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Geopolitics·2h

Israelis rally for Jewish-Arab government after election gains

Israelis rallied for a Jewish-Arab gov't after parties representing Israel's Arab citizens made gains in the election.

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Geopolitics·3h, Israel

No clear winner in Israel election with nearly 90 percent of votes counted

Netanyahu's right-wing bloc leads but is falling short of the votes needed to form a government.

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World·39m

Serbians storm TV studio as pro-Vucic media faces reckoning

Serbians stormed a TV studio and confronted its editor-in-chief after a student-led protest movement swept into power.

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Politics·28m, United States

'They mobilized a whole government response to that joke': Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff

Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor Barack Obama, speaking at a Wednesday campaign rally in suburban Atlanta, offered a closing argument for Democrats in the final week of the midterm election campaign. "These are not serious people," he said of Donald Trump and the Republican party.

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Economy·4h

Embattled CBS leader Bari Weiss downplays concerns about weak 60 Minutes ratings

CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing 'tremendously well' CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority.

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Crypto·5h

Bitcoin Treasury Datavault AI Says It Can't Access Its BTC, Stock Tanks

Datavault AI says it has been unable to withdraw its Bitcoin from Biconomy since June and will restate four financial reports tied to a $150 million Scilex deal.

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World·1h, Brazil

Flávio Bolsonaro denies fleeing Brazil after landing in Miami

The defeated Brazilian candidate claims to be the victim of a coup d'état and political persecution, recycling unsubstantiated allegations of "electoral fraud".

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Geopolitics·3h, United States

Iran war live: Tehran presses 7-day Hormuz plan; Trump denies peace talks

Araghchi says Iran is in close contact with mediators on ideas to implement its seven-day plan to reopen Hormuz strait.

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Politics·39m

Bolsonaro in Miami: I am the 'true president-elect'

Flavio Bolsonaro claimed to be the 'true president-elect' of Brazil in his first statement since fleeing to the US.

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Tech·18m

Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch

On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no [...]

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Economy·7h

Fed holds interest rates steady in last decision before midterms

Fed chair Kevin Warsh said politics played no role in pause of interest rate hikes, despite inflation remaining above 3% The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday during its last board meeting before the midterm elections, keeping rates at one of the highest pre-election levels seen in over 20 years.

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Crypto·5h

Bitcoin-backed mortgages are coming to Canada, but borrowers are still unaware of the cost

Prospective borrowers face collateral liquidation risks if bitcoin prices drop, though APX said property and crypto collateral will be handled distinctly.

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World·2h

Riot police deployed in Madrid as protests erupt over deadly train crash

A deadly train crash fuelled anger in Spain as far-right demonstrators clashed with police

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Geopolitics·5h, Brazil

Flávio Bolsonaro calls himself the 'leader of Brazil' after fleeing to Miami

Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via Ecuador Flávio Bolsonaro declared himself the "true president" of Brazil after losing last Sunday's presidential election and fleeing to the United States.

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Politics·44m

Utah files criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi and company co-founders

Firm calls charges, which include violating state gambling ban and profiting from illegal activity, 'crazy overreach' Utah on Wednesday filed criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two of its executives, months after a federal judge rejected Kalshi's effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its strict anti-gambling laws against the activity.

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Tech·3h

Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer

The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.

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Science·4h

ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th

This Vulcan launch will be the first to utilize a full complement of six solid rocket boosters.

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Economy·9h

Fed leaves interest rates unchanged, as expected

A rate hike in December remains likely as the U.S. central bank continues to focus on inflation, which remains well above its 2% target.

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Crypto·7h

More Americans Have Tried Crypto, But Few Are Sticking With It: Survey

A survey conducted by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund found that 22% of Americans have ever owned or used crypto, up from 18%, while past-year use held flat at 13%.

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World·3h, Romania

Romania extends pre-trial detention of far-right politician Calin Georgescu

The Bucharest court has extended the pre-trial detention of Calin Georgescu by 30 days, appealing a lower court ruling.

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Geopolitics·5h, European Union

EU backs away from offer to Canada to start 'associate member' talks

Watered-down version of statement to be issued at end of Montreal summit instead offers 'ever closer association' The EU has backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on becoming an "associate member" after disagreements between members states just as an EU-Canada summit was set to begin in Montreal.

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Politics·46m, United States

Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ's bid to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots

Justice department had demanded state segregate and not count ballots from people it claimed were non-citizens A federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate and not count ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over the results of the midterms.

