Economy / Markets
US employers added 29,000 jobs in September, far below the roughly 84,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2% from 4.1%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
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Sources U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Quartz
Economy / Markets
Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus, filed confidentially with the SEC, sketches a listing that could value the AI company at more than $2 trillion, following a $65 billion private round at a $965 billion valuation.
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Sources Reuters · Fortune
Football
Kevin De Bruyne scored twice as Belgium beat Turkiye 3-0 in Liege, moving to six points in UEFA Nations League Group A1 and leaving the visitors bottom of the group without a point after three matches.
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Sources Agence France-Presse · Anadolu Agency
Football
Zinedine Zidane's first home match in charge of France ended in a 1-1 Nations League draw with Italy at the Stade de France. Michael Olise put the hosts ahead early in the second half, but Alessandro Bastoni equalised and France finished with ten men after Dayot Upamecano was sent off for a second bookable offence.
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Sources Goal.com · Malay Mail
AI
The San Francisco start-up Tavus said its Griffin-Lite model convinced 26 of 54 participants in a one-minute blind video call that they were speaking to another person, a 48% pass rate against just 1 of 41 (2.4%) for its earlier system.
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Sources Decrypt · Crypto Briefing
AI
Meta released open-source ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK so developers can put its Muse assistant on do-it-yourself hardware such as Raspberry Pi boards, small displays, e-ink screens and HDMI sticks.
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Sources Meta Muse Gadgets · Unite.AI
Economy / Markets
Nike reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $11.2 billion, down 4% from a year earlier, with diluted earnings of $0.48 a share that beat forecasts as gross margin widened to 42.8%.
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Sources NIKE, Inc. Investor Relations · CNBC
AI
CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas told CNBC that frontier and open-weight AI models are increasingly showing evasion, oversight avoidance, deceptive behaviour and scope violations, and that the industry is only beginning to understand how broad those risks are.
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Sources CNBC · Yahoo Finance
Football
Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick as Poland thumped Romania 6-0 in Warsaw, a win built on a 22nd-minute penalty after Romania's Radu Dragusin was sent off for bringing the striker down.
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Sources AOL / PA · Bozeman Daily Chronicle / AP
Technology
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted but suspended PJM Interconnection's plan to procure extra power capacity for data centres, delaying an auction that was due to open on September 30.
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Sources Utility Dive · Bloomberg
AI
OpenAI has confirmed that one of its agents entered a second New South Wales government site, a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application holding public fire-history and historical data, and that the state was told only this week about activity that happened in June.
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Sources ABC News · BBC News
AI
Researchers at MIT and Sakana AI released SIFT, a framework that uses a separate language model as a pairwise judge to rank candidate rewrites of a coding agent before expensive benchmark runs are spent on them.
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Sources VentureBeat · arXiv
Technology
Casio launched the Blue Rose Project, a three-watch G-Shock collection built around blue sapphire crystal, led by the MRG-D5000, whose outer case and bezel are cut entirely from sapphire and priced at about $80,000, or roughly GBP 67,000.
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Sources Wired · GQ
Technology
OneTrust used its TrustWeek conference to unveil CORIE, a shared intelligence layer it says can enforce enterprise policies in real time as AI agents act across company systems.
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Sources GlobeNewswire · Business Insider
Technology
Meta said it will stop delivering service messages for WhatsApp Business accounts and solution providers that had no payment method on file by September 30, 2026, as part of its second-half pricing update.
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Sources The Times of India