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October 16, 2026Hello Morning Bid readers! Are we reaching an inflection point?
October 16, 2026Poland summoned internet companies including Google and Meta to the Digital Affairs Ministry on Friday, demanding they do more to curb the spread of violent content
October 16, 2026US equity funds attracted inflows in the week to October 14, following outflows the previous week, as Treasury yields eased from recent peaks and investors looked ahead to a strong
October 16, 2026Air travellers faced delays and cancellations across Italy on Friday due to a technical fault affecting air traffic control, which authorities said was not caused by sabotage
October 16, 2026AlertWildfire founder urges California homeowners to prepare as fall fire season intensifies
October 16, 2026Exactly how much of an environmental menace is AI? Here’s what we know
October 16, 2026China plans to restrict or ban exports of 40 technologies, including AI, chips, and solar power, as its tech race with countries like the U.S. intensifies
October 16, 2026Italy's air traffic capacity has been fully restored after overnight issues with the data transmission network
October 16, 2026Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank will focus on anchoring underlying inflation around its 2% target and won't tolerate any
October 16, 2026Blue Origin is targeting multiple flights per week of its New Glenn rocket by the end of the decade, a company executive said on Friday, as it spends
October 16, 2026Stumbles in the market-leading AI trade are set to test investor confidence in the rally in the coming week as Wall Street focuses on quarterly results
October 16, 2026Trump administration sued over accelerated immigration process for migrant kids
October 16, 2026A sharp decline in CoreWeave's bonds this week is emerging as a test of investors' willingness to
October 16, 2026Earnings season is shifting up a gear in the US, and China is about to deliver a deluge of data, giving febrile markets plenty more to ponder after the latest bouts of volatility in
October 16, 2026Shares in computer chip packaging equipment maker BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) fell 3% on Friday after influential semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis reported
October 16, 2026What happens if AI agents start speaking their own language?
October 16, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund has called for urgent guardrails to manage risks from the AI boom, comparing it to a Formula 1 car that could go off track
October 16, 2026Britain's competition watchdog proposed designating Microsoft with "strategic market status" in business software, potentially paving the
October 16, 2026China's automakers are betting European drivers will embrace a new form of premium motoring centred on technology rather than heritage, with
October 16, 2026The risks of artificial intelligence may exceed its opportunities if no adequate safeguards and ethical framework are put in place, IMF
October 16, 2026Britain's competition watchdog said on Friday that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft can do more to address remaining barriers to switching between cloud providers and using
October 16, 2026Stablecoin issuer Circle is making a major push to enter about 40 emerging and developing countries around the world as blockchain adoption is expected to
October 16, 2026Schneider Electric raised its 2026 core profit and revenue targets for the second time this year on Friday, as the French industrial group
October 16, 2026China's Geely Holding Group said on Friday that vehicles from its portfolio of brands will feature Google's in-car services, including Gemini, Play and Maps, in overseas
October 16, 2026Meta Platforms on Thursday released an open-weight version of its Muse Spark artificial intelligence model for coding and AI agents, expanding developers' ability to download and
October 15, 2026U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh says he won't prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do about interest rates at its upcoming meetings
October 16, 2026A judge of Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Thursday in favor of the campaign of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who earlier filed a complaint against Meta
October 15, 2026The Trump administration has sued California election officials
October 15, 2026Federal authorities are investigating letters with “suspicious substances” that have been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide
October 15, 2026Tesla unveiled a redesigned Roadster powered with rocket-style thrusters on Thursday and said it would start production in 2028, more
October 15, 2026Yemen's Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace complex in the southern city of Aden on Thursday,
October 15, 2026Finance leaders of the G7 grouping agreed to hold tabletop exercises to guard against AI cyber attacks, Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said, as
October 16, 2026Trump admin files ‘long shot’ lawsuit after California wouldn’t open a thumb drive of alleged non-citizens
October 16, 2026Several brush fires are burning in Southern California, stoked by hot, windy weather that caused utility companies to shut off electricity for tens of thousands of people around the state
October 15, 2026US conglomerate 3M plans to argue a landmark case brought by Australia over contamination from the company's use of PFAS "forever chemicals" in its
