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A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.
Football
France Football confirmed that the 30 nominees for the men's and women's Ballon d'Or will be unveiled on Tuesday 8 September, alongside shortlists for the Kopa, Yashin, Müller, coach and club awards.
Sources beIN Sports — Ballon d'Or 2026 nominees announcement dateTribuna — Ballon d'Or 2026 nominees to be announced on September 8
Football
Manchester United twice led at Hill Dickinson Stadium through Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko, whose 88th-minute header looked to have won the game, but Everton substitute Ainsley Maitland-Niles curled a 25-yard shot into the top corner in the 95th minute to make it 2-2.
Sources Sky Sports — Everton 2-2 Man UtdAP News — Man United stunned at Everton
Football
Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard scored as Arsenal came from behind to beat Chelsea 2-1 at the Emirates on Sunday, ending their rivals' 100% start to the Premier League season.
Sources BBC Sport — Arsenal 2-1 ChelseaSky Sports — PL 2026 coverage
Economy / Markets
ECB Watch Tool prices a 100% probability of a 25-basis-point ECB hike to a 2.75% deposit rate on September 9, with futures implying a 75% chance of another move to 3.0% by year-end.
Sources ECB Watch ToolReuters — ECB to raise rates a second time in September, but then done
Economy / Markets
US stocks fell on Friday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 162,000 nonfarm payrolls for August against a 53,000 consensus, with June and July revisions adding another 55,000 jobs and the unemployment rate steady at 4.1%.
Sources Free Malaysia Today — Wall Street ends lowerSwingfolio — US week recap
Economy / Markets
Asian equities rallied on Monday as Friday's 162,000 August payrolls print was read as supportive for global growth, while oil extended last week's 8-10% rally after US forces struck three Iranian tankers and Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired ballistic missiles at two US Navy ships.
Technology
Siskiyou County sheriff's deputies say three young men who summited Mount Shasta at around 7 p.m. and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon "were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required," according to a Bleeping Computer report on 5 September.
Sources Bleeping ComputerTechCrunch
Technology
Google started removing Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, compatible audio devices and Android Auto on 4 September, with Gemini replacing the "Hey Google" trigger and power-button long-press on a phased, one-way schedule.
Sources Implicator — Google Assistant shutdown scheduleAI Weekly — Top Stories for September 7
Technology
Nvidia confirmed at IFA 2026 in Berlin that its RTX Spark Windows PCs will arrive in October from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, MSI, Lenovo and Microsoft. The N1X superchip pairs a 20-core Grace CPU with up to 6,144 Blackwell RTX GPU cores and up to 128 GB of unified memory.
Sources NVIDIA Blog — Sparks Fly at IFA 2026HotHardware — RTX Spark PCs packing 1 Petaflop
Technology
Apple has invited media to its September 9 keynote at Apple Park, themed "Surprise and Shine", where new CEO John Ternus will host his first major launch. Reporting from MacRumors, Tom's Guide and Firstpost sketches a lineup of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max with the A20 Pro chip and C2 modem, the long-rumoured foldable iPhone Ultra with a 7.8-inch inner display and Touch ID, Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, AirPods 5, and possibly a new HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K.
Sources MacRumors — iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18 Pro, and MoreTom's Guide — Apple iPhone 18 event preview
AI
A New York Times investigation with ImportGenius trade records shows Aivres, the Fremont, California-based US subsidiary of blacklisted Inspur Group, exported at least USD 5.6 billion of advanced technology to Southeast Asia between April 2024 and February 2026, including more than USD 3 billion of computers built with Nvidia Blackwell chips, ultimately serving Alibaba and ByteDance data centres.
Technology
Google on 4 September shipped Chrome 152.0.7977.82/.83 to fix CVE-2026-85046, a high-severity type confusion in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that has been exploited in the wild, according to Google's release notes and a SecurityWeek advisory.
Sources SecurityWeekThe Hacker News
AI
Nvidia said on 3 September it agreed to acquire Hugging Face for USD 12.93 billion in cash and equity, with USD 11.9 billion in cash to shareholders and up to USD 1 billion in retention equity, according to an SEC filing the same day.
AI
Anthropic on 1 September introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a deployment pattern that pairs Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 capabilities with zero-data-retention and customer-held monitoring logs.
Sources Anthropic — Enterprise Frontier SafeguardsHelp Net Security
AI
UBS will require prospective graduates and interns joining its global banking and markets division from the 2027 intake to demonstrate working AI proficiency alongside academics and finance aptitude, the Financial Times reported on 6 September, citing people familiar with the move.
Sources Financial TimesTechmeme