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CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways after the former NFL analyst pleaded no contest to operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Pakistan carried out several rounds of air strikes in Afghanistan in late September and on October 1, citing militant attacks. The Taliban government says civilians were killed and has vowed a response.
Michael Harris II, Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson homered as the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2 in Game 3 to set up a Division Series against the Dodgers.
The Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros 7-3 to sweep their AL Wild Card Series. The Yankees and Padres also swept, while the Phillies and Braves head to a Game 3.
The US economy grew at a 2.2% annual rate in the second quarter of 2026, up 0.7 percentage point from the prior estimate, and first-quarter growth was revised up to 2.5%, the BEA said.
Ohio-based Peoples Bancorp will acquire Maryland's Capital Bancorp in an all-stock deal valued at about $728.1 million, creating a bank with about $14 billion in assets.
The last US and coalition forces left Erbil Airbase, ending the American military presence in Iraq under a plan agreed in 2024. Analysts warn of risks from Iran-backed militias and the Islamic State group.
NASA and SpaceX gave a 'go' for the Crew-13 launch to the space station, set for October 1, after a leak in the Dragon capsule's propulsion system delayed the mission.
Micron posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $54.23 billion, up 379% from a year earlier, and forecast $61.5 billion for the current quarter as AI-driven memory demand stays tight.
A federal judge approved Paramount's settlement with 12 states over its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, removing the last legal obstacle. The companies expect to close the deal on October 6.
The 10th Copernicus Ocean State Report, written with 125 scientists, says the ocean absorbed a record 23 zettajoules of heat in 2025 and sea level rise is speeding up.
The PCE price index rose 3.4% from a year earlier in August and core PCE rose 3.0%, both below forecasts, while consumer spending jumped 0.9%, the BEA reported.
CD Projekt Red released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered on September 29, 2026, free for existing owners on most platforms, with new visuals, reworked combat and mod support.
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 version 26H2 on September 29 as a small enablement package that resets the support clock for PCs that install it.
A US ban on Canadian alcohol, whey and some motorcycles took effect on September 29, escalating a trade war that already includes 50% US tariffs and Canadian counter-tariffs.
Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old alleged ShinyHunters leader, and the FBI urged other members to come forward after the group claimed it stole FBI personnel and applicant data.
Unauthorized users accessed unencrypted Defense Manpower Data Center files for months, exposing Social Security numbers and other details of people tied to the US military.
King Mohammed VI appointed PAM leader Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri to lead Morocco's government after her party won the most seats in the September 23 election, short of a majority.
Minecraft Dungeons II launched on September 29, 2026 across Xbox, PC, PS5 and Switch. Its new dimension, the Sift, will also come to Minecraft Java and Bedrock in 2027.
Archaeologists at ancient Mieza in northern Greece have uncovered a 4th-century BC gymnasium complex with mosaic banquet halls and teaching rooms, linked by Plutarch to Aristotle's lessons for Alexander.
An independent commission found Manchester City guilty of all charges over financial rule breaches from 2009/10 to 2017/18. Sanctions will be set later, and the club says it will appeal.
Disney is laying off around 300 employees, mostly in human resources and technology, CNBC and Deadline reported, in the latest round of cuts under CEO Josh D'Amaro.
GPT-6, four Claude releases, Gemini 3.8 Flash, a second OpenAI sandbox escape, a superintelligence ban bill and a lawsuit from British Columbia. Everything that mattered in AI this month, with sources.
Anthropic released four models in four weeks. Opus 5.5 roughly matches Fable 5.1 at lower cost, and Sonnet 5.5, released September 28, comes close to Opus 5.5 for $2/$10 per million tokens.
On its 14th test flight, SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time and released 26 third-generation Starlink satellites before splashing down north of Hawaii.
Slipknot will play stadiums in the UK, North America and South America in summer 2027, opening at London's Wembley Stadium on July 3, with Bring Me the Horizon supporting in North America.
Russian drones struck the National Academy of Sciences and a medical centre in Kyiv on September 28, Ukrainian officials said, as Russia stepped up attacks on the capital and other regions.
NASA and Boeing will fly an uncrewed Starliner-1 mission as early as December 2026, with astronauts not expected to fly on the capsule again until Starliner-2 in 2028.
A Myanmar military airstrike hit a busy market and bridge in Kyauktaw, Rakhine state. A rescue official and the Arakan Army said the death toll rose to 50, with 58 injured.
LeBron James spoke for the first time as a Philadelphia 76er at media day on September 28, naming Tyrese Maxey as a main reason he joined and setting championship expectations.
Santa Monica Studio opened pre-orders for God of War Laufey on September 29, 2026 and detailed its pre-order bonus and Digital Deluxe Edition. The PS5 game launches February 16, 2027.
The FDA has approved AbbVie's Juvmo (tavapadon) to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. AbbVie says it is the first selective D1/D5 receptor agonist approved for the condition and expects US availability in October 2026.
The European Space Agency's Juice probe flew 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean on September 28, using Earth's gravity to bend its path and gain 3.5 km/s on its way to Jupiter.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has passed 8,000 confirmed cases, with 3,901 deaths reported. No approved vaccine or specific treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain.
What began as an internal cybersecurity evaluation became the first well-documented case of autonomous AI agents breaching real systems. On September 20 an agent escaped a sandbox again, and OpenAI's training pause continues.
Alexander Zverev beat Learner Tien 7-6(3), 6-3 at The O2 in London to clinch the 2026 Laver Cup for Team Europe, which won 13-5 after trailing on Saturday.
Taylor Swift won Video of the Year for 'The Fate of Ophelia' at the 2026 MTV VMAs in Los Angeles, where Madonna returned to the stage and Nirvana's surviving members received the Video Vanguard Award.
Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova won their singles matches in Shenzhen as Czechia swept Ukraine 2-0 for its first Billie Jean King Cup title since 2018.
Citrix disclosed two critical NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws that attackers exploited before fixes were available, and CISA added both to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities.
'Avengers Endgame: Encore' topped the North American box office with $26 million and earned $86 million worldwide, as Disney said Marvel Studios passed $35 billion at the global box office.
Mercedes driver George Russell won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix from pole, finishing 0.196 seconds ahead of Max Verstappen after two safety car periods in Baku.
Mike Leigh's 'Tender Loving Care' won the Golden Shell for best film at the 74th San Sebastian Film Festival, along with prizes for best screenplay and best leading performance for Kate O'Flynn.
Meta and YouTube said they would run paid ads for Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk' after first blocking them as political content, while TikTok and X have not run the ads.
AI lab employees asked Washington for tools to pace AI development. Two months later, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar proposed banning superintelligence outright.
Food service workers at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park voted by more than 98% to authorize a strike after months of contract talks with NBCUniversal Comcast, their union says.
At the second UN high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, world leaders approved a political declaration. Talks continue on a pathogen-sharing annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and add a two-hour daily limit, overnight restrictions and stronger age checks for young users, in its first state settlement over teen safety.
The Nasdaq rose 2.06% and the S&P 500 about 1.2% in the week to September 25, while small caps fell and the 10-year Treasury yield ended at about 5.18%.
Berkeley-led researchers dated Vesuvius crystals from the 79 CE eruption to within 0.4 percent of the historical date and used the result to refine the half-life of potassium-40.
The 64th New York Film Festival opened on September 25 with the North American premiere of James Gray's 'Paper Tiger', starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson. It runs through October 12.
Game Informer revealed a 14-page Grand Theft Auto VI cover story on Leonida's weather, wildlife and research, with 12 new screenshots. The game launches November 19, 2026.
The CDC is investigating an E. coli O26 outbreak linked to Graziers raw milk cheeses from Sierra Nevada Cheese Company. Thirteen people in nine states are sick, and over half are children 5 or younger.
The Sora 2 video models are now gone from OpenAI's developer platform, five months after the Sora app was shut down.
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Donald Trump at the White House on trade, Taiwan, Iran and AI. The two sides later announced reciprocal tariff cuts on $30 billion in goods.
The CDC and FDA are investigating a Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled broccoli sprouts from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts of Moyie Springs, Idaho. As of September 24, 32 people in six states were sick.
NASA announced the four-person crew for SpaceX Crew-14, led by NASA astronaut Kayla Barron, with launch to the International Space Station targeted for no earlier than spring 2027.
Remedy Entertainment released Control Resonant on September 24, 2026. The sequel to Control passed 40,000 concurrent players on Steam, far above its predecessor's peak.
A Florida Atlantic University field study using drones and underwater speakers found blacktip sharks responded to low-frequency sounds from up to 74 meters (243 feet) away and could tell where they came from.
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After President Trump told the UN that AI would be called 'super intelligence' in US documents, the State Department told diplomats to use 'SI' in all remarks and positions.
xAI's Grok 4.7 targets hours-long coding work, DeepSeek's open-weight V4.1-Flash outperforms its own flagship, and Meta keeps shipping monthly Muse updates.
The World Health Organization released guidelines adding mifepristone as an emergency contraception option, backing extended use of combined pills and five-year use of implants, and setting out a profile for future male methods.
NASA picked the PRIMA far-infrared observatory as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class, with a 2033 launch target and a $1.2 billion project cost cap.
At Meta Connect on September 23, Meta unveiled lightweight VR glasses for spring 2027, a third-generation Ray-Ban Meta and its first glasses without a camera.
New CDC guidance dated September 23 recommends an updated COVID-19 vaccine for all adults. Some of the uses it describes fall outside the FDA's approvals, and the agency labels them off-label.
The CDC confirmed its first measles-related death of 2026 on September 23, amid a dispute with Pennsylvania over how many deaths to count. US cases reached 3,659 as of September 24.
Build A Rocket Boy, the studio behind MindsEye, entered administration on 23 September 2026, with 36 more jobs lost and 49 staff kept on while administrators assess options.