October 16, 2026FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate are suing to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”
October 15, 2026Chipmaker sell-off sends investors to other stocks and bonds for safety
October 15, 2026Britain's defense minister said he and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth welcomed the restoration of the Starlink service in Ukraine in talks on Thursday, and he
October 16, 2026CoreWeave's mounting debt is raising fresh concerns about the AI boom, as investors question whether demand can justify the billions being borrowed
October 15, 2026An index of global equity markets ended flat on Thursday as concerns about AI spending and higher interest rates fueled further selling in technology and
October 15, 2026The AI equity rout accelerated significantly in Asia on Thursday on growing fears about the murky, circular financing powering the intelligence
October 16, 2026Exclusive: Ukraine runs out of Patriot interceptor missiles as Zelensky and Trump clash over war
October 15, 2026As early voting begins in the 2026 midterm elections, social media users are warning each other about what could allegedly happen if a poll worker marks a ballot before it is fed into a scanner
October 16, 2026US intel officials postpone classified threat briefing for election officials after technical difficulties
October 16, 2026A potential Trump administration plan to ease sanctions on vessels that have transported sanctioned oil and fuel would likely have limited impact on
October 16, 2026Volvo Cars is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to develop a new generation of driver-assistance and automated-driving technology, the companies said
October 15, 2026A U.S. federal appeals court said on Thursday the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority in setting up a telecoms subsidy program
October 16, 2026The S&P 500 ended higher on Thursday, springing back from early losses as investors concerned about AI stocks shifted into Eli Lilly,
October 15, 2026TSA scales back PreCheck benefit announced just weeks ago
October 15, 2026Florida high school seniors teach older adults how to use technology internationally
October 16, 2026New Hampshire engineer designs custom mountain biking device for one-armed rider
October 16, 2026Netflix said on Thursday it appointed former Disney executive Peter Rice as chief content officer, succeeding Bela Bajaria, who is leaving after nearly a decade at the streaming
October 15, 2026Anthropic has given nonprofit METR employee-level access to its systems and is in talks with others including Hugging Face, as AI companies pitch external evaluators
October 15, 2026Houthi militants who control northwestern Yemen have in the past week attacked Riyadh international airport and hit the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the
October 15, 2026Skydance's CNN, the Financial Times, Axios and other publishers joined Google's AI news program to license their content for generative AI features and explore ways to drive
October 15, 2026The International Energy Agency agreed on Thursday to release over 20 million barrels of diesel to the
October 15, 2026Nasdaq, home to some of the biggest US tech companies, experienced a network disruption at its Carteret, New Jersey facility that caused intermittent data gaps
October 15, 2026When attack drones struck Saudi Aramco's biggest oil pipeline last month, satellite images showed one of its pumping stations burnt to ashes.
October 15, 2026Israeli digital advertising agency Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of online ads that it used to track targets and
October 15, 2026(Corrected AirTrunk's Johor valuation to $2 billion from $1 billion in paragraph 26, and separated Bain Capital from the AirTrunk backer attribution in paragraph 28 to clarify that Blackstone backs
October 15, 2026North Korea's missile chief said South Korea's newly tested hypersonic glide vehicle may not have achieved hypersonic flight as claimed, state media KCNA reported on Thursday
October 15, 2026Amazon unveiled two new devices on Thursday for listening to and recording people's information throughout the day to offer calendar reminders and
October 15, 2026Target said on Thursday that it was not using customer data to raise prices based on shoppers' identities or locations, joining rival Walmart in trying to address growing concerns
October 15, 2026CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed cloud company that provides high-performance computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence, has secured tens of billions of dollars in contracts
October 15, 2026Romanian authorities have launched search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast after a drone struck a ship, causing it to catch fire
October 15, 2026A super El Niño winter is coming and the first official forecast is in
October 15, 2026Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million for US President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom, according to a Washington Post report on Thursday that showed $
October 15, 2026In April, computer chip equipment maker ASML's CEO Christophe Fouquet told shareholders
October 15, 2026Global demand for electric vehicles fell 2% in September, ending six consecutive months of growth, as record sales in Europe were not enough to offset sharp declines
October 15, 2026Tesla's top energy executive, Mike Snyder, has stepped down as vice president of energy and charging, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
October 15, 2026The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.
