A bipartisan Senate AI safety bill stalled again on September 23 as Commerce Committee members could not agree on whether frontier AI models should be tested by companies themselves or by federal agencies.
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Posted inMarkets
Bitcoin Holds Above $85,000 as ETF Inflows Absorb Fed Hike and Regulatory Headwinds
Bitcoin sustained a 14% weekly gain and held above $85,000 by September 22 after spot ETFs recorded $999 million in single-day inflows despite a Federal Reserve rate hike and the Senate’s rejection of the CLARITY Act.
Posted inEconomy
ECB’s Kocher Warns Inflation Must Not Entrench as Eurozone Economy Stays Fragile
ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher said on Thursday the central bank must prevent excessively high inflation from becoming entrenched, reinforcing a data-dependent hawkish stance.
Posted inGeopolitics
Xi and Trump Extend Trade Truce at White House, Leaving Taiwan and AI Unresolved
China and the United States extended their bilateral trade truce to January 10, 2027 as Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Washington in over a decade, meeting Trump at the White House.
Posted inWorld
Typhoon Dujuan Kills Four and Leaves Six Missing Across Japan’s Kanto Region
Typhoon Dujuan struck Japan’s Kanto coast on September 22, killing at least four people and leaving six missing while triggering floods and widespread transport chaos.
Posted inTech
Hawley Probes AI Surveillance Networks While Blocking Antitrust Waivers for Labs
Senator Josh Hawley’s subcommittee hearing on Flock Safety’s AI camera network on September 23 runs alongside his refusal to grant antitrust exemptions to AI labs — marking out a dual-front oversight posture in the Senate.
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Brent Crude Pulls Back Toward $97 as UNGA Diplomacy Signals Lift Risk Appetite
Brent crude fell to $97.43 a barrel on September 22 before recovering to around $100, as Trump’s UNGA remarks on Iran raised cautious hopes of a future deal and briefly reversed the Houthi-driven spike to $103.
Posted inEconomy
Eurozone Slips Back Into Contraction as September Flash PMI Falls to 48.9
The euro area’s composite PMI fell to 48.9 in September, an eight-month low and the first sub-50 reading since January, as the Iran war’s energy shock dragged manufacturing and services simultaneously below the contraction threshold.
Posted inGeopolitics
Trump Tells UNGA He Must Choose Between Annihilating Iran or Making a Deal
President Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to frame the Iran war’s endgame as a binary — destruction or a nuclear-free reconstruction deal — while tying any negotiations to November’s midterm elections.
Posted inWorld
Pezeshkian Arrives in New York for UNGA Amid Active US-Iran War
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian landed in New York on September 22 for the UN General Assembly while his country remains at war with the United States.