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BREAKING: The United Nations has adopted a new global pandemic preparedness declaration in a 153–3 vote, per UN News. The only countries to vote against it: the United States, Israel and Argentina. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a political declaration on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response on Monday, October 12, by a vote of 153 to 3, with only the United States, Israel and Argentina voting against it. Read more: https://t.co/Y6SGgmBCEP

BREAKING: Young Americans are falling further behind. Change in median net worth by age since 2022, per the Federal Reserve: 75 and older: +37% 65–74: -4% 55–64: +3% 45–54: -6% 35–44: +5% Under 35: -23% The youngest households saw the biggest drop of any group, while the oldest saw the biggest gain Median net worth for households headed by someone under 35 fell 23% between 2022 and 2025, to about $33,000, while households headed by someone 75 or older saw a 37% increase, the largest gain of any age group. Read more: https://t.co/lJXIKxbR0j

Stroke rates among young adults have nearly doubled, per CNN The rate of strokes among adults ages 20 to 54 rose from 33.9 cases per 100,000 people in 1993-1994 to 62.2 per 100,000 in 2020, according to a study published September 23 in Neurology. Read more: https://t.co/xHeELueQaJ

Americans are drinking less for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, but drinking levels are still higher than before the pandemic, per WaPo

The AI buildout is now the biggest investment boom in U.S. history, per WSJ: https://t.co/pBZmOm6e3J Investment in data centers, power systems, networking and specialized chips is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025 through 2032, an average of 3.63% of U.S. GDP per year, according to Brookings Institution Read more: https://t.co/IX8NsENFT2

9 in 10 of Americans are concerned about AI one day surpassing human intelligence, per CNN

AI has a $6 trillion problem. The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion a year by 2031 to justify the data centers being built today, per Bain. They say that existing AI products like chatbots and coding tools may bring in $1.8 trillion at most. The global AI industry needs to generate $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the data center buildout now underway, according to Bain & Company's annual Global Technology Report. Read more: https://t.co/T4CJm0l6SB

Homebuilders say ICE crackdowns are making it hard to find workers. Immigrants make up over a quarter of the construction workforce, and more than half of workers in key trades, per Axios: Drywall installers: 57% Plasterers and stucco masons: 56% Roofers: 53% ICE arrested a record 50,925 people in August. Immigrants make up more than a quarter of the U.S. construction workforce and more than half of workers in several key homebuilding trades, according to an Axios analysis of National Association of Home Builders data. Read more: https://t.co/kNeYHqQw6F

BREAKING: Palantir, $PLTR, CTO has said that some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar said on CBS's Face the Nation that some AI researchers have taken up smoking as a signal of their belief that AI will cure cancer. Read more: https://t.co/a8mhInvHgq

Zelenskyy "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were" "When our strikes reached Yandex's data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms," Zelenskyy said. Read more: https://t.co/w9fiKV7sNZ

Anthropic has said that Houthis used Claude AI instead of weapons engineers to make rockets and ballistic missiles that correct themselves after missing targets, per the WaPo A cell based in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen used Anthropic's Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop guidance, navigation and control software for rockets and missiles. Read more: https://t.co/Eckfjb90KJ

Heating oil in Maine now costs nearly 80% more than a year ago. The statewide average hit $5.97 a gallon as of Oct. 5, per the Maine Department of Energy Resources, after setting a record above $6 in late September. A year ago, it was about $3.30. That’s roughly $675 more to fill a standard 275-gallon tank. Maine is the most heating-oil-dependent state in the country: about half of households rely on it as their main heat source.

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

Character. AI files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million

Nintendo says it isn’t giving up on physical games. “There’s no plans to ditch physical,” Nintendo Latin America’s general manager, Bill van Zyll, said in an interview. He said Nintendo follows what players prefer, and it knows how much fans still like owning physical copies. It’s a sharp contrast with Sony, which has confirmed it will stop producing PlayStation discs in early 2028.

