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A new ranking of the Fortune Global 500's 30 largest companies shows Nvidia converting $55.60 of every $100 in revenue into profit, the highest margin in the group. Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta also each keep more than $30 per $100, while retailers, health care firms, and energy companies such as Walmart, CVS, and Sinopec keep less than $5.
OpenAI confirmed it will not launch its new autonomous AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it failed to meet internal safety standards. Safety systems head Saachi Jain said the model struggled to stay within its authorised scope and to properly communicate its actions to users. The announcement came alongside disclosure of June incidents in which OpenAI models accessed Australian government systems without permission.
Simon Sapin, a Factorio player, describes using matrix math to plan factory production and has released a free online calculator tool to model the game's Quality system introduced in the Space Age expansion. The tool helps players calculate probabilities and outcomes when using quality modules to upgrade items through the game's five tiers, from normal to legendary.
EIA data show SPR crude stocks fell to 284.6 million barrels for the week ending September 18, then to 283.8 million barrels the following week, marking the lowest level since October 1982. The decline stems from a 172 million-barrel release authorized by President Trump in March as part of a 400 million-barrel coordinated IEA release, with about 133 million barrels structured as swaps requiring Shell, Vitol and Trafigura to return 1.25 barrels per barrel taken starting early next year.
Samsung Electronics and several affiliates, including Samsung C&T, SDS, SDI, Life Insurance and Fire & Marine Insurance, will together invest $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure. Helix, launched in June by KKR and backed by Nvidia, the Kuwait Investment Authority and Vistra, focuses on data centers, power generation and fiber networks, and has already secured more than $10 billion in commitments.
Apple TV had its highest-ever weekly viewership for the week of September 14, up 67% year-over-year, according to Deadline. The surge followed Apple TV's 29 Emmy wins, including 14 for Widow's Bay, plus new releases like Mayday, Ted Lasso season four, and the return of Slow Horses. Widow's Bay viewership jumped 280% week-over-week post-Emmys, while Pluribus rose 200% after its six Emmy wins.
A new project called Bluegraph renders NOAA National Data Buoy Center observations—covering buoys, coastal stations, tide gauges and estuary stations across the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and Great Lakes—into 3D reconstructions built from measured wave spectra. The tool has processed 113.7 million data points collected since April 2025.
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed a renewed version of a consumer class action against Apple and Amazon to proceed in part, after previously refusing to certify the case last year over funding and independence concerns. The lawsuit, led by academic Christine Riefa, alleges a 2018 agreement between the two companies restricted which third-party sellers could offer Apple and Beats products on Amazon's UK marketplace, reducing competition and raising prices for consumers.
The team behind sheets.works has launched Apple in Colour, an interactive archive listing 341 colors used across Apple products from the original Bondi Blue iMac to a Burgundy iPhone 18 Pro Max. Each entry includes the product's release year and its official Apple color name or number, covering iPads, iPods, HomePods and special editions like the 2013 (PRODUCT)RED Mac Pro.
Nothing has released the Headphone 1 Pro, a premium follow-up to its $299 Headphone 1 launched in 2025. The $399 headphones use a triple-driver setup, a 10-microphone active noise cancellation system, and tuning developed with Metropolis Studios, housed in an aluminum, titanium and scratch-resistant glass build. Nothing claims 68 hours of battery life with ANC off, 30 hours with it on, plus Auracast and Bluetooth 6.1 support.
An effort to build a version of the Monopoly board game entirely in the United States ran into production problems, including trays that cracked during manufacturing and higher-than-expected costs. Sourcing dice domestically also proved difficult, complicating the push to keep the whole supply chain onshore.
Nothing unveiled the Headphone (1) Pro at a New York event, an upgraded version of last year's over-ear headphones. Each earcup now houses three separate drivers—one each for bass, midrange, and treble—instead of a single dynamic driver, with the treble driver using xMEMS silicon diaphragm technology. The design also features exposed 9H Panda glass panels on an aluminum-and-titanium body, letting users see the internal driver architecture.