Stock market today: Live updates

Stock market today: Live updates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, USA, September 16, 2026. Jeenah Moon | ReutersUSA Stock futures were trading slightly higher early on Wednesday as oil prices and bond yields declined on hopes of a possible de-escalation of the U.S.-Iran war. S&P 500 futures added 0.11% … Read more

Inside Ari Emanuel’s Earliest Days in Hollywood: Memoir Excerpt

Inside Ari Emanuel's Earliest Days in Hollywood: Memoir Excerpt

Una de las primeras apariciones de Ari Emanuel en las páginas de The Hollywood Reporter fue en nuestra venerada función Next Gen. Emanuel, entonces un agente de 33 años en ICM Partners, era miembro de la promoción de 1994. Enumeró su inspiración como su padre, sus puntos de poder como The Palm y The Ivy, … Read more

‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

A high-profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “from all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative for the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media that the data includes FBI agents’ names, addresses, phone numbers and information about their spouses. The data breach could be hugely significant and have all … Read more

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

Earlier this month, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, which it announced as its most powerful and capable model yet, and the “world’s best model” for a variety of activities, including computer work and coding. Now, the lab is expanding the GPT-6 generation with updated versions of the smaller Sol and Luna models. “GPT-6 Astra introduced a … Read more

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger protections in the wake of recent AI hacking incidents. In an announcement Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company’s sandbox environment. It is the first model launched by Anthropic after CEO Dario Amodei … Read more

Viking Stock Skyrockets On Obesity Drug Data; Eli Lilly, Novo Fall

Viking Stock Skyrockets On Obesity Drug Data; Eli Lilly, Novo Fall

Viking shares soared Tuesday with “stellar” results from trials of its weight-loss shot, dragging down shares of rivals Eli Lilly (LLY) and Novo (NVO). The study examined weekly and monthly doses of Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) injection, VK2735, for three months as a means of maintaining weight loss with weekly dosing. Patients in the biweekly program … Read more

What is an “AI swarm,” and why is it giving tech experts nightmares?

What is an "AI swarm," and why is it giving tech experts nightmares?

Central to the dire warnings about the potential danger of artificial intelligence to humanity is the risk that a “swarm” of AI agents could collaborate in nefarious ways, like hordes of digital extras from “The Matrix.” Such fears have intensified following an attack by OpenAI bots this summer on another AI developer, Hugging Face, in … Read more

Mathematicians learn little from AI completing unsolved problem : NPR

Mathematicians learn little from AI completing unsolved problem : NPR

Tristan Buckmaster is a mathematician at New York University. He poses for a portrait in his Manhattan office on September 11, 2026. Buckmaster and his collaborator Levent Alpöge have been working on the Navier-Stokes equations. They are clashing with OpenAI, which claims to have solved the equations. Karsten Moran/for The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption … Read more