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Trump Rallies Red States Amid Fears About G.O.P. Voter Enthusiasm as Midterms Near

The president’s swing is taking him to states including South Carolina and Kansas that were not seen as competitive just a few months ago.

Trump Campaigns for Republicans as Turmoil Mounts in Washington

Our White House correspondent Tyler Pager traveled with President Trump as he campaigned across the country ahead of the midterms. As the president touted his record, political drama mounted in Washin

Republicans Barely Mention Trump in Political Ads Ahead of the Midterms

Only a small fraction of recent G.O.P. broadcast and streaming ads mention the president, according to a Times analysis of ad data.

Curfew imposed in parts of central Paris and other cities after rioting across France

It comes after the country's interior minister admits that police "lost control" in some cities.

Watch: Clean up begins after French riots but police remain

Outside of Paris, Marseille saw some of the worst damage, with shop owners reporting more than 600 premises having been looted.

Australian MP critically injured after being hit by car in apparent attack

The independent politician is in hospital after what the prime minister says may have been a deliberate attack.

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: Accessibility Context for UI with AI

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Lessons from Watching an AI Agent Swarm Self-Organize

Article URL: https://goteleport.com/blog/ai-agent-swarm-security-lessons/

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AI Discovery in Combinatorics: From Problems to Solutions and Back

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16555

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When is a large language model a good calibration agent? Physics-labeled prompting for budgeted engineering simulator calibration

arXiv:2610.22379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Calibrating expensive engineering simulators requires tuning model parameters to match reference data, a process heavily constrained by computational c

Trust but Verify: Designing Region-Inhomogeneous Forward Dynamics for Discrete Diffusion

arXiv:2610.22380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous diffusion treats the forward process as a design space; discrete language diffusion often uses absorbing corruption, leaving context fully t

Binding-Specific Relearning Savings for Test-Time Continual Learning

arXiv:2610.22381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a fact becomes harder to elicit from a language model, has the model lost it, or has it merely become less accessible? Parameter-updating test-tim

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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Best Power Bank Deals: Laptops, MagSafe, and More

You can never have too many portable chargers, especially when they’re this discounted.

OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody

A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”

The Best Mixbook Sale for Holiday Cards (2026)

Mixbook is the best card service I’ve tried, and the brand has multiple sales on holiday cards happening now.

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与 Tim Cook 走进「蓝盒子」，了解 Mac 如何助力中国企业成长

离开了北京之后，TimCook上周四来到了位于上海市闵行区的「蓝盒子」办公室，开启了此次访华行程的上海之行。蓝盒子是一家成立于2019年的床垫及家居品牌，旗下产品以简洁并具有辨识度的设计，以及「一百天 ...查看全文

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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。

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。）

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Tech stocks had a nice oversold bounce on Monday. Earnings this week will determine if it's for real

Investors are hopeful that last week's pullback was a clearing event for equities, but lingering concerns remain.

OpenAI bugging suspect Alfozan held without bail after Saudi government offers to pay

Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan is accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco.

Trump says he'd meet with Putin and Xi, criticizes Zelenskyy

Tensions between Trump and Zelenskyy have steadily risen in recent weeks, while Russia, which invaded Ukraine, has received multiple breaks from the U.S.

Accel Entertainment: Chicago Is Delayed, But The Investment Thesis Is Intact

Thermador Groupe SA (THEPF) Q3 2026 Sales/Trading Call Transcript

AI's 2008 Moment: Buy The Debt, Not The Dip

Dow Jones Futures: AMD, Nvidia Lead AI Trade Higher; Meta, Netflix, SpaceX, Tesla Earnings On Deck

Dow Jones Futures: AMD and Nvidia led the AI trade higher Monday following Friday's big losses. Meta, Netflix, SpaceX and Tesla have earnings due.

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Toy Prices Are Climbing, And This Toymaker Trades In A Buy Zone

Hasbro and Mattel are experiencing very different years ahead of their respective third-quarter earnings reports.

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Sandisk, Datadog, Amazon Lead S&P 500 As AI Stocks Rebound

Western Digital, Sandisk, Datadog, Twilio and Amazon led the S&P 500 index in Monday's stock market trading as artificial intelligence plays rebounded. Western Digital gained 6.1% to 352.21 on

Who will buy $120bn-worth of fresh Japanese government bonds?

Japan wants its pension fund and households to buy more government debt

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

Prosecutors say ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting recording device received 'what appears to be considerable support' from the Saudi government

Abdulrahman Alfozan had been in contact as recently as October 5 with a member of the Saudi Royal Family, prosecutors said.

Samsung S90H TV deal: My favorite OLED of the year is at a record-low price

The Samsung S90H OLED TV offers a rare combination of features at a great deal price, with pixel-level contrast and an impressive anti-glare screen.

The ultramarathon legend who ran 350 miles nonstop says the key to doing hard things is simpler than most people think

Dean Karnazes, known for extreme ultrarunning feats, shares insights into mental toughness and redefining success in endurance challenges.

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

大批API账户被刷爆！OpenCode遭黑客围攻48小时，官方甩锅“蒸馏攻击”被质疑

Jev迎来中国挑战者：StartLux登顶决策模型榜单，还学会了“拿不准再想”

谷歌开源Harness，支持 OpenCode 和 Codex：国内开发者接入Jev实测“真行”

纽娲机器人杨睿刚：无人配送跑了十年，机器人为何还到不了家门？

难题集中在几笔容易被低估的事件上：新场地的部署、既有设施的改造，以及异常发生时的人工兜底。

种草在内、成交在外，开环电商是配菜还是新路？｜ 出海参考

黑五大促预算锁死之前，TikTok喊出“支持成交发生在别处”。

评测的牌坊：如何起高楼，如何楼塌了？

评测的边界在哪里？其实这里有行规。

Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun

What do you think?

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?

AI Weekly Issue #540: AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them

This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past two weeks, drawn from our Use-Case Library and from SEC filings. Three things stand out: AI now finds security fl

AI Weekly Issue #539: AI-made midterm ads top $137 million, and 70% carry no AI label

Campaigns and PACs have spent more than $137 million on AI-generated or AI-enhanced midterm ads, and about 70% of them carry no AI label, the New York Times reported. The biggest pro-AI super PAC netw

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

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI to

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.