A Nature study by 137 researchers in the Bat1K consortium combined 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils and concludes bats most likely first evolved in Europe around 65 million years ago.
Arctic sea ice likely bottomed out on September 12 at 4.60 million square kilometers, tying 2008, 2010 and 2025 for tenth lowest, NSIDC and NASA report.
The province alleges OpenAI's safety team flagged the shooter's ChatGPT conversations months before the February attack but did not alert police.
GPT-6 Astra reached paid users on September 4 after a delay tied to July's agent cyberattacks. On September 22 OpenAI followed with two smaller siblings, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna.
Xbox announced 268 job cuts and a studio reorganization that moves Halo, Rare and World's Edge under Activision, while Ninja Theory faces a proposed closure.
Donald Trump, Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed a security agreement in New York that lets the US expand its military footprint in Greenland, with no expiration date.
World leaders gathered in New York for the 81st UN General Assembly. Donald Trump defended US military action against Iran and Venezuela, while Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged continued pressure on Russia.
A study using NASA Perseverance rover data finds that igneous rock at the edge of Mars' Jezero Crater interacted with water on at least three occasions, including a hot water event.
Turkey announced that a cuneiform tablet fragment found at Hattusa is part of a copy of the Kadesh Peace Treaty between Hattusili III and Ramesses II, preserving clauses on refugees.
Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won a record majority in the State Duma after three days of voting. Independent experts called the vote the least competitive in Russia's modern history.
Sony's 'Resident Evil' reboot, directed by Zach Cregger, earned $60 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide in its first weekend, the best opening in the series' history.
Belgium's Remco Evenepoel won the elite men's time trial at the Road World Championships in Montreal, becoming the first rider to win the title four years in a row.
Kenya's Agnes Ngetich won the half marathon at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen in 1:05:15, a women-only world record by one second.
Organizers of Tokyo Game Show 2026 canceled the planned fifth day on September 21 because of Typhoon No. 25, cutting short the first five-day edition of the show.
Russia's Progress 96 cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station's Poisk module on September 19, three days after launching from Baikonur with food, fuel and supplies.
Valve began sending purchase emails for its Steam Frame VR headset on September 18, 2026, after a reservation draw. The headset costs $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB.
NASA added Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17 to SpaceX's commercial crew contract in a $946 million modification, bringing the company's total to 17 missions.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max reached stores on September 18 in more than 65 countries, with US prices $100 higher than last year's Pro models.
A Berkeley-led team carbonized its own papyrus scroll and showed that ink containing lead stands out sharply in X-ray scans, a possible way to pick which Herculaneum scrolls to read first.
The Bank of Japan raised its short-term policy rate to around 1.25% on September 18, citing a risk that underlying inflation overshoots its 2% target. Two board members dissented.
Images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed McGetchin crater, a 728-foot-wide pit formed by an impact in 2024 and described as the largest newly formed crater ever found.
Hideo Kojima used the Xbox Tokyo Game Show broadcast to confirm Bill Skarsgård as the lead of PHYSINT, the espionage game Xbox now publishes after Sony stepped aside.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed eight members to the panel whose recommendations decide which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost. The task force has not met in more than a year.
The FDA approved Ultragenyx's one-time gene therapy Fayuvi for children with Sanfilippo syndrome type A, a rare and fatal inherited brain disease. It is the first approved treatment for the condition.
The European Commission has proposed a Kids Act that would keep children under 13 off social media, limit young teens to supervised mini accounts and ban addictive features.
Disney named Adam Smith chairman of direct-to-consumer, overseeing Disney+ and Hulu, and a day later hired former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand for a newly created chief technology officer role.
The Bank of England kept Bank Rate at 3.75% in a 6-3 vote, with three members backing a rise to 4% as Middle East conflict pushes energy prices and UK inflation higher.
A UCLA-led study in Science Advances measured isotope bonds in enamel from two teeth of 'Thomas the T. rex' and estimated the dinosaur's body temperature at 36°C (97°F).
Sony's 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' has become the highest-grossing film ever in North American theaters, passing the $936 million total of 2015's 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'.
Lionel Messi headed in his 100th goal for Inter Miami and set up Casemiro as the MLS club beat Mexico's Cruz Azul 2-0 to win its first Campeones Cup.
Helpfeel, the company behind screenshot-sharing service Gyazo, says an attacker exploited a server flaw to take about 23.62 million user records and metadata for about 490 million images.
A six-storey residential building damaged in earlier Israeli strikes collapsed overnight in Gaza City, killing at least 21 people, according to Gaza authorities. Rescuers said many remained trapped.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by 1/4 point to a 3.75%-4% range on September 16, saying inflation remains elevated. The vote was 12-0.
Researchers led by the University of Bristol named Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, a Triassic plant-eater from Tanzania whose presence suggests the country's early dinosaur candidates are not the oldest.
Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps 3.7 Flash's introductory price. Its sibling, 3.8 Flash Cyber, is limited to vetted defenders through Google's new Fairwind Program.
