Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event is set for Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (1:00 p.m. Eastern) at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, Cupertino. Apple will livestream the show on its website, YouTube, and the Apple TV app. The lineup is widely expected to include the iPhone 18 Pro and … Read more
Yes. As of Friday, September 4, 2026, Brent crude was trading around $96 a barrel and was up more than 7% for the week, on track for its biggest weekly gain since July, while West Texas Intermediate was near $92. The jump followed renewed U.S.-Iran fighting after a quieter stretch, with markets pricing higher risk … Read more
Yes. On September 4, 2026, Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 98 issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Sara Duterte on three counts of grave threats. Bail was set at ₱120,000 for each count, and the court denied her motion to defer or recall the warrant and quash the information. Duterte confirmed her office … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Sources podcast that roughly 38,000 ChatGPT queries use about as much water as growing one California almond. He noted he was recalling the figure from memory and it might not be exact, but argued public worries about AI data-center water use are overstated. Altman has previously put water … Read more
Yes. Gloria Steinem married David Bale — a South African-born entrepreneur and environmentalist, and the father of actor Christian Bale — in 2000, which made her Christian Bale’s stepmother. The couple were together until David Bale’s death in 2003 from brain lymphoma. Steinem had no biological children of her own. After news of her death … Read more
Early long-range forecasts for winter 2026/2027 point to a strong “Super El Niño” shifting the storm track south across North America. Seasonal models favor above-normal snowfall across much of the southern and central United States — including the Sierra Nevada, south-central Rockies, Plains, Midwest, Ohio Valley, and Mid-Atlantic — while the Pacific Northwest, northern Plains, … Read more
Chad Powers Season 2 premiered on Hulu on September 3, 2026, with all six episodes released at once. Unlike Season 1’s weekly rollout, Season 2 is a full binge drop: episodes titled “7th Quarter” through “12th Quarter” all became available the same day. The Glen Powell college-football comedy streams exclusively on Hulu. Source: Esquire — … Read more
On Sept. 2, 2026, a shooting at Loring Towers in downtown Minneapolis killed two residents and the suspect, Carlton Neal Johnson II, and injured three officers and three civilians.
Yes. On Thursday, September 3, 2026, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s Grok all hit overlapping service disruptions, with users reporting failed prompts, stalled responses, and elevated errors across apps and APIs. OpenAI told Newsweek a routing error starting around 7:43 a.m. PT made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users; Downdetector peaked above 35,000 … Read more
Fox News Media announced Thursday, September 3, 2026, that Maria Bartiromo is no longer with the company, effective immediately, after more than 12 years. Fox did not specify a reason, saying only that it thanked her for her work over the last 12½ years and wished her well on her next chapter. The last episode … Read more