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Claude Haiku 5.5 is here: The fastest, most affordable Anthropic model yet
Anthropic has today announced Claude Haiku 5.5. It's the fastest and most affordable Claude model yet, and beats GPT-6 Luna in benchmarks.
Sony ULT Tower 5, Tower 7 and Tower Max Launched in India: Check Price, Specifications And More
Sony has expanded its ULT Power Sound lineup in India with three new party speakers. The range includes the second-generation ULT Tower 5, ULT Tower 7 and flagship ULT Tower Max.
Live - Rubio urges Europe to wake up as EU trade chief begins key China trip
Europe's ties with China, the US and the UK are all being tested at once. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič is in Beijing with a deadline to rebalance trade relations, Marco Rubio tells Europe to wake up, and London weighs rejoining the EU. In France, students are back on the streets today. #EuropeToday
FDA says its review of abortion pill will continue into next year
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year
WNBA semis winners and losers: Angel Reese proves clutch as Liberty, Aces face elimination after Game 2 losses
The Dream and Valkyries took commanding 2-0 leads in a thrilling pair of games Wednesday night
Co-op Legal Services using AI to rate workers’ phone calls to customers
Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls is ‘oppressive and dystopian’
Kalshi’s COO thinks prediction markets can beat the polls
Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That’s the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi, the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in valuation in under a year and is now being sued by New York’s attorney general for $36 billion. Lara, the company’s chief operating officer, makes the case that Kalshi is fundamentally different from DraftKings—even though 75% of its volume comes fro
Actor Simon Pegg reveals ADHD diagnosis: 'It's just who I am'
The star said he had previously been putting his symptoms down to "just character fault".
Huawei and Qualcomm agree to cross-license patents covering 5G, AI and computing · TechNode
Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year patent licensing agreement on October 5 covering cross-licenses to their patent portfolios in 5G, computing, AI
Never Look Back: Understanding Persistence in 3D Object Memory from Egocentric Videos
As we move through the world and carry out everyday tasks, we encounter objects that may become relevant only later. We are capable of recalling where we left something or what was inside a container, even without knowing we would need it later. Here, we study how an embodied assistant can build a similar memory from egocentric videos, by observing a person's day-to-day activities. We present Ledger, a persistent 3D object memory that combines object locations, their histories, and contextual de
Could humans live up to 194 years? Scientists find a possible biological limit
DNA mutations that accumulate in cells over a lifetime? A new mathematical study suggests that even in that highly theoretical situation, human longevity could still have a limit.
Structure alone supports efficient visual computation in the Drosophila visual system
Understanding the extent to which measured synaptic wiring determines computation remains a central challenge. Here, we couple the proofread adult Drosophila melanogaster connectome to an anatomically faithful model of its eye. Visual information is inputted in the eye model, then passed to the connectome, and finally read from a Kenyon-cell-centered linear decoder. This creates a connectome-only model in which the anatomical graph and eye geometry are fixed and only scalar synaptic gains and ne
Eels appoint new chief executive on same day they announce Spencer Leniu deal
Parramatta have settled on a replacement for long-term boss Jim Sarantinos as they officially announce the signing of the Roosters’ premiership star.
Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds
Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK
Invest Cyprus welcomes Teroxx headquarters expansion as major economic boost
Digital asset provider Teroxx has expanded its presence in Cyprus with new headquarters in Nicosia, in a move Invest Cyprus described as further evidence of the island’s appeal to international financial services and technology businesses. Invest Cyprus, the national investment promotion agency, wel
'I won Gladiators - now I'd love to become one'
Josh McDonald won the third season of the hit TV programme, which aired earlier this year.
JPMorgan Private Bank Says AI Set to Drive Strong Earnings
Nataliia Lipikhina, head of EMEA equity strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, discusses how artificial intelligence continues to underpin global equity markets, particularly the tech sector. "I think the market comes to realization that actually the AI story continues," she tells Bloomberg Television.
October’s Humble Choice line-up is available now - KitGuru
Each month, all those with a Humble Choice subscription are privy to a selection of games for a rela
Constraints on Primordial Oscillatory Features from the Power Spectrum and Bispectrum of Redshift-Space Galaxy Clustering in DESI DR1
We constrain oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum using the public DESI DR1 galaxy and quasar clustering data. Our analysis is based on a custom pipeline for the redshift-space power spectrum and bispectrum of the six main DESI DR1 tracers, modeled with the Lagrangian effective field theory,which provides a principled resummation of the non-linear damping of the features. We consider oscillations that are linear and logarithmic in wavenumber, and, for the first time, consistentl
Feedback to the primary visual cortex is highly concentrated on the central visual field representation
Retrograde tracer injections in marmoset monkeys revealed a striking feature of neural circuitry in primate visual system: among neurons projecting to the primary visual cortex (striate cortex, V1), the proportion of extrastriate feedback neurons relative to thalamic feedforward neurons decreases markedly with visual field eccentricity. This supports the Central-Peripheral Dichotomy theory, which proposes fundamentally distinct computational specializations --- visual recognition and attentional
Ravindra Jadeja hilariously reacts to BCCI's selector application after IND vs WI 2026 ODI series
Veteran Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja brought his trademark wit to social media this week, amusing cricket fans with a humorous response to the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) rece
Jon Rahm to quit LIV Golf tour over ‘unacceptable’ terms
'Rahm has reviewed the proposed terms of LIV 2.0 and has determined that they are unacceptable,' his lawyer said.
AI fintech Stuut gets $52.5M having unlocked 40% cashflow for business
New York-based financial technology company Stuut said on October 7 that it had raised $52.5 million in a Series B round led by Insight Partners. Andreessen Horowitz, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Activant also participated, bringing Stuut’s total funding to $93 million. The round comes ten mon
The Voice Behind Mowgli's Greatest Enemy: When Nana Patekar Brought Shere Khan To Life
Nana Patekar gave Mowgli's arch-enemy Shere Khan his iconic voice in the 1990s Doordarshan cartoon and reprised the role in Disney's 2016 film.
Refactoring The-Internet: Fork, Fix, Farewell to Heroku and hello to Render!
With this blog post, we will be taking Dave Haeffner's The-Internet, https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/, a ten-year old web app test site, fork it, investigate using Google AI how to modernize the server architecture, and port it over to a new home at Render.com. Spoilers: The original version, but
Still not using Pixel VIPs? Here's how to set it up on your Pixel phone right now
Pixel VIPs is much more useful after Google's latest update. Here's how to set it up and keep your closest contacts within easy reach.
Solar Orbiter tracks origin of mysterious magnetic switchbacks
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a ‘switchback’ in the solar wind’s magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within the switchback, Solar Orbiter has traced its origin back to the Sun’s surface and revealed more about s
'I was blamed for my baby's death now NHS needs to change'
Neil and Katie Russell are working with the hospital where their daughter died on the scheme.
Sports Bulletin Oct 8: Gambhir Bids Farewell to Agarkar, Laxman Joins Selection Meetings; Bhagat-Patel Named Flag Bearers
Sports Bulletin Oct 8: Gautam Gambhir pays tribute to Ajit Agarkar, VVS Laxman joins selection meetings, and Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel named flag bearers.
Video: Signs removed from British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem
Signs from the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem were removed overnight as a deadline for its closure loomed.
Top Croatian businesses and leaders named at at 30th Golden Kuna awards
ZAGREB, 8 October 2026 (Hina) – Croatia’s leading companies and business figures have been recognised at the 30th edition of the Golden Kuna awards, with Osijek-based IT company DICE Digital Innovation Center named the country’s best large company for 2025. The awards, presented by the Croatian Cha
Suffragette role 'a gift' says Beverley Knight
The Wolverhampton-born singer stars as suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia the musical.
