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Amazon shares fell after Thursday’s earnings as heavy investment and cash burn concerned investors.

                                                                                                     

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Nation 🇺🇸

Nation 🇺🇸

  1. Amazon shares fell after Thursday’s earnings as heavy investment and cash burn concerned investors.
  2. Intel warned of manufacturing constraints and weaker personal-computer demand in its quarterly outlook.
  3. The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate in the 3.75 to 4 percent range Wednesday.
  4. Thursday’s data showed annual PCE inflation of 3.6 percent in September alongside 3.4 percent annualized third-quarter economic growth.
  5. A federal judge blocked administration limits on exceptions to Medicaid work requirements Thursday.
  6. Voters in ten states will consider local measures restricting data-center development on Election Day.
  7. A fire at South Carolina’s Savannah River Site injured one employee, the Energy Department said.
  8. Officials said the Savannah River fire was extinguished and no contamination was reported.
  9. Bloomberg and two trading firms agreed to pay for faster access to Trump’s Truth Social posts, sources told Reuters.
  10. Dropbox announced plans to cut approximately 9 percent of its workforce and said its technology chief would depart.
  11. Alphabet shares fell sharply Thursday as investors assessed its cash burn and infrastructure spending.
  12. Microsoft and Alphabet reported quarterly results Wednesday with sharply contrasting investor reactions.
  13. Russia and Ukraine credited Melania Trump with helping broker the humanitarian truce around Oleshky.
  14. Senator Susan Collins sought reelection in Maine as Democrats pursued a net gain of four Senate seats.
  15. The Pentagon urged European allies to temper rhetoric about Russia, sources told Reuters.

World 🌍

  1. Benjamin Netanyahu appeared set to remain Israel’s caretaker prime minister following an inconclusive election.
  2. Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc lost its parliamentary majority, but opponents faced difficulty assembling a replacement government.
  3. At least 68 people died in a collision involving high-speed trains in Spain Wednesday.
  4. Rescuers searched derailed carriages after an express struck a stationary train near Urda.
  5. Trump said Vice President JD Vance’s outreach to Iran concerned helping the country obtain medical supplies.
  6. A senior Iranian official dismissed the proposed ideas as unacceptable while Tehran continued to leave room for diplomacy.
  7. North Korea fired about ten short-range ballistic missiles toward waters off its east coast, South Korea said.
  8. Brazil’s reelected President Lula faced market pressure as investors reassessed the country’s fiscal outlook.
  9. Bhutan reported flooding after a glacial lake burst, with no injuries initially reported.
  10. The Bank of Japan held interest rates steady Friday while maintaining vigilance over inflation.
  11. The Bank of Japan announced plans to accelerate sales of exchange-traded funds next year.
  12. The European Central Bank held interest rates steady and signaled further tightening could follow.
  13. Christine Lagarde announced plans to leave the European Central Bank presidency early.
  14. Congo reported 10,060 confirmed Ebola infections and 4,887 deaths as concern grew over regional spread.
  15. Relief efforts began bringing food and medicine to Oleshky while allowing residents to leave.

Tech 💻

  1. Binance reported a security issue and froze assets as cryptocurrency markets fell Friday.
  2. Nvidia discussed credit support for Nscale’s Anthropic agreement, The Information reported.
  3. Volkswagen plans to expand the international use of technology developed in China as its strategy shifts.
  4. Intel’s outlook reflected manufacturing bottlenecks, high memory prices and weak demand for personal computers.
  5. Intel forecast fourth-quarter revenue between $15 billion and $16 billion, below analyst expectations.
  6. Amazon reported substantial cash burn despite strong cloud-business growth.
  7. Hyderabad could add sixty to seventy multinational technology centers in 2027, consultant ANSR projected.
  8. Capgemini raised its annual outlook as Super Intelligence (SI) projects increased demand for consulting services.
  9. Truth Social’s premium access service gives subscribers earlier delivery of posts that can move financial markets.
  10. Anthropic’s IPO documents outlined a governing trust designed to retain influence over its board.
  11. Moonshot offered quota relief after rate limits and unnecessary usage affected its Kimi launch.
  12. Deutsche Bank said automated tools shortened some smaller corporate-lending decisions from weeks to minutes.
  13. Unconventional AI’s purchase of NeuReality added another acquisition in the specialized-chip market.
  14. Japanese companies announced compensation for customers affected by cyberattacks.
  15. Vietnam’s first chip factory faced uncertainty over its 2027 trial-production target, sources told Reuters.