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Tech·4h

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is 'going to get worse'

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don't like AI, and it's not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about the launch of widescreen and [...]

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Science·8h

Artemis III SLS Core Stage Joins Boosters at Kennedy

NASA's Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is integrated alongside the twin solid rocket boosters on Oct. 28 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians lifted the 212-foot rocket stage from the facility's High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed [...]

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Economy·15h

Dissent and more: 3 things to watch for at the Fed meeting

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 28, 2026

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Geopolitics·6h, Israel

Netanyahu's bloc leading Israel election but short of majority, partial results show

With 85% of ballots counted, Netanyahu's Likud party and its allies are set to win 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

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Crypto·8h

Fed Stands Pat, Bitcoin Holds Steady, But a December Rate Hike Is in Play

The Federal Reserve left rates unchanged Wednesday in a 10-2 vote, with Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack favoring a hike.

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World·4h

UN experts sound alarm at excessive use of force in French student protests

UN experts have condemned police crackdowns, warning they deter demonstrators from exercising their rights.

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Politics·47m, United States

Obama mocks Trump's response to Cheesecake Factory jibe. 'They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke!' , as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Sign up for the Breaking News US email For months, Mary Peltola's campaign for Alaska's Senate seat has denied any connection to a separate campaign launched by a man who, coincidentally, shares the exact same name as Peltola's Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan. New reporting from the New York Times undercuts that claim.

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Tech·4h

Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme

Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.

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Science·11h

Webb Sees Turbulent Star Nursery

In this Webb image released on Oct. 22, 2026, we see a turbulent cauldron of star formation filled with dense clumps of gas. This region is named N159 and is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This region has a lower metallicity [...]

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Economy·2d

The survival of American democracy depends on taxing billionaires

It is essential not just to fund the public goods the nation needs, it is indispensable to restore a sense of fairness Money doesn't buy happiness, we're told. Even some economists agree. The Nobel prize-winning economists Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton once proposed that rising income increased people's emotional wellbeing only up to a ceiling of about $115,000 in today's money.

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Sports·1d

The 1904 Olympic marathon was a near-fatal fiasco

Run in brutal heat, the race featured a runner who hitched a car ride, another dosed with rat poison and brandy to keep moving, and a winner who could barely stand at the finish.

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Crypto·8h

Crypto isn't a partisan fight, proven by data

Treating crypto as a political battleground only makes it harder to build the secure, transparent, American-made financial system that most Americans say they want, argues DeFi Education Fund's Jennifer Rosenthal.

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World·5h

Girl seriously injured in wolf attack at German wildlife park

The eight-year-old was in an enclosure with other children and a staff member when she was attacked.

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Geopolitics·7h, China

China's stock markets are the great global exception

If the country is winning the future, why are its investors so glum?

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Politics·1h

Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers

Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month Data identifying more than 41,000 employees and contractors for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was released on Wednesday in an unprecedented leak that reveals how the agency is organized.

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Tech·4h

As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland

Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

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Science·13h

Escobar's escaped hippos are now thriving in Colombia

Four hippos from Pablo Escobar's private zoo were left behind after his death. Decades later their descendants number in the dozens, roaming the Magdalena River and posing a real ecological puzzle.

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Economy·2d

Four takeaways from Anthropic's potentially record-breaking stock market filing

The AI company's first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards Anthropic has filed to go public on the US stock market, revealing for the first time the AI research lab's financials and all the risks , more than 90 pages of them , that might negatively affect its business.

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Geopolitics·8h, Russia

Putin hails Elon Musk's 'genius' amid plans for Russian version of Starlink

Russia plans to build own version of US billionaire's satellite communications to help attack Ukraine Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk's genius and said he was in touch with Starlink's controlling shareholder as Russia develops its own satellite communications for its military to use against Ukraine.

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Crypto·10h

Strategy Shareholders Approve Daily Dividends on Preferred Stock, With 99.3% in Favor

STRC will begin paying dividends for every calendar day from November, with STRF, STRK and STRD following in January.

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World·5h, Spain

High-speed train crash kills at least 68 people in Spain

The crash, between a moving train and another that was stopped further up the track, was caused by an "inexplicable" error, the transport minister said.

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Politics·4h

Tributes pour in for labor leader Dolores Huerta: 'Fought for farm workers to the very end'

Lawmakers, activists and union leaders across the US remember the co-founder of United Farm Workers union Following the news that Dolores Huerta , the civil rights icon who popularized the rallying cry "Sí, se puede! , had died at the age of 96 on Wednesday, activists, lawmakers and civil rights leaders paid tribute to Hureta's long and lasting legacy.

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Tech·4h

Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA

Six unproven peptides popular with MAHA now under "enforcement discretion policy."

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Science·16h

A chicken lived for 18 months without its head

After a botched 1945 slaughter left his brainstem intact, Mike the chicken survived more than a year, was fed with an eyedropper, and toured the country as a sideshow act.

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Economy·3d

European gas prices soar to four-year high over winter supply fears

Jump fuelled by fears of further Middle East supply disruptions amid reports of US-Israeli plans to strike Iran European gas prices have jumped to levels not seen since 2022 as fears continue to grow around the continent's supply this winter and the conflict in the Middle East.

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Geopolitics·12h, Israel

How could Israel break election deadlock? Here are four scenarios

With 85% of votes counted, all signs point to an impasse. The most likely outcome may be new elections.

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Crypto·10h

Coinbase earnings: Wall Street divided on trading rebound after Robinhood crypto revenue sinks 55%

Coinbase faces a key earnings test as analysts debate the strength of its trading rebound following a sharp drop in Robinhood's crypto revenue.

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World·5h

Costa Rica's mega-prison receives first inmates

President Laura Fernandez inaugurated the $35m mega-prison built to house up to 5,100 inmates near San Jose.

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Politics·4h

Record-breaking high tides spark chaos , and kayak commutes , across California

Seawater surges into low-lying communities from San Diego to San Francisco Bay Area, submerging streets, homes and businesses Historic high tides have caused chaos up and down the California coast this week, as parts of the state were inundated by record-breaking water levels.

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Tech·5h

Microsoft just shared Azure's actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.

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Science·18h

The public voted to name a research ship Boaty McBoatface

A 2016 UK poll to name a polar research vessel was won overwhelmingly by Boaty McBoatface. Officials overruled it for the ship but gave the name to its submarine instead.

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Economy·4d

Volkswagen to build $4bn Audi SUV factory in US despite job cuts at home

VW investment, creating 4,500 jobs in Georgia, comes amid Trump's damaging tariffs, intense Chinese competition and costly shift towards EVs Audi has said it will spend $4bn (£3bn) to build its first factory in the US, as its parent company, Volkswagen, struggles with the impact of steep tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.

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Crypto·10h

Aptos Advisor Leaves Post, Moves Meme-Fueled Campaign to Meta Stock

Former Aptos advisor "Buzz" has left the crypto project and is turning his attention to Facebook's parent company Meta, here's why.

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World·5h, Spain

Bloodied, dazed and angry - how passengers' rail journey turned to disaster in Spain

Survivors of the train crash in Spain have spoken of their shock, panic and anger at the accident in Toledo province on Wednesday.

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Geopolitics·12h, Egypt

Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr

Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt's authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country.

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Politics·4h

Dolores Huerta , a life in pictures

Dolores Huerta, the celebrated 1960s labor union leader and civil rights activist, died on Wednesday in California at the age of 96, her family said in a statement.

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Tech·5h

A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records

A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The [...]

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Science·19h

'Ferritin face': are social media claims about iron deficiency fact , or fiction?

Experts say symptoms such as dark circles under the eyes, grey skin, cracked lips and hair loss can be a warning sign , but there are other factors too TikTok is rife with influencers warning of "ferritin face", a term they use to describe the pallor, dark circles, dry skin, and hair loss claimed to indicate low iron stores. But is this based on fact or fiction, and when is it time to head to the GP?

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Economy·6d

Sam Bankman-Fried says he has paid his debts

The crypto tycoon speaks with The Economist from prison in California

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Crypto·10h

Wall Street's Fast Money Fled Bitcoin ETFs, Sovereign Funds Stepped In

Galaxy Research found that nine hedge funds and banks cut 68,000 BTC worth of spot ETF exposure as the cash-and-carry trade dried up, while wealth platforms and sovereign funds added.

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World·5h

Indonesian students demand action on wildfires and rising costs

Hundreds of Indonesian students protested against the government's handling of forest fires and rising costs.

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Geopolitics·16h

Serbian shot dead after attacking officer outside Israeli embassy, minister says

Authorities say the attacker in Belgrade was an underage male who was being monitored by security services.

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Politics·5h, United States

New book makes fiery claims about Jared Kushner's finances in Trump's first term

Kushner threatens to sue, denying allegations that two slush funds were set up to influence his Middle East role A new book containing incendiary claims about Jared Kushner 's financial dealings during Donald Trump 's first term has ignited a political and media firestorm.

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Tech·5h

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

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Science·21h

How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon

Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern Adriatic Venice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Dramatic changes in sea level over 10,000 years have reshaped the northern Adriatic coastline, with much of the land that our ancestors roamed now lying beneath the waves.

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Economy·7d

Brazil's weird economy needs serious reform

Neither Lula nor Flávio Bolsonaro have the stomach for it

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Crypto·11h

Crypto Long & Short: What happens when an AI agent pays for the wrong thing

The largest card networks now sit in the top governance tier of x402, the standard that AI agents use to pay for things online. Albert Castellana of GenLayer Labs explains why that standard has no way to dispute a charge, and what happens when the payment settles but the agent receives something wrong or useless.

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World·5h, United States

Death of US actress Hayden Panettiere ruled accidental, ending local police probe

The Heroes and Nashville star died in August from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs.

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Geopolitics·17h, United States

A US woman feared dead was reported alive in Mexico. But police now say that isn't true

Mexican police had said they found Shayna Feinman in Tijuana, raising the hopes of missing Arizonan's family Arizona authorities say their Mexican counterparts were resoundingly mistaken when they publicly claimed recently that they found alive a woman who was feared slain after disappearing in 2024 , a turn of events that her sister has called "turmoil" and "heartbreaking".

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Politics·6h, United States

US ambassador suggests Trump could blame Canada if midterms don't go his way

Pete Hoekstra, controversial US ambassador to Canada, has also accused Canadian officials of interfering in US elections The US ambassador has suggested Canada could be blamed if Republicans perform poorly in next week's midterm elections, the latest intervention from a controversial figure who has been accused of inflaming a bitter dispute that has angered and baffled residents of both countries.

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Tech·5h

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

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Science·21h

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5043-5049: Preparing to Drill at 'Nazca'

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 Following the Basque Lakes drill campaign, Curiosity has returned to a spot just a few meters away from the "Chiu Chiu" block to conduct our next drill campaign. "Chiu Chiu" itself wasn't a good candidate for [...]

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Economy·7d

AI compute is the new oil, and needs a new market

Financial firms race to create instruments to trade processing power

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Crypto·13h

Wall Street backbone DTCC brings $30 trillion securities closer to blockchain with major banks

DTCC's tokenization service went live on Canton Network and private chain Besu, with JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley among 20 firms signed up.

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World·8h

A cat ran a Japanese train station for nearly a decade

Tama, a calico, was named honorary stationmaster of Kishi Station in 2007 and is widely credited with saving the struggling rail line, drawing tourists from around the world until her death in 2015.

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Geopolitics·17h, United Kingdom

Africa's 'unprecedented' Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official

Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatment The "unprecedented" spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa's top health officials.

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Politics·7h, United States

Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling

US agency has sued 10 states for trying to stop gambling on prediction markets.

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Tech·5h

Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access to the device, which will have open-source firmware. It will likely run [...]

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Science·23h

APOD: 2026 October 28 , The Mutual Occultation of Ganymede and Io

APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 October 28 , The...Today's APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

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Economy·9d

Who will buy $120bn-worth of fresh Japanese government bonds?

Japan wants its pension fund and households to buy more government debt

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Crypto·14h

JPMorgan, Coca-Cola, Dell also say 'no' to OKX-ICE tokenized stock trading plan

Nearly half the companies on the venture's original roster have now objected to their shares trading on the planned blockchain-based venue.

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World·11h

Australia once went to war with emus and lost

In 1932 the Australian military deployed soldiers with machine guns against tens of thousands of crop-raiding emus. The birds scattered, regrouped, and outlasted the campaign, which was quietly called off.

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Geopolitics·20h

King Charles to discuss legacy of slavery with Commonwealth leaders at summit

Royal tour of Caribbean comes as poll suggests majority support among younger Britons for dialogue on slavery reparations King Charles has confirmed he will discuss the legacy of slavery at a summit with Commonwealth leaders as he begins his Caribbean tour.

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Politics·9h

Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

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Tech·5h

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

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Science·23h

The Land of the Standing-Up Rocks

A national monument since the 1920s, Chiricahua is America's newest national park.

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Economy·12d

It's not just Commerzbank: Italians are eating up German business

The takeover of the bank by UniCredit is only the start

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Crypto·15h

XRP Ledger developers propose creating wallets with zero XRP for stablecoin payments

An experimental change would let companies cover the reserve for customer and AI-agent accounts, allowing users to start with stablecoins without first acquiring XRP.

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World·16h

Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs

The Villa Vie Odyssey suspended its voyage and is working with passengers on "temporary living arrangements".

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Geopolitics·3d, United Kingdom

UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher 'campaign of rape'

Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freeze Senior Sudanese commanders implicated in a "campaign of rape" have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversary of a mass atrocity that saw tens of thousands of civilians killed over several days.

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Politics·12h, United States

Trump says government to 'terminate' Biden-era methane emissions rules

Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions Donald Trump said his administration was "terminating" Biden-era regulations holding oil and gas companies accountable for large leaks of planet-warming methane during a rally in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday evening.

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Tech·5h

Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

Article URL: https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281044 Points: 127 # Comments: 88

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Science·1d

The longest-running lab experiment watches tar drip for a century

The Pitch Drop Experiment, started in 1927, lets a blob of pitch fall one drop at a time to prove it is a fluid. Roughly nine drops have fallen, and almost no one has ever seen one happen live.

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World·16h

Tanzania celebrates first natural gas discovery in more than 10 years

The energy minister described it as a "major milestone" for the East African nation.

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Geopolitics·3d, United States

US forces accused of 'weaponising' Somalia's floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy? The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni Ali's waist. Her home, five metres from the flooded River Juba in southern Somalia, never stood a chance. There was nowhere to go.

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Politics·5d, United States

Trump drops some Canada tariffs in bid to boost embattled Susan Collins in Maine

Republican senator faces critical re-election battle in state where president's trade war has outraged voters Donald Trump dropped some of the US's tariffs on Canada on Friday to "better serve the public interest" the White House said, handing a win to Susan Collins, the embattled Republican senator for Maine, as she faces a tight re-election campaign that will help determine whether Democrats can flip control of Con

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Tech·5h

Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy

For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to help you remember what you've read. There's Readwise Reader, an app for reading newsletters, PDFs, and web articles you've saved for later. And now there's Readwise Books, a full-fledged [...]

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Science·1d

Rare Nanotyrannus skeleton sells for $47.3m at New York auction

Sale makes 'Jodi', a smaller relative of T rex, the 'second most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction', Sotheby's says A rare skeleton of a Nanotyrannus, a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sold at auction in New York this week for $47.3m, making it one of the world's most expensive fossils.

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World·21h

A bear was enlisted as a soldier and carried ammunition

Wojtek, a brown bear adopted by Polish troops in WWII, was officially enlisted as a private so he could travel with the unit, and was seen helping move artillery shells at the Battle of Monte Cassino.

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Geopolitics·3d, Sudan

Sudan paramilitary drone strikes cause mass power cuts in eastern states

Rapid Support Forces strike five power stations in three states controlled by Sudanese army Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have launched a coordinated drone attack against five power stations, causing mass power outages across the country's east, a government official said.

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Tech·5h

Chip Maker SK Hynix Posts Record Quarter as AI Memory Demand Overwhelms Supply

SK Hynix's quarterly revenue topped 100 trillion won for the first time, and the chipmaker says memory demand will outrun supply through 2030, with DRAM and HBM sold out through 2029.

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Science·2d

Perimenopause is everywhere. How do you know if you're in it? - video

Perimenopause has become a hot topic, with celebrities sharing their experiences and doctors offering tips and advice online. But despite the benefits of growing awareness, a rising number of women are now encountering misinformation about treatments such as HRT. Madeleine Finlay hears from Dr Paula Briggs, a consultant in sexual and reproductive health, about why experts have raised the alarm.

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World·23h

A cat served as a town's mayor for 20 years

Stubbs, a cat in Talkeetna, Alaska, held the role of honorary mayor for two decades, becoming a beloved fixture and a steady draw for curious visitors.

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Geopolitics·7d, China

New research tries to defuse the "China shock"

An almighty fight over an influential finding

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Tech·6h

Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches

Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest [...]

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Science·2d

Would you pay to have the 'best baby'? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection

For decades the idea of eugenics has been taboo. Now it is returning in a new commercial guise For a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early enough, but I stumbled and fell more easily than other children. My parents began to worry that something was wrong, that my muscles were weaker than they should be.

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World·1d

A wave of molasses once flooded Boston and killed 21 people

In 1919 a giant storage tank burst, sending a 25-foot wall of molasses through the North End at an estimated 35 miles per hour. Locals said the area smelled sweet for years.

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Geopolitics·14d, Ukraine

How Ukraine's biggest bank is run in a war zone

PrivatBank is a case study in adaptation

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Tech·6h

Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul

Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent. It's a new financial year for Microsoft, so the company is changing up [...]

