Yes. On September 10, 2026, Paul Christiano — a U.S. government technology adviser joining the board of OpenAI’s non-profit foundation — said OpenAI and the AI industry more broadly are not currently on track to reduce the risk of “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control” to an acceptable level. Christiano previously ran model alignment at … Read more
Yes. According to a National Transportation Safety Board cockpit voice recording summary released Wednesday, September 10, 2026, one pilot of the Amazon cargo Boeing 767 repeatedly warned for nearly two minutes that the plane was going too fast on approach and after touchdown. The NTSB summary said the other pilot never gave a “consistent verbal … Read more
Yes. On September 9, 2026, military personnel accidentally triggered an inflatable emergency slide on the Qatari-donated Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews just before President Donald Trump was due to board for a flight to Dallas for the GOP midterm convention, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News. Trump waited aboard Marine … Read more
Yes. On September 9, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, opened a probe into OpenAI’s handling of the July Hugging Face breach and sent a letter to CEO Sam Altman. Hawley said “new, disturbing evidence” sparked the inquiry, called OpenAI “reckless” for continuing … Read more
Yes. At the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas on September 9, 2026, President Donald Trump proposed paying every U.S. adult citizen a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans win both the House and the Senate in November’s elections. He framed the payout as tied to what he called the country’s economic strength, but offered few … Read more
Yes. On September 9, 2026, Apple introduced iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer display that delivers about 90 percent of the screen area of iPhone 18 Pro when closed. The device is powered by Apple’s A20 Pro chip. U.S. pricing starts at $1,999, with pre-orders beginning … Read more
Yes. On September 8, 2026, the NSA, CISA, and FBI released joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA26-251A naming DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI. The agencies said the firms had, likely with Chinese government awareness, extracted billions of tokens across millions of requests from U.S. frontier models—including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok variants—since at least … Read more
Yes, according to NTSB flight-data briefings. On September 8–9, 2026, investigators said the Boeing 767 freighter’s throttles advanced to values consistent with go-around thrust after touchdown on Miami International Airport’s Runway 30, then returned to idle about four seconds later. Recorder data showed the nose and right main gear touched down at about 158 knots; … Read more
Yes. On September 9, 2026, President Donald Trump told reporters before leaving for the Republican National Convention in Dallas that he thinks the war with Iran will end “immediately after” the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. He argued Tehran was trying to influence the vote and could not hold out longer under U.S. economic … Read more
Yes. On September 9, 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz — including two U.S. vessels and eight oil tankers — after the United States said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers. Reuters described the exchange as the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat shipping attacks … Read more