Today: October 31, 2026
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Shares of Google’s parent company just had their worst day ever. Here’s what it means

Shares of Google’s parent company just had their worst day ever. Here’s what it means

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Gilead hikes 2026 sales outlook, says Medicare cuts Biktarvy price by 38% starting in 2028

Gilead Sciences hiked its full-year sales outlook on Thursday and reported third-quarter product sales rose 13%, driven by a double-digit percentage jump for its

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Nvidia's Huang says dealings with firm in US spy probe were 'normal', Bloomberg News reports

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the company's business with Singapore-based Megaspeed International, calling it "normal and not unusual," Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

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Walmart commits $6 billion to expand Symbotic deal

Walmart said on Thursday it had extended its agreement with AI robotics firm Symbotic, committing about $6 billion over several years to bring more automation capabilities to its

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Peptides could soon be easier to get in the United States. Here’s what to know

Peptides could soon be easier to get in the United States. Here’s what to know

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Polymarket paused international trading after a security issue involving a third-party provider

Polymarket temporarily halted trading on its international platform Thursday due to a security incident involving a third-party provider

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Dartmouth provost resigns following accusations he used artificial intelligence for writing

The provost of Dartmouth College has resigned after a faculty committee found that he used artificial intelligence in his writing, including in a Washington Post guest column on AI cheating

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OpenAI says human intent at center of updated AI model guidelines

OpenAI on Thursday updated its Model Spec, a public roadmap for how it wants its AI models to behave, reorganizing the framework around five core values as AI systems become more

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Equities and bond yields dip with AI jitters and economic data in focus

Wall Street equity indexes dipped on Thursday as AI jitters offset some encouraging economic data while Europe's stocks rallied as

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Soy, rare earths and fuels: how Brazil vote impacts the global flow of resources

Brazil's surprising reelection of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will have implications for the global flow of commodities from the

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Bolsonaro ally blames ChatGPT for now-deleted 'president-elect of Brazil' claim

A close ally of Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro on Thursday said AI chatbot ChatGPT was responsible for language in a letter briefly posted on social media by the

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Police chief says shooting outside Virginia GOP offices has nothing to do with election

Police say a shooting outside the Republican Party of Virginia offices in Richmond Thursday is unrelated to the upcoming midterm elections

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FDA plans to update infant formula nutrition requirements for first time in nearly 30 years

FDA plans to update infant formula nutrition requirements for first time in nearly 30 years

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Yemen's hospitals buckle as fighting escalates

In a hospital in Yemen's Taiz, a 25-year-old pregnant mother of two lay immobilised after a bullet lodged in her spine while she was trapped inside her home without food or

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Meta loses appeals against interim measures imposed by French regulators

Meta Platforms has lost its appeals against interim measures imposed by French regulators over media organisations' publishing rights in the Paris Court of

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US Homeland Security cites risk to over 40,000 personnel in effort to take leaked data offline

The US Department of Homeland Security asked an Icelandic hosting company on Thursday to take down or limit access to data related to thousands of agency personnel,

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Wall Street's AI bet: Own the infrastructure, collect the rent

Wall Street's top alternative asset managers are betting on the AI boom by owning the infrastructure behind it and locking in rent through

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Spanish train crash yet another blow to Sánchez’s government ahead of elections in November

Spanish train crash yet another blow to Sánchez’s government ahead of elections in November

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Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say

Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say

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Orange unit signs deal to Mistral's latest AI cybersecurity model

French telecom group Orange's digital security arm on Thursday announced a partnership with Mistral AI to equip its products with a cybersecurity variant of the startup's latest AI

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Mistral AI publicly releases Large 4, targets cybersecurity users

French AI startup Mistral released its Large 4 model to the public on Thursday, saying it was designed to help organisations identify and fix cyber-security

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Permanent Daylight Saving Time could put schoolchildren’s lives at risk. An expert explains

Permanent Daylight Saving Time could put schoolchildren’s lives at risk. An expert explains

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Hungary to stick with Orban-era nuclear cooperation deal with US

Hungary's government has asked parliament to make legally binding a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States that the previous government of Viktor Orban

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Pompeii cupboard opens window onto life before Vesuvius erupted

A cupboard sealed for almost 2,000 years in Pompeii has yielded an intimate snapshot of one resident's life before Mount Vesuvius destroyed the ancient