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Science·3d

'Maxxing' is Dictionary.com's word of the year: 'It's cooler than saying you're doing more'

As all facets of our lives are optimized, the suffix has become inescapable - and experts predict it's around to stay Maxxing is not a new concept. Dungeons and Dragons players have been "min-maxing" character stats for years; Will Smith was maxin' and relaxin' in the 90s; as far back as the 40s, the term was used in game theory.

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Tech·6h

AI Security Startup Upwind Raises $400M at $3.8B Valuation

The cloud and AI security firm Upwind says revenue quadrupled in 2026 as it targets risks from autonomous AI agents.

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Science·3d

Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at University of Washington

Animal-rights group released video footage that shows distressed baby macaques undergoing lab experiments Footage released by the animal-rights group Peta reveals, for the first time, filmed experiments at the University of Washington's National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC), in which newborn monkeys were separated from their mothers and subjected to neurological tests after prenatal exposure to a neurotoxin.

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Tech·6h

Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro

With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base models that start at $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, with every premium hardware option that Apple offers pushes those [...]

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Science·4d

'It's magic': scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

Exclusive: Optical engineering that went into 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuries The Romans' proficiency in the art of glass-making has produced some of the wonders of antiquity, but few of their creations better a 1,600-year-old masterpiece which sits in the British Museum.

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Tech·7h

Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a 'significant leap' in cybersecurity

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over [...]

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Tech·7h

Hacker stole personnel data about thousands of Homeland Security employees, including CBP and ICE agents

A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.

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Tech·7h

Foreign gadget bans: all the news about the FCC's clampdown on Chinese tech

What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They're the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans because of the US government's xenophobic stance , and they might not be the last. Originally, the US government was just worried [...]

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Tech·7h

The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona

It has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights occurred.

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Tech·7h

Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

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Tech·7h

OpenAI Plans to Buy Google's AI Chips as It Looks Beyond Nvidia: Report

OpenAI, one of Nvidia's biggest customers, reportedly plans to buy Google's TPU chips. Neither company has confirmed the report, and the price and size of the order were not disclosed.

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Tech·8h

Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac

It's not as different from the previous model as you might have expected.

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Tech·8h

Wiz's CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming 'vulnpocalypse'

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the [...]

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Tech·8h

CFTC chief poses questions about policing AI but calls it a road to 'autonomous trading'

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a forum in which the chairman, Mike Selig, suggested AI agents may usher in a financial revolution.

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Tech·8h

Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use

Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.

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Tech·9h

Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too

The Echo Studio with Home Camera can "see and understand what's in front of the camera."

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Tech·9h

Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV

With more than 200 kWh, this luxury three-row can go 460 miles on a charge.

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Tech·9h

AI Can Quietly Influence Experts' Decisions, Anthropic Study Finds

Professional analysts went along with their AI agent's hidden opinion 86% of the time, and few credited it.

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Tech·9h

Apple launches its new touchscreen MacBook Pro

Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899.

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Tech·9h

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

Article URL: https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276998 Points: 890 # Comments: 190

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Tech·10h

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-groundb... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276940 Points: 507 # Comments: 869

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Tech·10h

Gemini 4 Carbon

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792 Points: 816 # Comments: 680

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Tech·11h

Dayjob: Tax , evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

Article URL: https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275626 Points: 208 # Comments: 130

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Tech·12h

CNC Stone Carving

Article URL: https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274409 Points: 409 # Comments: 118

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Tech·12h

AlpineBSD

Article URL: https://wiki.alpinebsd.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274251 Points: 180 # Comments: 166

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Tech·13h

Emacs Turns 50

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273171 Points: 423 # Comments: 180

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Tech·16h

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

Article URL: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640 Points: 1051 # Comments: 378

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Tech·1d

In an AI blow-up, would insurance pay out?

Credit default swaps are back in vogue amid fears of a debt disaster

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Tech·1d

San Francisco estate sells for record $10m above listing price as AI boom drives up costs

Eight-bedroom mansion listed at $18.5m sold for $28.5m and has a private garden and three-car garage A San Francisco estate sold for $10m above its listing price this month in a new record for the city as the artificial intelligence boom continues to drive up real estate prices.

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Tech·2d

Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll

Lack of profits and the threat posed by western countries are raising concern about the sustainability of Beijing's AI boom Trillions of dollars have been wiped from China's stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beijing races against the United States for dominance in the sector.

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Tech·3d

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

Article URL: https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060 Points: 437 # Comments: 207

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