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Thursday, October 8, 2026
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Business
Samsung's quarterly operating profit tops 100 trillion won for the first time
The memory chipmaker guided to 107.40 trillion won, about $80.2 billion, a figure 782% above the same quarter last year as AI demand drained supply.
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Tech
Biohub, the Energy Department and Google put $1.8B behind a virtual cell
The commitment covers funding, data, computation and new measurement tools to train AI models that predict how a living cell responds.
Health
Canada drops its plan to open assisted dying to mental illness alone
Justice Minister Sean Fraser said legislation this fall will indefinitely extend a ban that had been scheduled to lift in March 2027.
Money
Fed minutes show 16 of 18 officials expect another rate hike this year
September's meeting summary says most participants judged a second 2026 increase likely, without naming the meeting where it would happen.
US
Isaias is the Atlantic's latest first hurricane since 1905, and it targets the Gulf
The season's first hurricane formed on the latest date in 121 years, and forecasters expect landfall on the northern Gulf Coast late Friday.
World
Japan raids its four biggest brewers over a suspected beer price cartel
Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo and Suntory, which together hold roughly 90% of Japan's beer market, confirmed on-site inspections by the Fair Trade Commission.
Science
Margaret Hamilton, who led the software that landed Apollo 11, dies at 90
MIT said the computer scientist who helped turn software engineering into a discipline died on September 30 at the age of 90.
Sports
Rays sweep the Yankees for the first postseason sweep in club history
Victor Mesa Jr.'s two-run homer off Max Fried in the sixth inning sent Tampa Bay to its third American League Championship Series.
Tech
Microsoft opens Windows to AI agents and ships an Nvidia-powered Surface
Execution Containers reach general availability, letting companies fence off what an agent can touch, as the Surface Laptop Ultra opens for pre-order at $2,600.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Tech
Altman says the world should accept some bad things from AI
Business
DeepSeek weighs doubling its round to $14.9 billion before a 2027 IPO
Culture
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar winner for On the Waterfront, dies at 102
US
Ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to a $194 million fraud and 298 gold bars
World
Germany arrests its former spy chief over 2,000 leaked BND documents
Money
Heating oil bills to rise 21% while gas and propane costs fall
Money
India raises rates for the first time since 2023 as war lifts prices
Health
PepsiCo recalls 122,000 cases of Gatorade in 37 states over dyes
Tech
Pornhub returns to Australia for adults who pass Apple's age check
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Money
The 10-year Treasury yield tops 5.3%, a level last seen in April 2002
Business
Anduril will build a $3.7 billion submarine shipyard at Sparrows Point
Science
Francis Halzen wins the physics Nobel for catching neutrinos in Antarctic ice
World
French police fire tear gas as 266,000 rally nationwide for school funding
Health
Kenya confirms its first Ebola case as Congo's outbreak passes 8,500 cases
Tech
Mistral launches Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter model trained in Europe
Sports
Ovechkin says his 22nd season is his last, 11 goals shy of a Gretzky mark
Business
Paramount completes its $111 billion Warner Bros. takeover, creating Skydance
Monday, October 5, 2026
US
FBI arrests a California realtor accused of tailing Taiwan's first family
World
Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula into Brazil's October 25 runoff vote
Science
Forensics suggests Egypt's first kings had their servants killed
Tech
Nvidia-backed Reflection readies an open-weight AI model release
Money
OPEC+ holds November oil output steady as supply risks mount
Sports
Drew Rasmussen one-hits the Yankees as the Rays take ALDS Game 1
Health
Russia monitors 189 people after a plague lab worker's death
Business
Schneider Electric buys software maker PTC for $22.6 billion in cash
Culture
Tom Cruise's 'Digger' opens to $8 million as Warner film chiefs exit
US
US pulls all of its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford over Iran threat
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Tech
Apple tightens Mac full disk access as AI agents get more capable
Culture
Hawaii’s 550-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into the Pacific
Tech
Jay Clayton is named AI czar to lead a Super Intelligence Force
Health
Mystery patient drills found 40% of clinics missed the basics
Business
Navistar layoffs of 1,400 erase a year of Dayton area job growth
Business
Tesla has 169 Cybercabs cleared in Texas while Waymo runs 1,154
Sports
Tom Kim’s Asian Games gold buys him out of 18 months of service
Money
Trump sends one-time $90 Medicare payments to 20 million seniors
World
UAE says the flydubai co-pilot used a cockpit crash axe in the attack
World
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will hit Russian refineries harder this winter
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Tech
Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 enterprise AI engineers
World
Brazil votes Sunday with Lula and a Bolsonaro separated by five points
Money
Employer health costs to jump 8.2% in 2027, the most since 2003
World
G7 frees 100 million barrels of diesel and crude after Trump threat
Business
Lyft to pay $272.5 million in California's largest wage settlement
Business
Nike revenue falls 4% and its new Pace plan brings job cuts
Business
US payrolls rose just 29,000 in September as July turned negative
Culture
Pope Leo tells artists that algorithms lack the spark of the human
Science
Space Force retires the satellites that watched for nuclear launches
Tech
US charges California CEO with smuggling $300 million in AI servers
Friday, October 2, 2026
Culture
A van Gogh hidden for 50 years leads a half billion dollar Sotheby’s sale
Politics
Only 26% approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, an AP-NORC low
Business
Onsemi cuts its Synaptics takeover to $5.7 billion after a rival bid
Tech
OpenAI fires three researchers over mishandled sensitive information
World
Seoul threatens further action against Ukraine over a prisoner disclosure
Science
SpaceX Crew-13 reaches the space station in 7 hours and 55 minutes
Health
Eating sweets during antibiotics worsens gut damage, a Nature study finds
Money
Trump weighs a diesel export ban as the US presses Europe to release fuel
World
US sends a third carrier and 9,000 troops to the Mideast as Trump weighs strikes
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Science
Gene-edited bananas that resist browning clear a UK approval hurdle
Tech
Google put four AI chips in orbit to test data centers powered by the sun
Money
Inflation ran at 3.4% in August as consumer spending jumped 0.9%
Business
Judge clears Paramount's $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover
Business
Ken Griffin's $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon is higher education's largest gift
World
Netanyahu credits stabbed Flydubai captain with stopping a midair crash
Money
SNAP's new limits start today: $1,023 a month for a family of four
US
Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives two lethal doses
Money
$500 Obamacare refund checks start going out to 950,000 people in 30 states
Culture
A shark stuck in a Busan canal for two weeks has drawn 600,000 visitors and a name
Sports
Caitlin Clark posts WNBA's first 25-point, 15-assist game to save Indiana's season
Tech
FTC opens investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over product risks
Health
One in eight cancers worldwide is caused by an infection, and most are preventable
Money
Mortgage rates hit 7.30%, the sixth straight weekly rise and a near 3-year high
US
Supreme Court lets third-country deportations resume while it hears the case
World
Pentagon says the last US troops have left Iraq, ending a 12-year ISIS mission
Business
US economy grew 2.2% in the second quarter, revised up sharply from 1.5%
Sports
White Sox win their first playoff series since 2005 as the Yankees also sweep
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