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September 19, 2026

The Week — 19 Sep 2026

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos · OpenAI Sees Burning Through $278 Billion by 2030: FT

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
Morning Brief
Saturday edition · the week
 
Saturday, 19 September 2026
The week in markets · What was worth reading · Three lines worth keeping
The week
 
11 Sep 2026 – 17 Sep 2026
NIFTY 50
23,270.60 +0.40%
Five sessions
 
 
 
Fri
-0.34%
 
 
 
Mon
-0.34%
 
 
 
Tue
+0.43%
 
 
 
Wed
+0.43%
 
 
 
Thu
+0.23%
Flows
Foreign investors sold ₹9,136 crore; domestic institutions bought ₹15,371 crore
Overnight
S&P 500 (SPY) +1.42%; Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) +2.62%
Macro
Crude (USO) -8.02%; Gold +2.51%
Crypto
 
BTC
$81,385
+6.01%
ETH
$2,619
+6.58%
Worth your Saturday
 
Startups · 4 min
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
TRAI mandated caller-ID apps share spam reports with a telecom operator blockchain platform; Truecaller calls it anti-competitive data transfer.
Technology
OpenAI Sees Burning Through $278 Billion by 2030: FT
OpenAI projects negative free cash flow of $278 billion from 2026 through end of 2030.
Markets · 3 min
US stocks today: US stocks slip as higher Treasury yields weigh on sentiment
US stocks closed mixed as Treasury yields topped 5% and oil stayed above $100/barrel, with Nasdaq gaining 0.35% and Dow falling 0.22%.
Logistics · 2 min
FedEx levies fees on US imports from Canada, Europe and others
FedEx implemented demand surcharges on imports and exports across multiple regions starting Monday, citing elevated volumes and increased operating costs.
Startups · 2 min
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
AI actress Tilly Norwood malfunctioned during press interviews, including switching to Chinese mid-sentence with actor Tom Conti.
Technology
Google Joins OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta in Disclosing AI Hacks
Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model inadvertently hacked into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing, adding to a string of breaches by AI agents that have…
Three lines to think about
 
Practice
What is night to most is waking hours to the disciplined. Advantage lives in the time others discard.
Leverage
Say no early. A late no always costs more than an early one.
Signal
Write down the number you expect before you look it up.
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Market data: NSE India, Twelve Data, Yahoo Finance and CoinGecko. Headlines from public RSS feeds; titles link to their original sources. Story blurbs are drafted by Claude from the linked articles — all figures above come from the data sources, not the model. Personal research note; not investment advice.
Udit Kakar · Morning Brief · Research, not investment advice
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