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Bristol Myers raises 2026 revenue forecast, lowers EPS due to charge

Bristol ​Myers Squibb raised its full-year revenue forecast on Thursday, citing strong sales of its newer medicines, but lowered its 2026 earnings per

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Merck to boost next decade revenue forecast on new drugs optimism

Merck said on Thursday it plans to raise its revenue forecast from new products over the next decade, buoyed by recent clinical trial

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Eli Lilly lifts revenue outlook as weight-loss shot demand soars, shares jump

Eli Lilly raised its full-year revenue forecast by $5 billion and beat third-quarter profit estimates on Thursday on booming demand for its

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Google's Nvidia chip challenge boosts cloud sales, crimps cash flow

Alphabet is making billions of dollars selling homegrown AI chips it once reserved for internal use, but building inventory to meet surging demand is draining cash

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Experts warn of wider spread as Ebola outbreak reaches plateau

The Ebola outbreak in Congo passed a grim milestone this week — 10,000 confirmed cases — and spurred questions about whether health authorities are losing their ability to contain it

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Federal policy helped widen rural America’s fresh food gap, but a 90-year-old law could help close it

A food systems researcher shows how trucking deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement let big grocery chains grow as rural distribution thinned.

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We discovered an organism that lives at blistering temperatures – but what allows it to take the heat?

This amoeba lives at hotter temperatures than any other eukaryote previously discovered.

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Driverless 18-wheelers are on a few highways, but widespread use is a long way down the road

Chaotic roads are still too difficult for automated trucks to navigate.

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How the law protecting Americans from surprise medical bills is driving up healthcare costs

A handful of providers are hijacking the arbitration process – and consumers are likely to foot the bill.

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AI hardware can be hacked so chatbots provide dangerous answers, research shows

AI hardware can be hacked so chatbots provide dangerous answers, research shows

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Trump touts projects and payouts on the campaign trail. Many are uncertain

US President Donald Trump has touted billions of dollars in new factories, energy projects and jobs while campaigning for Republicans

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Firefighting cash burn

There were few fireworks from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, with two dissenters to the decision to keep rates unchanged, but there were indications of more hikes

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As criminal networks spread in Latin America, Quito is new battleground

For years, the neighborhood watch group in the working-class area of Solanda in Ecuadorean capital Quito had patrolled their nighttime streets armed

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Greek container ship sinks after drone attack off Bulgaria

A Greek container ship has sunk after being hit by naval drones off Bulgaria on Wednesday, the Bulgarian

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Senate is skeptical about making daylight saving time permanent despite Trump's pressure

Get ready to fall back

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‘She could have gotten away with’ murder: The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime

‘She could have gotten away with’ murder: The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime

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China's record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says

China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and that is making a dent in global emissions

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Ship sinks off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast after being hit by drones

A Liberian-flagged vessel that was hit by drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast has sunk, the local maritime administration said on Thursday

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Judge denies federal request to segregate California ballots, says it would 'wreak havoc' on voting

A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration request to stop California from processing the ballots of up to 20,000 people

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Samsung keeps shattering profit records as AI boom lifts chip demand

Samsung Electronics has reported a record operating profit of $80.5 billion, driven by high demand for computer memory chips used in AI systems

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DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports

Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's powerful GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest models, The Information reported on Wednesday

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Chinese AI model carries out complex cyberattacks in controlled tests, researchers say

Chinese firm Z.AI's flagship AI model carried out complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored instructions in separate tests,

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CNN reports from scene of train crash in Spain as serious rescue operation gets underway

CNN producer Vasco Cotovio reports from near the train crash site in Spain, where survivors described a sudden collision with no warning and a dramatic effort to get passengers out.

