Pins matching date:2026-09-08

Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia, who founded Mandiant and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion, to its board of directors and its Audit and Security committees.

Verizon agreed to buy more than 80 million miles of Corning optical fiber from 2027 to 2032 to push toward 40-50 million broadband passings and build long-haul fiber between AI data centers.

Alo signed actor, singer and racing driver Wang Yibo, who has more than 41 million Weibo followers, as a global ambassador weeks after opening its Tmall store in China.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 to every ChatGPT tier, generating images up to 50% faster, and two API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare for fast everyday images and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst for precise editing.

EverBank and Seattle-based WaFd announced on 8 September 2026 a US$3.9 billion reverse merger creating a US$75 billion-asset regional bank, due to close in the first quarter of 2027.

A London steakhouse arrives in Fort Point with charcoal cooking and seafood.

A Thai-Lao counter with about ten stools in the O'ahu Market, known for house Lao sausage, Penang curry and nem khao.

Aqua Restaurant Group’s new Lingnan-inspired restaurant at One Peking, with harbour views and a branch-specific dim sum menu.

XPeng said on 8 September 2026 that its humanoid robot production line, more than 80% automated, is running and an Iron robot walked off it unaided; mass production is due by the end of 2026 with sales in China and overseas in 2027.

The financing closes September 8, according to the dated DOE release. This is not total capital cost or permission to generate.

Qualcomm will build customised AI inference silicon and up-to-1.6T optical connectivity for Amazon's data centres over several generations, and gave Amazon a warrant for up to 25 million Qualcomm shares vesting against up to $60 billion of purchases.

Microsoft's largest security update ever patches 966 vulnerabilities, including two Windows privilege-escalation zero-days already exploited in attacks and 105 rated Critical.

The FDA approved Abbott's TactiFlex Duo, a catheter that can deliver pulsed field ablation, radiofrequency energy or both in one procedure to treat complex atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the FlexPulse IDE study.

Former Nike executive Heidi O'Neill starts as Lululemon's CEO and joins its board, ending seven months of interim co-CEOs; the board also amends the bylaws the same day.

Six months after restarting, Sable Offshore began excavating 12 anomalies flagged by in-line inspection on the onshore pipeline that ruptured in 2015, seven of them in the coastal zone; any spot with wall loss of 40% or more must be repaired.

A Northumbria University team using the William Herschel Telescope's WEAVE spectrograph found unusually nitrogen-rich gas in the tail of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pointing to formation at about 30 kelvin far from its home star.

The Ismaili Center’s all-day café serves breakfast and regional dishes.

An all-day Italian table from Victoria Luciano and Keita Sukeno, with Japanese influences.

Witch-themed Italian restaurant and bar from sommelier Elli Benchimol in the former Marcel's space.

The International Chocolate Awards holds its online winners' celebration for the 2026 Americas (USA, Latin America and Caribbean) and Canadian competitions on 8 September 2026, with Cacao Hunters, Qantu and Sleep Walk among the top-scoring makers.

A small community dining room serving Japanese set meals and house curry alongside an employment-support workshop.

PISA 2025, released on 8 September 2026, tested about 760,000 students in science, reading and maths, with an OECD average of 482 in science and mathematics down 46 points since 2003.

At Nike's virtual 2026 annual meeting the advisory vote on executive pay passed 736,936,017 to 349,508,277, director Thasunda Duckett drew 310,517,784 withheld votes, and John Rogers Jr. left the board, which shrank to 11.