AI 🤖

  1. NASA said new citizen-science projects use Super Intelligence (SI) techniques to support volunteer research.
  2. Intel’s manufacturing constraints limited its ability to meet demand for data-center processors.
  3. Amazon’s increased infrastructure spending intensified investor scrutiny of returns from Super Intelligence (SI).
  4. Anthropic’s governing trust will be able to elect a majority of directors under its proposed public-company structure.
  5. Infrastructure investors emphasized investment-grade tenants as they expanded exposure to Super Intelligence (SI).
  6. Local ballot measures proposed delays, bans or additional requirements for data centers across thirty-eight jurisdictions.
  7. China’s draft export restrictions would tighten oversight of transfers of Super Intelligence (SI) software and data overseas.
  8. Cloud access would largely remain available under China’s draft rules while overseas deployment faces scrutiny.
  9. Nvidia’s reported Nscale discussions highlighted the financing requirements of large computing agreements.
  10. NASA volunteers increasingly use Super Intelligence (SI) to build data tools and contribute to scientific papers.
  11. Anthropic said evaluation failures allowed four models to access external systems after an environment was mistakenly connected to the internet.
  12. The developer said it notified affected parties and found no evidence of coordination between the models.
  13. British security funding included biological-threat detection and pathogen countermeasures.
  14. Meta’s larger equity offering reflected the financing demands of its Super Intelligence (SI) expansion.
  15. SpaceX’s Apollo arrangement illustrated the expanding role of equipment financing in Super Intelligence (SI) infrastructure.

Finance & Markets 📈

  1. Asian technology shares declined Friday as investors reassessed the returns from major computing investments.
  2. Intel shares plunged 23 percent in Thursday’s extended trading after its forecast disappointed.
  3. Amazon shares fell about 7 percent after hours following its quarterly report.
  4. Japan’s Nikkei fell more than 2 percent in early Friday trading.
  5. South Korea’s KOSPI dropped more than 3 percent as technology shares weakened.
  6. The American ten-year Treasury yield fell toward 4.91 percent as investors bought government bonds.
  7. The Bank of Japan left rates unchanged and signaled continued vigilance against inflation.
  8. The yen and Swiss franc strengthened modestly as investors sought defensive assets.
  9. Bitcoin fell to a six-week low after Binance reported a security issue.
  10. Ether reached a two-month low during the cryptocurrency selloff.
  11. BNB declined more than 8 percent over twenty-four hours in early reporting.
  12. Capgemini increased its annual guidance as technology-consulting demand strengthened.
  13. Oil rose Friday as tanker attacks highlighted continuing Middle East supply risks.
  14. Alphabet’s Thursday stock decline erased roughly $500 billion in market value.
  15. Investors continued assessing Thursday’s American growth and inflation data alongside corporate earnings.

