• October 7, 2026
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IMF Adds the AI Boom to Its List of Global Risks

For the past two years, the International Monetary Fund and nearly everyone else described the artificial-intelligence boom as a force for good in the world economy: a surge of investment…

  • October 7, 2026
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Gold, Silver and Bitcoin Fall Together as Yields Climb

Gold has spent the year behaving like the market’s most reliable refuge, and for much of the evening of October 7 it looked as though that refuge had sprung a…

  • October 7, 2026
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Finland Halts Two Google Data Centers Over Forest Clearing

The trees came down in March, before the paperwork was done. Workers began clearing forest at Leppiniemi, outside the northern Finnish town of Muhos, months before the environmental impact assessments…

  • October 6, 2026
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A Quantum Startup Takes Its Chips to a Mainstream Factory

The hardest problem in quantum computing is not the math. It is the factory. The exotic chips that run quantum machines have long been made in small batches by the…

  • October 6, 2026
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Meta’s Muse Assistant Is Building Files on People It Has Never Met

The AI assistant inside Meta’s apps does more than answer questions. According to internal instructions reviewed by Time magazine, it is also keeping files — building profiles of the people…

  • October 6, 2026
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Anthropic’s Chief Took Home $18 Million Last Year

The most striking number in Anthropic’s IPO filing is not the valuation the company has floated. It is what the company pays the man running it. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief…

  • October 6, 2026
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Ofcom Opens an Inquiry Into Meta’s New Instagram Feature

When a platform ships a new feature, the question most people ask is whether it will catch on. The question Britain’s communications regulator is asking about Instagram’s newest addition is…

  • October 6, 2026
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Anduril Steps Into the Navy’s Submarine Line

The company that built its name on software and drones is about to make parts for the most complicated machine the United States Navy builds. Anduril has won a Navy…

  • October 6, 2026
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Google Buys Two Decades of Nuclear Power

The single tightest constraint on the artificial-intelligence boom has turned out to be not chips or models but electricity. Google’s answer, disclosed this week, is to buy it at the…

  • October 6, 2026
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Oracle’s Health Data Breach Grows to 20 Million People

The number keeps moving in one direction. When Texas authorities disclosed fresh figures on Oracle’s health-care data breach, the count of people whose personal information was exposed reached roughly 20…