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Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas told CNBC's Jim Cramer that his confidence in reaching $2 billion in revenue for the company's new AGI CPU has increased since the July earnings call. Arm first flagged $2 billion in demand visibility in May, double its earlier $1 billion estimate, but had held off raising guidance while working to secure sufficient manufacturing capacity.
A newly discovered bug in Apple's just-released iOS 27 lets users lock up their iPhone by rapidly swiping to open Notification Center and then Control Center in quick succession. The glitch freezes touch response and disables the power-off slider, and it has spread quickly on social media as a prank people are playing on friends' phones.
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes on its data centers months earlier. An AWS status update posted September 15 said the company could not restore data in one UAE availability zone and across all three availability zones in Bahrain, though recovery work continues elsewhere.
A Center for an Urban Future analysis of New York City hiring data found postings for entry-level 'computer and mathematical' roles have fallen 49 percent since 2022. The nonprofit's director, Jon Bowles, says the traditional first rung of the tech career ladder is under intense pressure, with similar declines showing up in administrative, financial, media and education entry-level postings.
A New York Times/Siena University poll of 1,503 likely voters conducted in early September found 61 percent opposed building data centers for AI, with only 14 percent strongly supportive. Opposition skewed heavily among Harris voters and non-voters, while 2024 Trump voters were nearly evenly split between support and opposition. Environmental and water-use concerns topped the list of reasons for opposition, followed by community impact and general distrust of AI.
Digital Realty CEO Andrew Power said warnings of a potential AI development slowdown from firms like Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI would not mean a halt to data center real estate demand. He argued that non-AI digital transformation and cloud computing growth remain strong drivers for his business, even as Digital Realty and Equinix shares fell on Monday amid AI slowdown fears.
Officials at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts say the institution is heading toward what they call certain fiscal collapse, with closure possible as early as Tuesday. Internal documents reportedly tie the venue's financial fate to a dispute over restoring Donald Trump's name to the building's exterior.
The Trump administration has appealed a federal court ruling that blocked its policy allowing detention and deportation of noncitizen researchers who study harmful online content, arguing they pose national security risks. Separately, a judge dismissed a related lawsuit from Imran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, ruling that courts lack jurisdiction to stop deportation proceedings even though she criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio's justification for targeting him.
Apple released iOS 27 on Monday, September 14, bringing an opt-in, AI-enhanced version of Siri capable of handling tasks like navigation and recipe lookups, alongside smaller design changes such as a new Liquid Glass slider and a revised Notification Center. The reviewer, who tested beta versions since June, reports the update makes the phone feel faster with quicker app launches, though it lacks major standout features compared to past iOS releases.
German Aerospace Center researchers report that Mercury's diameter has contracted by up to 14.5 miles since its formation, 10 to 30 percent more than earlier estimates suggested. The team says debris from impact craters had masked the true extent of this shrinkage, which stems from the planet gradually losing internal heat.
A Data Love Letter to the Subway, an animated short displayed across 52 screens at NYC's Fulton Transit Center, transforms MTA ridership and transit data into abstract moving shapes and dot clusters. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design, the two-minute piece played hourly and was seen by roughly 300,000 commuters daily between October and December 2025. It has now won a 2026 Innovation by Design award in the data design category.
Fast Company revealed its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards winners in the data design category, recognizing projects that use data to improve user experiences through visualizations, interfaces, or algorithms. Pentagram's 'A Data Love Letter to the Subway,' a two-minute hand-drawn animation displayed across 52 screens at Fulton Transit Center, took the top honor for transforming New York subway data into an artistic visual narrative.