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BREAKING: Anthropic is rebounding alongside AI stocks, with its pre-IPO perpetual up over 3% on Liquid in the last 24 hours. The move brings Anthropic's implied valuation closer to $2 trillion after a sharp selloff last week. https://t.co/OKwvFsK5VJ

BREAKING: France issues curfew for parts of central Paris, per France24. French authorities have issued a curfew for Place de la République and Les Halles in Paris, starting at 8 p.m. local time.

BREAKING: Trump aides are preparing to impose financial penalties on millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year, per WashingtonSun. The plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections

Goldman Sachs warns markets could get more volatile. Investors have turned increasingly defensive, with Goldman’s sentiment indicator falling to the 46th percentile, its lowest since April.

Trump said he cut a diesel export deal with Russia and delayed imposing further sanctions because he doesn’t want to drive Vladimir Putin away from peace talks with Ukraine

Wabi is live. An AI messenger that does not just answer questions. Wabi drops your personal AI agent into chats with your friends and their agents. The agents talk to each other, build apps on the spot, and get things done together.

BREAKING: French authorities acknowledge they have “lost control” in major cities as widespread protests, violence and unrest grip the country, prompting calls for curfews to restore order, per NBC

BREAKING: President Trump says migrants have “taken over” France. He’s urging France to close its borders quickly.

PMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the US economy is booming. He points to strong corporate profits, low unemployment & AI infrastructure spending. But consumer confidence is at its lowest since 2014, inflation just rose to 3.7%, and 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan.

Morgan Stanley says the U.S. stock sell-off may be nearing its end. Strategist Mike Wilson says investors should get ready to buy the dip, as the three-month correction enters its final stages. It comes after the Russell 2000 entered correction territory last week.

Trump ran on cutting taxes. But once tariffs are counted, his policies are raising taxes and costs this year for every income group except the richest 1%, per a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The reason: tariffs, which are largely passed on to consumers as higher prices, outweigh the tax cuts for most Americans. Even the right-leaning Tax Foundation calls the tariffs the largest U.S. tax increase as a share of GDP since 1993.

Elon Musk says he’ll give every child in the U.S. a share of SpaceX next year. There are about 73 million Americans under 18, which at SpaceX’s current price of around $157 would make the gift worth roughly $11 billion.

Still live, still trading! Our hosts will begin options flow breakdowns in about 20 minutes: what do you wanna see? https://t.co/146WTXtM1U

Jefferies says demand for Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max is weakening. The warning signs: shorter delivery times and falling resale prices. It’s the second sign of soft demand this month, after reports that Apple told suppliers to cut production of some parts for its new iPhone lineup. But not every model is struggling: Apple’s new iPhone Duo sold out almost immediately last week, with delivery dates pushed into late November.

Bank of America says there will be a Ocotber rate hike.

BREAKING: A breakthrough deal between the U.S. and Iran could be announced as soon as this week, sources familiar with mediation efforts told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. It follows Iran’s president saying Friday that Tehran isn’t seeking nuclear weapons and is ready for dialogue.

A semi morning. https://t.co/02b6o1pONW

JD Vance: Don’t vote for the people who caused these problems.

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Americans are getting more pessimistic about their finances, per the New York Fed. More households say they’re worse off than a year ago, and more expect to be worse off a year from now.

The “Magnificent Seven” are now big enough to move the entire U.S. economy, per MW. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google alone are expected to spend about $750 billion this year, mostly on AI data centers, roughly 2% of U.S. GDP.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that mortgage rates and bond yields will come down once the Iran conflict ends.

New Yorkers are living longer than ever. Life expectancy in New York City hit a record 83.2 years. That’s more than 4 years longer than the average American, per the CDC.

Billionaire Michael Novogratz has said artificial intelligence is in the “biggest bubble of our lifetime”

Car buyers are stretching loans to seven years or more just to afford the monthly payment, per CNBC And payments are still hitting records. Average new-car payment: $787 a month Average amount financed: a record $44,664 Average interest rate: 7%

The husband is the main breadwinner in about 55% of marriages, down from 85% in 1972, per PEW.

BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters. Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards. And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.

Texas is scrambling to process a backlog of nearly 600,000 voter registrations after a state computer failure, with early voting opening Monday, October 19, per The Guardian. Read more: https://t.co/ToQmD4ryn5

She reportedly failed the California bar exam and acknowledged publicly she had been advised not to use that term. Read more: https://t.co/jXChRce3DE

In English language arts, 49.3 percent of students scored proficient or advanced, and in math just 38.4 percent did, meaning most California students are below grade level in both subjects. Read more: https://t.co/hjIKj270ra