Walmart Inc. and nonprofit insurer Scan Health Plan are partnering to sell Medicare Advantage plans to seniors, according to Bloomberg. The companies are betting Walmart’s data can help lower healthcare costs.

Turkey said it will keep policies aimed at curbing chronic inflation through elections scheduled for 2028, according to Bloomberg. The government signaled it will not loosen its economic program ahead of the vote.

Tata Group’s holding company board will meet Thursday to discuss how to handle a listing mandated by India’s central bank, including whether outgoing Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran should be asked to stay on, according to Bloomberg.

Traders have been betting that El Nino will make the U.S. winter milder, but as the weather pattern strengthens, doubts about the outlook are rising. According to Sina Finance, those expectations have already been reflected in weather derivatives, which energy companies, hedge funds, and other market participants use to hedge risk or bet months in advance on temperatures above seasonal averages. Derivatives brokers and product issuers said the U.S. market has reacted most clearly. According to Sina Finance, traders began building positions tied to the coming heating season in May, before El Nino officially formed in June, and the phenomenon kept strengthening through the summer. The U.S. Climate Prediction Center said this El Nino has a 75% chance of breaking every record since 1950. According to Sina Finance, that has added uncertainty to derivatives pricing, which depends heavily on historical weather and climate patterns. Nicholas Ernst, managing director of BGC Financial's climate derivatives business, said the situation creates a paradox: a stronger El Nino gives traders more confidence to bet on a mild winter, while the historical reference used to support that trade becomes less reliable. According to Sina Finance, he said the key unanswered question is whether an El Nino this strong, unprecedented in the modern observational record, will still behave as expected. Tim Boyce, head of weather derivatives for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at TP ICAP, said the related bets were placed three months earlier than usual and were the earliest U.S. winter-related trades he has seen at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. According to Sina Finance, he said heavy hedging flows, combined with some speculative positions, have created a self-fulfilling effect. In Europe, trading is more difficult because El Nino has a weaker and less consistent effect on temperatures, while volatile natural gas prices mean even a brief cold snap can cause large losses. According to Sina Finance, Munich Re said demand for customized weather hedging products that can be adjusted with changing weather conditions has more than doubled this year. Japan's weather derivatives market has remained relatively limited and roughly in line with recent years, though some traders expect the winter temperature hedging picture to become clearer by November. According to Sina Finance, Ernst said traders in the U.S. are still betting on a mild winter, but some weather outcomes could cause those bets to miss.

Two AI safety researchers have left Google DeepMind, saying they were concerned that highly capable AI systems could threaten humanity. According to Sina Finance, Bilal Chughtai and Josh Engels are joining organizations focused on AI safety after leaving the lab. Engels, who spent one year at DeepMind, wrote on X that he now believes there is a frighteningly high chance AI systems could cause major harm within the next five years. He said he will join the independent AI safety research group METR to work on large-model human alignment. Chughtai said on X on Monday that he sincerely believes AI carries a potential risk of destroying humanity. After 18 months at DeepMind, he has joined the nonprofit BlueDot Impact, which offers education courses related to AI safety. The departures come as technology executives face growing calls to slow AI development and strengthen regulation. According to Sina Finance, they are the latest in a series of exits from leading AI labs, following the recent departures of Jacob Coxon and Joe Benton from Anthropic.

TokenPocket and USDD have launched the Gas Boost Season, running from September 15 to September 28. According to ChainCatcher, users transferring USDD on the TRON network through TokenPocket can pay gas fees directly in USDD and receive a 50% gas subsidy. Users who complete designated on-chain tasks can also join a leaderboard to share 5,000 USDD in rewards and may receive a KeyPal hardware wallet. The campaign is intended to expand USDD's use for gas payments and stablecoin transfers on TRON.

Two former Robinhood engineers allegedly turned one of the company’s most closely held pieces of information — which cryptocurrencies it planned to list and when — into a personal trading signal on Hyperliquid.

On September 16, 2026, the ARC mainnet officially launched. This article summarizes the noteworthy projects on Arc.

Jensen Huang responds to AI doomsday theories: Many predictions are fabricated; security and innovation are not contradictory; China is expected to become a major force in global open source.

The US crypto bill lost in the Senate by a vote of 49 to 50, falling short by 11 votes, marking the end of the 14-month honeymoon period between the cryptocurrency community and Washington.

Despite repeated concessions from Trump, the U.S. encryption bill has failed to pass, losing its procedural vote in the Senate and casting a gloomy shadow over its future.

X has launched its Cashtag Partner Program in the US, adding a “Trade” button that lets users move from asset discussions and price charts to participating brokerages such as Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo.

The competition in RWA is shifting from listing tokens to competing on usability and composability. Mantle shows how tokenized assets can be transformed into efficient capital.

OpenAI is working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on an industry body to improve AI safety and test powerful systems before public release. The plan faces criticism from smaller AI firms and lawmakers, while growing warnings from researchers and calls for binding government rules add pressure on the industry.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong believes Bitcoin’s latest downturn has already reached its floor, setting the stage for what he predicts could be a rebound back to as high as $400,000 by 2030.

Interest Rate Hike, Federal Reserve, Will it be a "Dovish Rate Hike" Tonight? Golden Finance: A Fed rate hike tonight is almost a certainty, but the key question is "what will they say after the hike?"