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Trump Says U.S. Will Not Strike Iran Again Before Midterms as Military Draws Up New Plans

The U.S. military has drafted options for three days of strikes, but in recent months the president has repeatedly vetoed plans to restart the war.

U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Long and Grueling Deployment

The aircraft carrier, whose crew endured food shortages, spent much of its nearly 11-month deployment in combat without a day off.

How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters Ahead of the Midterms

Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.

Warrants used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes were unlawful, court says

A criminal investigation into the former prince continues and police have retained material seized from his homes.

Watch: What does the ruling mean for the investigation into the former prince?

Special correspondent Lucy Manning explains why the Hight Court has ruled that search warrants used to search Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's home were unlawful.

Two Latvian men arrested on suspicion of trespass at RAF base in Cambridgeshire

Police say they apprehended two Latvian men at about 02:00 BST while they were inside the perimeter.

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

The operating system for AI harnesses

Article URL: https://github.com/affaan-m/ecc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com

'Suno is the new auto-tune': Meet the artists using AI to go viral

Article URL: https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/71134/1/suno-is

Cybersecurity Imperatives Will Demand AI Math

Article URL: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2026/10/cybersecurity-imperatives-will-demand-ai-math/

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Adaptive Workflow Intelligence: A Cognitive Architecture for Context-Driven Enterprise Automation

arXiv:2610.08793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise systems increasingly rely on automated workflows, yet many AI-driven solutions remain brittle under non-stationary conditions, evolving poli

Accelerating Floating-Point Satisfiability Solving via Gradient Normalization

arXiv:2610.08808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are foundational to software verification, program analysis, and compiler testing, particularly over the t

Route-Verify-Vote: Procedure-Conditioned Self-Consistency for Mixed-Domain Reasoning

arXiv:2610.08814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional generalization remains challenging when language models must combine familiar reasoning operations in unfamiliar ways. The Scenario-Based

A Bayesian Mirror Architecture for Emergent Consciousness: Circular Hierarchies, Self-Manifolds, and Hybrid Event-Self Binding

arXiv:2610.08792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a foundational formulation of the Bayesian Mirror Architecture (BMA), a self-referential generative framework in which sensory abstractions,

Beyond Baseline Severity: Temporal and Disease-Specific Predictors of Depression Outcomes Following Mindfulness Interventions

arXiv:2610.08809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression severity among patients with chronic or acute medical conditions is influenced by a complex interaction of baseline psychological state, dem

Transferability and operational reliability of a Prithvi crop classification foundation model under phenological and geographic shift across three continents

arXiv:2610.08810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuned geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs) pretrained on large satellite archives have been shown to improve crop classification accuracy and geo

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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Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

Trump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe

“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.

iPhone Duo：苹果，终究还是对强迫症下手了

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从开源清理工具到付费 Mac 应用，用户教会了我如何做产品：Mole

最近我写了不少关于独立开发的思考，想着要汇总一下，就把Mole从开源CLI做到Mac付费软件这一路聊一聊：我当时是怎么想的，哪些事情做下来真的有用，也许能给正在做自己作品的朋友一些输入。去年国庆我在三 ...查看全文

扔掉的是杂念，掌控的是生活：我的断舍离实践经验

断舍离从来不是为了追求极致的空旷，而是为了在混乱的生活里，重新夺回对空间的掌控权。查看全文

科技爱好者周刊（第 414 期）：Jev 决策模型有什么用

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 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。）

本杂志开源，欢迎投稿。另有

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。

本杂志开源，欢迎投稿。另有

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Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI stocks sink on OpenAI revenue report

OpenAI has told investors that it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed.

SpaceX deal to acquire spectrum license hammers shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile

SpaceX agreed to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio as it to pushes its Starlink service deeper into the U.S. telecommunications market.

Treasury yields are 'really, really high' but can come down soon, Bessent's new advisor says

The comments from David Zervos come after the 10-year and 30-year yields marched to 24-year highs in recent days.

Enerpac Tool Group Is Doing Great, But Not Great Enough For An Upgrade

Alphabet: Building The Thing That Could Replace It

MLPI Is Inferior To Alternatives

SpaceX Buys Wireless Spectrum For Starlink; Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile Tumble

Elon Musk's SpaceX will buy more wireless spectrum as its Starlink mobile service expands. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile shares tumbled late.

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Dow Jones Futures: AI Stocks Tumble On OpenAI News; SpaceX Move Slams Verizon, AT&T Late

AI stocks sold off on OpenAI but much of the market was fine. Apple flashed a buy signal. A SpaceX spectrum buy hit Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile late.

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Why Sector Rotations Are Moving At Record Speeds

Why are sector rotations moving faster than ever? Asbury Research’s Jack Kosar reveals tech's dominance and key risk signals.

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The best Prime Day headphone and earbud deals include record-low prices on our favorite models from Sony and Bose

Amazon's October Prime Day features big discounts on some of our reviewers' top picks for earbuds and over-ear headphones.

The best Breville espresso machine I've tested is still $220 off after Prime Day, but not for much longer

Our top-tested Breville Barista espresso machine is 26% off after Prime Day, plus more Breville countertop appliance deals are still on sale.

LinkedIn is overhauling employee bonuses, memo shows

LinkedIn is eliminating company performance from its annual employee bonus calculations, tying payouts entirely to individual performance in 2027.

Federal Reserve Board announces enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm’s failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity related to money laundering

Federal Reserve Board announces enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm’s failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity rel

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

谷歌借助 AI 与差分模糊测试将 C 语言依赖库改写为 Rust

Cloudflare 详解从 WordPress 迁移至 EmDash 的过程

OpenAI刚把多Agent做成产品，o1奠基人却说：1万个Agent解出世界级难题，多Agent贡献不到10%

一块刹车踏板支架，让江淮一天蒸发62亿元？

尊界V800陷入制动踏板争议，官方宣布优化设计并免费升级，江淮股价跌停，一天蒸发62亿元。

住房股已充分计价极端悲观预期，业内人士看好托尔兄弟与普尔特集团

Evercore ISI 的斯蒂芬·金表示，现在还不是买入住房类股票的合适时机。但如果行业减少新建规模、同时抵押贷款利率下降，这种情况在未来六个月内可能会发生变化。

业绩失色，股价腰斩，西部材料仍要在高处定增“补血”

近三成补流，现金流压力凸显

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 #535: AI got too expensive, so companies are moving to cheaper models

This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past three weeks. Three patterns stand out: companies switching models to control cost, large deployments that are 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

Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifl

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safet

Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving h

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.