Tech & AI Daily — Thursday, September 10, 2026

SOXL crashes nearly 10% as Brent crude tops $100/barrel for the first time in years, triggering a broad risk-off selloff that slams semiconductors and growth stocks across the board. • DeepSeek drops v4.1 Flash, a new open-source model generating massive developer buzz on Hacker News, continuing the Chinese lab's pressure on closed-model pricing from frontier labs. • OpenAI adds prominent AI alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its foundation board — a major governance signal that existential safety concerns are being institutionalized at the top. • Mathematicians escalate a public challenge over OpenAI's Millennium Prize math data, widening an academic integrity and copyright controversy into a full institutional confrontation. • Listen Labs walks away from a signed $1.5B Salesforce acquisition term sheet, highlighting frothy AI valuations and the growing competition between strategic enterprise buyers and VC rounds.