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China’s Xi Snubs a Troubled U.N. for Trump, Drowning Out Its Big Week

The U.S.-China summit offered a sharp contrast with the action at the faltering United Nations in a gridlocked New York.

Dining With A.I. Moguls, Billionaires and Xi Jinping, Trump Went Off Script

Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.

Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say

In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.

Man City found guilty of majority of 115 financial rule breaches

The club, which denies all wrongdoing, is accused of breaching the Premier League's financial rules between 2009 and 2018.

Watch: What could the potential sanctions for Man City be?

Football finance expert Kieran Maguire says the potential sanctions for Manchester City will be 'significant' after the sources told BBC Sport that the club has been found guilty of breaking the major

I'm not tempted to call an early election, Burnham says

The prime minister told the BBC an early poll would throw the country into a "backward-looking process".

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

AI Workers' Inquiry 2026

Article URL: https://techworkersinquiry.org/ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat

AI often makes writing worse. (Even if it makes it better)

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/09/24/ai-often-makes-writing-wors

Is z.ai shipping a different ZCode client than the source?

Recently got access to Claude CVP at work, decided to ask it to look at zcode and point out any data exfil or whether they were all resolved, it went off on a stupid long tangent burning tokens bu

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

When Should Forecasting Agents Reason? Behavioral Stress Tests for Reliability Routing

arXiv:2609.28475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting agents increasingly combine language-model reasoning, retrieval, ensembling, and calibration, but it remains unclear when each behavior sho

TW3Cast: A Frozen Router of Lightly Fine-Tuned Foundation Models for Time-Series Forecasting on GIFT-Eval, Selected Entirely on the Training Split

arXiv:2609.28506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: TW3Cast is a time-series forecasting system that reaches position 3 of 130 entries on the GIFT-Eval benchmark by mean MASE rank, as of 2026-09-14. The

PAWS: Policy-driven Agentic World Simulation

arXiv:2609.28547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy interventions propagate through public communication, institutional decisions, and stakeholder responses, yet datasets for financial multi-agent

Stable and Faithful Explanations for Knowledge Tracing

arXiv:2609.28502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge tracing (KT) models predict student performance opaquely, limiting pedagogical action. This study contributes a validation protocol testing p

SMILESGNN: Interpretable Clinical Toxicity Prediction via SMILES-Graph Cross-Attention Fusion

arXiv:2609.28553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drug toxicity prediction is critical for reducing late-stage attrition in drug discovery, yet remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, scaffo

CFD Correction of Open Tip Clearance Flow in a Compressor Cascade Using VAE Latent Space Adaptation

arXiv:2609.28558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CFD predictions of open tip clearance flow in compressor cascades are subject to discrepancies relative to experiments, while experimental observations

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

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Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand

They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.

Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.

War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

本周看什么 | 最近值得一看的 6 部作品

📅本周新预告《侦战》定档预告9月21日，电影《侦战》发布定档预告，宣布10月1日上映。影片由孔令政编剧、导演，古天乐、此沙、任达华、谢君豪领衔主演，袁富华、卢慧敏、杨伟伦主演，讲述一名嫌疑人从警署羁押 ...查看全文

新玩意 252｜少数派的编辑们最近买了啥？

编注：很多读者都会好奇少数派的编辑们到底平时都「买了啥」。我们希望通过「编辑部的新玩意」介绍编辑部成员们最近在用的新奇产品，让他们自己来谈谈这些新玩意的使用体验究竟如何。内容声明：《新玩意》栏目如含有 ...查看全文

家庭饮品 DIY 指南（五）：特调咖啡及其他饮品

往期文章：（一）工欲善其事，必先利其器（二）常用液体物料推荐（三）常用固体物料推荐（四）奶昔、柠檬和茶系列配方这一篇的配方主要是特调咖啡和其他类饮品，特调咖啡中的咖啡液按照固定比例萃取Espresso ...查看全文

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科技爱好者周刊（第 413 期）：再见了，React Native

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。（[通知] 下周五开始的中秋和十一假期，周刊休息。）

本杂志开源，欢迎投稿。另有

科技爱好者周刊（第 412 期）：禁止 issue，只用 PR

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

本杂志开源，欢迎投稿。另有

科技爱好者周刊（第 411 期）：OpenClaw 2.0 是一个缩影

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

本杂志开源，欢迎投稿。另有

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Trump, Xi wrap state visit centered on spectacle over substance. Here are the top takeaways

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi went heavy on the ceremony and light on deliverables as they danced around Taiwan and Iran during two days in Washington.