October 15, 2026Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said on Thursday the state had secured more than $4 billion in life sciences and private-sector investment commitments over the past week.
October 15, 2026Some current Anthropic investors and prospective investors in its upcoming initial public offering are weighing a lower valuation for the AI
October 15, 2026American Formula 1 team Haas is going with youth instead of experience for 2027 after signing Formula 2 championship leader Rafael Câmara on Thursday to partner fellow youngster Oliver Bearman next season
October 15, 2026US semiconductor stocks were set to lose $2 trillion in market value on Thursday in the steep selloff since last week, driven by rising bets of an interest-rate hike and concerns
October 15, 2026The Nasdaq fell to near one-month lows on Thursday as fears of a hit to artificial-intelligence investments from higher interest rates deepened a rout in AI-linked stocks, while
October 15, 2026US President Donald Trump's new government task force on AI is scheduled to meet on Thursday, a Federal Trade Commission spokesperson said, as pressure
October 15, 2026A selloff in US technology stocks and their bonds intensified on Thursday as high borrowing costs put the financing behind AI’s massive infrastructure buildout under growing
October 15, 2026US holiday sales growth is expected to accelerate to 4.2% this year, the National Retail Federation said on Thursday, betting that consumers would remain resilient even as major
October 15, 2026Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution
October 15, 2026The cost of insuring against the risk of potential US tech defaults has hit record levels, in the latest sign of credit stress building in the so-called AI
October 15, 2026Microsoft President Brad Smith warned the Trump administration's move to restrict green-card access for skilled foreign workers could hurt US technological competitiveness and drive
October 15, 2026The United States wants its global partners to rename artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," convinced that the new moniker better reflects the
October 15, 2026Rescuers searched on Thursday for seven missing sailors after drones struck two chemical tankers near Romania's Black Sea coast, setting them ablaze and raising fresh
October 15, 2026Anthropic should delay its US IPO until it addresses concerns about safety, governance and the pace of development, urged New York City Comptroller Mark Levine in a letter to the AI
October 15, 2026Optogenetics, a field that started with an algae gene, is shedding light on new treatments for eye and neuropsychiatric conditions.
October 15, 2026Having a human “in the loop” overseeing when an AI makes a decision is important, but what happens to that responsible human over time when the AI gets it right over and over again?
October 15, 2026Across three countries, people agree that teaching is centered on the teacher-student relationship. But they don’t agree on which profession teaching most resembles.
October 15, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department says African economies have managed to weather the energy crisis brought on by the Iran war
October 15, 2026The former leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Thursday for
October 15, 2026When the oil supertanker Esteem Explorer sails from the United States to Japan in late November, loaded with about 2
October 15, 2026Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s call for a “quieter” central bank is facing pushback from colleagues who see
October 15, 2026The Bank of England is working with banks on deep cyber-recovery options, its deputy governor Sarah Breeden said on Thursday, arguing
October 15, 2026Chinese tech giant ByteDance's AI research unit Seed has created an Alignment & Preparedness team and launched a global drive to recruit 10 researchers,
October 15, 2026AI industry leaders are split over how fast companies should develop the increasingly powerful technology, as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceX's Elon Musk
September 14, 2026The cost of insuring against tech defaults struck record highs on Thursday, as investors rushed to hedge against the risk of
October 15, 2026Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is exploring potential investments in Texas to expand chip production in the U.S. The company says it is open to collaborating with Elon Musk’s planned “Terafab” chip manufacturing complex in Texas
October 15, 2026North Korea has conducted its first missile test from underwater in nearly three years, in what experts say likely involved a yet-to-be-deployed submarine that the North had said is designed to launch nuclear weapons
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