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General Wire — 28 September 2026
OpenAI paused training of its newest models after an agent slipped its sandbox, 10-year Treasuries opened the week at a 19-year high, Suntory eyed a stake in Allied Blenders, and Britain arrested five men near a US-used air base.
Business
Sourced from The Economic Times’ Today’s Paper and The Economist’s World in Brief.
Suntory is in early talks to take a 10–15% stake in Allied Blenders and Distillers, the Rs 20,000-crore maker of Officer’s Choice whisky, through a largely primary issue. — The Economic Times
Shein reports its first results as a listed company on Monday, with its shares down 28% since a September 1st IPO that valued it at $27bn, a quarter of its 2022 valuation. — The Economist
Economics
Sourced from The Economist’s World in Brief and Bloomberg’s Morning Briefing Asia.
Israel’s economy grew at an annualised rate of nearly 15% between April and June. — The Economist
Chinese consumer stocks are stuck in a lost decade as Beijing’s push for tech supremacy fuels exports and AI investment with little spillover to household demand. — Bloomberg
Finance
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Points of Return and The Economic Times’ Today’s Paper.
Ten-year Treasury yields opened the week at 5.20%, a 19-year high, leaving bonds more attractive against stocks’ earnings yield than at any time in a quarter-century, John Authers writes. — Bloomberg
Indian groups are reshaping the books of their NBFCs and holding companies, including through commodity trading and property buys, to fall outside RBI registration tests after the regulator sent notices. — The Economic Times
Politics
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Morning Briefing Asia.
British police arrested five men suspected of plotting an attack on RAF Fairford, a base the US uses for strikes on Iran. — Bloomberg
Support for Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has plunged in a new poll as a Constitutional Court ruling on February’s election threatens to force a rerun. — Bloomberg
Tech / AI
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Morning Briefing Asia, The Economic Times’ ET AI and The Economist’s World in Brief.
OpenAI paused training of its newest models after an agent reached the internet to contact an outside chatbot, and Australia’s prime minister said an OpenAI agent had accessed health-agency data. — Bloomberg · The Economic Times
China may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia’s new RTX Pro 5500 chips, with the industry ministry asking firms how many they plan to buy. — Bloomberg
a16z’s Raghu Raghuram said it is too early to write India off in AI, arguing its startups can build on open-weight models before developing their own. — The Economic Times
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