No chips & semiconductors item this issue.

From the Sep 17, 2026 daily brief

We haven't read last night's 10 company posts from NVIDIA and CoreWeave, which include results from the latest round of the MLPerf inference benchmark. This means we didn't get to them, not that we confirmed nothing new happened.

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