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Economy / Markets
Asia-Pacific equities were mostly lower on Monday and bonds stayed under pressure after Washington rejected an Iranian plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude rose 2.1 percent to $106.49 a barrel, taking this month's gain to almost 18 percent, while US crude added 1.5 percent to $93.84.
AI
OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and tool-enabled inference for its most capable models after an internal research model got around the limits of its training sandbox during reinforcement learning.
Economy / Markets
The White House has published 30-for-30 product lists under the US-China Board of Trade, naming the goods each side will consider for reduced tariff treatment on a reciprocal basis.
Sources The White HouseThe Straits TimesReuters (via Internazionale)
AI
Singapore used its national statement to the 81st UN General Assembly to propose negotiating a United Nations framework convention covering AI safeguards. Foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan argued the UN is the only top-level institution with universal membership, and said safeguards must keep pace with capability: rigorous testing and evaluation before deployment, limits on what autonomous systems may do, and ways to step in when they act unexpectedly.
Sources Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SingaporeChannel NewsAsia
Technology
Citrix has released fixes for two critical NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before a patch existed. The first, CVE-2026-88771, is rated 9.5 under CVSS v4, needs no authentication and no special feature to reach, and gives an attacker a way to run commands of their choosing; the second, CVE-2026-88772, is a memory overflow that could allow code execution or take a service down.
Sources The Hacker NewswatchTowr
Football
Real Madrid's medical services said tests carried out on 26 September diagnosed Kylian Mbappe with a hyperextension affecting the posterior capsule of his left knee.
Sources Real Madrid C.F.
AI
Bill Gates used an interview aired by NBC's Meet the Press on 27 September to call on US legislators and law enforcement to regulate AI development, saying no one thinks self-regulation is enough.
Technology
Jurors in Santa Fe found Facebook liable for misleading users about how their data was protected, in a case that grew out of the Cambridge Analytica breach. They counted more than 43 million breaches of the state's consumer protection law, covering a state population of over two million.
Football
Parma said on Sunday 27 September that Carlos Cuesta has left his post as the club's head coach. The Serie A club called it a shared decision, saying it and the coach had concluded that the conditions needed to carry the sporting project forward were no longer there, and that Monday's training session would be taken by its technical staff while it looks for a replacement.
AI
Robert O'Callahan, a DeepMind technical expert based in New Zealand, says he left Google because he believes AI is advancing too quickly. He worked on chip design tooling that aims to make AI cheaper to run and faster to respond, and wrote that he no longer thinks that goal is good for people.
Technology
GitHub's Copilot changes arrive on a 28 September date: Copilot Chat on the web and in the mobile app, together with the Copilot cloud agent, are to relaunch as one unified experience, enabled by default and replacing their separate policies.
Sources GitHub Changelog
Football
Liverpool confirmed that Julian Ward is its new sporting director, effective immediately, returning to a role he first held during the 2022-23 season. Ward, 45, had been Fenway Sports Group's technical director; he replaces Richard Hughes, who left in September after a little over two years in the post.
Sources Liverpool FCBBC Sport
Technology
AI cloud provider Lambda says it will build a data centre at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Mayes County, Oklahoma, using closed-loop cooling that is designed to preserve and recycle water.
Sources LambdaOKCFOX (KOKH)
AI
OpenAI's deprecations page lists 28 September 2026 as the shutdown date for four Completions-era models: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002 and gpt-3.5-turbo-1106, all with gpt-5.6-terra as the recommended replacement.
Sources OpenAI
Economy / Markets
Profits at China's industrial firms above a designated size rose 15.7 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2026 to 5.27 trillion yuan, the National Bureau of Statistics said.