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General Wire — 13 September 2026
The BRICS summit closed in New Delhi with China taking the chair and Xi Jinping pitching a five-point tech-cooperation plan, Trump renewed pressure on the Fed days before its rate decision, Apple is quietly overhauling its retail stores, and two dozen Fields Medal winners took aim at OpenAI's methods.
Business
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Power On.
Apple is preparing a multi-year retail overhaul that brings back dedicated Genius Bars, removes the giant video walls used for in-store events, and adds wood-built “Avenue” bays for online pickup and Today at Apple sessions. — Bloomberg
Finance
Sourced from The Economic Times and The Economist.
Donald Trump said no country should have lower interest rates than the US days before the Federal Reserve’s meeting, after Friday’s inflation print posted its largest increase in four months and reinforced bets on a hike. — Economic Times · The Economist
Politics
Sourced from The Economic Times.
The BRICS summit concluded in New Delhi with China set to host next year’s gathering, as Xi Jinping proposed a five-point initiative covering an open-source AI framework, a special economic zone partnership, a digital ecosystem cloud, smart manufacturing and a joint engineering-talent programme. — Economic Times
Tech / AI
Sourced from The Economist.
Two dozen mathematicians, including several Fields Medal winners, wrote a letter objecting to OpenAI’s claimed solution to a hard problem tied to the Navier-Stokes equations, arguing the method’s shortcuts risk hollowing out genuine mathematical understanding. — The Economist
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