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Four hours of talks at a country estate south of San Francisco on 15 November 2023 restarted two things that had been switched off: military-to-military communication, and Chinese cooperation against fentanyl precursors.

The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.

Federal funding lapsed just after midnight on 1 October 2025 and stayed lapsed for 43 days, the longest shutdown ever, over a fight about expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Chubby Group brought its all-you-can-eat wagyu shabu-shabu chain to San Diego's Convoy District, taking over the former Shancheng Lameizi Hot Pot space. Four tiers run about $45 to $98 a head across 90-minute seatings.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

A stopgap covering six of the twelve appropriations bills expired on 31 January 2026, closing roughly half of federal agencies until the House passed a funding package 217-214 on 3 February.

A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.

Four months after presenting Blue Jay as its newest warehouse system - a single workspace where several robotic arms pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types Amazon stocks - Amazon said it was no longer using it in operations, keeping only the underlying technology.

A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.

The Shanghai company said it had built its 10,000th humanoid, having taken nearly two years over the first thousand and just three months over the last five thousand - a fourfold acceleration it presents as the industry crossing from pilots into large-scale commercial deployment.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

1X started full-scale production of its NEO home humanoid at a 58,000 sq ft plant in Hayward, California, making its own motors, batteries, structures and sensors in-house - capacity for 10,000 NEOs a year, after the first year's run sold out in five days.

IKEA shut its only Tennessee store after nearly a decade, taking 114 jobs with it. The company called the closure part of a strategic shift, decided on a review of "market share, business performance, cost structure, and overall optimization of physical assets"; Mid-South customers keep online ordering and FedEx pickup.

At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA announced the first open humanoid reference design: a Unitree H2 Plus chassis with Sharpa Wave five-finger tactile hands for the body, and Jetson Thor compute plus the open Isaac GR00T stack for the brain, aimed at academic robotics labs.

The quiet supersonic demonstrator reached Mach 1.1 and 43,400 feet on an 81-minute flight from Edwards Air Force Base, the first time it exceeded the speed of sound. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew alongside, its own booms drowning out anything the X-59 made.

The FAA granted Boeing an amended type certificate for the 737-7, clearing the smallest and longest-range MAX variant for commercial service after a test programme that began in 2018 and ran more than 1,000 hours.

Shares in China's best-known humanoid maker opened at 1,100 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, 629% above the 150.8-yuan offer price, valuing Unitree at about 445 billion yuan (US$66 billion). Some 9.8 million retail accounts had chased 9.7 million shares.

The second edition brought 2,056 robots from 666 teams to the National Speed Skating Oval for 51 events, from football and tug of war to firefighting drills. Tiangong Ultra took the humanoid 100 m to 8.86 seconds - faster than Usain Bolt's human record.

H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, was signed on 2 September 2026, four weeks before the fiscal year ran out. Its appropriations run from 1 October to 11 December 2026, pushing the next shutdown fight past the midterm elections.

The Louisiana identity-verification firm IDScan.net confirmed that hackers took driver's licence data from its cloud - full names, licence numbers and identity numbers from other government documents - for more than 150 million people in the United States and Canada. The data, including licence photos, was posted to a dark web site.

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act reaches its first live phase: manufacturers of any product with digital elements sold in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents to ENISA and their national CSIRT - an early warning within 24 hours, a full notification within 72, and a final report within 14 days.

Samsung started pushing One UI 9 to the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra on 16 September 2026, after the software's debut on the Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8 and Flip8. It adds My FanCam subject tracking, editable Now Brief cards and a Warranty and Care panel in Settings.

At Tokyo's Physical AI Summit the AI Robot Association showed the first prototypes from its NEDO-backed contest to build a domestic general-purpose robot. ugo's entry, the wheeled dual-arm Nova, was developed in about six months and goes into mass production in 2027.

Trump will meet Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews at about 4pm on 23 September 2026, a reception US presidents almost never give a visiting head of state. It opens Xi's 23-25 September state visit, his first to Washington since 2015.