Airlines waive change fees ahead of nor'easter as flight delays trickle in

Flight disruptions were minimal for Saturday as of Friday morning.

CEO who posted 'Lake America' sweatshirt photos is no longer with the company

Smith on Sept. 11 had posted an allegedly AI-edited photo on Facebook of her family dressed in "Lake America" sweatshirts.

Six Flags: Jana Partners Is Knocking Again

Sandisk: $94B In Contracts Reinforces Outlook

VBR: Small-Cap Value Feeling The Brunt Of Soaring Treasury Rates

Stock Market Ends Week Higher Despite Spiking Yields; Jobs Report, Inflation Data Due

The stock market ended a challenging week higher. The latest U.S. jobs report and a fresh PCE inflation report are now due.

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Dow Jones Futures: Growth Stocks Shrug Off Surging Yields; Micron, SpaceX, Tesla, Key Economic Data Due

Growth stocks had a strong week despite surging Treasury yields. Micron earnings, SpaceX Starship, Tesla sales and big economic reports are ahead.

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A Quick Bite On EAT Stock: How We Avoided A Bad Aftertaste In Brinker

Taking our profits quickly gave us a nice profit in just four trading days.

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📰 The Economist

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says the AI race may have broken the Fed’s inflation playbook

Bill Ackman theorized that the AI era could lead to a situation where rate hikes actually spur higher inflation, upending the Fed's policy playbook.

I moved from the US to Germany 4 years ago. Here are the 7 biggest culture shocks I've experienced.

My husband and I moved to Germany from the US four years ago, despite never visiting before. Since then, we've experienced culture shock several times.

6 of the best scents to wear this fall, according to professional perfumers

This fall, popular fragrance trends will include dark and woodsy perfumes, warm spices like nutmeg and cardamom, and gourmands beyond pumpkin.

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Peoples Bancorp Inc.

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Peoples Bancorp Inc.

Federal Reserve Board requests public comment on two proposals related to establishing a regulatory framework for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act

Federal Reserve Board requests public comment on two proposals related to establishing a regulatory framework for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Sandy Spring Bank

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Sandy Spring Bank

htmx 4.0 发布：改用 Fetch API 重写，内置 DOM Morphing Swap，并明确属性继承规则

每周下载量约 16 万，仍处 Alpha 的 TanStack Charts 为什么火了？

当 Vibe Coding 撞上企业级现实：真实工程中的 AI 效能之路｜QCon上海

灵巧手不是等AGI才用：一份被误读的物理AI落地地图

宇树Dex5-S把22个主动自由度压进3.99万元，市场欢呼“人形机器人进家倒计时”。但把出货量当干活量、把自由度当灵巧、把家庭当最大市场，是三个系统性误读。灵巧手的真实逻辑是按“脑子的水位”分层变现——硬件决定能力上限，数据决定当下能做什么：工业可枚举场景不需要通用AGI，家庭复杂长尾任务才高度依赖它。

CTA集体回撤：传统基本面研究，碰到极端行情就容易失灵？

市场不是没有波动，而是波动的方式变了。

CT无创筛查食管癌，达摩院AI站上临床前夜

算法不再是瓶颈，临床落地才是。

Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

AI Weekly Issue #531: AI labs shipped agents before agreeing how to report failures

The AI story of September 14–20 was not one spectacular model launch. It was the machinery around agents becoming visible: people reading private chats, models writing instructions into their own memo

AI Weekly Issue #530: Applied AI This Week

Companies are giving AI specific jobs: checking security cameras, helping farmers understand their records, searching satellite images, and preparing sales quotes. This edition explains how those tool

AI Weekly Issue #529: OpenAI faces 50-plus lawsuits over alleged ChatGPT harm

Thirty new complaints come from survivors of a Canadian school shooting. They accuse OpenAI of failing to warn police; the company disputes key claims.

Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a

Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello