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In a Major Boost for the Right, Another Bolsonaro Nears Brazil’s Presidency

Flávio Bolsonaro’s first round lead leaves President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva three weeks to find the votes to stop Brazil’s, and Latin America’s, rightward shift.

Brazil Election Could Give Bolsonaro a Key Role in Trump’s Latin America Map

Flávio Bolsonaro, now the favorite to win Brazil’s presidency, would give President Trump a critical new ally in Latin America, particularly on security.

Trapped in a Kill Zone, a Ukrainian City Is Beginning to Starve

Evacuation is almost impossible and food is running out in Russian-occupied Oleshky, a city menaced by mines and drones.

Trump says 'threat' led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home stations in America.

Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86

His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.

King's funding for Andrew not to be used for legal action against police

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking action over search warrants issued ahead of his arrest in February.

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

MintFlow: Minimal Trajectory Intervention for Constrained Flow Matching

arXiv:2610.02260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching models excel at generative modeling, and many downstream applications require their samples to satisfy prescribed constraints, such as ob

Fast Models, Slow Evidence: A Paired and Self-Audited Evaluation of System-1 Decision Models for LLM Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2610.02267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses make many small, typed decisions per task: which model to call, which tool to use, whether retrieved text is relevant, whether an input

The AI Risk Observatory: What Can We Learn from AI Disclosures in Annual Reports About Societal Resilience?

arXiv:2610.02281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Societal resilience research relies on access to useful and actionable data, which motivates our main research question: Can annual reports, processed

Hybrid Machine Learning-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy with Generative Feature Augmentation for Pharmaceutical Identification

arXiv:2610.02224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid and reliable identification of pharmaceutical residues is important for safeguarding public health, ensuring food safety, and enabling practical

The Price of Greenwashing: Algorithmic Verification and Market Discipline using Conformal Machine Learning

arXiv:2610.02225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While corporate sustainability mandates are expanding, the systemic reliance on self-reported emissions data exposes financial markets to pervasive gre

State-Space Unlearning for Non-Stationary Bias in Land Surface Forecasting

arXiv:2610.02248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operational land surface forecasting systems built on Mamba-family Structured State Space Models absorb non-stationary confounding events (unrecorded i

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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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long Musk paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.

Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever

Under 1 million years old, “Elias 2-24b” is now the youngest exoplanet ever observed, and it may force researchers to reevaluate theories about how planets are formed.

The Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals 2026: WIRED-Tested Picks to Shop Now

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin tomorrow, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.

十个案例助你轻松上手 iOS 27 通知自动化

iOS 27 通知自动化改变了通知的处理方式，快捷指令也迎来了不少的新玩法。查看全文

方方面面都熟悉，方方面面都更好：iPhone 18 Pro 体验

iPhone 18 Pro 也许不会让你感觉焕然一新，却在许多地方都变得更加完整了。查看全文

TDS REVIEW | CMF Clip Pro 耳夹式无线耳机体验

不知道以后 CMF 的设计还会不会像现在一样出彩。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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'We had a threat': Trump explains U.S. moving long-range bombers from UK

The U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers removed from England have been used in strikes on Iran.

House Democrat targets candidate prediction market trades after opponent’s Kalshi penalty

A new bill bans federal candidates from trading prediction market contracts related to their own elections and would result in a fine if violated.

AI researcher warns 'we are racing to build and grow our own adversary' in NYC hearing

The leading AI labs facing intensifying scrutiny over their safety and security practices.

Tesla Is The EV King, Again

BellRing Brands: The Protein Boom Alone Can't Save This Company

Can Stocks Stay Resilient With Higher Treasury Yields?

Dow Jones Futures: Nasdaq Hits Record Highs; TSMC, Nvidia, Elon Musk-Led SpaceX, Tesla Rally

Dow Jones Futures: The Nasdaq hit a record high Monday as Nvidia and TSMC broke out past buy point. Elon Musk-led SPCX and TSLA rallied.

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AbbVie Partner Flies Sky-High On News For Its $3 Billion Cancer Contender

The addition of Genmab's Epkinly to a standard cocktail of drugs helped lymphoma patients live longer before worsening. Genmab stock rocketed.

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IPO Market Limps, But This Offering Could Change Everything

But the final months of 2026 could see a rebound, with Anthropic's blockbuster IPO waiting in the wings.

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Best Paramount Plus coupon and promo codes we've tested in October 2026

Paramount Plus often offers money-saving coupon codes that you can apply at checkout. Here are the best working ones we've tested.

Meta's Muse is already pulling one CEO's purchases away from Amazon

Leif Abraham, Public's co-CEO, told Business Insider he wants vintage wines and fancy Levi's jeans. Meta's Muse AI agent buys them for him.

Investors shrug off a fresh surge in bond yields to push the Nasdaq to a record high

The Nasdaq Composite rose to an all-time-high as traders shrugged off higher yields and took in lower oil prices and AI optimism.

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Fleur Capital Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Fleur Capital Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces it will extend, until November 4, the comment period on its proposal to modernize Regulation O

Federal Reserve Board announces it will extend, until November 4, the comment period on its proposal to modernize Regulation O

C2PA 不够可信？苹果把照片签名塞进传感器，却把信任交给了自家云

Cloudflare 将 1.1.1.1 DNS 缓存的内存占用削减了 100TB

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Import AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy

Who chooses what AI gets to do?

Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?

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?

AI Weekly Issue #534: Universities cannot grade their way out of AI

This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin's new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own pro

AI Weekly Issue #533: Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent

The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly pri

AI Weekly Issue #531: AI labs shipped agents before agreeing how to report failures

The AI story of September 14–20 was not one spectacular model launch. It was the machinery around agents becoming visible: people reading private chats, models writing instructions into their own memo

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI syste

Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain sepa