Airbus’ first clean-sheet large freighter is expected to fly from Toulouse around 24 September, opening a roughly 400-hour, nine-month certification campaign flown by MSN700 and MSN701 ahead of a first delivery in the second half of 2027.

479 military personnel from every branch, an Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon, a Rose Garden military review and a flyover by a B-2 and four F-22s: the formal welcome for Xi Jinping on the morning of 24 September 2026, his first White House arrival ceremony since 2015.

Samsung Thailand's schedule puts the Galaxy S25 series and the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 on One UI 9 from 28 September 2026, alongside the Galaxy S26, which it moved to the same day. Samsung's global announcement gave no date for older phones.

Fiscal year 2027 starts on 1 October 2026 with none of the twelve appropriations bills through both chambers, so the government runs on the continuing resolution signed in September rather than on a budget.

Costco opens a new warehouse at 10 SE Oldham Parkway by the Missouri 291 and US 50 interchange, giving the southeast side of the Kansas City metro its own club. It carries the full format: fuel station, tyre centre, food court, pharmacy, optical and hearing aids.

Microsoft's one-year consumer Extended Security Updates programme for Windows 10 22H2 delivers its last Critical and Important patches. A home Windows 10 PC keeps working after this date, but it stops receiving security fixes of any kind, and 13 October 2026 is also the last day anyone can enrol.

The long-awaited Amherst warehouse opens in suburban Buffalo, the newest of the ten US clubs Costco is opening this autumn. It is one of five October openings spread across Missouri, Texas, New York, Kansas and California.

The 31st UN climate conference runs 9-20 November 2026 at the Antalya Expo Center, hosted by Türkiye, with about 100,000 participants expected.

The heavyweight fight British boxing spent a decade failing to make is being put together for Cardiff's Principality Stadium, with its roof closed and around 75,000 seats sold. The date is reported rather than contracted: 28 November is the front-runner, with 4 and 11 December also in play.

The stopgap signed in September expires on 11 December 2026, the deadline for Congress to enact the twelve fiscal 2027 appropriations bills or pass another continuing resolution before agencies shut down.

The UFC closes its 2026 numbered calendar at T-Mobile Arena, with two-time middleweight champion Sean Strickland defending against Nassourdine Imavov in the main event.

Chubby Group's yakiniku concept is moving into the vacated Red Lobster on Mira Mesa Boulevard, a few doors from the Menya Ultra it will share the neighbourhood with. The company says the site is "on Chubby Cattle's radar" for later in 2026.

Germany's statutory minimum wage goes up to €14.60 an hour on 1 January 2027, the second step of the largest increase the Minimum Wage Commission has recommended.

Nigerians elect a president, vice president, senators and members of the House of Representatives on 16 January 2027, with governorship and state assembly votes following on 6 February.

Kyrgyzstan holds a presidential election on 27 January 2027, brought forward after parliament reset the date. Incumbent Sadyr Japarov has said he will seek a second term.

The FOMC announces its rate decision on the second day of its January 26-27 2027 meeting. On 21 September 2026 Kalshi last traded Fed maintains rate 61%, Hike 25bps 25%, Cut 25bps 8%.

The women's singles final closes the Australian Open's second Saturday on Rod Laver Arena, a day before the men decide theirs. The winner lifts the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

The first Grand Slam final of the season closes the Australian Open on Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne Park's centre court seats about 15,000 under a roof that keeps the match on whatever the Melbourne heat does, and the winner takes the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.

India's finance minister presents the Union Budget for 2027-28 in the Lok Sabha, by convention on 1 February at 11am.

The statutory deadline for the President to send the fiscal 2028 budget to Congress is the first Monday in February 2027 - a deadline no president has met in over a decade.

Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider remake of the Atlantis story arrives on 12 February 2027 for PC, Switch 2, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Santa Monica Studio's next God of War, directed by Ariel Lawrence, arrives exclusively on PlayStation 5 on 16 February 2027.

Calvin Harris' first ever Australian headline tour reaches Perth, the opening night of the tour. Four outdoor shows across February 2027, all ticketed through Ticketmaster.