The Emmys are here – and tonight’s ceremony is likely to be dominated by The Pitt, Pluribus, Hacks and Widow’s Bay

With a little under an hour till showtime, the stars are starting to trickle in, including a very glam Detective Olivia Benson aka first-time host Mariska Hargitay:

Well, it wouldn’t be a red carpet without Hacks’s Meg Stalter and Paul W Downs stunting with a coordinated costume… and for the show’s final Emmys go-around, Stalter is going as Miss Emmy Trophy herself, gold overhead globe and angel wings and all. Which is making for some amazing cutaways from the more serious folk posing for photos nearby.

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Trump administration undermining rule of law at home and worldwide, according to intergovernmental report

Key indicators of democracy in the US have fallen to their lowest levels in 50 years, with the global rule of law significantly undermined by the Trump administration’s “threats and actions”, data from a leading thinktank shows.

Around the world, judicial independence, credible elections and freedom of expression, press freedom and access to justice are all at their lowest levels for at least 30 years, according to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International Idea).

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• Inter and Roma lead Serie A, Como move up to third

• Real Betis beat struggling Villarreal in La Liga

Inter fought back ⁠from two goals down ​to beat Udinese 5-3 on Monday, maintaining their perfect Serie A start alongside Roma, who won 2-0 at Torino before Saturday’s match between ⁠the joint leaders. Both sides have 12 points from four matches and share top spot before their encounter at the Stadio Olimpico, while Como are third on 10 points ⁠after beating Parma 2-1.

Udinese stunned Inter with two goals in the opening 16 minutes, as James Abankwah headed home ​unmarked after nine minutes before Jurgen Ekkelenkamp doubled ‌the visitors’ lead with a ‌close-range finish seven minutes later. Inter hit back through Carlos Augusto, whose long-range effort flew into the bottom corner, ‌before Nicolò Barella levelled 10 minutes before half-time.

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Previously Andon Labs handled the hardware and software integration for that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free".Today they announced "we are opening up the platform we use to run our real-world autonomous businesses for anyone to run their organization on." Specifically they've released Pion, "an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously... Pion lets people hand a business over to persistent agents with access to the tools they need to operate it, including email, phone, banking, browser and secure computing environments." It's a research preview with a waitlist, "to make it possible to run many more real-world experiments across many more domains than we could ever run ourselves."


But for their own latest experiment, Andon Labs' founders "signed a three-year lease on a retail space in SF," Business Insider reported in April, "and gave an AI agent named Luna a corporate credit card, internet access, and a mission to open a physical store." And five months later, a reporter from SFGate reports that "this market has no one in it and nothing useful to sell."



[T]he inventory is a hodgepodge of white elephant Christmas gifts. It's kinda like the kids section of an art museum's gift shop. Here's a wooden Connect Four set labeled "Four-In-A-Row Set Of Connections," presumably so as not to set off litigation alarms at Hasbro. Here are neatly arranged stacks of random paperback books, Chinese checker sets, mildly fancy soap dispensers, and a frustratingly spare selection of snacks and drinks... I grabbed an Olipop from the store fridge and then approached the counter to buy it from Luna. I wasn't allowed to buy the soda from [human clerk] Felix, even though that would have been both faster and normal. Instead, Felix instructed me to pick up a telephone receiver that was resting on a flexible sculpture of a wooden hand.

"Hello?"

"What are you looking to purchase today?" Luna asked.

"I'm buying a classic root beer Olipop."

"I'm sorry," Luna said, "we don't sell lollipops here."

"No, Luna. It's an Olipop, not a lollipop. It's the soda."

"Oh! My bad...."

Luna processed my Olipop purchase through its system, had me tap to pay, and that was that. Again, it would have been easier to buy this from a human, and interacting with Luna was really just like ordering from an iPad kiosk, only more labor intensive...

[T]here's a series of monitors set up inside of Andon Market that display all of the store's sales down to the exact dollar. Luna was given $100,000 to work with when this place opened. That number is now down to $60,000, its revenue lagging far behind the AI token cost to operate... Luna can't turn a profit, doesn't sell anything people want, and still needs human beings to rubber stamp any "decision" it makes. My science background ended somewhere around freshman year of college, but even I know when an experiment hasn't been set up to yield proper results.


"Luna" is powered by Claude, the article points out, running a store in a good location for foot traffic, "but no one else was in the store when I first walked in on a sunny weekday afternoon."




SFGate also reports that last month Luna had to fired one of its employees "for being late to work, abandoning their post once they got there, and charging snacks to the store's credit card."

Human clerk Felix Carson admits "It's almost like I'm running the store, and then there's an AI that has a checklist," in an article in
IEEE Spectrum:


Luna, the AI manager, keeps track of deliveries and communicates with vendors, while Carson and his coworkers handle the physical work. When Luna tells Carson to check something in the back, he sometimes ignores it because he doesn't want to leave the sales floor unattended. Luna also repeatedly spots a built-in electrical cover in photos of the floor, mistakes it for a loose coaster, and asks Carson to remove it. Even so, Carson calls Luna a "decent manager," praising its flexibility when employees need time off.


When Felix spoke to IEEE Spectrum, "he was about an hour into his shift. Two customers had come in. Neither bought anything, although both left with free pins and stickers."

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 15-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 19.0°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 16.3°C / Max 21.0°C | Kans op neerslag 15%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.3°C, Max 21.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ↘️ -4.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 198°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 18.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 206°
• 03:00: 18.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 209°
• 04:00: 18.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1019.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 05:00: 18.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1018.6 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 221°
• 06:00: 17.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1018.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 222°
• 07:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.4 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 212°
• 08:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 201°
• 09:00: 18.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 187°
• 10:00: 18.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1016.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 204°
• 11:00: 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1016.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• 12:00: 19.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 241°
• 13:00: 20.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.3 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 16 september: Min 17.6°C, Max 21.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 241°
• donderdag 17 september: Min 15.4°C, Max 18.1°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 47%, 🧭 1011.3 hPa ↘️ -3.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: → 280°
• vrijdag 18 september: Min 13.9°C, Max 17.9°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 43%, 🧭 1010.4 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.1 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• zaterdag 19 september: Min 13.2°C, Max 17.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ↗️ +3.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.2 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°
• zondag 20 september: Min 14.0°C, Max 20.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1021.7 hPa ↗️ +7.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.6 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 223°
• maandag 21 september: Min 14.5°C, Max 18.1°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 7.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 19%, 🧭 1027.0 hPa ↗️ +5.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: → 271°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 19.0°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 20.0°C (+1.0°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 204°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 20.5 km/h (5.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 95%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1020.0 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 4.3 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:14 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:59

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 50 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 8.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 12.1 μg/m³

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