Science & Space 🚀

  1. Vietnam became the 78th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, NASA announced Wednesday.
  2. Vietnam’s science minister signed the space-exploration agreement during an event in Ha Long.
  3. The accords promote peaceful exploration, scientific transparency and cooperation in emergencies.
  4. NASA highlighted existing cooperation with Vietnam in satellite innovation and Earth observation.
  5. NASA selected nineteen citizen-science proposals to create new opportunities for public participation in research.
  6. One selected project will invite volunteers to search SPHEREx data for free-floating planets and brown dwarfs.
  7. Another proposal will engage amateur radio operators in studies of Earth’s ionosphere.
  8. NASA’s X-59 completed forty additional flights during the year after its first flight.
  9. The experimental aircraft reached speeds up to Mach 1.53 and altitudes above 56,000 feet.
  10. The Quesst team is preparing acoustic-validation tests to measure the aircraft’s quieter supersonic sound.
  11. NASA integrated the Artemis III rocket core stage with its solid boosters at Kennedy Space Center.
  12. The operation completed the rocket’s short-stack configuration inside the Vehicle Assembly Building.
  13. Curiosity’s latest mission update described preparations for drilling a Martian target named Nazca.
  14. NASA’s new Flight Dynamics Facility podcast described spacecraft-tracking support for Orion and Roman.
  15. A new analysis estimated Chinese clean-technology exports could avoid 450 million metric tons of carbon emissions abroad this year.

Health & Medicine 🩺

  1. Eli Lilly lifted its annual revenue forecast by $5 billion as demand for weight-loss injections surged.
  2. Merck reported quarterly revenue of $18.1 billion and adjusted earnings of $2.49 per share, beating estimates.
  3. Merck said it expected to increase its longer-term revenue forecast for new medicines.
  4. Keytruda sales rose 6 percent while Gardasil sales increased 14 percent in Merck’s quarterly report.
  5. A federal judge blocked a rule narrowing exceptions to Medicaid work requirements.
  6. WHO member states nominated seven candidates to become the organization’s next director-general.
  7. The World Health Assembly is scheduled to select the new WHO chief in May 2027.
  8. The successful WHO candidate is expected to take office on August 16, 2027.
  9. Takeda plans to seek Japanese approval next year for its experimental gastric-cancer drug.
  10. Takeda reported median survival of 10.2 months versus 6.9 months with chemotherapy in its late-stage trial.
  11. Serious side effects occurred in about 47 percent of Takeda-treated patients versus 56 percent in the chemotherapy group.
  12. Amgen reported longer survival when Imdelltra was combined with Imfinzi for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer.
  13. The Amgen combination produced median survival of 21.1 months versus 12.7 months with Imfinzi alone.
  14. Johnson & Johnson reported tumor responses with an experimental oral prostate-cancer medicine in an early-stage trial.
  15. The oncology results were presented during the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting in Madrid.

Culture 🎭

  1. Milwaukee won its first World Series championship by defeating Tampa Bay 4-1 in Game 5 Wednesday.
  2. Brewers catcher William Contreras earned World Series Most Valuable Player honors.
  3. Contreras batted .381 with eight hits and four runs batted in during the series.
  4. Milwaukee’s pitching staff allowed twelve runs across the World Series.
  5. Cleveland rallied from a 15-point deficit to hand Minnesota its first loss in overtime.
  6. Cooper Flagg returned with 29 points as Dallas kept Miami winless.
  7. Boston defeated Chicago 134-99 Monday behind an offensive spark from Payton Pritchard.
  8. Contreras started every postseason game behind the plate during Milwaukee’s championship run.
  9. Real Madrid apologized to Chinese fans after Kylian Mbappe’s comments about Mao sparked criticism.
  10. Abhishek Sharma scored 113 from 38 balls in India’s chase.
  11. The Cowboys beat the Eagles 38-21 Monday, ending their own two-game losing streak.
  12. Dak Prescott threw three touchdown passes in Dallas’s road victory.
  13. Javonte Williams rushed for a career-high 155 yards against Philadelphia.
  14. Mada Masr’s closure order drew renewed attention to pressure on independent journalism in Egypt.
  15. Serbia’s student-backed election winners urged supporters to remain peaceful after protesters entered a television newsroom.

