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Why is John Travolta's old luxury jet in a small Australian town? Why is John Travolta's old luxury jet in a small Australian town?Close John Travolta's old Boeing 707 luxury jet is being reassembled at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Aviation Museum in Albion Park,

Man dies after car crashes into Lidl supermarket - Published A man in his 30s has died after a car crashed through the entrance of a Lidl shop in Wolverhampton. Police were called to the supermarket in Finchfield Hill shortly before 18:00 BST on Friday. West Midlands Police said

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content “without risk o

Reports of Starlink’s discussions with cell-tower owners were noticed by shareholders of Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.

911 EMERGENCY: An ambulance in New York City now takes an average of 13 minutes to reach someone in life-threatening distress. That response time has risen five years straight and is up 41.2% from a decade ago, a city comptroller’s report revealed earlier this month. According to

West Virginia attorney general subpoenas environmental groups West Virginia’s attorney general has sent investigative subpoenas to environmental advocacy organizations — something the groups are describing as a retaliatory attack on their First Amendment rights. West Virginia Riv

Watch: Trees ripped up as Storm Austen batters Britain More than 15,000 homes are without power as Storm Austen continues to batter southern England and Wales, with more bad weather expected this weekend. The first named storm of the season brought gusts of up to 84mph (135km/h)

Paxton sues OpenAI, Altman for failing to warn Texans about ChatGPT’s ‘dangers’ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Friday, accusing the company of failing to warn consumers about the potential dangers from its AI models. The lawsuit allege

“You Can See Everything” is the latest reminder of how whistleblowers are more important than ever. But at the same time the role is becoming more complicated — and opaque, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Beth Kowitt says. (Source: Bloomberg)

Product-market fit — when a startup’s product sells well — has become even harder to find in this AI era. Despite startups achieving record-fast growth, not all customers are sticky and products can be replicated more easily than ever. Anu Bharadwaj, a partner at Iconiq; Rajeev D

Secret Service closes road near White House due to suspicious package The U.S. Secret Service and D.C. police are investigating reports of a “suspicious item” near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which resulted in a road closure. “Around 2:40 p.m., on October 23, 2026,

As she faces a tough midterm race, the five-term GOP senator is touting her successful lobbying effort against certain tariffs on Canada

Cohere Locks Enterprise AI Prompts Behind Hardware-Encrypted Model Vault Cohere's Model Vault now runs on hardware-isolated NVIDIA H100 enclaves on Azure, letting enterprises verify their data stays private even from Cohere. - Cohere launched Confidential Computing on Model Vault

White House says the US is lifting tariffs on some Canadian goods - Published The US is lifting some of its 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, with the White House saying on Friday it was working to "protect the economic prosperity and national security of the American people". The e

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo warning military personnel against using nonpublic information to make bets on prediction markets, saying the wagers could give important clues to enemy countries. “Do Not Compromise Military Operations for Personal Financial Gain,” sa

The US government is working to address and stop any potential cybersecurity issues stemming from flaws in PHP, a widely used open-source software, that may impact federal agencies and American critical infrastructure, according to a White House official. The programming language

S&P 500 fell 0.52% to 7,623.86, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.25% to 52,209.16. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.21% to 25,955.34. AI trade remains under scrutiny The moves came after a turbulent week for the market's AI trade, with investors questioning whether

Instacart has explored a potential sale of the grocery-delivery company, a process that has included discussions with Uber Technologies Inc., a person familiar with the matter said.

Collins says certain Canadian goods now tariff-exempt Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Friday that nine categories of Canadian products “crucial for Maine’s agricultural industries” will be exempted from U.S. tariffs. The types of exempted goods include paperboard cartons,

Senior Democrats are tempering their expectations about how big of a House majority they might win, as both parties see a tightening battlemap. The latest rounds of internal polling from both parties from the middle of October show GOP candidates gaining ground in the Midwest and

After SpaceX restricted use of its Starlink and Starshield satellite internet services in Ukraine, causing fast-moving drones to disconnect and drop out of the sky, Kyiv is looking for alternatives. Ukraine's Ministry of Defense said on Thursday that it has signed a letter of int

After SpaceX restricted use of its Starlink and Starshield satellite internet services in Ukraine, causing fast-moving drones to disconnect and drop out of the sky, Kyiv is looking for alternatives. Ukraine's Ministry of Defense said on Thursday that it has signed a letter of int

Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won’t use the sensitive data from products like Gmail, Drive, and Photos for ad personalizati

A once-in-a-generation investment boom has created lots of winners — but many Americans are feeling left out.