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The path of Cyclone Arnab went through India's plans for data centers and future growth

A cyclone that powered up over unusually warm ocean waters hit part of India’s coastline that’s dense with billions of dollars in plans for data centers

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Screwworm infests dog in Arizona, widening US cases

New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that eats warm-blooded animals alive, has infested a dog in Arizona, widening cases to a third US state, the US

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Judge says Trump bid to set aside California ballots would ‘wreak havoc’ on democracy

A US judge strongly rebuked the Trump administration on Wednesday by rejecting a request by the Justice Department to temporarily

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South Korean court rejects Tesla owners' lawsuit seeking 'Full Self-Driving' refunds

A South Korean court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by dozens of Tesla owners seeking full refunds for money paid for "Full Self-Driving" driver-assistance

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The Latest: Trump pushing to keep red-state Senate seats in GOP hands

President Donald Trump told Texans they’d better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton

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Leak website releases data on thousands of US Homeland Security employees

The leak website Distributed Denial of Secrets said on Wednesday it has released data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security

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King tides inundate streets and flood homes and businesses along both US coasts

King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts

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Judge orders 30-year prison sentence for key figure in Minnesota food fraud

A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota has been sentenced to 30 years in prison

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Pentagon watchdog tells lawmakers it won't investigate Starlink slowdowns to Ukraine

The Pentagon's watchdog is refusing a bipartisan request to investigate recent disruptions to Starlink and Starshield satellite internet service to Ukraine

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US bans imports from 3 Chinese biotech companies over forced labor allegations

The Trump administration says it's blocking shipments from Chinese biotech company BGI and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor

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Young boy rescued after falling into septic pipe

Young boy rescued after falling into septic pipe

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Rio Tinto doubles down in Argentina with new lithium plants

(Corrects production figure in paragraph 3 to clarify that output in Argentina is expected to reach 160,000 metric tons by 2028, not 200,000 metric tons) By Lucila Sigal SAN FERNANDO DEL VALLE DE

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Alvin Hellerstein, federal judge who oversaw Trump, Maduro and September 11 cases, dies at 92

Alvin Hellerstein, a senior federal judge who oversaw many high-profile cases in nearly three decades on the bench, including matters involving US

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Trump says imported robotics pose national security risks but does not impose tariffs

US President Donald Trump found on Wednesday that imported robotics and machinery pose national security risks but did not impose any immediate

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Inmate's escape is just the latest problem for Tennessee's troubled prison system

The weekend escape of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted of murdering a co-worker was just the latest black eye for the state’s troubled prison system, coming only weeks after the failed execution of Christa Pike

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New York enacts ban on 'unsafe' chatbot behavior with kids as states push AI regulation boundaries

New York is enacting farther-reaching restrictions ban on certain chatbot behaviors to protect children using artificial intelligence

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RFK Jr. eases access to unproven peptides despite opposition from FDA scientists

Food and Drug Administration staffers had little input on the Trump administration's decision that eases access to peptide drugs favored by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That’s according to people familiar with the policy’s development who were interviewed by The Associated Press

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Suspects in alleged school shooting plot in Georgia had floor plan, had chosen a date, warrants say

Authorities say that the suspects in an alleged plot to carry out a shooting at a Georgia high school had a floor plan of the school and had chosen a date

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Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon AI model with cybersecurity focus

Alphabet's Google on Wednesday unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic as the race to build more capable coding and

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Warsh to attend Fed jobs and productivity task force hearing to refine views

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said that he plans to attend a November 16 field hearing of the central bank's productivity and jobs task force in the San Francisco

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Pennsylvania measles cases near 1,400, state health department says

Measles cases in Pennsylvania have risen to 1,398 as of Wednesday, up 38 from the state health department's last update on Monday, as the state battles its worst measles outbreak in

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US DOJ is inquiring about Nvidia's purchase of Hugging Face, sources say

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US FTC demands Walmart, Uber, Delta and others hand over data on personalized pricing

The US Federal Trade Commission is demanding information from Walmart, Uber and seven other companies on whether and how they use individuals' personal data such as

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Putin salutes Musk's genius as Russia plays catch-up with Starlink

President Vladimir Putin hailed Elon Musk as a genius on Wednesday, acknowledging Russia is only beginning to roll out its answer to his Starlink satellite

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Anthropic tells California governor courts should be able to block risky AI models

Anthropic told California Governor Gavin Newsom that government officials should be able to seek court orders blocking the release of AI models that

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Possible new dwarf planet identified orbiting beyond Pluto

Scientists using a Chile-based telescope have identified an icy object orbiting beyond Pluto that may join our solar system's small roster of dwarf

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US Health Secretary Kennedy opens access to some unapproved peptides

US Health Secretary Robert F.