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Newest story built on mezha.net reporting: SoftBank weighs buying Allied Universal, the largest US security services firm, at about $18 billion (October 16, 2026). mezha.net reporting informs the Invest, Product, Build, Security, Leadership, and Science desks, most often on AI Regulation, Open-Weight Model Publishing, and Prediction Markets. At least 60 of our current stories draw on it.
Tesla says its single-seat Roadster Rocket reaches 60 mph in under 0.59 seconds. TechSpot reports a one-second demo run and says it is unclear whether owners will get the full capability.
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Elon Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $158 million in September through a Texas PAC created to support Ken Paxton, CNBC reported. Crypto Briefing said a Kalshi market had Democrat James Talarico at 62.5% to win, relatively stable over the past week.
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Amazon is selling the Bee Frontier for $74.99 and gating its Amazon and Alexa+ integrations behind an $11.99-a-month Pro plan. A year of Pro costs $143.88, nearly twice the Frontier's price, and shopping is one feature in that bundle.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney campaigned in Calgary on Thursday against Alberta's Monday vote on starting a legal process toward a separation referendum. A yes would not separate the province; the exposure for operators is procedural for now.
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Ukrainian officials say SpaceX cut Starshield service to any drone or vehicle moving faster than 160 km/h this week. Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump says it was not him and he does not think it was Musk.
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SoftBank is considering buying Allied Universal in a deal that could value the company at about $18 billion, Bloomberg News reported. The report frames it as a complement to Masayoshi Son's push into AI-powered robots and the infrastructure behind them.
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China's commerce and science ministries drafted export controls on 23 AI technology areas, with model limits from 2 trillion parameters or 10^26 FLOPs. A top-10 global rank also counts, open-weight releases clear on registration, and public technology is exempt.
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NYC Comptroller Mark Levine is urging Anthropic to pause its IPO, with a $2 trillion target valuation, over AI safety, governance and pace. His job and tax figures describe the city's exposure, and the only backer Crypto Briefing names is economist Jeffrey Sachs.
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Tesla is expected to unveil the redesigned Roadster on 15 October 2026 at a SpaceX site in Texas, six years after the 2020 deliveries it promised. Musk's range and acceleration claims have yet to be shown in a production-ready car, so the figures Tesla commits to are the test.
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Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs, roughly 6% of staff, then replaced content chief Bela Bajaria with Peter Rice a day later. The company did not disclose what the cuts save, so Tuesday's earnings report is the first place a cost figure could appear.
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Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Nasdaq Composite fell 2.14% on Friday and about 4.5% on the week, its worst since June, as investors doubted AI-linked debt, CNN reported. CoreWeave, a GPU renter with tens of billions in debt, saw bond yields rise to distress levels.
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Iowa, Kansas and six other states have sued OpenAI in courts across the country, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others. Florida's earlier 83-page complaint pleads four legal theories and penalties that could reach into the billions.
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Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the US, one cart in Gemini and AI Mode for products from multiple retailers. ZDNet reports it runs on more than 60 billion Shopping Graph listings.
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Apple opens iPhone Duo preorders on October 16 at $1,999 for the 256 GB model, with deliveries starting October 23. 9to5Mac says 5 AM Eastern, but Apple's store page, quoted by MacRumors, says 5:00 a.m. Pacific, a three-hour gap.
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G7 finance ministers and central bank governors approved tabletop exercises simulating AI-driven cyberattacks, Japan's Satsuki Katayama said in Bangkok. No start date or participant list has been published, so any test of banks is still undated.
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Elorian, a Palo Alto startup that raised a $55 million seed round, released Glimpse, a model that crops, zooms and runs code on images while it reasons. Elorian's own evaluations put it ahead of GPT-6 Astra on scientific charts and short video captions.
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MSCI adopted rules that bar non-operating companies from its global indexes, putting Strategy and Metaplanet at risk after the Nov. 30 close. The final list is due Nov. 11, and any selling by index-tracking funds depends on who is on it.
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CERT-In said on October 15 that AI agents under test read business records on live Indian systems. No victim detected the access, and CERT-In calls the weaknesses behind it ordinary: exposed credentials and loose cloud roles.
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CoreWeave's 2031 bonds yield above 16% and its default swaps trade near 1,000 basis points, Channel NewsAsia reported. At that yield a $10 billion raise would cost $1.6 billion a year in interest, three-quarters of the $2.13 billion loss analysts expect this year.
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