‘I saved over the last five days $3,105’: Zendesk CEO on Meta’s Muse
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier told TNW the company will end the year with about $400m of AI revenue, up from about zero two years ago.
Decoupling Exploration from Optimization in RLVR
Modern language models undergo reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on top of already-trained checkpoints. A key promise of RLVR is the discovery of new reasoning strategies. In principle, a model can sample novel ideas absent from its prior training data. In practice, however, augmenting RLVR with strong novelty incentives has seen limited success and can degrade model quality. Because verifiable rewards supervise only a narrow slice of the model's knowledge and behavior, such
Magnetic Order from First-Principles Linear Response
The magnetic order of a material is usually predicted by comparing the energies of trial spin configurations, a strategy that cannot reach orders outside the chosen set and rapidly becomes intractable as the number of magnetic sites grows. We show that the order can instead be identified directly from the paramagnetic state: the leading eigenmodes of its self-consistent magnetization response, obtained with spin--orbit coupling at arbitrary wavevector within the primitive cell, determine both th
Gloucestershire actor Simon Pegg opens up on diagnosis after 'suspicion'
The Mission Impossible star said 'it confirmed a lot of stuff that I’d been wrestling with'
Dao Noodle
Artful strands that cut through a noisy noodle scene.
How Gaza war sped up India’s shift towards Israel under Modi
As even Israel's traditional allies are distancing themselves from Netanyahu, Modi's India has embraced the country.
From a Hierarchy of Stochastic Differential Equations to a Hierarchy of Generalized Beta Distributions
We introduce a mean-reverting stochastic differential equation with a three-component stochastic term and show that it generates a hierarchy of steady-state (stationary) distributions. At the top level, the hierarchy is described by a modified-Beta distribution, while one- and two-parameter reductions produce compact-support, power-law-tailed, and exponential-type limiting families within a single stochastic framework. We then construct two generalized extensions of this hierarchy. In the first,
Slow Horses and EastEnders favourites star in first-look images for new "feel-good" chocolate empire drama
Period drama The Cadburys will air in 2027.
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia | TechCrunch
The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
Tetris3D: 3D Scene Generation With Objects That Fit Together
We propose Tetris3D, a generative framework for single-image 3D scene reconstruction that recovers objects which are physically and geometrically coherent as a scene. Existing methods often generate objects independently or couple them implicitly, providing limited guidance for ensuring fine-grained spatial compatibility between neighboring objects that interact with one another. To address this, we explicitly condition the generation of each object on the geometry of surrounding objects and the
The most interesting mathematical discoveries in OpenAI's 722 new papers | New Scientist
OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest open problems in mathematics – here are some with the most potential
Biotech companies are struggling to navigate Trump’s new tariffs
Smaller biotech firms are trying to figure out how to win exemptions from Trump's import taxes.
Dolan on Silk Road
Meaty halal treats that pack a punch.
Why Israel loves skunk water
Israel’s foul-smelling weapon turns Palestinian repression into a sales pitch.
It’s the world’s best-selling spirit you’ve never heard of—and it’s growing while the rest of America quits drinking
Daniel Dae Kim, the actor, is walking Jimmy Fallon through the finer points of somaek, a popular Korean drink that mixes beer with the spirit soju. “Like a boilermaker,” Kim says on The Tonight Show, where he’s promoting his CNN series K-Everything. As with most drinking cultures around the world, there are rules. The youngest person should pour, though Kim, 58, takes up the job on Fallon’s behalf. He perches a pair of Korean flat metal chopsticks in parallel lines over a half-full beer glass
Marco Bellocchio’s 'Falcon' Sets Sales, Louis Garrel As John Elkann
Marco Bellocchio’s 'Falcon' Sets Sales & Announces Louis Garrel In Role Of Fiat Boss John Elkann
The Dell 14 Plus Is a Copilot+ PC. Here's What That Actually Means - CNET
From live translation to smarter video calls, a Copilot+ PC’s on-board AI hardware can make a practical difference in your workday.
