Today: October 13, 2026
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Kroger plans to eliminate 3,000 corporate roles, memo shows, as it expands AI use

Kroger plans to cut roughly 3,000 corporate roles over the next three years, CEO Greg Foran told staff in a memo, seen by Reuters on Monday, as the grocer integrates AI into its

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North Korea fires missiles days after South Korea's hypersonic test

North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, marking Pyongyang's fourth

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US AI testing agency officials to move to White House, The Information reports

President Donald Trump's administration is planning to move three senior officials from the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) to the

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Likely unexploded ordnance kills teenager in northern Israel

A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed and 24 people were injured when what was most likely an unexploded ordnance went off during a school hiking trip near the border with

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UK PM Burnham says Iran's IRGC likely behind RAF Fairford incident

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been

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Model blitz at Paris motor show as Europe-China rivalry heats up

Europe's car industry fought back against rising Chinese competition at the Paris car show on Monday with a wave of new model launches and

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Meta releases Muse Wonder AI models to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI

Meta on Monday launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, calling them its most capable AI models yet, as the social media firm looks to compete more forcefully with OpenAI and

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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food

Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (

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Archbishop of the U.S. military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad

The archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the U.S. military is condemning the proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution

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Marijuana on the ballot for the final time in Idaho? Voters to decide if lawmakers have sole power to legalize

Marijuana on the ballot for the final time in Idaho? Voters to decide if lawmakers have sole power to legalize

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Global smartphone shipments record worst third quarter in 14 years amid memory shortage

Global smartphone shipments fell 20% on-year to their lowest third-quarter level since 2012, as soaring memory chip costs and supply shortages pressured manufacturers and pushed up

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US yield surge triggers mortgage hedging, adds to bond market pressure

The sharp rise in long-term US Treasury yields has spurred mortgage-related hedging that adds selling pressure to an already

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Hitters are winning more ABS challenges in the postseason, and teams are challenging more overall

Batters have been more successful with robot umpire challenges in the playoffs than during the regular season

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Sudan's famine risk worsened by conflict, drought and funding shortages, report says

Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

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Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276 million in donations

Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276 million in donations

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Hall, Woodford win Nobel prize for work on how to stabilise economies

US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on Monday for decades of work developing ground-up

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EnergyX signs binding $2 billion lithium supply deal with Trafigura

Lithium startup EnergyX said on Monday it has signed a $2 billion binding offtake to supply commodities trader Trafigura with the battery metal from Chile and the

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Microsoft plans huge deployment of its own AI chips, with an eye on saving costs 

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China's carmakers export more as EU caps hybrid vehicle imports at 350,000 a year

China's passenger car exports have surged 64% in September compared to the same month in 2025, according to an industry association

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From ‘hands-free’ to ‘eyes-off’: how General Motors is simulating its way to autonomous driving

General Motors plans to launch an advanced iteration of its driver assist technology on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ electric vehicle

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How much rain can a hurricane make, and does the storm size matter?

Storms big and small can produce a lot of rain. What matters most is how fast they’re moving, as an atmospheric scientist and educator explains.

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Physics Nobel highlights Antarctica’s role in exploring the cosmos

For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.

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Ancient people relied on genetic variation already present in wild plants to domesticate crops like rice and corn

New genomic tools let scientists dig into the family trees of crops like rice, corn and adzuki beans to learn more about how they transitioned from wild plants to domesticated crops.

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NASA may already have proof life once existed on another planet. Scientists might never get to find out

NASA may already have proof life once existed on another planet. Scientists might never get to find out

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Nikon revokes first prize in Small World in Motion video competition over AI use

Nikon revokes first prize in Small World in Motion video competition over AI use

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When AI goes rogue, who should get sued?

When AI goes rogue, who should get sued?

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Microsoft president says milk faces more regulation than AI

Artificial Intelligence needs urgent global regulation with independent evaluators able to vet new developments, the president of Microsoft said, warning that AI currently

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Airbus tests Valkyrie drone in Europe, plans 2029 combat readiness

Airbus has carried out the first test flight in Europe of a US-built drone that it hopes to team with Eurofighter jets, but without yet incorporating its

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In the US, a wealth boom and a price shock collide

The US is in the middle of a historic and costly technological revolution, with the artificial intelligence buildout driving a level of investment

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The races that will decide control of the US Senate

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IMF says AI investment keeps global growth around 3% but brings massive disruption

Strong investment in AI infrastructure is keeping global growth at around 3% with major benefits for Asia, but also foreshadows a "slow-moving

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Broadcom CEO sees capital hurdle to AI growth, 'casino' in AI investing

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said on Monday that capital will be the biggest constraint facing the company as AI development continues and likened some of the investment flow

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Intel CEO says Chinese frontier AI model adoption has been 'very fast'

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said on Monday that the token costs of Chinese frontier AI models have been lower and adoption has been "very fast". 

