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Corn futures posted gains of 1 ¼ to 3 ½ cents across the board on Monday. September futures expired up 1 ¾ cents at $5.12. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was up 3 1/4 cents at $4.87. The weekly Crop Progress report tallied 86% of the US corn crop dented as of September 13, with 42% listed as mature and harvest at 8% complete. Condition ratings were back up 1 percentage point this week at 57% in good to excellent condition, as the Brugler500 index held steady at 347. Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up…

Do you ever open the mail to find yet another credit card sign-up bonus offer and get excited about the possibilities, only to notice that it’s restricted to business owners? If so, and you’ve been throwing these mailers straight in the trash because you don’t own a traditional business, you may want to reconsider. “In almost all cases, you do not have to have an LLC; you do not have to have an EIN,” or employee identification number, says Steven Fox, a certified financial planner in San Diego. “There are all kinds of sole proprietors who are able to get…

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Key insight: The Phoenix bank core, which changed hands from Finastra to CORA Group, has been repackaged to PhoenixWorx.What’s at stake: PhoenixWorx is launching its rebrand as regulators have expressed potential for additional scrutiny of core vendor relationships with banks.Expert quote: “It comes down to, in the end, an emotional decision of who banks want to work with.” —CCG Catalysts’s Paul SchausCORA Group is relaunching the banking core system it acquired from Finastra earlier this year as PhoenixWorx.Processing ContentThe company, a subsidiary of Toronto-based vertical software company Constellation Software, announced the rebrand on Monday, three months after it purchased a…

Key TakeawaysThe Giving Pledge has 256 signers, but fewer than 10 have fully given away their fortunes.John and Laura Arnold are the only living U.S. couple to fulfill the Giving Pledge after 15 years.Greater Good Charities has delivered $1 billion across 121 countries, showing the scale of the challenge. When Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates launched the Giving Pledge in 2010, they challenged billionaires to give away at least half their fortunes. A Fortune report published on March 18, 2026, found that fewer than 10 of the 256 signatories have actually followed through on giving away their wealth,…

In brief Eight banking trade groups asked Senate leaders to tighten restrictions on stablecoin rewards. They want to delete language allowing rewards tied to balances, duration or tenure. The groups say a proposed deposit-flight safeguard would take effect too late. Eight banking trade groups urged Senate leaders Monday to tighten the Clarity Act’s stablecoin rewards restrictions, arguing that exceptions in the bill could allow interest-like payments that draw deposits away from banks.In their letter to Senate leaders John Thune and Chuck Schumer, the group said it could not support the latest revisions in the Clarity Act regarding rewards for transactions…

Ethereum and Coinbase-backed layer-2 network Base have abandoned an effort to agree on how the next generation of crypto wallets should work.On Sept. 14, Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said collaboration between developers working on Ethereum’s EIP-8141 Frame Transactions and Base’s EIP-8130 broke down last week after attempts to produce a shared account-abstraction standard failed to reconcile the chains’ different requirements.The split leaves Ethereum advancing Frames while Base pursues a separate design for native account abstraction, potentially forcing wallets to accommodate different transaction architectures across networks that have historically shared much of the same account and transaction experience.Both proposals seek to make…

The House Ways and Means Committee published a crypto tax bill addressing de minimis transactions, staking and other issues for which the industry’s clamored for policies.

Darius Baruo Sep 14, 2026 18:21 NVIDIA’s Transformer Engine accelerates Dropless Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training in JAX, achieving a 10x performance gain and 97% scaling efficiency. NVIDIA has unveiled optimizations to its Transformer Engine that dramatically accelerate the training of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models using JAX. By addressing bottlenecks like token routing and inter-GPU communication, the company claims a 10x speed-up in end-to-end training throughput for DeepSeek-V3, a 671-billion-parameter MoE model. These advancements also enable 97% scaling efficiency for clusters with up to 1,024 GPUs. MoE architectures have gained traction in recent years as a…

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