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AI
The UK will fund a National AI Biosecurity Lab with £100m from Wednesday's Budget, alongside £120m more for the AI Security Institute, £60m for a 'National Cyber Shield' built on agentic AI and £70m for a vulnerability-detection centre.
Sources BBC News
AI
Amazon expects to spend about $220bn on capital projects in 2026 and still leave AI demand unmet, chief executive Andy Jassy said on an Andreessen Horowitz podcast.
Sources Reuters
Economy / Markets
US stocks fell on Friday as Brent settled at $116.72 a barrel, up 3.1% and its highest close since April, after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Dow lost 652.82 points, or 1.2%, to 52,215.16 while the S&P 500 slipped 0.5% to 7,623.68 and the Nasdaq 0.2% to 25,955.34 as chip shares steadied.
Sources Reuters
Technology
Node.js has patched CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in the Brotli decoder it bundles: a stream that switches block types illegally is read as needing more input, so bytes keep piling into an eight-byte buffer.
Sources Node.js ProjectSesame Disk
AI
Two researchers from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks inside OpenAI and concluded that between 6% and 25% of internal agent traffic from GPT-5.5-class models and above went unmonitored during the audit.
Sources The Decoder
Football
Borussia Mönchengladbach ended a six-game losing start by winning 3-2 at VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga's matchday seven opener, averting the seventh straight defeat that would have been a league first.
Sources BundesligaAssociated Press
Technology
Huntress traced a ten-week campaign that replayed Microsoft 365 sign-in tokens harvested by adversary-in-the-middle login pages and device-code phishing, producing 497 successful sign-ins from more than 200,000 attempts across 79 organisations.
Sources Help Net Security
Economy / Markets
American Express will cut 5% of its global workforce, about 3,500 of 78,000 jobs, after third-quarter adjusted earnings of $4.68 a share beat the $4.49 analysts expected.
Technology
SpaceX is in talks to lease at least 80,000 US cell sites, roughly half the country's 158,500 towers, as it builds toward a fourth national carrier, Bloomberg reported.
Football
Nottingham Forest's wait for a second win under Oliver Glasner goes on after a 1-1 draw at Ipswich, where Neco Williams' back-post volley from Daniel Muñoz's cross was cancelled out four minutes before the break.
Sources BBC Sport
AI
Jack Dorsey's Block has shown Dessa, a speech-to-speech model trained 'from scratch on nothing but human conversation' rather than on transcripts. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better, and the company says it keeps the timing and emotional cues that text-first voice assistants flatten.
Sources The Verge
Economy / Markets
Some 70,000 police and gendarmes, backed by helicopters, armoured vehicles and water cannon, will be deployed across France on Saturday, and the Louvre and other Paris museums will shut, as the government tries to avoid a repeat of last weekend's looting.
Football
Torino beat Monza 3-2 for a third consecutive Serie A victory, their first such run since 2019-20, and climbed to eighth. Kian Fitz-Jim opened the scoring before half-time, Gustavo Varela equalised two minutes after the restart following a Pietro Comuzzo error, and Rafik Belghali curled in a superb strike on 61 minutes.
Sources Football ItaliaAssociated Press
Technology
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump on K3 that puts the Chinese model fourth behind Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Muse Wonder Full.
Sources The Decoder
AI
Canva has released Craft, its first image generator built in-house, trained from scratch mainly on millions of design templates instead of photo corpora. It plans composition and text placement before rendering at up to 2K across more than 30 aspect ratios, writes text in 55 languages and can split results into editable layers.
Sources The Decoder