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Productivity gains from AI could help offset Asia's ageing population problem, IMF says

Artificial intelligence could help offset Asia's shrinking workforce as some countries' populations age, provided its adoption is scaled evenly across the region

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Volkswagen deliveries post steepest drop in more than four years as China weakness deepens

German automaker Volkswagen reported a 14.3% decline in global deliveries in the third quarter on Monday, its sharpest drop in more than four years, as weakness in China, its

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North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles, adding to streak of weapons tests

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations

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Hurricane Simon pounds resorts and vulnerable towns along Mexico’s Pacific coast

Hurricane Simon pounds Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm

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Trump says Russia and Ukraine agree to an ‘energy ceasefire’ but Kyiv says attacks continue

U.S. President Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire” in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but he offered no details on it and Kyiv reported continued attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement

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Anduril unveils interceptor missile family Steelfin to counter varied threats

Defense tech firm Anduril unveiled on Monday its Steelfin family of configurable and scalable surface-to-air interceptor missiles designed to tackle diverse aerial threats, as the

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TSMC expected to report sixth straight quarter of record profit thanks to AI boom

TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, will likely report a sixth consecutive quarter of record earnings, driven by

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US reverses course on Britain's testing of AI models, Telegraph says

American AI developers can give the British government early access to AI models for safety testing

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Moonshot execs in talks to settle dispute with shareholder ahead of planned IPO, people say

Top executives of Chinese AI startup Moonshot are in talks ahead of its planned Hong Kong listing to settle a legal dispute with a shareholder demanding compensation for their

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Amazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, WSJ reports

Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. 

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Man injured after being struck by ICE vehicle while fleeing on foot during enforcement operation, officials say

Man injured after being struck by ICE vehicle while fleeing on foot during enforcement operation, officials say

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Stellantis bets on small affordable EVs for European comeback

Stellantis heads into Paris Motor Show with a message it hopes customers, investors and dealers are ready to hear: after

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Six senators call for Trump administration to 'immediately reverse course' on Russian diesel plan

A bipartisan group of six senators are calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices

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Amelia Earhart expedition heads to Pacific atoll hoping to find her plane

A US-based team of marine archaeologists has set sail for a tiny island in the far western Pacific seeking to examine the latest tantalizing clue to one

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AM radio is disappearing from cars. Congress wants to stop that

AM radio is disappearing from cars. Congress wants to stop that

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Think you can’t live without a smartphone? Why a flip phone might be an upgrade

Think you can’t live without a smartphone? Why a flip phone might be an upgrade

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Trump says Ukraine should get a new leader as he spars with Zelensky over US-Russia diesel deal

Trump says Ukraine should get a new leader as he spars with Zelensky over US-Russia diesel deal

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Musk vows affordable Starlink in India days before Ambani's record Jio IPO

Elon Musk said he would price Starlink's satellite internet service affordably in India to take on Mukesh Ambani's low-cost Reliance Jio, escalating

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Canadian ransomware negotiator arrested amid FBI hacker crackdown

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US military says it disabled cargo vessel trying to run Iran blockade

The US military said on Saturday it had disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman after the ship's crew ignored warnings and attempted to run a naval blockade against

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Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade

At least 12 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in an attack on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, the deadliest in the

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AI is among 17 potentially ‘catastrophic threats’ that researchers say require targeted action

AI is among 17 potentially ‘catastrophic threats’ that researchers say require targeted action

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Nvidia in talks to invest further in Reflection AI or buy it, FT reports

Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in open-source startup Reflection AI or acquire it, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the

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Panama declares a state of emergency as powerful quake aftershocks rattle communities

Panama's government has declared a state of emergency following two powerful earthquakes that shook the country

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At least 4 dead as Isaias pushes further inland across Southeast

At least 4 dead as Isaias pushes further inland across Southeast

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India's Infosys does not expect material impact from US PERM suspension

Infosys, India's second-largest IT firm, said on Saturday that it does not anticipate a material impact from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) application suspension

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Jaguar reveals a $130,000 all-electric vehicle. Why?

Jaguar reveals a $130,000 all-electric vehicle. Why?

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A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face

Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control

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5 men died after being injured along a Michigan trail. Their deaths have raised questions about a possible serial killer

5 men died after being injured along a Michigan trail. Their deaths have raised questions about a possible serial killer

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Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said

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Stopping men from raping women starts long before they’re adults

Stopping men from raping women starts long before they’re adults

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Rights group says paramilitary drone strike in Sudan killed 41 near Ethiopian border

A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border

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Isaias makes landfall as hurricane, hammering US Gulf Coast with powerful winds, dangerous flooding

Isaias has crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane, bringing damaging winds and heavy rain to Alabama and the Florida Panhandle

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How Hurricane Isaias broke through to become the first Atlantic hurricane in an extremely quiet 2026 season

An atmospheric scientist explains what’s been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Niño and the jet stream both play important roles.

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Panama rocked by 2 powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks, prompting evacuations

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Panama, collapsing buildings and prompting evacuations

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Hurricane Isaias makes landfall on Florida Panhandle with destructive winds and storm surge

Hurricane Isaias makes landfall on Florida Panhandle with destructive winds and storm surge

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Venezuela president authorizes SpaceX's Starlink to operate in the country

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez has authorized Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, to operate in the Latin American

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The Latest: Hurricane Isaias makes landfall along the US Gulf Coast

Hurricane Isaias has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, which still includes extremely dangerous winds and extensive damage

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Sequoia-backed chip startup Nuvacore raising funds at about a $2.5 billion valuation, sources say

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Strong Panama quake shakes nation, but avoids major destruction

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending thousands into the streets, but the country

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Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in scheme to divert AI servers with Nvidia chips to China

A contractor linked to Super Micro Computer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to illegally export computer servers containing advanced