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The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 3.75%-4% on a 10-2 vote, with Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack preferring a quarter-point increase. The statement said inflation “remains elevated” and that more information is needed before the next move, while describing activity as expanding at a strong pace and capital investment as robust.
Samsung Electronics reported third-quarter revenue of KRW 195.3tn and operating profit of KRW 107.4tn, up 783% from a year earlier and the first time any technology company has cleared KRW 100tn in a single quarter.
Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which it says ranks first on the v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59 and leads SEC-bench Pro at 88.2% for finding vulnerabilities, ExploitGym at 54.8% and CWE-bench at 71.0% for patching.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published five attack chains built by an unreleased internal research model against Chrome, Safari, an Android Pixel 9, Windows and the Linux kernel, including a one-click escape from the browser sandbox and a zero-click root chain that took 48 minutes to leak a kernel pointer.
Sources AnthropicThe Hacker News
At DevDay in San Francisco OpenAI introduced dots, persistent agents with their own cloud machines that work through Slack and Teams, alongside ChatGPT Space, @ChatGPT mentions and a $500 Pro plan whose Ultrafast mode reaches up to 300 tokens per second in Codex.
Sources The Next WebOpenAI
Apple announced a redesigned MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR tandem-OLED display, 2,000-nit peak brightness and touch input built into the panel rather than layered on top, a first for the Mac.
Sources Apple
Alphabet reported third-quarter revenue of $127.6bn, up 25%, with Google Cloud up 103% to $30.7bn and consolidated operating income of $40.6bn. Capital spending reached $51.4bn in the quarter and the company kept its 2026 guidance at $195-205bn.
Causal Security's Cipher agent spent 3 hours 49 minutes on EPICS Base, the open-source control toolkit used at roughly 90 facilities including Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and ITER, and returned four previously unknown memory-safety bugs.
Sources Causal SecurityCISA
Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $92.3bn, up 19%, with operating income of $45.9bn and net income of $36.6bn. Microsoft Cloud brought in $63.9bn and Azure grew 48%, and chief financial officer Amy Hood said results exceeded expectations on revenue, operating income and earnings per share.
US equity futures fell before Thursday's open after Alphabet dropped about 10% in extended trading on weaker-than-expected revenue across most core businesses, reviving doubts about the returns on AI spending.
Sources Trading EconomicsYahoo Finance
Reuters reported that the Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia's $12.93bn agreement to buy Hugging Face would affect competition in artificial intelligence, alongside its long-running investigation into the chipmaker's conduct.
Sources ReutersYahoo Finance (Bloomberg)
Marvell is in advanced talks to acquire Lumentum, the data-centre optics supplier valued at about $83bn against Marvell's $221bn, with an announcement possible as soon as next week, according to Bloomberg.
Sources Bloomberg LawTrendForce
Liverpool beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw at Anfield, Bournemouth thrashed Aston Villa 3-0, Sunderland scored three times in ten minutes to beat Brentford 3-2 and Crystal Palace won 1-0 at Fulham.
Sources The GuardianYahoo Sports
Bayern Munich beat Magdeburg 6-1 and Bayer Leverkusen survived Nürnberg 5-2 as the DFB-Pokal's second round closed, but Schalke lost 2-0 at Dynamo Dresden and Hoffenheim went out on penalties at Holstein Kiel.
Sources DFBDeutschlandfunk
The Premier League returns with Chelsea v Manchester United at 12:30 on Saturday, then Manchester City v Brighton, Spurs v Crystal Palace and Aston Villa v Fulham later the same day, before Liverpool v Arsenal at 16:30 on Sunday.
Sources Premier LeagueThe Guardian