It’s Tuesday, September 8, 2026, and yesterday did not look like a normal news cycle, even with the U.S. largely quiet for Labor Day. Mistral landed a $3.5 billion war chest to stay in the AI race, China unveiled a plan to quadruple national compute, Google told 450 million Europeans that Search was getting worse because of regulation, and researchers showed how an AI-powered worm could spread through something as ordinary as a missed WeChat call. Elsewhere, Xiaomi put a homemade chip inside a foldable phone, a lung drug appeared to push biological aging clocks backward, a country ordered 49…