Five Iranian tankers sunk, ten ships targeted near Hormuz, Brent above $100 — the energy shock is no longer just a risk around the Strait.
The U.S.–Iran war moved into a materially more dangerous phase overnight: the United States says it sank five Iranian oil tankers after missile attacks on a U.S. Navy ship, while Iran retaliated against ten vessels near the Strait of Hormuz and fired ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan.
A €13 billion Finland buildout comes with a 22-year nuclear contract covering up to half of the Loviisa plant — a useful look at what the AI race is becoming underneath the software.
Google↗ announced €13 billion of AI infrastructure investment in Finland for 2027–2028 and paired it with its first nuclear power deal outside the United States: a 22-year agreement with Fortum↗ tied to the Loviisa plant.
Axios Atlanta — earlier terms and conditions ↗Exterior of the Atlanta City Detention Center: curved gray concrete facade with small square windows, glass doors, a red column, and stairs with railings; granite sign reads ATLANTA CITY DETENTION CENTER.
Mayor Andre Dickens accepted Fulton County↗’s offer for the Atlanta City Detention Center, pushing a years-long fight into its formal-approval phase.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has accepted Fulton County’s $68 million offer to buy the Atlanta City Detention Center downtown. Fulton has leased space there since 2022 to relieve overcrowding at the Rice Street jail.
Amazon can purchase up to $60 billion of Qualcomm↗ AI-data-center products, while Qualcomm grants Amazon warrants worth roughly $4 billion.
Qualcomm and Amazon struck a long-term AI-chip agreement that lets Amazon purchase up to $60 billion of data-center chips and related products. Qualcomm also gave Amazon warrants to buy roughly $4 billion of its stock at $161.26 a share.
After Unitree’s spectacular rise and 45% slide, regulators are reportedly raising the bar for robot startups seeking public listings.
Chinese regulators are reportedly tightening IPO scrutiny for humanoid-robot companies after Unitree Robotics↗ surged more than fivefold in its Shanghai debut and then fell about 45%.
U.S. agencies accuse DeepSeek↗, Moonshot, Alibaba↗ and others of industrial-scale misuse of American models; Beijing calls the allegations unfounded.
U.S. security agencies accuse several Chinese AI developers of using large-scale model distillation to extract capabilities from leading American systems. The companies named include DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba.
Clear prices, payment methods, a grace period and a dispute path are coming under the city’s newly approved Parking Bill of Rights.
Atlanta City Council unanimously approved Ordinance 26-O-1370, the Parking Bill of Rights, aimed at private parking lots. Operators must make prices and accepted payment methods visible, provide customer-service information and give drivers a grace period to leave if they do not want to park.
No tickets, 7:30 p.m. on Oak Hill, with Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi and Smetana under the “City in the Forest” theme.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra↗ plays a free concert at Piedmont Park↗ tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are not required; seating on Oak Hill is first-come, first-served.
The Rays beat Atlanta 7–1 in the series opener. The division cushion survives, but the Braves have now dropped two straight at home-and-away transition time.
Tampa Bay hit four home runs and beat Atlanta 7–1 Tuesday night. Junior Caminero’s 455-foot shot was his 39th homer, and Braves starter AJ Smith-Shawver allowed four runs in 3⅓ innings.
Fire emissions hit 19.7 million metric tons of CO₂ from September 1–7 — more than ten times Russia’s level — as extreme drought hits Borneo and Sumatra.
Indonesia produced an estimated 19.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from wildfires in the first week of September, the highest fire-emissions total in the world for that period.
A $10.5 million art heist that lasted under three minutes
Two thieves stole four Renoirs from a small museum on the French Riviera Tuesday. Police arrived quickly enough that they abandoned two paintings in the garden; two remain missing. The irony of stealing famous art is that its fame makes it extraordinarily hard to sell.
Venus rotates so slowly that one rotation takes longer than one trip around the Sun — in other words, a Venusian day is longer than a Venusian year.
This Day in History
The first enemy air raid on the U.S. mainland
September 9, 1942: a Japanese floatplane launched from submarine I-25 dropped incendiary bombs on an Oregon forest. The attack caused no lasting damage, but it became the first wartime air attack on the U.S. mainland.
Today rewards choosing the goals that are actually paying you back. Progress is available, but some ambitions may need to be released because they have consumed too much time for too little return. Confidence rises as the day goes on; collaboration is favored this evening, while fragile plans are better kept flexible than forced.
