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Holiday hurricane misery: Thousands of tourists' Jamaican vacations are ruined as the Caribbean paradise locks down - with flights home cancelled and families told there is no way off the island (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2025-10-29 Hurricane

India calls out Western double standards on energy trade (www.rt.com)
2025-10-29 India Energy

Russia's top drone warfare center celebrates 10,000 successful strikes (VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2025-10-29 Russia Drone

ConductorOne, which helps address identity cybersecurity risks for human and AI staff, raised a $79M Series B led by Greycroft, sources say at a $350M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-29 AI

OpenAI-Microsoft deal: Microsoft gets a 27% stake, access to its AI models until 2032, including AGI-level models, and OpenAI will buy $250B of Azure services (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Microsoft AI

Microsoft says it supports the OpenAI board moving to form a public benefit corporation and recapitalization, and now holds a ~$135B OpenAI Group PBC investment (blogs.microsoft.com)
2025-10-29 Microsoft

Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as it seeks to boost US chip making (t.co)
2025-10-29

OpenAI says it has “completed our recapitalization”, the OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B, and it continues to control the OpenAI for-profit (openai.com)
2025-10-29 Equity

Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-28 AI Adobe

Livestream marketplace Whatnot raised $225M at an $11.5B valuation, after raising $265M at a $4.97B valuation in January, taking its total funding to $968M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-28

An analysis of 30+ US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-10-28

Dozen killed in tourist plane crash in Kenya (VIDEO/PHOTOS) (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28

Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon (www.thewrap.com)
2025-10-28 Mobile YouTube Adobe

Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-28 IOS AI

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-28 AI Adobe

Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly, updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech, adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-10-28 AI Adobe

New Irish President Catherine Connolly's Victory and Europe's Moral Rebellion against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine (www.juancole.com)
2025-10-28 Europe Israel

“And we, that now make merry in the Room:” FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:22 (www.juancole.com)
2025-10-28

Trump's Siege of Chicago: “War Within” and the City's Defiant Fight Against Tyranny (www.juancole.com)
2025-10-28 Trump

An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-28

Fyodor Lukyanov: Moscow won't accept peace without rewriting the post-1991 order (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28

NATO trying to turn Eurasia into its ‘fiefdom' – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28

Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M primary and $24M secondary round (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-28 AI

Trump responds to Russian test of unlimited-range cruise missile (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28 Trump Russia

Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$100M in Pony AI's share sale (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-28 China Hong Kong Uber AI

Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results (www.ft.com)
2025-10-28 Apple 4Q

PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items, starting in 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-28

Flagship African airline to resume operations after 30-year hiatus (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28 Africa

Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-28 Startup World Bank

xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-28

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