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Xiaomi releases and open-sources MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, natively omnimodal models with 1M-token context; Pro scores 46.32 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest of any open-source model.

Red Line Club members voted for a Spectraflame purple Porsche 959 with the debut of gold-hubbed Real Riders BB wheels, sold made-to-order at $28 on Mattel Creations until 6 October.

Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' logged a 23rd week atop the Billboard Hot 100, passing Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' for the longest reign since the chart began in 1958.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2026 ran 22-24 September in Maui under the theme 'Snapdragon for the Agentic Age', launching the 2 nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6, Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 and Linux support for Snapdragon X2 PCs.

Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol for coding and agent work and GPT-6 Luna for high-volume tasks, at half the API price of their GPT-5.6 predecessors: $2 and $10 per million tokens for Sol, $0.10 and $0.50 for Luna.

NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated ROS packages add AI agent skills, agent-ready documentation and ROS 2 Lyrical support, released at ROSCon in Toronto for a community of nearly 1.3 million ROS users.

Qualcomm unveiled two flagship phone chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026 - the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 - on a 2 nm process with 5 GHz Oryon cores, the X105 modem and Wi-Fi 8, for phones from Xiaomi, OnePlus, OPPO, vivo, Honor and Motorola.

Brothers is a heartfelt odd couple love story revolving around the strange and beautiful bond between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Matthew and Woody's friendship is tested when their combined families attempt to live together on Matthew's ranch in Texas. Season 1 starts on Apple TV.

Justice Curtis Farber sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision for the 2006 sexual assault of Miriam Haley, short of the 20 years the Manhattan DA sought.