Oil has climbed back to an Iran-war high and may soon go higher, if the U.S. and Israel strike Iran after their respective voters go to the polls in the coming days.

Earnings News UWM Holdings reports Q3 prelim results Oct 23, 2026, 4:18 PM ETUWM Holdings Corporation (UWMC) StockBy: Khushi Singh, SA News Editor UWM Holdings press release (UWMC): Q3 total revenue between $800M to $825M. Q3 net income between $205M to $220M. More on UWM Holding

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call InsightsFinancials Preferred Bank sees Q4 noninterest expense at $23M-$24M as deposit market stays 'very, very competitive' Oct 23

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call Insights GrafTech expects mid-single-digit Q4 pricing increase while planning Monterrey closure and $20M-$25M annual savings Oct 2

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call InsightsEnergy Slb anticipates Q4 revenue of ~$10B while targeting >$2B data center solutions exit rate in 2027 Oct 23, 2026, 4:18

Freed US citizen was tortured in Russian jail, former Ukrainian prisoners say - Published Ukrainians held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard have said they witnessed him being beaten and humiliated by Russian guards during his four-year detention. Dmytro Khyliuk first me

Ukraine: Starlink still isn’t working after Trump restoration promise Ukraine’s military on Friday struggled with a still-slowed Starlink satellite system despite President Trump’s promise a day earlier that SpaceX owner Elon Musk had restored the service. Connections with Starsh

Treasury moves to ease access to single-family home purchases ahead of midterms The Treasury Department on Thursday moved to implement tenets of a bipartisan housing law Congress passed over the summer, including a ban on institutional investors buying single-family homes. Under

Even after another bond market rout Friday, investors are turning their attention toward Treasurys, anticipating that yields may be topping out. The benchmark 10-year note spent the day flirting with the psychologically important 5% level as oil prices surged and a fresh consumer

The iPhone Duo has an eye-popping price tag, but initial interest in Apple's first foldable phone in China appears solid. On the day of the global launch on Friday, scalpers like Alex Wang stood outside the flagship store in Beijing's popular shopping area, Sanlitun, offering to

The iPhone Duo has an eye-popping price tag, but initial interest in Apple's first foldable phone in China appears solid. On the day of the global launch on Friday, scalpers like Alex Wang stood outside the flagship store in Beijing's popular shopping area, Sanlitun, offering to

AI - Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agenti

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.

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Instacart is in talks to sell itself in a transaction that would cap the grocery delivery app’s 14-year run as a standalone company. Currently valued at $12 billion, Instacart has been working with an investment bank to weigh its options and held at least preliminary conversation

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to reduce mortgage costs as rising interest rates and inflation make homeownership less affordable. The order, titled "Decreasing Housing Costs for the American People," directs federal agencies to proactively cancel

Elon Musk wants a SpaceX-Tesla merger, Meta makes a deal to keep Mark Zuckerberg, and the battle of the AI agents. Ed Ludlow recaps the biggest stories from Bloomberg Tech on "The Rundown." (Source: Bloomberg)

SpaceX's Starlink internet system continues to be throttled in Ukraine as the stakes rise for the war-torn country, Ukrainian officials and a national security expert said Friday. "Every day matters for Ukraine, because every Ukrainian life matters," wrote Denys Sienik, Ukraine's

SpaceX's Starlink internet system continues to be throttled in Ukraine as the stakes rise for the war-torn country, Ukrainian officials and a national security expert said Friday. "Every day matters for Ukraine, because every Ukrainian life matters," wrote Denys Sienik, Ukraine's

Nearly 80% of all-inclusive resorts have become ‘luxury or upper upscale,’ Bernstein analysts say, as the industry seeks higher-income travelers able to weather inflation.

OpenAI Cuts Live Internet Access From Frontier Model Training After Security Breach OpenAI pulled frontier models offline, built a cached web for them to train in, then turned its own cyber agents loose to break the walls. - OpenAI removed live internet access from all frontier t

A GOP campaign ad featuring the estranged mother of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton (D) received blowback this week after it was revealed she stood by her husband after he was charged with sexually abusing Acton as a child. Court records show that the mother, Donna Arthur,