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Football
France trailed Belgium until the 77th minute at the Stade de France, then scored four times in 14 minutes through substitutes Desire Doue, Rayan Cherki and a Michael Olise double to win 4-1.
AI
Three former frontier-lab researchers told a rare New York City Council hearing that they doubt the industry can reliably detect when its safety work has failed.
Sources FortuneCNBCNew York Daily News
Technology
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
AI
OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model did not meet its safety and alignment bar. The company said the model struggled to stay inside its authorised scope and to report its actions accurately.
Sources The GuardianThe Hill
AI
OpenAI laid out how it will mark AI-generated text under the EU AI Act, letting API customers worldwide opt into watermarking for select models from October 5 while keeping it off by default.
Football
Italy won 3-1 against Turkey in Bologna, giving Roberto Mancini his first home victory since returning as coach. Gianluca Scamacca volleyed the opener in the 26th minute, Aral Simsir levelled just after the hour, and Riccardo Calafiori restored the lead three minutes later from a Nicolo Barella free kick.
Economy / Markets
Wall Street closed near its highs, with the S&P 500 at 7,773.95, up 0.66%, and the Nasdaq up 1.05% as technology led. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 5.31%, close to its highest since 2002, and gold eased to about $4,134 an ounce.
Sources Rio TimesTraders Union
Economy / Markets
Visa announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to enable Visa payments within AI-agent commerce experiences, unveiled at the Visa Payments Forum in San Francisco.
Sources Visa
Technology
Hon Hai Precision Industry, known globally as Foxconn, reported third-quarter revenue of NT$3.03 trillion, a record quarterly high and up 47.12% from a year earlier.
Sources Focus Taiwan
Technology
The United States and Japan set out fresh steps under their Technology Prosperity Deal, covering artificial intelligence, quantum technology, telecoms, biotechnology and space.
Sources U.S. Department of StateIANS
AI
The benchmark gap between China's best AI models and America's has narrowed to about 3%, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence assessment, down from roughly 9% in May and about 15% earlier in the year.
Sources Startup Fortune
Technology
Amazon Web Services published new hourly rates for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML effective October 7, setting P6-B300 accelerators at $16.146 and P5en at $7.895 per accelerator-hour across regions.
Sources Amazon Web ServicesTech Startups
AI
Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy, a $100 million programme that aims to train 10,000 'frontier deployed engineers' by the end of 2027. Early cohorts are drawn from consultancies and banks including Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, Bain, Capgemini and Morgan Stanley, with sessions running in San Francisco, New York and London.
Economy / Markets
A record closing high on the Nasdaq failed to carry into Seoul, where the Kospi opened higher and then slipped to 7,000.99 in early trade on its first session after a long holiday.
Football
Matchday four of the 2026-27 UEFA Nations League closed with Hungary beating Ukraine 2-1 and Northern Ireland drawing 0-0 with Georgia at Windsor Park. Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Poland 1-0 and Sweden won 1-0 in Romania in the other League B fixtures.
Sources MatchCalendar.footballUEFA.com