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Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at the United Nations

President Trump’s remarks about oil reserves, the drug trade and his peace efforts contained falsehoods and exaggerations.

U.N. Searches for Its Next Leader

António Guterres is stepping down in December after two terms as secretary general. No front-runner to succeed him has emerged so far.

UNGA Brings Traffic and a Little Chaos to New York City

Big names flood New York City each year for the United Nations General Assembly. But that also means traffic (oh, the traffic!), closed streets and a little more chaos than usual.

Trump says he can do business with Burnham but criticises 'terrible' Chagos deal

The UK has proposed handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and paying to lease back an important military base.

Watch: Burnham 'gets it' says Trump, as the two leaders meet for first time

Donald Trump says he can do business with Andy Burnham at their first face-to-face meeting in New York, but criticises the "terrible" Chagos deal.

Plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community disrupted, say police

Two men were arrested in Manchester on Sunday, say counter-terror police.

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

RBS-Attention: Radius-Bounded Sparse Prefill for Long-Context Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.20971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context large language model inference is increasingly limited by prefill, where dense self-attention processes the entire prompt before generatio

Attention-Aware Routing: Coupling Routing and Attention in MoEs

arXiv:2609.20974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Mixture-of-Experts language models, the router typically selects and weights experts based on the token's hidden state, utilizing limited contextual

CaLR: Causal Latent Revision for Robust Diffusion Reasoning

arXiv:2609.20981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) models suffer from local greediness, while diffusion language models (DLMs) often lack the strict causal structure required for rea

PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference

arXiv:2609.22106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accuracy of Low-bit quantization of linear layers is often dominated by a small number of outliers. Although existing methods, such as smoothing, rotat

Generalized Multimodal Foundation Model

arXiv:2609.22107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Making prediction with multimodal data is widely used in diverse scenarios. Existing multimodal fusion models, once deployed, can only handle predefine

Correcting Learning-based Perception for Safety

arXiv:2609.22108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-enabled perception is important in many autonomous systems. Unlike traditional sensors, the boundary where ML perception does or does not work

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

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How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement

Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim.

Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App

Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.

Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind

No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.

可定制、更出彩，头戴式耳机新选择：Beats 360 首发体验

在BeatsStudioPro发布3年之后，Beats终于想起来要更新一下自家头戴式耳机的旗舰款了，推出了全新的Beats360。值得一提的是，Beats不久前刚刚度过了成立后的20周年生日，Beat ...查看全文

怀旧手记｜25 年前的笔记本，如何兼顾轻薄、时尚与性能？

黄金时代「时尚与科技结合」的浪漫。查看全文

App+1 | Coast：用十年经验，给记账这件事一个「终点」

从大学时代入不敷出开始记账，到 10 年后发现记账数据没有被充分利用，再到用 Vibe Coding 把自己的想法做成了一款 App——10 年的记账经验变成了产品设计的基础，而 Vibe Coding 让一个非技术出身的人有能力把这些想法实现出来。查看全文

科技爱好者周刊（第 413 期）：再见了，React Native

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。（[通知] 下周五开始的中秋和十一假期，周刊休息。）

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科技爱好者周刊（第 412 期）：禁止 issue，只用 PR

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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科技爱好者周刊（第 411 期）：OpenClaw 2.0 是一个缩影

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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Trump administration is examining whether a diesel export ban is feasible, Treasury Secretary says

Republican lawmakers have called for an export ban as high diesel prices hit farmers and truckers ahead of the November midterm elections.

Trump administration removes around 760,000 Obamacare enrollments, alleging fraud

Vice President JD Vance's White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud estimates the action will save roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.

Trump discloses more than 1,100 July trades, including up to $25 million each in sales of Microsoft, Amazon

Trump sold tech stocks including Amazon and Microsoft when the Mag 7 stocks popped on July 20, adding $291 billion in market value in one day.

FINN:CA: Still Going Strong; Reiterating Buy

Labcorp's Future Driven By Clinical Testing Demand, Despite Impact From Medicare Cuts

GE Aerospace: Why $100 Oil Doesn't Break The Bull Case

Nasdaq Scores Record As Oil Eases; Apple Tests Buy Point

The Nasdaq scored a record close while blue chips lagged in Tuesday's stock market.

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Dow Jones Futures: Nasdaq Hits New High; Sandisk, Micron Trigger Buy Signals

The Nasdaq hit a new high with memory giants Sandisk and Micron flashing buy signals. But financials are struggling.

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12 S&P 500 Stocks Join Trillion-Dollar Club — What Could Go Wrong?

It was big news when the value of Apple surpassed $1 trillion. But now a dozen S&P 500 companies have done it.

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The best women's travel shoes for stylish, walkable comfort

I've walked countless miles testing the best women's travel shoes. Here are the most comfortable, lightweight pairs I make sure to pack on every trip.

The best iPhone 18 Pro Max deals for upgrading to Apple's strongest device yet

You don't need to shell out for Apple's latest and greatest. Here's how to save on the iPhone 18 Pro Max with freebies, trade-in offers, and more.

The best makeup bags for travel

From oversized cases that would delight a makeup artist to purse-sized pouches, we tested the best makeup cases for car or air travel.

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by BancFirst Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by BancFirst Corporation

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement action with SNB Bancshares and Bank of Eufaula

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement action with SNB Bancshares and Bank of Eufaula

从生成内容到创造体验，多模态大模型如何改变内容生产？

不受控的 Agent ，凭什么上���产系统？

Jotai 3.0 带来仅支持 ESM 的现代化包，摒弃旧版构建方式和已弃用 API

从卖芯片到做平台，地平线押注“Arm+Android”模式

地平线征程芯片突破1500万颗，Arm+Android模式正成为其进入车企自研体系的新支点。

从单点获客到全渠道经营，出海商家如何打开增长新空间？| 出海参考

六大增长方向向下扎根平台，向上打开生长空间。

卖废品上瘾的年轻人，遍地开花的回收机

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Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

AI Weekly Issue #530: Applied AI This Week

Companies are giving AI specific jobs: checking security cameras, helping farmers understand their records, searching satellite images, and preparing sales quotes. This edition explains how those tool

AI Weekly Issue #529: OpenAI faces 50-plus lawsuits over alleged ChatGPT harm

Thirty new complaints come from survivors of a Canadian school shooting. They accuse OpenAI of failing to warn police; the company disputes key claims.

AI Weekly Issue #528: What are companies building with AI? An Applied AI Deep Dive

We went looking for what companies are actually building with AI. The answer was not more chatbots. It was drones carrying diagnostic samples, driverless Frito-Lay trucks, AI-guided flight paths, repa

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model