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Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Ousted After 5 Days

Her abrupt departure came after she was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.

U.S. Budget Deficit Nears $2 Trillion, a Reality Check for Trump’s Cost Cutting

Higher interest rates are inflating borrowing costs as the Trump administration spends on the Iran war and tariff refunds.

What Measures Keep Students Safe? Prevention, Not Defenses, Experts Say

The gunman who killed four in Bend, Ore., entered an elementary school by shooting through a locked door, raising questions about what more schools can do to protect children.

Watch: Will Ukraine get the support needed as tensions with US rise?

Zelensky thanked the "real leaders" ahead of a meeting with the EU in Brussels.

Inside Ukrainian offensive pushing Russia back - with Starlink playing a key role

The BBC joins Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi as it regains crucial territory in the Donbas, but optimism has been dampened by souring relations with President Trump.

Nurse stole £750k from 99-year-old woman for cosmetic surgery and home improvements

Rebecca Louise Burwood saw the vulnerable victim "as her nanna" but stole to fund her lifestyle.

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

Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical physics problem solving

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16733

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

AI Vibe-Coding Just Hit the Video Game Industry Like an Avalanche

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/ai-vibe-coding-just-hit-the-video-game-industry-like-an-av

Freezing in the Face of AI

Article URL: https://precious.bearblog.dev/fear/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombin

The World Won't Wait: Evaluating and Teaching Agents Under a Live Clock

arXiv:2610.20665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can solve complex interactive tasks, yet reasoning and tool calls take time. In continuously changing environments, a

Evaluating Model Capabilities After Benchmark Saturation

arXiv:2610.20667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid advances in AI capabilities are causing benchmarks to saturate. Once several models approach perfect scores, a benchmark loses its power to diffe

Value-Informed Schedule Trimming for Accelerated Sequential Monte Carlo Guidance in Discrete Diffusion

arXiv:2610.20669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward-guided discrete diffusion enables test-time alignment with downstream objectives, but applying Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) guidance at every de

FlowBudget: Training-Free Sampling-Budget Estimation for Flow Matching Models

arXiv:2610.20636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling from continuous flow-based generators such as flow matching models requires numerical ODE or SDE integration, making inference cost depend on

Expanding Attention: A Taylor-Series Route to Linear-Time Transformers with a Fixed Number of Recurrent States

arXiv:2610.20637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We expand the exponential kernel of attention into a truncated Taylor series of $n$ terms and factorize each term into a tensor-power inner product, wh

Feature Elicitation for SAE Steering of Deceptive Behaviour in Small LLMs

arXiv:2610.20638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research on deceptive alignment is becoming increasingly urgent as frontier-model capabilities advance and their risk of causing catastrophic harm incr

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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The Leap Second Is No More

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds

The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

本周看什么 | 最近值得一看的 13 部作品

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「弯道超车」赛车入门指北 05：让赛车粉身碎骨，才是保命的真正方式

当你下次在屏幕前看到两台赛车撞得粉身碎骨、而车手淡定地推开残骸向看台挥手致意时，希望你能想起今天的故事。查看全文

一面专注体验，一面表达个性：麦金獭钢化膜与极稚墨水屏手机壳体验

从正面的手感与显示聊起，再翻到背面看看换图的玩法。查看全文

科技爱好者周刊（第 415 期）：3D 版《看不见的城市》

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 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。）

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Brent oil touches $110 as Iran escalates Hormuz attacks, Ukraine vows to hit Russian refineries

U.S. crude oil prices rose sharply Friday as Iran escalated attacks in the Strait of Hormuz this week.

Katie Zacharia out as Trump's White House press secretary

Zacharia was on shaky ground from her first White House press conference and over questions about her claims of being a lawyer despite not passing a bar exam.

Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo puts the company's status-symbol power to the test

Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo is drawing early demand as analysts assess whether the foldable can lift iPhone pricing and revenue.

V.F. Corporation: Why I Think Active Should Be Divested

RELX: The Risk Segment Makes This Buy Less Risky

Fractyl Health, Inc. (GUTS) Discusses Positive Top Line 6-Month Results From REMAIN-1 Study of Revita in Post GLP-1 Weight Maintenance Transcript

Stock Market Ends Week With Software Sell-Off; Nasdaq Dives 2%, Gives Up 200-Day Line

The stock market ended the week on a downer as the Nasdaq plunged 2.1% and gave up its 200-day moving average.

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Dow Jones Futures: S&P 500, Nasdaq Break Key Levels As CoreWeave, Dell Dive; Tesla, SpaceX, Meta Loom

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq knifed below their 50-day lines as CoreWeave led a broad tech sell-off. Tesla, SpaceX, Meta earnings loom.

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Double Size, Double Leverage: Why We Supercharged This QQQ Trade

In a choppy tape, you sometimes have to press your advantage when you have it.

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

The takeover of the bank by UniCredit is only the start

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

The best doorbell subscriptions compared, including Ring, Google, and Wyze

To get the most out of a video doorbell, you probably need a subscription. Here's a breakdown of the best, plus what they include and who they're for.

Best TVs of 2026

My team and I reviewed top OLED, Mini LED, and RGB LED TVs for value, usability, design, and image performance to find the best models you can buy.

The terrifying true stories that inspired your favorite horror movies

Not all horror movies are total fiction — some take inspiration from real life. Here are the scariest true stories that horror movies were based on.

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement actions with Gardner Bancshares, Inc. and Small Business Bank

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement actions with Gardner Bancshares, Inc. and Small Business Bank

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

聚焦 AI 场景落地与 FDE 创新，2026 人工智能产业大会专项活动在济南举行

生产级大模型平台工程实战手册

AI 生成的代码，怎么才能进得了工程体系？

兑现度的胜利，星尘智能再融10亿

好消息是资本市场还在投，坏消息是，它越来越挑剔

京东双十一取消定金预售，押注服务消费推上百项产品

当双十一进入第18个年头，单纯比拼价格早已不再是制胜的法宝，随着电商增长放缓，平台竞争焦点逐步转移到供应链履约、服务能力、产业数字化。

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西木汀官宣任敏成为首位品牌代言人；lululemon以“made to feel感受为先”连续第三年再赴进博之约。

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 #538: The FTC wants OpenAI's and Anthropic's safety incident records

The FTC sent OpenAI and Anthropic 50-page demands for records on security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy, Axios reported. Meta's new business terms, effective October 30, let it scrape a

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

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic

Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity

Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.

Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection

Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.

Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely