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BREAKING: The US 10-year Treasury yields risk hitting 6% for the first time since 2000, Pimco has said.

BREAKING: Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC, Marco Rubio has said. The US Treasury announced the sanctions with a six-month initial grace period, and some other exemptions that would allow some transactions for telecoms, software, payment of pensions and transactions related to detainees. Read more: https://t.co/w5ahsaHFvQ

BREAKING: AI companies are planning for what happens AI causes a likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water, per Axios People involved in the discussions told the outlet that a large cyberattack is among the scenarios drawing the most concern. Read more: https://t.co/Ot3iUWIwMR

Apple, $AAPL, has cut component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro models by at least 15% this month due to “weaker-than-expected” demand, per Bloomberg.

France is on a “fiscally unsustainable path” and may have become “too big to save” for the European Central Bank, economist Paul Krugman has said "France is on a fiscally unsustainable path," he wrote. Read more: https://t.co/vxT4AGnN7b

BREAKING: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, and they assume one in 2027, per Axios Executives expect such an incident could quickly bring demands for tougher regulation and force policymakers to act under pressure, according to the report. Read more: https://t.co/3UaEo8CiC1

BREAKING: Canada’s economy lost 68,300 jobs in September, far worse than forecasts for a gain of 9,200. The unemployment rate rose to 6.5%. Canada's economy shed a net 68,300 jobs in September and the unemployment rate edged up, data showed on Friday, erasing all the employment gains recorded earlier this year. Read more: https://t.co/UeMLlQRw9A

Elon Musk has said that he guesses that AI roughly doubles US GDP growth next year from ~2% to ~4%. Maybe even more.

Trump has blamed Democrats for high cost of living. "I inherited high costs from the Democrats, or the 'Dumbocrats' as I call them."

39% of Americans canceled at least one streaming subscription in the past six months, per Ipsos, that's up from 29% in March.

AI is creating jobs, just not for young workers. Companies adopting AI are hiring more people overall, per a new Stanford and King's College London study across 41 countries. But the gains go to the top: Senior employment: +6.7% over 5 years Junior employment: -3% The share of junior workers at those companies fell 1.9 percentage points.

China is buying gold at a record pace. It imported more than 1,000 tonnes of gold through August, already more than all of 2025, per Bloomberg. It spent nearly $160 billion doing it, a record. The central bank has bought gold for 22 straight months, now holding about 2,387 tonnes.

"McDonald's prices have doubled in the last ten years. The profits have gone mostly to shareholders, who got nearly $40 billion in dividends over the past decade," per MorePerfectUnion More Perfect Union said: "The profits have gone mostly to shareholders, who got nearly $40 billion in dividends over the past decade while customers suffer and workers are underpaid." Read more: https://t.co/PFO4nP9jdo

BREAKING: Foreclosure filings have risen 13% year-over-year, per HousingWire "August's data shows that foreclosure activity continues to trend above year-ago levels, particularly in completed foreclosures, which saw a notable annual increase," said Rob Barber, CEO of ATTOM. Read more: https://t.co/AjyQsmIYeF

OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, per the NYT

The World Health Organization has said that it had few clear answers about the recent death of a worker at a Russian institute that researched plague, per CNN

Senator John Kennedy on race: "Most Americans don't think that much about color anymore... They understand that to a bear, we all taste like chicken."

Meta, $META, has banned TikTok from advertising on its apps.

The Trump administration is crafting plans that would allow the temporary sale of some previously restricted peptides, per WaPo

Iran’s foreign minister has said that talks with Washington are continuing through mediators, with messages still being exchanged, per Bloomberg.

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Trump added that he had considered such actions inappropriate at the time out of respect for the office of the presidency, but that his two impeachments changed his thinking. Read more: https://t.co/yWTHioPhvS

BREAKING: USA Today sues OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training

SpaceX has agreed to buy a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio, per Bloomberg

BREAKING: Iranian operatives used OpenAI models and fake personas to help plant news articles critical of the US war against Iran in multiple US media outlets, OpenAI has said. OpenAI identified almost 100 articles published or syndicated under the operation's bylines across roughly a dozen outlets focused on international affairs, geopolitics and the Middle East. Read more: https://t.co/64a7sGym0N

Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic's new TOS, per the decoder. "Sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude is now prohibited. Read more: https://t.co/HCMnBCLAza

Elon Musk has accused vested interests of blocking the launch of Starlink in India, to protect their hold over consumers, calling it “a crime against the people of India.” “We are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people,” Musk said

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BREAKING: The execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad will be "made public so people can watch it," per Pete Hegseth. It will happen on December 3, at the same base where he carried out the massacre. It would be the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since 1945. Read more: https://t.co/CIQVVYYF0T