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Even Xi Jinping admits China has a painful road ahead despite his new
stimulus - Business Insider [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
In his first remarks about the nation's condition since the stimulus
announcement, Xi warned of "violent storms" ahead and urged China to
prepare for hardship while portraying it as determined to succeed.

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Israel ready to put boots on the ground in Hizbollahs backyard of
southern Lebanon - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
Israeli defence minister announces next stage of war following
assassination of militant groups leader















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Private equity puts the L back in LBO - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
Interest of PE groups in Sanofis Opella highlights the renewed
ebullience of debt financiers

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How Chinas Copper King Dug Himself Into a $1.6 Billion Hole -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
At its peak, Wang Wenyins Amer ranked among the Fortune 500














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California Clampdown on Retail Theft, Drug Crimes Wins Backing of Over
70 Mayors - Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
More local Democrats buck Newsom in supporting Proposition 36

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Apple Rolls Back Its Big Plans to Release Movies in Theaters -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
The tech giant intended to spend $1 billion annually on films for
cinemas. After several box office disappointments, its shifting
releases like Wolfs back to its streaming service.














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Israel's Devastation of Hezbollah Puts Iran in a Corner - Bloomberg
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A remarkable show of military prowess has altered the regional balance
of power, put Tehran on the defensive and sent a message to the Gulf
Arab states.

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VCs are rushing to meet with former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati in hopes of
funding a new company - Business Insider [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
In a X post, Murati announced her departure from OpenAI last week.
Murati wrote, "My six-and-half years with the OpenAI team have been an
extraordinary privilege…There's never an ideal time to step away
from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right."














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Amazon and TV vet Brian Williams are nearing a deal that hints at a
new strategy for the streaming giant - Business Insider
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Veteran newscaster Brian Williams is nearing completion of a deal with
Amazon to host an election-night special on Prime Video, three people
close to the situation told Business Insider. Two said they expected
it be broadcast globally and ad-free.

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How consulting lost its cool - Business Insider
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For one young woman who joined Accenture right out of college,
consulting was a crash course in the corporate world. She became a
whiz with tools like Excel and Tableau and she learned how to speak to
executives.














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Sports Betting Apps Are Even More Toxic Than You Thought - Bloomberg
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Pro bettors have taken to disguising themselves as gambling addicts so
sportsbooks keep the free money flowing.

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Do AI companies work?
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Large language models cost a fortune to build. OpenAI, which is
reportedly in the process of raising $6.5 billion, needs $6.5 billion
dollars, because, “by some estimates, it’s burning through $7
billion a year to fund research and new A.I. services and hire more
employees.” Anthropic is expected to spend $2.7 billion this year.
Facebook is spending billions more. 














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Why the Video Game Industry Cant Shake Its Struggles
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During an investor meeting Wednesday, Ubisoft announced it was pushing
back the release of “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” from November to
February 2025, citing the weak performance of August’s “Star Wars
Outlaws” and less-than-expected profits in the current quarter.

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The Rat Studies that Foretold a Nightmarish Human Future - The New
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Rats can’t vomit. This may be a function of their anatomy—their
stomachs are “not well structured for moving contents towards the
esophagus” is how one study delicately put it—or it may have
something to do with their brain circuitry, or it may be a combination
of the two. Whatever the cause, the result is that rats, contrary to
their popular (or unpopular) image, are fussy eaters. Even as they
pick through the trash, they’re hesitant to try new foods. This
makes poisoning them complicated; quite often—and quite
literally—they won’t take the bait.














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The Fight to Save Chile's Glorious White Strawberry
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It’s nearly Christmas in the foggy Nahuelbuta Range of south-central
Chile and berries the size and color of ping-pong balls are ripening
in small gardens that tumble down steep forested slopes. The dwindling
number of aging farmers who still cultivate these frutillas blancas
have just five weeks to comb these gardens and harvest their goods.
Five weeks to make a year’s worth of profit.

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How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water
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Yorba Linda is a small, sunny city southeast of Los Angeles. Its
perhaps best known for being the birthplace of President Richard
Nixon.













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Fear of a Soviet-style collapse keeps Xi Jinping up at night - The
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IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a structure in Tiananmen Square. It
is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Displays
have sprung up across Beijing in celebration of the 75th anniversary
on October 1st of the founding of Communist China. This one bulges
with giant peaches and gourdssymbols of long life. But Chinas leader,
Xi Jinping, worries about how long-lived his partys rule will be.

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NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover - The Economist
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NASA HAS big plans for the Moon. By the end of the decade, it wants to
send humans back to the lunar surface. Before then, though, it intends
to send probes to look for ice at its south pole. This ice carries
enormous scientific value. It could shed light on how Earth acquired
its liquid water; it is also ripe for conversion into rocket
propellant.

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How much more are health cares bosses making than their employees? -
STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
My colleagues and I completed our annual tradition of analyzing CEO
compensation. For 2023, we input data for 313 health care CEOs and
found they made $3.5 billion combined last year, compared with $4
billion in 2022. The average chief executive brought home $11 million,
while the median was $4.1 million. Those figures compared to an
average of $13 million and median of $4.3 million in 2022.

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Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
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Y Combinator is arguably the most successful early-stage VC fund or
accelerator ever. The issue, however, is that they never truly grasped
the factors behind their success, which is why YC's peak is already
behind them—it’s likely all downhill from here.

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SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck in
space until next year
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SpaceX has launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at
the International Space Station. A Falcon rocket blasted off from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew and two
empty seats.

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Were only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helenes
flooding
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As of Monday morning, if one wanted to grasp the historic nature of
flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene in western parts of
North Carolina and the surrounding areas, the logical place to begin
is at the National Climatic Data Center.

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This Podcaster's Superpower Can Be Summed Up in One Word - Inc
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Hello and welcome toModern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief
content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter
explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations
with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages ofInc.andFast
Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you cansign up
to get it yourselfevery Monday morning.

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Useful quantum computers are edging closer with recent milestones -
New Scientist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
Despite all the hype around quantum computers, they are still far too
error-prone to be of real use. But recent experiments show that this
may not always be the case, boosting the credibility of claims from
companies like Google and IBM that we might get useful quantum
computers as soon as 2029. These latest experiments represent key
milestones and signal that we are entering a new age, say researchers.

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The Hunt For The Laws Of Physics Behind Memory And Thought - Discover
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One of the curious features of the laws of physics is that many of
them seem to be the result of the bulk behavior of many much smaller
components. The atoms and molecules in a gas, for example, move at a
huge range of velocities. When constrained in a container, these
particles continually strike the surface creating a force.

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Whats going on in Asheville? The devastating fallout from Hurricane
Helene, explained.
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On Thursday night, Hurricane Helene slammed Florida as a Category 4
storm with winds reaching 140 miles per hour. In coastal communities,
Helene knocked down trees and power lines, and caused record storm
surge.

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Israel launches 'targeted ground raids' in Lebanon: Latest updates
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Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost
daily since October 8 last year. There were reports from journalists
in Tel Aviv on X (formerly Twitter) of projectiles being intercepted
in the city and elsewhere in central Israel on Tuesday morning.

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The insatiable hunger of (Open)AI Wim Vanderbauwhede
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(Open)AI needs enormous amounts of energy and compute hardware.
Meeting these needs would lead to a huge increase in CO₂ emissions.
The only way to avoid catastrophic warming is to drastically reduce
CO₂ emissions. In other words, the planned growth of (Open)AI is
entirely unsustainable.

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Product Hunt isnt dying its become gentrified Launch Point Zero Blog
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There has been no shortage of content of how Product Hunt is either
not worth the trouble, or has changed, or is dead. The incident
involving Jason Levin leaving because the current CTO didn’t know
who their most popular member was, the layoff of 60% of their staff,
the number of paid for services offering to help your startup be the
#1 product launch of the day, the number of complaints, all of these
and more are symptoms of the same problem.

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Nvidia competitor Cerebras files for U.S. IPO (NASDAQ:NVDA)
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Cerebras Systems, an AI startup, files for IPO with rapid revenue
growth and plans to list on Nasdaq under the symbol CBRS.

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Botanists identify 33 global 'dark spots' with thousands of unknown
plants
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From a palm tree in Borneo that flowers underground to a Malagasy
orchid that spends its life growing on other plants, researchers are
still making dozens of new species discoveries every year.

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An unpredictable America looks more and more like an emerging market -
FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
Stock markets are roaring but political volatility and social tensions
make some investors see the US as a risk to be hedged against

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Ukraine faces its darkest hour - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
As he returns home from the US, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must
deal with Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of
winter energy shortages

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How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China - Bloomberg
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It all starts with a crystal.

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Forecasting Americas Economic Future Under Harris vs. Trump -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
The impact of the candidates policies on tax breaks, tariffs,
immigration, housing and inflation for the US.

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Evidence of Negative Time Found in Quantum Physics Experiment -
Scientific American [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
Quantum physicists are familiar with wonky, seemingly nonsensical
phenomena: atoms and molecules sometimes act as particles, sometimes
as waves; particles can be connected to one another by a spooky action
at a distance, even over great distances; and quantum objects can
detach themselves from their properties like the Cheshire Cat from
Alices Adventures in Wonderland detaches itself from its grin. Now
researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have
revealed another oddball quantum outcome: photons, wave-particles of
light, can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of
chilled atoms. In other words, photons can seem to exit a material
before entering it.

