China's Global Times and Michael Burry all said no
September 14, 2026
Dario Amodei’s plan to slow the AI race is two days old, and every part of it that needed someone else’s consent is already gone. The Anthropic chief executive’s essay asks for three things: outside…
South Korea's ICT exports hit a record. Without them, it ran a $6.6 billion trade deficit
September 13, 2026
South Korea exported a record $59.98 billion of information and communications technology products in August, up 162.6% from a year earlier, the Ministry of Science and ICT said on Monday. For the first time, ICT…
Anthropic is the $13.7 billion GPU customer in Trump-linked RUM Group's deal: report
September 13, 2026
Anthropic is the previously unnamed customer that agreed last month to buy about $13.7 billion of AI computing services from RUM Group, The Information reported on Sunday evening. RUM Group, which owns the video platform…
SoftBank shares sink nearly 12% as AI slowdown talk hits its $64.6 billion OpenAI bet
September 13, 2026
SoftBank Group shares fell nearly 12% in Tokyo on Monday, the steepest drop among the major Asian AI stocks TECHi tracked, as investors got their first chance to trade the weekend’s calls from AI industry…
SK hynix falls 5%, KOSPI drops 3% as Asia's chip stocks slide after AI slowdown call
September 13, 2026
Shares of SK hynix fell 5.4% and Samsung Electronics 3.4% in the first 20 minutes of trading in Seoul on Monday, pulling South Korea’s KOSPI index down 3.2%. It was Asian markets’ first chance to…
Anthropic has told its shareholders it expects positive adjusted operating income for a second consecutive quarter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing multiple people with knowledge of the matter. The FT said the maker…
U.S. stock futures opened lower on Sunday evening, and the selling was heaviest in the index most tied to artificial intelligence. Nasdaq 100 futures fell about 1.2% within 20 minutes of trading resuming at 6…
Why HPE Stock Jumped 12%: Oracle Capex, $30B Supplier Bill
September 13, 2026
Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares rose 12.4% on Friday, September 11, to $62.09, the company’s highest close since it began trading in 2015. Oracle had said the evening before that it still plans $90 billion to…
Data Center Cost Per MW: USA, EU, UAE, India, Pakistan
September 13, 2026
Building a 10-megawatt data center in Mumbai costs about $66 million, before land and servers. The same building in Silicon Valley costs about $133 million. Running them is a different story: on Maharashtra’s state industrial…
Microsoft Stock: Azure's revenue is finally public. Its margin isn't
September 12, 2026
For the first time, Microsoft has put a dollar figure on Azure, its cloud computing business: $101.9 billion in revenue for the fiscal year that ended in June 2026. That makes Azure bigger than Microsoft…
What ETH futures say about Ethereum's future: a Treasury-bill rate
September 12, 2026
An Ethereum futures contract on Deribit lets a trader lock in a price now for ether delivered when the contract expires on June 25, 2027: about $2,604. Ether itself trades near $2,525. That gap —…