Damian Pickett · No. 4
Monday 7 September 2026
Kimi Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix from 19th on the grid, an astonishing recovery on home soil for Mercedes. He leads the championship by 66 points with ten rounds left.
OpenAI has published early data on how coding agents are changing its own research: more experiments, faster iteration, and more complex tasks handled without an engineer in the loop.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has topped the US box office for six weekends running and is closing in on the record for the highest-grossing domestic release of all time.
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With Antonelli’s stunning Monza win topping today’s news, a look at the business built around Formula 1 feels timely.
OpenAI’s chief research officer Jakub Pachocki argues AI is becoming genuinely alien in its capabilities, and calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination to keep it aligned.
Meta’s AI assistant has a Mac app in beta, a 16MB native build rather than a wrapped website. Early impressions call it decent, if still version 1.0.
The Uber founder’s new venture, Atoms, is reportedly eyeing robotaxis, an echo of the business he built and left. He has called it “unfinished business”.
Phil Schiller reportedly had reservations about new App Store chief John Ternus’s push for more recurring revenue, a factor said to have shaped his exit.
TechCrunch’s mobility newsletter covers Tesla’s Cybercab reaching public roads, and a setback along the way.
Engadget traces where the term “vibe coding” came from and why AI-assisted, low-scrutiny coding has earned a reputation as lazy rather than efficient.
Mark Gurman reports Apple is considering App Store changes aimed at higher revenue and margins. It is a report, not a confirmed plan.
Honda’s Prologue EV is sold with and without CarPlay under different badges, an unplanned A/B test of how much the feature matters to buyers.
A 9to5Mac column argues iPadOS still needs a simpler multitasking mode, a year after windowing arrived and Split View’s simplicity was removed.
Telluride’s mystery screening turned out to be Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything”, out in October.
Director May el-Toukhy halted her own Golden Lion contender’s premiere to fix a subtitle problem. The restarted screening of Woman Unknown still earned a lengthy standing ovation.
Andrea Pallaoro’s Golden Lion contender, starring Susan Sarandon, Alicia Vikander and Luca Marinelli, premiered at Venice to an eight-minute standing ovation.
Forty years into a distinguished career, John Turturro is making a fresh case for his first Oscar nomination with The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.
With the season opener days away, Pats Pulpit looks at how a tougher approach has shaped A.J. Brown into more of a leader in New England.
Patriots lineman Will Campbell says Marcus Jones’s punt-return ability could be an X-factor for New England as the season opener nears.
Footage of Max Verstappen greeting Kimi Antonelli’s father, Marco, in the Monza paddock after the race has gone viral, praised as a class act.
Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari’s failure to set clear team rules cost it at Monza, where he and team-mate Charles Leclerc clashed and Hamilton finished a distant sixth.
Autosport’s writers debate whether Antonelli’s Monza win has all but decided the championship, with results now heavily in his favour.
Boston’s pitching staff shut down Baltimore to complete a four-game sweep, results with little playoff stake for a team all but locked into the postseason.
Aroldis Chapman recorded his 400th career save, becoming only the ninth pitcher in MLB history to reach the mark.
Sonny Gray pitched seven shutout innings against Baltimore, a strong final tune-up as Boston heads towards the postseason.
UK studio Hudson Architects converted a disused commercial building in Norfolk into a public library, wrapping the existing concrete structure in cement shingles.
