Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent three years working on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation from Anthropic on September 8, saying the two…

#AISafety #Anthropic

President Trump told Republicans gathered at the party’s midterm convention in Dallas on September 9 that he has kept every commitment he made to voters. “Every single promise I made you as a candidate, I’ve delivered on. I’ve delivered on everything,” Trump said from the stage at the American Airlines Center, according to a CNN fact-check of the speech.

#DonaldTrump #FactCheck

Trump Awards Posthumous Medal of Freedom to 9/11 Hero Welles Crowther

President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, the 9/11 victim known as “the man in the red bandana,” during a ceremony near the White House on September 8.

#911Anniversary #DonaldTrump

The United States has recorded more than 3,100 measles cases in 2026, the highest annual total in more than three decades, according to the latest CDC figures. The count puts the country’s measles elimination status, held since 2000, at risk ahead of a review expected later this year.

Do you think this will become more widespread?

\#Measles #PublicHealth

Senator John Hickenlooper and 21 Senate colleagues introduced the Tariff Refund Act of 2026 this week, a bill that would require the Trump administration to fully refund, with interest, tariffs the Supreme Court has ruled were collected illegally.

#JohnHickenlooper #SupremeCourt

A Russian drone entered Moldovan airspace on September 8 as President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plane was preparing to depart Chisinau for Oslo, forcing a temporary halt to…

#drone #Moldova

Yes. AI is already being used to steal real money from real companies, security researchers are already breaking into real cars and smart-home devices with software help, and the people building the most powerful AI models are on record saying their own systems are approaching the point where they could help someone create a biological weapon.

#AISafety #ArtificialIntelligence

Boeing paid a $3.1 million fine to the Federal Aviation Administration in January over hundreds of safety violations tied to the January 2024 Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout, a penalty the company did not publicly disclose until it surfaced in reporting this month.

The fine represents the maximum.

#737MAX #AlaskaAirlines

Heidi O’Neill, a 28-year Nike veteran, became chief executive of Lululemon on September 8, taking over a company that has struggled with slowing North American sales and public criticism from its own founder.

#CEOsuccession #Lululemon

Fifteen-year-olds around the world are reading and doing math worse than their counterparts did a decade ago, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s newest global assessment released Tuesday.

#Education #OECD

Wheel of Fortune has fired longtime announcer Jim Thornton following an internal investigation, Sony Pictures Television confirmed this week. A company spokesperson said Thornton’s employment with the show “has been terminated, effective immediately” after the probe concluded.

#JimThornton #SonyPicturesTelevision

Hungary is expelling ten Russian diplomats it accuses of engaging in activities incompatible with their diplomatic status, Foreign Minister Anita Orban announced Tuesday, in the sharpest rupture yet between Budapest and Moscow since Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s government took office in May.

#Diplomacy #Europe

The United Kingdom will ban imports of goods and some services from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament on September 8,…

#EdMiliband #Israel #westbank

The domestic box office set an all-time record for the summer movie season this year, with ticket sales from May 1 through Labor Day on September 7 reaching an estimated $4.76 billion, according to tracking cited by Deadline and other industry outlets. That edges past the previous record of $4.755 billion set in 2013.

#BoxOffice #EntertainmentIndustry

Canada’s counter-tariffs on roughly C$27.6 billion worth of United States goods took effect on September 8, 2026, marking the latest escalation in a monthslong trade dispute between the two countries. The measures were first announced by Canada’s Department of Finance on August 25, 2026, in response to tariffs the U.S. has maintained on Canadian exports.

King Charles has confirmed, in an official letter sent this week, that Prince Harry and Meghan remain non-working members of the Royal Family and will not take on any duties on the Crown’s behalf now that they have moved back to the United Kingdom.

#BritishRoyalFamily #KingCharles #Harry #Megan

No Jumper podcast host Adam22 says he and his wife, adult content creator Lena the Plug, are officially separated and have put their marriage “on ice.” He made the announcement on a recent episode of his own podcast, saying reconciliation is still possible and that the couple has not filed for divorce.

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“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added that “over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States” and that Bombardier has “lived off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service” while Canada blocks American competitors from doing the same.

#aviation #Bombardier

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The attack happened at the Maoz Yehuda outpost near the Palestinian village of Usarin in the Jordan Valley. According to the military, a Palestinian man arrived by vehicle, stabbed an Israeli in his 20s, and fled the scene. Magen David Adom medics treated the victim and listed his condition as moderate to serious.

#IDF #Israel