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A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.
AI
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5. The company calls it its first release since it asked for the frontier to be paced, and says external evaluators including Frontier Design and METR tested the model before release.
Sources AnthropicThe New Stack
Economy / Markets
With the deposit rate already lifted to 2.50% in September, the Governing Council’s guidance and the updated staff projections leave a further 25 basis point increase possible in October.
Sources European Central Bank
Football
The Premier League, Bundesliga, LALIGA and Lega Calcio Serie A issued a joint statement entitled “To Unify the Game, FIFA Must Reform” on 25 September. It says football’s foundations have been threatened by a fundamental governance problem, argues the organisation is not fit for purpose, and criticises the promotion of exploitative commercial ideas tied to the scrapped FIFA Forward Enterprise proposals.
AI
Microsoft is introducing a new Copilot experience with Home as a combined starting point for Chat and Cowork, Code for building solutions, and Autopilot for persistent proactive work.
Sources Microsoft
Technology
Microsoft says its Digital Crimes Unit and industry partners disrupted EvilTokens, a subscription-based phishing-as-a-service platform that used AI across the attack chain.
Football
England lost 2-3 at Wembley in the Nations League after taking the lead through goals from Anthony Gordon and Harry Kane. Lamine Yamal opened the scoring for Spain, Mikel Oyarzabal came off the bench to complete the turnaround, and the result took Spain’s unbeaten run to 39 matches.
Sources Sky SportsBBC Sport
Football
Saturday’s 2026/27 Nations League programme is settled across the groups: San Marino 0-7 Finland, North Macedonia 0-3 Switzerland, Czech Republic 1-2 Croatia, Albania 2-0 Belarus, Faroe Islands 1-1 Kazakhstan, Slovakia 2-0 Moldova, Bulgaria 1-2 Luxembourg and Iceland 1-1 Estonia all finished, with Slovenia 0-0 Scotland and England 2-3 Spain deciding the remaining League A fixtures.
Sources BBC Sport
AI
Meta’s AI research blog describes Muse Realtime Avatar as an audio-driven Diffusion Transformer conditioned on a speech-token stream, reference media and a rolling window of recent video latents.
Sources Meta AI ResearchMeta
Economy / Markets
Investors are heading into the next week focused on U.S. employment and inflation data as markets reassess the Federal Reserve’s tightening path. A Reuters report says the September rate increase and higher Treasury yields have left stocks near records but more exposed to a hotter payrolls or inflation reading.
Sources Reuters via Devdiscourse
Economy / Markets
BBVA Research says the Federal Reserve raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 3.75–4.00% and signalled a hawkish bias as inflation stayed elevated. Its analysis expects one additional increase, while noting that market pricing for a longer tightening cycle may be too aggressive.
Sources BBVA Research
Technology
SpaceX launched the classified USSF-385 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg at 7:00 a.m. PT on Saturday, and booster B1100 landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You about eight and a half minutes later.
Sources TeslaratiSpaceflight Now
AI
AMD says systems powered by its Ryzen AI Max series processors, including the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, can now run Portable Computer on Windows for Perplexity subscribers.
Sources AMD
Technology
IBM’s newsroom item on its sub-one-nanometre chip technology sets out the seven-angstrom transistor work and the packaging and materials advances behind it. The release is the reference point for the industry push to raise density as AI training and inference drive demand for advanced logic.
Sources IBM
Football
Slovenia and Scotland finished 0-0 in Ljubljana on Saturday, handing Sébastien Pocognoli a point from his first match in charge. Sky Sports reported that Scotland were held to a goalless draw, with the visitors missing the chance to take all three in a physical League A meeting.
Sources Sky SportsBBC Sport
Technology
GitHub’s changelog records the Ubuntu 26.04 hosted-runner image as production-supported on x64 and Arm64, with the ubuntu-latest label migrating gradually from Ubuntu 24.04 between 19 October and 19 November.
Sources GitHub Changelog