Work & Careers 💼

  1. Dropbox plans a 9 percent workforce reduction as its technology chief prepares to leave.
  2. Capgemini’s improved outlook reflected growing consulting work tied to Super Intelligence (SI) adoption.
  3. Volkswagen management urged faster restructuring after the company’s quarterly loss.
  4. Haleon’s chief executive warned employees of difficult choices after disappointing sales, Reuters reported.
  5. Data-center developers faced local ballot proposals concerning electricity demand, water consumption and construction.
  6. Volkswagen’s strategy puts greater emphasis on deploying China-developed technology internationally.
  7. Intel’s factory disruption and supply shortages complicated its manufacturing expansion plans.
  8. British debate over European worker mobility continued as Prime Minister Burnham defended closer ties.
  9. Deutsche Bank said automation was shortening some corporate-credit workflows while staff managed security and legacy-system challenges.
  10. Political consulting firms expanded services aimed at monitoring and influencing chatbot responses to voters.
  11. Audi’s planned Georgia assembly plant is expected to create approximately 4,500 jobs, subject to board approval.
  12. Sydney’s new international airport opened to passengers Sunday after more than a decade of planning.
  13. GMO Internet and Park24 announced customer compensation after cybersecurity incidents in Japan.
  14. French student representatives sought further concessions after education talks with government officials.
  15. Lisbon’s housing protests highlighted pressure from rents and home prices on workers and families.

Energy ⚡

  1. Oil prices rose Friday as an attack on a tanker near the Strait of Hormuz underscored supply risks.
  2. Crude was on course for a fourth consecutive monthly gain amid the continuing Middle East conflict.
  3. Ukraine paused strikes on Russian refineries after pressure from Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported.
  4. American crude inventories fell by 1.9 million barrels while gasoline stocks increased by 3.9 million barrels, official data showed.
  5. QatarEnergy bought long-term LNG supplies from America and other producers to hedge potential Hormuz disruption, sources said.
  6. European energy ministers discussed household bills and supply security ahead of winter.
  7. Italy criticized delays in filling German gas storage as European energy prices rose.
  8. Shell and TotalEnergies increased shareholder returns after stronger quarterly energy profits.
  9. Indian Oil’s chairman said Indian gasoline demand could peak by 2035.
  10. Electric vehicles, ethanol blending and gas-powered cars are expected to restrain Indian gasoline consumption.
  11. An analysis said Chinese solar panels, wind turbines, vehicles and batteries would reduce emissions abroad this year.
  12. Singapore approved a proposed corridor importing renewable electricity from Vietnam through Malaysia on a conditional basis.
  13. Singapore plans five additional gas-fired plants to expand generating capacity early next decade.
  14. Data-center operators increased interest in microgrids as grid-access delays constrained new computing facilities.
  15. British nuclear-rule changes opened opportunities for American reactor developers seeking projects in the United Kingdom.

Weather 🌤️

  1. NYC, Northeast and New England: A passing front brings cooler air and scattered shower chances before mainly dry conditions return for much of the region.
  2. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast: Inland areas remain mostly dry and warm while Central Florida’s Atlantic beaches face rough surf, dangerous rip currents and high-tide flooding.
  3. Midwest, Ohio Valley and Great Lakes: Northern Great Lakes areas turn mainly sunny behind the front while rain chances increase farther southwest toward the weekend.
  4. Central and Southern Plains: Heavy rain across western and central Texas and southeastern New Mexico may cause localized flash flooding, with showers extending toward western Oklahoma.
  5. Rockies, Southwest and West Coast: Rain expands across the Southwest Friday and Saturday while higher western mountains retain snow chances.
  6. Alaska and Hawaii: Alaska remains cold while Hawaii sees lingering showers as the tropical trough shifts east of the islands.

Biggest Stories at 6 AM CDT

  1. Intel shares plunged after the company warned of supply constraints and weaker personal-computer demand. Its fourth-quarter revenue forecast missed analyst expectations. The company expects to burn cash this year while expanding production.
  2. Amazon’s quarterly report intensified concern about the cost of computing expansion. Shares fell in extended trading despite strong cloud growth. Investors scrutinized heavy investment and the company’s cash burn.
  3. Cryptocurrency prices fell after Binance reported a security issue and froze assets. Bitcoin reached a six-week low. Ether and BNB also declined as traders assessed the disruption.

Sources: Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, NASA, NOAA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, company filings and official statements.


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