Seven stories, and six small finds at the end. Each one is something that happened out there. If you lead a small team or a small newsroom, you will recognise a few of them. I try to leave the connecting to you.

How big is the claim, really? SVT showed a seat margin of 17 on election night. The preliminary count says 3. A bot "won" a forecasting cup, but bots cannot take the prize money. AWS says some data is gone for good, and means data held only in one place. Each headline was true inside a narrow definition. The definition is where the news lives.

Who stood behind the sentence? A Microsoft memo is not a sworn deposition, and neither is a company reply. A fuel saving verified by Lloyd's Register was published by the supplier. Before you quote a line, check what kind of document it came from.

What was settled before the headline? Anthropic confirmed a fix in June for a flaw that was published in September. AWS helped customers move out of Bahrain after the first strike in March. Greg Abel was already making the decisions when Warren Buffett gave up the chair. The news arrives late. The work was done earlier.

A note on how I write this. I mark what is confirmed, what is reported, and what is my own reading. Where I only read a headline, I say so.

At 20:00 on Sunday 13 September the polls closed in Sweden, and SVT put a number on screen. Opposition parties (S, V, MP, C) at 51.3 percent. The Tidö parties (M, KD, L, SD) at 46.8. In seats, 183 against 166.

By Thursday 17 September all 6,626 districts had reported. The preliminary result is 176 seats for the opposition and 173 for the Tidö parties, with turnout at 84.8 percent. The opposition led by 50,359 votes. I found nothing confirming a certified result by 19 September, so treat all of this as preliminary.

Here is how the survey works, from SVT's own seminar deck of 15 September. It rests on questionnaires from 13,709 voters, at 93 polling stations and 68 early-voting locations. It has run for 35 years, and this was the 19th.

The seat margin shown at 20:00 was 17. The preliminary count says 3.

On Thursday 17 September an unredacted version of The New York Times's summary-judgment motion became public. The case is In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, in the Southern District of New York, before Judge Sidney H. Stein. The Times sued on 27 December 2023. Now it asks the judge to rule for it without a trial, against OpenAI and Microsoft.

I could not get the filing itself. This is built from press accounts. I only quote lines that at least two outlets printed the same way, unless I say so.

At OpenAI, Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, is quoted saying AI products are "largely substitutive, period". In February 2024 he wrote they would get "more and more substitutive as they get better". A June 2023 memo of his called AI an "existential threat" to publishers.

Both companies argue fair use: the use is transformative and does not replace the market. The Justice Department filed in early September in support of the defendants, saying in effect that training on copyrighted text is generally not infringement. The publishers asked the court to ignore it. AFP reports that a ruling on summary judgment is not expected before 2027.

885 forecasters made 88,558 forecasts on 58 questions this summer. When Metaculus published the results on 18 September, the top spot belonged to a bot called laertes. Second was ManticAI. Fifth was FutureSearch. The question "Will a bot beat all humans in the Summer 2026 Metaculus Cup?" resolved Yes.

Be exact about the word. Laertes ranked first on the Cup leaderboard. Bots compete there but are not eligible for prizes or medals, so the humans shared the money.

Jeffrey Liang built laertes. The Economist, as quoted by a secondary site, has him saying he spent "under 150 hours and a couple of thousand dollars". "A couple of thousand" is his phrase. I would not turn it into a precise figure. It is a building cost, not winnings.

Two limits matter. Fifty-eight questions is a small sample, and one season's winner says little about skill. And the Cup rewards coverage and frequent updating.

The Register and Reuters reported it on Wednesday 16 September. I could not load the dashboard itself. The wording is as quoted by several outlets.

AWS did not say multi-AZ failed. It said the damage went past the design envelope.

Only one of three zones, mec1-az2, is unrecoverable. The other two are still being recovered. The UAE region is not lost.

The qualifiers matter. AWS says it "exhausted every option for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated before the Region became unavailable". Reuters says AWS supported customers in relocating after the March damage. I found no customer count and no figure for how much data was lost.

AWS has not said the Bahrain region is permanently closed. It promises an update on the UAE "in the coming months" and on Bahrain in early 2027. The sentence to remember is the narrow one: data held only there cannot be recovered.

On 17 September AIR Security published "Plugin4Shell: Zero-Click RCE in AI Coding Agents". It covers four agents: Claude Code from Anthropic, Codex from OpenAI, GitHub Copilot from Microsoft and Gemini CLI from Google. I use Claude Code, so weigh that as you like.

Nobody has to click. AIR says agents update installed plugins in the background, and "in Claude Code and Codex this is the default". Gemini CLI is exposed through a different route involving a branch named `FETCH_HEAD`.

GitHub has an answer. It says it does not allow branch or tag names that resemble commit hashes, and that this ensures the flaw cannot be exploited on GitHub. AIR replies that Copilot also supports marketplaces hosted elsewhere, such as Bitbucket.

On Friday 18 September Berkshire Hathaway put out a press release and a letter, both dated that day. The release: "Warren E. Buffett has been named Chairman Emeritus, effective immediately". He stays on the board. The board, in the release's words, "has elected Howard G. Buffett, a Berkshire director since 1993, as Chairman of the Board". Susan L. Decker continues as Lead Independent Director.

Two corrections to what was circulating. Howard does have a job. Reuters calls the chairmanship non-executive, and the release does not use that word. And Abel did not get a year of warning. He was named CEO successor on 3 May 2025, with Buffett staying as chairman, and took over at the start of 2026.

What is new is the timing. Berkshire's 2026 proxy, as summarised, said that upon Buffett's death it would be prudent to have a Buffett family member serve as non-executive chairman. I have not checked that wording against the SEC page. Now it has happened while he is alive and still on the board. Three steps, about 16 months, each announced.

Some limits. Buffett keeps about 30 percent of the voting power, per the proxy as summarised, and over 13 percent of the equity, per Reuters. The chair change does not alter that. I found nothing public on Howard's pay, term or formal powers.

The letter, in Buffett's words, gives Abel the company and Howard the values.

On 15 September gCaptain wrote that the International Windship Association counts "more than 100 large merchant ships" with modern wind propulsion, "representing more than 5 million deadweight tons". The IWSA's own earlier material says more than 6 million. Pick one and name the source. I use the lower, with gCaptain's attribution.

A rotor sail is a tall spinning cylinder. Wind flowing past it creates lift through the Magnus effect, and that thrust takes load off the engine. gCaptain says industry estimates for retrofits run "somewhere in the single digits to low double digits" in fuel savings.

Only one number here has outside verification. In May 2025 Anemoi reported that Lloyd's Register Advisory had verified a year of operation on TR Lady, an 82,000-deadweight-tonne bulk carrier with three 24-metre rotors. Average net saving 9.1 percent. On a 22-day crossing of the North Pacific, 21 percent.

The gap between those two figures is the weather. Lloyd's Register did the work, but the supplier published it. One ship, three rotors, one year.

Everything else is expected. Vale's Sohar Max, a 400,000-tonne ore carrier with five 35-metre rotors, is "expected to cut fuel consumption by as much as 6%".

The savings come from suppliers, owners or the IWSA. The IWSA is a trade body that speaks for its members.

If something here is wrong, I want to know. Mattias