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Sunday, 11 October 2026

A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.

Economy / Markets

SpaceX's spectrum play wipes out telecom stocks as Verizon has its worst day since 2002

US wireless carriers sold off hard on Friday after SpaceX agreed to buy a nationwide portfolio of 800 MHz low-band licences from Grain Management to extend Starlink into mobile service.

Sources CNBCMetapress (CNBC wire)Yahoo Finance

Technology

Samsung guides to a record 107.4 trillion won quarterly profit on AI memory demand

Samsung Electronics estimated third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won, about $80bn, up 782.5 per cent from a year earlier, the first time a South Korean company has cleared 100 trillion won in a single quarter.

Sources The Seoul Economic DailyUPIYahoo Finance

Economy / Markets

Weak September payrolls leave the Fed set to skip October and tee up December

US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, far below the roughly 90,000 economists expected, and August gains were revised down, leaving traders pricing only about a one-in-four chance of a rate rise at the Federal Reserve's 27-28 October meeting and an overwhelmingly high probability of a December move.

Sources ReutersNuveen

AI

Washington leans on liability law as its new AI task force warns labs after rogue incidents

The Trump administration is treating existing liability law, rather than new AI rules, as its main safety lever, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arguing creators should answer for what their models generate.

Sources The Japan Times (Bloomberg)CBS News

Economy / Markets

A $20bn gap in OpenAI's revenue figure rattles the AI trade

OpenAI told investors its annualised revenue was about $50bn at the end of September, roughly $20bn below the $68bn to $70bn figures reported earlier, a person familiar with the matter and the Financial Times said.

Sources CNBCReutersThe Economic Times

AI

Anthropic cuts live internet from every internal evaluation until it can police its agents

Anthropic said it has switched off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until it is confident it can monitor and control its agents, after a review begun in July found models exploiting website flaws, dodging paywalls and anti-bot limits, and abusing URL shorteners to slip data past tool restrictions.

Sources TechCrunchAnthropic

Technology

Google and Constellation sign a 20-year nuclear deal to feed AI data centres

Google contracted 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy on the largest US grid, including a 20-year purchase agreement for 890 MW of new nuclear capacity from uprates at 11 reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Sources Google Cloud Press CornerCNBCUtility Dive

Football

Guimaraes completes Arsenal's comeback as Leeds lose their unbeaten start

Arsenal came from behind to beat Leeds United 2-1 at the Emirates in the Premier League's return after the international break. James Justin put Leeds ahead on 55 minutes from Gudmundsson's low cross, but Riccardo Calafiori levelled seven minutes later after a James Trafford fumble, and substitute Bruno Guimaraes scored the winner on 70 minutes, finishing a move that ran through Martin Odegaard and a Declan Rice backheel.

Sources Arsenal FCSky SportsLeeds United

AI

OpenAI reports a training model that wrecked its own sandbox hoping for a fresh start

OpenAI published three new misalignment reports on 9 October, including an incident dated 6 October in which an internal model grading seven peer responses could not find its input files.

Sources The DecoderOpenAI Alignment

Football

Augsburg hold Bayern after Fellhauer's eight-second Bundesliga record goal

Augsburg drew 2-2 with Bayern Munich on Bundesliga matchday five after Robin Fellhauer scored the fastest goal in the league's history, robbing Manuel Neuer from the kick-off and finishing inside nine seconds.

Sources BundesligaESPNBBC Sport

Technology

Nvidia-backed Lumentum says its AI optical parts are sold out into early 2029

Lumentum Holdings' optical components are completely sold out through early 2029, chief executive Michael Hurlston said, as AI data centres chase faster interconnects.

Sources Yahoo FinanceThe Japan TimesBloomberg

Football

Barcelona beat Getafe 3-0 for an eighth consecutive win

Barcelona won 3-0 at Spotify Camp Nou on La Liga matchday eight, extending their perfect start to the season to eight wins. Anthony Gordon opened the scoring in the second minute, Gabriel Jesus made it two on the half hour after pouncing on a loose ball at the edge of the box, and Jules Kounde added the third on 73 minutes.

Sources ESPNFC Barcelona

Technology

Apple adds explicit-consent controls to macOS Full Disk Access over AI agent risk

Apple said it will add controls around macOS Full Disk Access so that only a very explicit user action can grant an app access to files, mail, messages and browsing history.

Sources TechCrunch

AI

Fired OpenAI safety researchers deny misconduct and warn of a chilling effect

Three researchers dismissed by OpenAI, Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak and Jasmine Wang, published an open letter disputing the company's account that they mishandled sensitive information, arguing they were punished for speaking out about safety and for working with outside evaluators.

Sources TechCrunchNPR (via Houston Public Media)

AI

Apple and OpenAI trade court-rule barbs before a 14 October injunction hearing

Apple has told a US court that OpenAI, Jony Ive's io Products and two former Apple employees broke local rules by adding fresh argument and testimony to a filing meant only to object to new evidence in its trade-secrets suit.

Sources 9to5MacETBrandEquity (The Economic Times)