Tech & AI Daily — Weekend Edition, September 19, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Sep 19, 2026 · 10m

SOXL surged ~21% on the week as semis roared back from a mid-week rout, fueled by the Fed decision, retreating yields, and Broadcom's blowout AI chip numbers — while QQQ, VGT, and VUG each added a quieter 1–2%. • Anthropic opened a physical wet-lab biology facility, merging its AI models with real-world experiments — raising both drug-discovery promise and serious biosecurity questions from the same company warning AI could be existentially dangerous. • California Governor Newsom ordered a study to design a mandatory AI 'kill switch' for frontier models, the most concrete U.S. state-level…