Monte Carlo added to Venice Simplon-Orient-Express itinerary for 2027
The iconic train will follow the French Riviera from Paris before reaching Monaco, with the new overnight journey becoming a permanent fixture and fares starting at a cool €4,870 per person.
Interface Doping Mechanism of p-Type Conductivity in Mist-CVD-Grown LiGa5O8 Thin Films
LiGa5O8 is an ultrawide-bandgap oxide semiconductor that has recently been experimentally demonstrated to exhibit p-type conductivity; however, the origin of the observed p-type transport remains poorly understood. In this work, we investigate the origin of p-type conductivity by systematically comparing the electrical, compositional, and structural properties of mist chemical vapor deposition (mist-CVD) grown LiGa5O8 thin films exhibiting either p-type conductivity or insulating behavior under
How CMS plans to fix a major flaw in the 340B drug discount program
“A small, well-intended discount for safety net hospitals became a large institutional subsidy with expensive unintended consequences,” writes an HHS leader.
’Tis the season for (AI) shortcuts: Inside Coles and Woolies’ fight over Christmas
Australia’s two biggest supermarkets were in agreement on when to hold their Christmas launches this year, but a new battleground has emerged.
Christa Pike almost taken off life support before she woke up
Death row inmate Christa Pike has regained consciousness following a botched execution in Tennessee, her lawyer says.
Validity Without Ground Truth: What Stated-Preference Economics Offers the Evaluation of Language Models
Many of the questions now put to large language models have no correct answer to score against: what a policy is worth, which option a user should choose, how to weigh competing values. Stated-preference economics has faced this problem for decades. It judges survey responses without knowing the true value, through a framework of validity and related concepts: content, construct, and criterion validity, reliability, incentive compatibility, and consequentiality. We argue that this framework is a
How boxing inspired a play about men's mental health
The play explores losing a sense of purpose, the difficulty some men have talking about their mental health and the support they can find in each other.
AI chatbots endorse existing climate-related policies twice as often as new proposals
A new study of multiple large language models (LLMs) found that when users asked chatbots for advice, the chatbots were more likely to make suggestions that favor the status quo over alternatives. The tendency of artificial intelligence to default to more common advice could be bad news for the clim
Report Suggests OpenAI Has Clawed Tons of Market Share Back From Anthropic in 2026
Maybe OpenAI's pivot to productivity has worked.
OpenAI said it solved 300+ complicated math problems, mathematicians are livid
The field of mathematics was already riled up about AI. All this complicated math and no one was left sobbing at the kitchen table. This week, OpenAI …
Do Generative Priors Align with Human Naturalness Perception?
Visual generative models are trained to capture the probability distributions of natural images, yet whether their native priors reflect the regularities governing human perception of image naturalness remains an open question. Here, we probe these priors through native prediction errors across 25 open image and video generators. Because raw single-image losses are dominated by scene content and visual complexity, we evaluate directional loss differences using content-preserving, paired relation
What's next for the Padres? After playoff elimination, new owners have to prove they're all in
Payroll has dropped annually since Peter Seidler's death, but new ownership has vowed to do what it takes to win the World Series
Fire at Yandex data center, 399 UAVs: aftermath of attacks on Russian regions
According to Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian drones were downed over 21 Russian regions
The addicted predator-prey model: How opioid use disorder shapes productivity and growth-cycle dynamics
This paper extends Goodwin's (1967) predator-prey growth-cycle model to incorporate the negative impact of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) on labor productivity. Using U.S. state-level data for 1998--2019, we first document that deteriorations in the labor share are followed by rising drug-induced mortality. We then build this link into the model through a novel discrete-choice mechanism in which the probability of OUD decreases with the wage share, so when real wages fail to keep pace with productivi
BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.