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Trump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results

Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.

Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials

Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Resume Russian Refinery Strikes, Defying Trump

President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed overt frustration with the United States in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.

Bus hits train stopped on French side of Channel Tunnel, with 19 injured

Two people were severely injured and evacuated by helicopter but no one's life appeared to be in danger, officials said.

Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad

Trump said some would "rather not watch" the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.

Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says

New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.

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

Show HN: Rebuilt our directory of 241 AI tools for hardware engineering

Article URL: https://productflo.io/ai-tools

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

AI Building vs. AI Buying: The Transatlantic Split

Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-

We fired the frontier model from two AI pipelines. Here are the receipts

Article URL: https://seldon-ai.com/blog/we-fired-the-frontier-model

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📰 Google DeepMind

Artificiality's First Exam: An LLM-Referenced C-test for Supraintelligence

arXiv:2610.14005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the accelerated pace of AI development, any benchmark whose difficulty is calibrated with humans or current AI systems becomes circular, or satur

The Silent Failures in Agentic Data Science

arXiv:2610.14115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have significantly lowered the barrier to writing code. Naturally, this has also led to the development of data science agents th

ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop

arXiv:2610.14118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven their deployment toward general-purpose harness environments, where LLM-based agents o

Lotus: Learning to Understand Time-series by Learning to Forecast

arXiv:2610.18877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series language models typically align numerical signals with language using labels, captions, or question-answer pairs. Although such supervision

Inverse Reasoning Models for Efficient Post-Training and Verification from Answer-Only Data

arXiv:2610.18878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training reasoning LLMs often requires making a tradeoff between costly supervision and compute inefficiency: supervised finetuning typically requ

Do Vision CIL Methods Transfer to Protein? A Diagnostic Benchmark of Frozen Protein Encoders

arXiv:2610.18879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein function annotation operates over an expanding label space, making class-incremental learning (CIL) a natural framework for incorporating newly

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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We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For

Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.

Upgrade Your Thermostat for Winter With This Ecobee Deal for $120

You don’t need the fanciest model to make your heating routine smarter. A refurbished Ecobee we love is just $120 through October 21.

新玩意 253｜少数派的编辑们最近买了啥？

编注：很多读者都会好奇少数派的编辑们到底平时都「买了啥」。我们希望通过「编辑部的新玩意」介绍编辑部成员们最近在用的新奇产品，让他们自己来谈谈这些新玩意的使用体验究竟如何。内容声明：《新玩意》栏目如含有 ...查看全文

顺应变化，重申标准：《少数派创作手册》修订说明

四年前，我们发布了《少数派创作手册》（manual.sspai.com），旨在让作者更快捷地获得创作过程中所需的信息，以及更一致地传达对于内容选编的标准和主张。四年来，《创作手册》获得了作者们的广泛查 ...查看全文

学得会的快捷指令，零基础入门苹果效率魔法

快捷指令一直被视为苹果用户必备的效率利器。不仅网络上已有大量的指令可供下载，如果能根据自己的需求，从零开始构建一条快捷指令，就不用在iPhone/Mac上频繁手动操作，可以节省大量时间。然而想要熟练掌 ...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。

本杂志开源，欢迎投稿。另有

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

📰 V2EX

CoreWeave credit default swaps hit distress levels as investors sour on AI debt

Signs of distressed deepened in CoreWeave on Thursday.

Trump says 'if Ken Paxton loses' Texas Senate race, blame Cornyn and Karl Rove

Polls show GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton trailing Democratic Rep. James Talarico in the Texas Senate race.

Porsche reveals Mission S concept car that previews new design identity

Porsche revealed a concept car called Mission S as part of a turnaround plan that includes efforts to boost profits through higher-end products and lower sales.

Commercial Metals Company (CMC) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Snowflake: More Risk Than Reward At These Prices (Downgrade)

Canada Goose: Sell Into 2QFY27 Results

Dow Jones Futures: Disney, Salesforce Lead New Buys After Wild Session; Tesla Roadster On Tap

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose at a key level, led by consumer and software stocks like Disney and Salesforce. AI names came off lows.

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IBD Live Q&A Summary, Stock Lists, Transcript For Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026

Welcome to IBD Live! This list of FAQs and useful links will speed your learning curve. The Ready List contains top stocks that meet our fundamental and technical screening criteria...

Tenet Healthcare, IBD's Stock Of The Day, Rides Blue Wave Toward Buy Point

Medicaid cuts might be softened if Democrats win, analysts say.

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

PrivatBank is a case study in adaptation

A shortage of sulphur could hurt mines and farms everywhere

Another commodity shock from the Iran war

Another warning sign for China’s economy: falling consumer credit

A crackdown on aggressive debt collectors is good news and bad news

How Scientology actually works, according to a former Scientologist

Jenna Miscavige is the niece of David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology. She was raised as a Scientologist and left when she was 22.

Katie Zacharia defends calling herself a lawyer in new interview

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia went on the record Thursday, saying she considered the results of her bar exam "inconsequential."

The problem with Katie Zacharia calling herself a lawyer

Two watchdog groups filed complaints with the California bar, asking it to investigate whether she violated the law by calling herself a lawyer.

Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on August 17, September 9, and September 16, 2026

Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on August 17, September 9, and September 16, 2026

Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of American families

Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of American families

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

拍照和翻译救不了AI眼镜？千问2218元起推新硬件，要抢现实世界里的上下文

阶跃星辰开�� Step 5 Preview 权重：长程 Agent 的竞争，延伸到上下文管理与训练系统

蚂蚁百灵开源 560B 模型 Ling-3.0-flash：0.19 美元搞定复杂工作流

这只股票献给你：百威的“健怡可乐”时刻正是买入良机

美国人和欧洲人的酒喝得更少了，但这对百威英博来说不成问题。随着新的零酒精饮品摆上商店货架，这家生产百威和米凯罗的酿酒商股价目前处于折价交易状态。

特斯拉与SpaceX的合并可能在数周内实现

巴克莱分析师丹·莱维一直在回答客户关于一项潜在超级并购的提问。

100万+ 内部GPU+免费午饭，盛大想把“超级个体”弹射上天

给AI创业者发100万，盛大的算盘是什么？

Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space

Will we give robots the moon?

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?

AI Weekly Issue #537: AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart fridges, Anthropic says

This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared most since our last issue on October 8, minus the stories we already sent you in the Daily Espresso. The most shared: Anthropic's war

AI Weekly Issue #536: Top AI models failed a test of inventing new AI research

This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared over the past three days. Most of them look ahead: whether AI can do AI research on its own, who gets a say in governing it, how it i

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

Children and young people broadly support health data research – but want safeguards

Children and young people broadly support health data research – but want safeguards

Cambridge researchers awarded ARIA funding

Cambridge researchers awarded ARIA funding