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Tesla Q3 2026 results: shares fall 2% after capex cut to $20bn
Tesla's third-quarter margins and cash flow beat forecasts, but it cut its 2026 capital-spending plan to about $20 billion from more than $25 billion. Reuters says the shares slipped as investors questioned Musk's AI and robotics push.
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US banks block AI agents from logging in to customer accounts
JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Charles Schwab are shutting out third-party AI agents that log in with customers' passwords. Read-only data sharing survives, but who pays for an agent's mistakes is still unresolved.
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LEGO Daft Punk partnership starts with Alive 2007 pyramid set
The LEGO Group and Daft Punk have announced an official partnership. Its first product is a set of the Alive 2007 pyramid stage, based on a fan design from 2020. Price and release date have not been announced.
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Bukangi shark slips back into Busan canal after third rescue
Hours after officials said a third rescue had guided Busan's celebrity dusky shark to open sea, Bukangi swam back under a net. She is now held near the canal mouth while the oceans ministry monitors her.
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How to Set Up Passkeys on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac
A step-by-step guide to creating passkeys for your Google, Apple and Microsoft accounts, how they sync through password managers, how to recover them if you lose a device, and when a password plus 2FA still makes sense.
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Norway wealth fund Q3 return is -0.5% as bonds drop 3.5%
Fixed income was the weak spot while unlisted renewable energy infrastructure gained 7.5%. A stronger krone cut the fund's value by a further NOK 472 billion, leaving it at NOK 22,014 billion at end-September.
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Claude Duet: Anthropic opens preview of background agent app
Anthropic's Claude Duet sends morning briefs, monitors work apps and runs tasks on its own cloud computer, asking before it pays, sends or signs. Here is who can join the preview and how it compares with rivals.
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Meta Zuckerberg California deal: new shares, eight-year pledge
Meta will give Mark Zuckerberg non-voting Class C shares he can sell to cover a possible California wealth tax. In return, he pledges to stay in the state, or wherever Meta is headquartered, for eight years.
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US Jobless Claims Fall to 194,000, Lowest in Three Months
Layoffs remain rare, but hiring is slow: payrolls grew by only 29,000 in September and continuing claims rose by 25,000. The data is among the last before the Fed's October 28 rate decision.
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Hermès Q3 sales growth slows to 4.3%, weakest since early 2020
Hermès grew third-quarter revenue 4.3% at constant exchange rates to €4.1 billion, missing forecasts. Asia-Pacific excluding Japan was flat and ready-to-wear and accessories fell as Chinese shoppers cut back, while Birkin and Kelly leather goods still grew 10.8%.
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Bitcoin downside protection ETF: how BlackRock's PBIT would work
BlackRock has filed to launch the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, an options-based fund built around IBIT. Here is how bitcoin downside protection ETFs work, what the draft prospectus says, what is still blank, and the trade-offs behind the cap.
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P&G Q1 results: sales up 4% as costs hold EPS growth to 1%
Procter & Gamble beat sales and profit forecasts as shoppers bought more Tide, Dawn and premium hair care, but commodity and freight costs cut 150 basis points from core gross margin. The company kept its fiscal 2027 targets and returned $3.9 billion to shareholders.
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How to build an AI agent in Python with tool calling
A framework-free guide to building an AI agent in Python: describe tools with JSON Schema, write the loop that runs tool calls, switch to a local model via Ollama, and enforce guardrails such as allow-lists, step limits and human confirmation.
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Final Fantasy Resonance out October 22 with prices from $49.99
Square Enix's first HD-2D Final Fantasy is out October 22. Here is what is confirmed about platforms, the $49.99 to $209.99 editions, its Brave Exvius roots, developer Lancarse and demo save carry-over.
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CSI 300 bear market: China's index closes 20.2% below June peak
China's CSI 300 closed 20.2% below its June 22 peak on October 22 after a 1.8% daily fall and ten straight weekly losses. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech Index fell 5.03% in its worst session since April 2025.
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How to Fine-Tune an LLM with LoRA and QLoRA on a Single GPU
A practical walkthrough of parameter-efficient fine-tuning: format a chat dataset, train 4-bit QLoRA adapters on Llama 3.1 8B with Hugging Face PEFT and TRL, check VRAM needs, evaluate against the base model, merge the adapter and decide when fine-tuning beats RAG or prompting.
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ICC Sakharov Prize 2026: court honoured amid new US sanctions
The European Parliament has awarded its 2026 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the International Criminal Court and its officials, less than two weeks after Donald Trump announced new US sanctions on the court.
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Bukele launches Haiti rescue operation for 4 Salvadorans held by gangs
El Salvador's president warned Haitian gangs of a harsher response if four Salvadoran members of the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force are not freed alive. No group has claimed the abduction and no rescue has been reported.
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India daily brief, Oct 22, 2026: Sensex, Nifty slip as Brent tops $111
Indian stocks fell for a third session on October 22 as a drone strike near Saudi Arabia's Shaybah oilfield lifted Brent above $111 and the rupee weakened to about 94.82 per dollar, while the Jio Platforms IPO drew strong demand.
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Ukrainian drones hit three Yandex data centers in four days
Three Yandex data centers were hit in four days, taking down cloud, payment and AI services in Russia and beyond. Two weeks on, the fate of the company's AI supercomputers is still unknown.
