News · 2026-09-15

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Technology & AI (10)

Rubin NVL72 delivers 67x better performance per dollar than GB300 with 170 tokens per second at 2300W TDP.
Speedstu's CUDA-for-AMD-Windows project enables running a 2.2-million-parameter PPO network at 13,278 steps per second on an RX 9060 XT GPU.
Researchers disclosed DDRop, a sub-$200 interposer attack breaking Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing on DDR5 servers.
Nvidia launched the RTX Pro 5500 with 84GB of GDDR7 memory to maximize AI margins.
Robots offload planning to datacenters while keeping high-frequency action layers onboard because latency consumes the budget for loops requiring outputs every 10 milliseconds.
Perplexity released Portable Computer for Windows on RTX GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM.
CISA reports attackers exploiting CVE-2026-85706 in GitLab versions 18.7 to 19.3.2 to read arbitrary files.
Microsoft's September patches broke Remote Desktop, USB audio, and Excel paste on Windows 11 and Server 2012.
Huawei showcased a 7.2 Tbps near-packaged optics module as a lower-cost alternative to co-packaged optics for its next-gen SuperPOD AI systems.
Unitree founder Wang Xingxing's micromanagement led to an August 19 Shanghai Stock Exchange IPO after President Xi's 2025 symposium appearance.

Finance & Markets (8)

Fed officials blamed job markets, White House policies, and the Iran war for inflation stopping deceleration in 2023 as "supercore" PCE rose two percentage points faster than pre-pandemic years.
Costly medicineStay-At-Home Macro · 3d ago
David Warsh argues the Fed should raise rates by a quarter point despite Trump's pressure, citing a survey where twenty-nine former officials favored the hike.
Pricing equity punters’ collective histrionics in a credit context
Choe Yong-beom argued active fiscal policy is vital for growth and debt management during a Sept 15 meeting with German Finance Committee chairman Christian Görke.
At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, officials refused to endorse Keynes' Bancor, instead committing only to improving bilateral transaction systems.
(SEMI-)CROSSPOST: JACOB LEVY: Conceptualizing Academic FreedomGrasping Reality (Brad DeLong) · 3d ago
Jacob Levy argues academic freedom is not free speech and cites a 2022 to 2025 U.S. higher education collapse driven by state regulation, politicized funding, and Trump administration attacks.
Brad DeLong and Mike Konczal argue Trump's policies caused male job losses while 158,000 of 162,000 recent jobs went to women.
The striking thing is how late the market movedMarginal Revolution · 2d ago
The S&P 500 bottomed at 2,237 on Mar 23 coinciding with the Fed's unlimited QE announcement.

Science (8)

The study establishes a nearly optimal stretched-exponential approximation rate for smooth functionals on infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces using deep ReLU networks under generalized exponential coordinate decay.
Authors derive exact local responses for attention interventions using RoPE derivatives, achieving 95.36–96.52% sign accuracy across 92,160 positional edits.
Expanding the candidate pool from 4 to 16 increased oracle quality by +9.23 IQ in 192 Physics-IQ scenes.
Researchers introduced MACCHIATO, a training algorithm that constructs an explicitly structured ReLU-MLP and a Boolean circuit from partial truth-table observations.
Authors propose Generalized Agent Iteration, a formal framework unifying iterative policy improvement and recursive self-improvement by modeling agents as modifiable system components.
Researchers introduced T1, a 122B model that raised Terminal-Bench 2.1 performance to 64.0% and achieved 27.9% on the Long-Horizon Terminal Bench.
R2VC achieved 13.74% higher accuracy than the baseline on the FEVER benchmark using an 8B backbone.
Researchers developed Occamy-1.0 by further training the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B checkpoint using execution-grounded data and staged post-training.

World (8)

Foreign Policy columnist James Crabtree argues President Donald Trump is killing strategic ambiguity over Taiwan ahead of a September 24 summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, President Donald Trump implemented 50% tariffs on 110 Canadian goods including aluminum, paper, and furniture.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of November's midterm elections.
Nearly eight months pregnant Iman Shalouf died after being shot in the head by Israeli forces near Khan Younis, one of more than 10 killed in Gaza strikes.
Houthi militants captured the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish near the Bab al-Mandab strait, raising oil supply crisis concerns.
President Donald Trump is killing strategic ambiguity over Taiwan ahead of a September 24 summit with President Xi Jinping.
Kim Jong-un vowed to deepen ties with Russia in reply to Putin's Sept. 9 congratulatory message marking North Korea's 78th founding anniversary.
South Korea's revised Criminal Act adds Article 98-2 to prosecute foreign-linked theft of state secrets including semiconductors and AI.

Today's digest, illustrated

A surreal editorial illustration blending a towering server farm glowing with efficient blue light against a backdrop of a stormy, tariff-marked border landscape, where floating mathematical equations and smooth functional curves drift amidst falling dollar signs and heavy industrial gears, rendered in a dramatic, high-contrast style that captures the tension between rapid technological advancement and economic friction.