Pins matching date:2026-09-02

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.

Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ's bid to make Google sell its AdX ad exchange, ordering behavioral remedies overseen by a Monitor and Technical Committee instead. Google still stands found liable for monopolizing ad tech.

Alo reunited with Joe Burrow for a fall 2026 campaign led by its new Speed sunglasses and men's staples, timed to the start of the NFL season.

The Grammy Museum's 'Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled' exhibit opens 2 September 2026 and runs to 22 February 2027, launched with a Cameron Crowe conversation and an acoustic set on 1 September.

Molly Tea opened at Shuncheng on September 2, with three Yunnan-exclusive drinks.

Cold Stone Creamery's two fall Creations, the new graham-cracker Crumb and Get It and the returning banana pudding Going Bananas for JELL-O Pudding, are on sale nationwide through 17 November 2026.

Baskin-Robbins Korea's September flavor of the month, made with Tokyo Banana, turns the brand's brulee tart into banana ice cream with brulee crunch and bread cubes.

A newly opened japanese set meals restaurant in Kisshoin, with a branch-specific published menu.

Eaton announced more than US$242 million for a new North Little Rock, Arkansas facility producing customized electrical enclosures. The one-million-square-foot project is expected to add more than 1,200 manufacturing, electrical and operations jobs.

Chipotle's first restaurant in Asia and Korea: a 96-seat counter-service store a few steps from Gangnam Station Exit 10, run by a joint venture with Sangmidang Holdings (Shake Shack Korea operator). Two more Korean stores are planned by end-2026.

Brown-Forman's first-quarter net sales slipped 1% to $911 million as the Korbel exit, lower used-barrel sales and a 13% tequila slide offset New Mix's growth, and the Jack Daniel's maker reaffirmed flat organic sales for fiscal 2027.

Hershey promoted Dave Hulays, its SVP Finance, at Hershey since 2012 after 15 years at P&G, to CFO with immediate effect. Steve Voskuil, CFO for seven years, moved to strategic projects ahead of retiring in early 2027.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, its best reasoning and coding model yet at the introductory price of 3.7 Flash, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a vulnerability-finding and patching model offered only to trusted government and enterprise defenders through its new Fairwind Program.

Uber cut about 10% of its staff, roughly 3,300 jobs, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi removed management layers, merged teams and pulled remote workers back into offices.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth Muse Spark model in five months, trained for long agentic and coding work and still priced at $1.25 per million input tokens; Artificial Analysis ranks its top variant behind only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.

Geneva Watch Days ran from 2 to 6 September 2026 across Geneva, with a record 71 brands showing new watches in boutiques, hotels and the central pavilion at the Rotonde du Mont-Blanc. The decentralised fair began in 2020 with eight founding brands.

The Daily Pour announced the second Zero Proof Choice Awards winners on 2 September 2026, with Double Gold medals for Almave, Saicho sparkling teas, Mock One gin and more. Results are given as medal tiers, with no scores published.

Victorian gelateria Oh My Gelato! took the inaugural Australian Gelato Cup at Fine Food Australia in Melbourne with "The Melbourne Marvel", a pistachio, espresso and honeycomb flavour.

Li Auto launched a revamped Mega on 2 September 2026 in a single Home version at RMB 509,800, RMB 50,000 below the previous Home, adding four LiDARs, rear-wheel steering and a right-hand-drive version due by year-end.

A newly opened wine-braised skewers restaurant in Teramachi / Gokomachi, with a branch-specific published menu.

Prometheus Hyperscale's Natrona County campus on the Falls Ranch southeast of Casper is planned at 1,250 MW (2026 county presentation) to 1,500 MW (October 2025 announcement), self-powered by on-site natural gas, with a reported 16B USD estimate and no timeline or tenant.

At a Deutsche Bank conference, CFO Dave Zinsner said customer discussions on 14A had moved from evaluating the process to how much capacity Intel can supply. He announced no formal engagement but said Intel has conviction it will win external 14A customers.

Broadcom's revenue rose 86% to a record $29.6 billion for the quarter ended 2 August 2026, with AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7 billion, and Hock Tan said Anthropic is on track to become its largest XPU customer in 2027.

HPE posted record fiscal third-quarter revenue of $12.2 billion, up 34%, and non-GAAP EPS of $1.11, then raised its fiscal 2026 and 2027 outlook as AI and networking orders ran ahead of memory-constrained supply.