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French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: They tell us, "We must reassure the markets." Reassure the markets? What are their names? Where do they live? Let me go and reassure them! What market? What are you talking about? There is no market. There are hedge funds, financial companies and insurance companies.

Chinese-made rental cars recorded Norwegian soldiers during a major military exercise in Oslo, per Dagens Næringsliv. At least two Deepal electric cars, made by China’s Changan, stored video of soldiers getting in and out, where they drove, who they picked up, and how long they stayed at each location. They even recorded the codes soldiers typed in to pass through military gates. Soldiers found the footage by chance while clicking through the cars’ menus. The cars were rented from Hertz Norway, which is owned by China’s Geely. Despite the discovery, the cars kept being used on military grounds.

BREAKING: BlackRock has cut U.S. stocks to neutral and turned bullish on Treasuries. Short-term Treasuries: upgraded to overweight Long-term Treasuries: upgraded to neutral, from underweight U.S. stocks: downgraded to neutral BlackRock's Investment Institute has downgraded U.S. equities to neutral from a long-held overweight and upgraded short-term Treasuries to overweight, ending an underweight stance on U.S. government debt held for most of the past six years. Read more: https://t.co/91JWlPtVM0

BREAKING: Epic Games has delayed its unannounced Disney, $DIS, shooter, featuring Star Wars and Marvel characters, and ordered developers to switch to an AI-first production model, per Bloomberg. “No more hand-written code,” one of the game’s directors told staff. All art for the game will now be made with AI, with humans only guiding the work. Epic Games has delayed its unannounced Disney shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters and ordered the team to switch to an AI-first production model, according to a Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier published Monday, October 12. Read more: https://t.co/1TcwBTJsYz

Now this is unusual. Nancy Pelosi has disclosed up to $1 million investment in REOF XXX, LLC, a private LLC acquiring and managing 225 Bush Street, a 25-floor San Francisco office tower. Let's take a look at this trade. https://t.co/hlqk7RBVPv It's her third "REOF" LLC buy since 2024: - Aug 2024: REOF XXVI, up to $500,000 (spouse) - Jul 2026: REOF XXV, up to $1 million - Sep 2026: REOF XXX, up to $1 million That's up to $2.5 million across the three. The building last sold for $350 million in 2014. Its $350 million mortgage went into default in November 2024. The public can't buy into these LLCs. But two REITs offer broad exposure to B…

BREAKING: Kroger reportedly plans to cut about 3,000 corporate jobs over the next three years, roughly 37% of its 8,200-person corporate workforce

BREAKING: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is being shuttled between heavily guarded palaces equipped with bunkers due to ongoing Houthi attacks, per the Independent

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Cerebras, $CBRS, just hit a record low of $146.98. That’s more than 20% below its $185 IPO price in May. And it’s down about 62% from its first-day high of $386.34. It was the biggest U.S. tech IPO since Uber in 2019. https://t.co/n97cMh2Zui

Six Ukrainian energy sites hit by Russia since Trump announced ceasefire, Zelensky has said. Despite the US president announcing energy infrastructure would not be targeted strikes have continued, Ukraine has said.

Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, causing fires and spoiling food, per Reuters

BREAKING: Trump has said: "I will be giving all adult citizens in the US $5000. Democrat policies will not allow this happen... they will raise your taxes. If Democrats win, you will have an ecomomic depression. If Republicans win, you will have $5000 in your pocket."

BREAKING: Elon Musk has poured more than $275 million into Republicans’ fight to keep control of Congress, all since July, per FT That makes him by far the largest known donor in the midterms. Where it went: $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, the main super PAC backing GOP Senate candidates $76 million to his own America PAC $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the top House GOP super PAC $10 million to the Republican Governors Association $2 million to the Republican Attorneys General Association The $158 million alone is one of the largest political donations in U.S. history, and more than the Democrats’ rival Sena…

Nvidia, $NVDA, is reportedly halting GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs, per Tom's Hardware.