Economy / Markets
The G7 agreed on Friday to release up to 100 million barrels of crude and refined products from emergency reserves over four months, coordinated through the International Energy Agency, with a substantial diesel release front-loaded into the first 20 days.
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Sources Quartz · Dawn (Reuters) · Yahoo News (G7 joint statement)
AI
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over the potential dangers their products pose to consumers.
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Sources CNBC · ABC News · TechRepublic
Football
England thrashed Croatia 7-0 in Rijeka, their heaviest win over Croatia, with Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka scoring twice each and Jude Bellingham, Anthony Gordon and substitute Morgan Rogers also on target.
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Sources UEFA · Sky Sports · ESPN
Economy / Markets
Nvidia shares closed at an all-time high on Friday for the first time since May, lifting the chipmaker's market value to about $5.7 trillion and leaving it less than $300 billion short of the $6 trillion threshold no company has ever crossed.
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Sources Quartz · Crypto Briefing
Economy / Markets
Euro-area annual inflation is expected to reach 3.8% in September, up from 3.2% in August and above market expectations of 3.6%, according to Eurostat's flash estimate, the highest reading in three years.
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Sources Eurostat · Euronews · Trading Economics
AI
Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy, a $100-million programme to train 10,000 'Frontier Deployed Engineers' by the end of 2027, with Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk among its first cohorts.
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Sources Anthropic · CNBC · Business Insider
Technology
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, about 25,000 more than the roughly 461,000 analysts had expected, while producing 464,391 vehicles and deploying 13.7 GWh of energy storage.
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Sources Tesla, Inc. (SEC Form 8-K) · CNBC · Electrek
AI
Germany's Aleph Alpha published Kolibri, an English-German mixture-of-experts model with 78 billion total parameters and about 3.5 billion active per token, releasing the full weights on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 licence on the Day of German Reunification.
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Sources Aleph Alpha · Hugging Face · Startup Fortune
AI
Interpol's global chief information security officer said artificial intelligence is making scams and fraud faster, more scalable and harder to detect, enhancing existing criminal tactics rather than inventing new ones.
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Sources CNBC · INTERPOL
Football
Spain maintained a perfect Nations League start with a 3-1 win over the Czech Republic in Oviedo, their tenth successive victory. Lamine Yamal opened the scoring with a curling effort for the third game running and captain Rodri doubled the lead; Jiri Slama pulled one back before Czech captain Ladislav Krejci was sent off and substitute Mikel Merino sealed the win in the 89th minute.
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Sources BBC Sport · UEFA
Technology
Ryan Roslansky, who led LinkedIn for six years before taking charge of Microsoft's Office and Teams group, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026 after nearly 18 years at the company.
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Sources Microsoft (official blog) · CNBC · The Verge
Technology
Cerebras Systems shares fell about 20% over the week to close Friday at $166.43, a post-IPO low, as the expiration of post-IPO lockup restrictions freed early investors and employees to sell stock for the first time.
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Sources CNBC · TechBuzz
Technology
Nvidia raised the price of the Shield TV Pro from $199.99 to $299.99 effective October 2 and stopped producing the standard, tube-shaped Shield TV, leaving the Pro as the only model in production.
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Sources Ars Technica · 9to5Google · TechPowerUp
AI
YouTube creator Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, unveiled Ajax, a small language model built from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B and tuned to run locally as an always-on assistant for his self-hosted workspace.
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Sources Interesting Engineering · AI Weekly
Football
Scotland won 2-0 in North Macedonia for their first victory under head coach Sebastien Pocognoli, with Kieron Bowie scoring his first international goal and John McGinn adding a second-half penalty.
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Sources Sky Sports · UEFA