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Technology
Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' event at 10am Pacific on September 9 opens the John Ternus era with the iPhone Ultra, Apple's first foldable, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.
Sources MacRumorsTom's GuideMacworld
AI
French AI lab Mistral closed a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics, with co-leads EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity, lifting its valuation above €21 billion as Europe's largest-ever private tech round.
AI
Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' keynote will frame the iPhone Ultra and iPhone 18 Pro as the first devices purpose-built around iOS 27, with Apple Intelligence features relying on the A20 Pro's expanded neural engine and 12GB of LPDDR5X.
AI
Five days after OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, Nvidia's Jensen Huang wrote on X that 'AGI has arrived,' congratulating OpenAI and pointing to Astra's training on Nvidia chips.
Sources The Next Web
AI
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN have gone live with the first AMD Instinct systems inside Saudi Arabia's expanded AI infrastructure, five days after Nvidia's $12.9 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face was confirmed.
Sources The Next Web
Technology
Apple's A20 Pro, the first phone chip on TSMC's 2nm N2 node, moves from a 6-core to a 7-core GPU and lifts the efficiency-core L2 cache to 8MB, paired with 12GB of LPDDR5X via TSMC's WMCM packaging.
Sources Beebom
AI
Arm's newly launched AI Portal is exposing pre-optimised models from Alibaba's Qwen, Google's Gemma and Ultralytics' YOLO across ExecuTorch, LiteRT and ONNX Runtime, the first three runtimes shipping on day one alongside the CSS for Mobile 2 platform.
Sources The Next Web
Technology
Apple is expected to use the September 9 keynote to refresh the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, with the S-class chip upgraded for the first time in years and a blood-pressure feature that detects trends rather than exact readings.
Sources MacRumors
Economy / Markets
The European Central Bank's Governing Council meets September 9-10 in Berlin, hosted by the Deutsche Bundesbank, with the rate decision and Christine Lagarde's press conference scheduled for the second day.
Sources Euronext (live)
Technology
Qualcomm's ninth annual Snapdragon Summit runs September 22-24 in Maui, where the company is expected to unveil the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 as the first 2nm mobile flagship silicon to reach scale in the Android tier.
Sources Qualcomm
Economy / Markets
Brent crude pushed back to the $99 handle in early Asian trading on September 9, with WTI near $94.60 and an intraday Brent high of $99.67, after the US struck several Iranian tankers near Kharg Island and Iran retaliated with ballistic missiles toward Jordan.
Sources Trading EconomicsReuters
Economy / Markets
The BLS releases the August consumer-price index on Thursday, September 11 at 8:30am Eastern, with consensus calling for a 0.2% monthly rise in headline CPI and an annual rate around 3.4%, little changed from July's 3.36%.
Sources Morningstar
Football
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the winner at the Estadio de la Cerámica after a goal and two assists against Villarreal, taking his Deportivo La Coruña tally to four goals in four La Liga appearances since joining from Olympique Marseille for €1.6 million.
Sources The Guardian
Football
Champions League Matchday 1's second slate on Wednesday September 9 begins with Barcelona hosting Feyenoord and VfB Stuttgart welcoming Viking FK, before the evening session sends Liverpool to Anfield against Atletico Madrid, PSG to the Parc des Princes against Slovan Bratislava, Sporting CP against Galatasaray, and Napoli against Arsenal in a rematch of last season's run to the final.
Sources Premier LeagueESPN
Football
Kylian Mbappé opened his 2026-27 Champions League account in Real Madrid's 2-1 win over Inter Milan at the Bernabéu on Tuesday, scoring in the 14th minute to pull level with Raúl at 71 Champions League goals.
Sources Premier League