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Workers Across Major East Coast Ports Launch Strike That Could Have
Major Economic Impact - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=72339&nl=daily]
The International Longshoremens Associations (ILA) members began their
walkout at midnight after failing to reach a deal with ocean carriers
and port operators represented by the US Maritime Alliance (USMX).

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Tim Walz, J. D. Vance, and the Politics of Place - The New Yorker
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American democracy has never been entirely democratic. But, though the
countrys Founders did not seek to empower every person, they did think
a lot about how to empower almost every place. Most of human history
before the nations founding had featured rulers who were so local that
they were either in your family or in your neighborhood. Rulers not
only knew your pain; they had felt it and even lived it, too. A
democracy spanning great distances, then, such as the one envisioned
by the Founders of the United States, was both a relatively new and
deeply intimidating proposition. Elected leaderscongressmen,
senatorsmight start off as neighbors, but they would then go on to
distant places like the capital, where they would rule as strangers.

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Disabling a Nuclear Weapon in Midflight
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In 1956 Henry Kissinger speculated in Foreign Affairs about how the
nuclear stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union could
force national security officials into a terrible dilemma. His thesis
was that the United States risked sending a signal to potential
aggressors that, faced with conflict, defense officials would have
only two choices: settle for peace at any price, or retaliate with
thermonuclear ruin. Not only had "victory in an all-out war become
technically impossible," Kissinger wrote, but in addition, it could
"no longer be imposed at acceptable cost."

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How Chicken Tenders Conquered America
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Along the way, the chicken tender has become a symbol, although its
meaning is hard to pin down. It can be an icon of simple,
straightforward, unpretentious American taste. It can also be an
expression of dull, unadventurous food engineered for the lowest
common denominator. Restaurants, in their drive to stand out, have
expended great effort devising crunchier breading, zestier dipping
sauces, more tender tenders. And yet all the sauces in the world will
never quite dispel the suspicion that the tender itself is, at heart,
not very exciting.

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Another Way Jimmy Carter, 100 Today, Bested His Fellow Presidents
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The clearest lesson is that while Americans like to read and write
about their presidents, they don’t read or write about all of them
equally. Nor is every president equally inclined to leave a legacy
measured in volumes.

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I Can't Wait to Buy More of These 3 Top High-Yield Dividend Stocks in
October
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Matt DiLallo has positions in Mid-America Apartment Communities,
Realty Income, and Vici Properties. The Motley Fool has positions in
and recommends Mid-America Apartment Communities and Realty Income.
The Motley Fool recommends Vici Properties. The Motley Fool has a
disclosure policy.

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Chinese EV brands Li Auto and Zeekr report record deliveries for
September
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The September records put Li Auto and Xpeng on track to beat
previously announced delivery forecasts, while Zeekr was a few
thousand vehicles short of reaching the average monthly minimum it
needs to reach a previously reported annual goal.

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Woman killed in NT town's second suspected DV death since July
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In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and
the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732.
In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123 and the
domestic abuse helpline is 0808 2000 247. In the US, the suicide
prevention lifeline is 988 and the domestic violence hotline is
1-800-799-SAFE (7233). Other international helplines can be found via
www.befrienders.org

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'Pattern of negligence': a chemical plant fire in Georgia forces tens
of thousands to take shelter
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"Just about everyone I've spoken to locally or not agrees that
factories can be dangerous, but three times in living memory is just
too many for anyone," he wrote in an email. "It's my hope lessons are
learned this time for other facilities but that this one is never
opened again."

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Las Vegas radio stations ban Green Day after frontman calls city 'the
worst shithole in America'
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Armstrong and Green Day have not yet commented on the reaction, but
the frontman subsequently shared a picture of himself aged six in an
Oakland A's hat on social media, describing the team's move as
"devastating".

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Invesco raises its valuation of Swiggy to $13.3B | TechCrunch
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Beta Technologies unveiled Monday the next electric aircraft in its
lineup — a passenger-carrying version of its ALIA vertical takeoff
and landing and fixed-wing vehicles. Electric vertical takeoff and
landing…

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The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunch
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Beta Technologies unveiled Monday the next electric aircraft in its
lineup — a passenger-carrying version of its ALIA vertical takeoff
and landing and fixed-wing vehicles. Electric vertical takeoff and
landing…

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Tier becomes Dott following the merger of the two micromobility
companies | TechCrunch
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Beta Technologies unveiled Monday the next electric aircraft in its
lineup — a passenger-carrying version of its ALIA vertical takeoff
and landing and fixed-wing vehicles. Electric vertical takeoff and
landing…

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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that
admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch
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On Hacker News, the site for programmers owned by YC, a commenter
wrote that the debacle “says more about YC than this particular
founder (lots of these types nowadays): i.e. their process, their due
diligence.” Another wrote, “Is it typical for VC to just throw
money at projects without any sort of oversight/auditing of, oh jeez,
IDK, Licensing/Legal issues?”

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