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Economy / Markets
Asia's artificial intelligence trade cracked on Thursday after the hot US inflation print. South Korea's Kospi fell about 8 percent to 5,527, with SK Hynix down 11 percent and Samsung Electronics nearly 10 percent.
Sources CNBCAP NewsNikkei Asia
Economy / Markets
US consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.7 percent in the year to September from 3.4 percent in August, with prices up 0.6 percent on the month, both above forecasts.
Football
Paris Saint-Germain won 4-2 at Manchester City in the Champions League league phase, sweeping into a 3-0 half-time lead through Desire Doue, Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha.
Sources Manchester CityESPNUEFA
AI
Meta's first frontier-class models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, drew immediate technical scrutiny once developers reached the API. Wonder Full scored 56 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index, two points behind Claude Opus 5.5, and independent practitioners reported outputs that lagged rival models on identical prompts while rate limits choked production testing.
Sources ReutersTechCrunchDEV Community
Football
Real Madrid recovered from two goals down to win 4-3 at Roma, scoring three times in the closing stages through Carlos Espi, Endrick and Antonio Rudiger. Donyell Malen's double had put Jose Mourinho's side 3-1 ahead against his former club, after Kylian Mbappe marked his 100th Champions League appearance by cancelling out Marten de Roon's opener.
Technology
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang used a European tour to announce a further $2 billion of investment across the continent, on top of roughly $8 billion spent there over the past year, and new minority stakes in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic.
Sources BloombergThe Decoder
Technology
A Saudi national who had worked as an OpenAI engineer since July 2025 has been charged with attempting to intercept oral communications after a covert recording device was found plugged into a USB port behind a television in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices.
Football
Champions League matchday two produced 78 goals, a record for a single round of the competition, with 46 of them arriving on Wednesday alone. Six of the nine fixtures featured five goals or more.
AI
Chinese lab StepFun is publishing the open weights for Step 5 Preview, a 600-billion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with a one-million-token context window.
Sources StepFunMarkTechPost
AI
Google began letting anyone with a standard Google account build an Android app in AI Studio and install it privately through Google Play, with no developer account required.
Sources TechCrunchArs TechnicaThe Star
Technology
Microsoft's October security release addressed 1,413 vulnerabilities, its largest monthly batch on record and more than the company disclosed in all of 2020. Windows accounts for 1,102 of the flaws.
Economy / Markets
Gold climbed back above $4,150 an ounce on Thursday, snapping a three-day slide, as US bond yields and the dollar eased from their post-inflation peaks and haven demand returned.
AI
NEURA Robotics introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model that fuses 3D vision, touch, force sensing, audio, robot state and language with memory in a single perception-language-action architecture.
Sources NEURA RoboticsBusiness Wire via Rutland HeraldUnite.AI
AI
Anthropic's research on whether small models can set themselves up on cheap, internet-connected hardware has divided coverage. The experiment showed a nine-billion-parameter model establishing inference on eight of nine hardware types and a larger open-weight model running across fifteen generic Android streaming boxes, with researchers configuring every deployment themselves.
Technology
SolarWinds launched Avior, a standalone agentic system for mission-critical IT operations that pursues defined goals instead of waiting on prompts. The company says potentially disruptive actions always require explicit human approval, backed by risk-tiered autonomy, audit trails, automated rollback, data masking and least-privilege tool access.