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The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.86% to 25,437.00 on Friday, the S&P 500 lost 1.82% to 7,580.07 and the Dow dropped 1.09% to 51,770.31, leaving the S&P 500 with a third straight weekly loss.
Intel closed down 28.6% at $65.76 on Friday, its steepest one-day fall since July 1974, after guiding fourth-quarter revenue to $15-16 billion against roughly $17 billion expected and earnings of 25 cents a share against 43 cents forecast.
Sources Reuters (via StreetInsider)Fortune / Associated PressYahoo Finance
OpenAI trimmed its latest round by $10 billion and is now seeking about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation rather than $30 billion at $1.4 trillion, the Financial Times reported on Friday and Reuters carried.
Cursor shut its VS Code extension marketplace after a tampered build of Anthropic's official Claude Code extension, served as version 2.1.313 under the real publisher identity, was offered for about 11 hours on 29 October.
Sources Cursor (security notice)The Hacker NewsMicrosoft Threat Intelligence
The Competition and Markets Authority began an investigation on 30 October into whether Meta's revised commercial terms abuse a dominant position by letting it take content from publishers' websites and use it to develop its own products, including AI features, without businesses getting a choice.
Sources Competition and Markets AuthorityReuters (via StreetInsider)
CrowdStrike said VAPOR PANDA used the ARTEX agent framework, driven mainly by DeepSeek's model plus a second commercial LLM, against more than 200 organisations in at least 14 countries in an 11-day window from 17 October.
Sources CrowdStrike
A Bloomberg tally of third-quarter filings puts combined future spending by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle above $3 trillion, up from about $2.4 trillion for four of them in a similar count in July.
Sources The Next Web (citing Bloomberg)
Bayern host Borussia Dortmund at 18:30 CET with Jonas Urbig expected in goal because Manuel Neuer is out with foot pain, while Luis Diaz and Ndiaye are also unavailable and Joshua Kimmich and Jamal Musiala are listed as doubtful.
Waymo and Toyota said the automaker will build 2027 bZ4X electric vehicles with Waymo's self-driving system integrated at the Takaoka factory in Japan. Testing begins in Japan next year, with the intent to deploy in right-hand-drive markets including the UK, where Waymo has been running Jaguar I-Pace cars in London while it awaits permits.
Sources TechCrunch
Reddit's third-quarter revenue rose 53% to $895 million and net income reached $283 million, but it guided fourth-quarter revenue to $1.00-1.03 billion against roughly $1.05 billion expected.
Sources Investing.com (via Yahoo Finance)Investing.com (earnings call transcript)
ETSI TS 104 275, written by the institute's Securing Artificial Intelligence committee, sets safeguards across five stages of an AI system's life: secure design, development, deployment, maintenance and end of life.
Sources Biometric Update
Elversberg beat Mainz 4-1 at the Ursapharm-Arena, Felix Keidel curling in a seventh-minute free-kick, Francis Onyeka scoring his first Bundesliga goal on 26 minutes and Maurice Krattenmacher adding a third in first-half stoppage time.
Sources Bundesliga.com
In arXiv 2610.39302 the pair prove that jointly embedded predictive architectures trained separately on different modalities learn the same representation up to one rotation when their positive pairs are two views of one scene.
Sources arXiv (2610.39302)
Schalke meet RB Leipzig at the Veltins-Arena on Saturday at 15:30 CET, the clubs' first Bundesliga meeting since Leipzig won 4-2 on the final day of 2022-23 before Schalke went down.
Sources Bundesliga.com (match centre)Bundesliga.com (probable teams)
Yuda Song and co-authors, working with Johns Hopkins and Aurora, derive reinforcement-learning objectives as maximum-likelihood fits to model-generated target distributions, putting pretraining, midtraining, supervised fine-tuning and RL under a single unified training objective.
Sources arXiv (2610.40564)