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Excerpt from TheStreet: “The CNBC host sees a major opportunity as Elon Musk expands SpaceX’s AI computing capacity.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “China’s passenger vehicle retail sales fell 24% in September from a year earlier to 1.702 million units, while new-energy vehicle sales declined 12% to 1.141 million units, according to data released by the China Passenger Car Association.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “More than 800,000 customers were without power Saturday as communities across the US Gulf Coast began assessing the damage left by Hurricane Isaias, which brought destructive winds, widespread flooding and storm surge.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “European Union leaders will discuss a scaled back budget when they meet in Brussels next week after negotiators slashed the initial proposal in response to pressure from some countries.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The company is taking steps to make members' lives easier, perhaps at a cost to its bottom line.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"The dresser is very good looking and feels sturdy overall," one shopper said.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Turkey has barred social media platforms from providing services to children under the age of 15, according to a regulation published in the Official Gazette.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Michael Burry did not hold back. His latest comments put a name to what he thinks Wall Street is doing right now.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Shoppers say it's a "sleek, portable powerhouse."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A selloff in banking stocks is rarely comforting. But after three years of strong gains, the latest pullback in European lenders looks more like a reset than a crash.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"The remote control is a nice touch as well and stops us from having to go out to turn it off."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Andy Burnham ended a barnstorming speech at his party conference last week by pledging to restore a spirit of unity to the country. By the time he walked off stage he seemed to have succeeded in something much harder: restoring unity to his own party.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “China will launch an employment initiative aimed at adapting skills to the development of artificial intelligence, human-resources officials said at a State Council Information Office briefing on Saturday.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called on democracies in the region to unite against threats to stability, as the island faces pressure from Beijing and concerns that Donald Trump’s rapprochement with China could come at Taiwan’s expense.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Indian authorities detained leaders of a youth-led protest movement and their allies on Saturday and imposed sweeping restrictions in central Delhi to stop crowds from gathering for a planned demonstration against a contentious revision of voter rolls.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “India’s central bank rolled out a series of measures to support the sliding rupee in its strongest action since the country’s currency crisis in 2013.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump fumed at the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the fact it didn’t go to him “is just another sign of how Norway and all these others are ripping off our country.””

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Semiconductor company Cirrus Logic Inc. made an unsolicited acquisition offer for Synaptics Inc. last month as it looked to spoil a previously announced deal with On Semiconductor Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the findings of the company's CTRL Tomorrow study on how tech impacts its users, finding opportunity in the AI era, and why design-led hardware still has a major role to play. Faber speaks with Bloomberg's…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The US Justice Department is scrutinizing whether Binance Holdings Ltd. breached a landmark settlement with the US government, as authorities probe activity on the platform for potential Iran sanctions violations.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A man charged along with Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw of conspiring to send cutting-edge chips to China in violation of US export controls pleaded guilty, according to court documents.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Fintech startup Ramp has reached a roughly $60 billion valuation with its latest fundraising effort, according to people familiar with the matter.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump is working with Vladimir Putin to release Russian diesel supplies into global markets, a move that upends years of sanctions as the White House seeks ways to tame soaring fuel prices ahead of the US midterm election.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The European Union said China agreed to slash millions of hybrid car exports to the bloc, pointing to a potential trade detente before EU leaders meet next week to discuss further steps against Beijing.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago, has raised about $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation in a financing led by Andreessen Horowitz.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “India’s government criticized Vice President JD Vance for “deeply offensive” remarks in which he referred to foreign recruits at software firms in the US, many of whom are Indians, as servants.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork”

Excerpt from GitHub: “The fastest, litest AI Gateway. Rust core with Python SDK. Call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, VertexAI, vLLM, Nvidia NIM]”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “ArtCraft is an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers”

Excerpt from GitHub: “[ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award Candidate] LingBot-Map: Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction”