Saudi Arabia pumped 10.563 million barrels a day in October, OPEC said, as the U.S. average gas price fell to $3.94, its first time under $4 in months.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has passed 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths, its health ministry said Nov. 11, as Kenya began a 42-day countdown to Ebola-free status.
Spain held its first general strike in 14 years on Nov. 11 over housing costs. Masked groups clashed with police in Barcelona as 120,000 marched in Madrid.
Cost of living by country for mid-2026: the most expensive and cheapest nations, the biggest changes over the year and official inflation, with charts.
Russia hit six major power substations overnight, Kyiv said, a second night of strikes that left outages in eight regions and darkened city streetlights.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large prisoner exchange as Abu Dhabi talks ended Wednesday with no breakthrough. Envoys go to Moscow and Dublin Thursday.
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The Nasdaq fell 2.1% on Oct. 16, ending its worst week since June as chip and AI cloud stocks slid on debt and yield worries. The numbers and what is next.
Boston AI insurer Ledgebrook raised $200 million co-led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital. Deal size, dates, what Blackbird does and what is unknown.
A $15M Simons Foundation AI mathematics effort with OpenAI and Anthropic will fund workshops to help mathematicians check AI results and set shared standards.
The Germany Nvidia AI pact, worth several hundred million euros, is due Monday at Invest in Germany as Merz meets Jensen Huang. What's in it and who's involved.
Microsoft has quit the Nscale Loughton AI data centre in Essex after the site was told grid power may not arrive until the 2030s. What it means for UK AI plans.
Google says magic state cultivation now works on its Willow quantum chip, cutting errors about 40x to 99.99% fidelity. Here's what that means and the catch.
Taiwan plans a Texas AI industrial park costing up to $4 billion for TSMC and Foxconn suppliers, a day after TSMC posted record Q3 revenue of $46.7 billion.
CERN Mistral partnership: the physics lab and French AI firm plan a Large Physics Model trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions. What it will do and why.
Palantir Warp Speed explained: what the company says it is, the Navy, Army and Maven contracts, critics' concerns and our analysis of AI-enabled war risks.
Robotics policy in 2026: the pending Section 232 probe of robots and machinery, national robotics commission bills in Congress and the IFR market outlook.
Boston robotics in 2026: Boston Dynamics' $100M Waltham plant, iRobot under Picea, Symbotic's Walmart growth and MassRobotics' $2B in startup funding, sourced.
Surgical robots in 2026: Intuitive's da Vinci installed base of 11,710, procedure growth of 15%, Medtronic's Hugo US launch and the tariff effects, sourced.
Industrial and warehouse robots in 2026: IFR's record 603,000 installations, China's 59% share, Amazon's Vulcan and Symbotic's Walmart-driven growth, sourced.
Humanoid robots in 2026: Figure 03 at BMW, Agility's $2.5B SPAC deal, Boston Dynamics' Atlas plan and the China race, with what is verified and what is claimed.
Google paused its open-source bug bounty on Oct. 1, citing a flood of invalid automated reports. What is affected and where researchers can still get paid.
Boston’s Modulate raised $25M led by Future Ventures to scale audio-native AI for deepfake detection and voice-agent monitoring. Funding totals and Velma.
Harvard Garber $150 million research investment splits $100M to schools and $50M for cross-disciplinary science amid federal funding uncertainty.
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