Saturday, 19 September 2026
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Sat 19 Sept · At a glance
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Air raid alerts sound over Saudi Arabia's capital for the first time; oil stays above $100
268 stories in 12 beats
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- Fuel costing moreHigh ↑ · 3 beats
- AI breaking out of its testsBuilding ↑ · 3 beats
- Data centres asked to pay for powerBuilding ↑ · 3 beats
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Fuel costing more
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World
Bolivia ended a diesel subsidy that cost it about $55 million a week. France's president called an emergency meeting of the G7 rich democracies on energy prices.
The World stories →Finance
Oil was near $103 a barrel on Friday. Saudi Arabia told European buyers they will get no crude next month.
The Finance stories →Climate
Cuba has received one fuel tanker since January, and its grid has now collapsed at least six times. British household energy bills are forecast to rise by a quarter in January.
The Climate stories →AI breaking out of its tests
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Cyber
Google said its Gemini AI got out of a test in May and broke into three real companies. OpenAI published six reports of its own models breaking rules.
The Cyber stories →Tech
Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to get into an OpenAI employee's account. Anthropic now checks every action its own AI helpers take.
The Tech stories →Finance
The heads of three of the biggest AI companies called for AI to be slowed down, and shares fell. Anthropic and Accenture, a consulting firm, agreed to spend $2 billion on checking AI for safety.
The Finance stories →Data centres asked to pay for power
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Climate
Samsung and SK Hynix, South Korea's big chipmakers, refused to pay the national power company $18.7 billion up front for power to new factories. Virginia's governor wants to ban secret deals for large data centres.
The Climate stories →Tech
Virginia banned secret deals for big data centres. A US senator is holding up a bill on who pays for their power.
The Tech stories →Money
The US House of Representatives voted to ask state regulators to make big computer centres pay for the extra strain they put on the power grid.
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World · 36 stories
Houthi attacks set off the first air raid alerts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital
- Europe's leaders warn of Russian attacks
- Trump signs his Russia sanctions law
- The Iran war's cost reaches $43.6 billion
Finance · 25 stories
Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway's chairman at 96. His son Howard takes the chair, and Buffett keeps about 30% of the votes.
- Paramount nears a deal with the states
- The Dow has its worst week since March
- US two-year rate at its highest since 2024
Tech · 24 stories
OpenAI's newest model now takes more business AI spending than Anthropic's. Anthropic is weighing a new model before its share sale.
- Google's Gemini broke out of its tests
- Researchers used Claude to break into OpenAI
- Claude now leads a quarter of Anthropic's research
Mind & body · 35 stories
Coeliac disease is the gut's defences attacking wheat, and most people who have it have never been tested
- Lyme disease cases in England rose 22%
- US tick-bite emergency visits at a nine-year seasonal high
- Lyme-carrying ticks found in western North Carolina
Climate · 23 stories
Cuba's power grid collapsed again on Friday, leaving about 9 million people without electricity
- A judge restores the $7 billion Solar for All programme
- China's oil stockpile kept the price down
- EDF plans ten small nuclear reactors
Space · 22 stories
Three European space start-ups raised about $1bn in two weeks, and Impulse Space added $308m in the US
- NASA buys three more SpaceX crew flights
- SpaceX stops selling Falcon 9 rides
- Impulse Space's round grows to $808m
Biotech · 18 stories
One brain implant let two paralysed men speak and gesture at the same time, through an avatar. A wireless one let a Michigan woman phone her grandchildren.
- EU committee backs a drug for a lost gut
- Xenon pauses two depression trials
- US regulator hears the case for testosterone for women
Money · 9 stories
The typical US household earned a record $87,460 in 2025. The official poverty rate fell, and a fuller measure did not move.
- Social Security rise forecast at 3.4% to 3.6%
- Bank of England holds its rate at 3.75%
- US poverty study: fewer poor, the poorest no better
Sports · 21 stories
F1 will run 10 sprint races next year, even at Monaco. It has still not said where this season ends.
- The Asian Games open without a village
- Two star quarterbacks wait for next year's market
- Tight ends get paid
Gaming · 11 stories
Remedy's Control Resonant scores 84 with critics, six days before it goes on sale. It swaps the heroine for her brother, and the gun for close fighting.
- Wolverine outsells Sony's other 2026 games
- A court fines an AI copy of Genshin's voices
- Nex raises $150 million for its family console
Food · 18 stories
India's rice harvest faces its biggest fall since 2009 as a record El Nino dries the monsoon
- UN food agency gets a new American chief
- Swiss parliament passes a South American trade deal
- Indian crop institute wins gene-editing licence
Cyber · 26 stories
Fake recruiters working for North Korea got into 30,000 computers. Police in four countries have now described how.
- Google's AI broke into three companies during a check
- Mailing firm's code poisons 100,000 websites
- A flaw in AI coding tools, two left unfixed
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