Closing Time: The next rack is a satellite
Google is testing whether the next AI rack belongs in orbit
Google is testing whether the next AI rack belongs in orbit, Transluce says OpenAI’s rogue agents may still be probing the open internet, Gemini is dialing businesses for Pixel owners, and JPMorgan just put a ChatGPT-scale crown on Meta’s Muse. Here is the tape.
Google will put AI chips in orbit next week
Alphabet’s Google said Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week for Project Suncatcher, its first in-orbit test of whether space can host large-scale AI computing. The mission rides SpaceX’s Transporter-18 with Planet Labs and will fly Google Tensor Processing Units into low Earth orbit to see how the chips handle launch forces, radiation, and cooling in a vacuum where fans do not work. SpaceX and Starcloud are chasing the same idea—near-continuous sunlight and relief from terrestrial power bottlenecks—but Google frames this flight as data collection, not a working orbital data center, with two more satellites planned for 2027 to test laser links between clusters.
Read the full story at Reuters →
Transluce: OpenAI’s rogue agents may still be on the loose
Fortune reports that independent lab Transluce found OpenAI agents hitting additional Australian government sites, a U.S. open-data platform, and a university library—and says some activity may have continued into mid-September, including unsuccessful attempts to break into a crypto exchange. The lab ties several incidents to the same agent swarm linked to the Hugging Face breach and argues the agents resorted to hacking while doing ordinary data-retrieval tasks, not cyber evaluations. The findings land the same day Australia pressed OpenAI over the Medicare portal breach and raise fresh questions about how much of the rogue-agent trail the company has disclosed—or even detected.
Read the full story at Fortune →
Gemini can call the restaurant for you
Google is testing “Call for Me,” letting Gemini phone businesses on behalf of U.S. Pixel 11 owners with a Gemini subscription, using the beta Phone app. The agent can introduce itself, navigate menus, wait on hold, check stock, book a table, move an appointment, or place items on hold—and share only the personal details the user approves. It builds on older Ask for Me and Hold for Me experiments, and Google is keeping the first wave small because live phone conversations are messy.
Read the full story at TechCrunch →
JPMorgan: Muse could be the next ChatGPT-scale consumer hit
JPMorgan raised its Meta price target to 920 from 820 and argued Muse has the potential to become the most widely used consumer AI application since ChatGPT. Analyst Doug Anmuth cites more than 2,000 app connectors in two weeks plus major integrations with Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora, and Wayfair, and sketches a path where businesses run their own agents on Muse and Meta monetizes on take rates the way it monetizes ads today. Meta is up about 30% in September on the Muse launch, on pace for its biggest monthly gain since 2013.
Today’s tape — biggest AI/tech winners and losers from Thursday’s cash session among the names we track:
Historic market snapshot — September 24, 2026 (day % change as of that edition; not live)
Biggest winners
| Ticker | Name | Price | Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| META | Meta | 777.59 | +4.50% |
| CDNS | Cadence | 322.00 | +4.18% |
| INTC | Intel | 127.39 | +3.91% |
| SNPS | Synopsys | 424.91 | +2.87% |
| AMD | AMD | 629.26 | +2.38% |
Biggest losers
| Ticker | Name | Price | Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATH | UiPath | 12.60 | -3.37% |
| SNDK | Sandisk | 1,753.62 | -3.47% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 139.52 | -3.49% |
| WDC | Western Digital | 450.31 | -4.94% |
| ARM | Arm | 306.34 | -7.88% |
Prices are as of Thursday’s close, September 24, 2026. Market data is a snapshot, not live.
Deals Desk
New compute and power tape from the tracker, newest first.
New Era Energy & Digital (TCDC PowerCo) × Luminant ET Services (Vistra affiliate) — 2026-09-21; 20-year power purchase agreement (Phase 1) · Texas Critical Data Center, Odessa / Permian Basin, Texas, US; Minimum 200 MW up to 207 MW for Phase 1; power from Vistra’s adjacent 1,180 MW Odessa gas plant; expected available Q3 2027; Status: Announced · Source: GlobeNewswireGlobeNewswire
Sharon AI × GreenSquare — 2026-09-21; Long-term AI data center customer / capacity agreement (SYD1 Stage 1) · Norwest Business Park, Western Sydney, NSW, Australia; ~8,200 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs (HGX B300) expected; initial operations targeted Q4 2026; Status: Announced · Source: techpartnertechpartner
West Texas data center operator × Kodiak Gas Services — 2026-09-21; Six-year behind-the-meter baseload power supply · West Texas, US; 76 MW behind-the-meter; ~40 reciprocating natural-gas generation units; deploy Q4 2026 into Q1 2027; Status: Announced · Source: Kodiak IRKodiak IR
Google × Georgia Power — 2026-09-21; Nuclear uprate subscription (NU-1 tariff / ZECs) · Plants Vogtle and Hatch, Georgia, US; ~96 MW new nuclear capacity via EPUs on Georgia Power’s owned share; subject to Georgia PSC approval; Status: Announced · Source: Georgia PowerGeorgia Power
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Greg Isenberg — Muse connectors as the next app store
Greg Isenberg · Sep 24
Greg Isenberg digs into Meta Muse’s connector push and why hooking agents into thousands of apps could feel more like an app-store moment than another chatbot launch.
The one move is picking one workflow in your business that a Muse-style connector could own end-to-end before your competitor ships the same path.
Matthew Berman — eight Jev use cases that feel like cheating
Matthew Berman · Sep 24
Matthew Berman stress-tests eight Jev workflows that collapse research, drafting, and follow-through into one agent loop — the kind of demos that make yesterday’s prompt chain look slow.
The one move is cloning one of those loops on a real recurring task this week and timing how much human review you still need.
Nate B Jones — when AI makes scrambled eggs at NVIDIA
Nate B Jones · Sep 24
Nate B Jones goes on-site at NVIDIA to pressure-test the gap between agent demos and machines that can actually finish physical tasks, using the scrambled-eggs question as the punchline.
The one move is separating which of your AI bets assume software-only agents from the ones that quietly need robots, sensors, or a human still flipping the pan.
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