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OpenAI Nears $30 Billion Raise at $1.25 Trillion Valuation Ahead of Possible IPO
OpenAI is working on a new funding round of up to 30 billion dollars at a valuation of about 1.25 trillion dollars, according to reporting by TechCrunch and
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Finland Orders Google to Halt Data Centre Site Work Over Environmental Assessments
Finland’s environmental regulators have ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to halt major site work at two planned data centres after finding that substantial land clearing…
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TA Associates Signs $535 Million Sale of Rocscience to Hexagon, Report Says
Private equity firm TA Associates has signed an agreement to sell Rocscience, the Toronto-based developer of geotechnical engineering software, to measurement technology group Hexagon…
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Adidas Sues White Fox in Australia Over Four-Stripe Clothing Designs
Adidas has launched legal action in Australia’s Federal Court against online fashion retailer White Fox, alleging that clothing featuring four parallel stripes infringes its…
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Young People’s Mental Distress Is Real and Rising, UK Review Led by Fonagy Finds
A major independent review into the mental health of children and young people has found a genuine rise in mental distress, rejecting the suggestion…
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Netanyahu Denies Pushing Trump to Strike Iran Before Elections as War Talk Refuses to Die
Benjamin Netanyahu says he is not pushing Donald Trump to bomb Iran before elections in either country — but after a week of leaks,…
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Trump Escalates Fed Pressure Campaign as Mortgage Rates Hit Three-Year High
President Trump accused the Federal Reserve board of wanting "the country to do badly" as 30-year mortgage rates touched their highest point in nearly three years.
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Trump Unveils 8 Billion Dollar Harvest Fuel Relief Plan for Farmers
President Donald Trump announced an 8 billion dollar Harvest Fuel Relief program for American farmers on Monday night, a midterm season pledge aimed at…
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OpenAI to Sell Frontier Models on Google Cloud in Major Enterprise Push
OpenAI will make its frontier artificial intelligence models and its Codex coding agent available through Google Cloud in the coming weeks, deepening ties between…
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Skydance Becomes America’s Biggest Sports-Rights Powerhouse After Paramount–WBD Merger
Following the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Skydance now controls 36 premium sports properties — nearly twice as many as its closest rival.
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Netflix Cuts 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Layoff Since 2022 as Co-CEOs Sharpen Focus Before Earnings
Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs — six per cent of its workforce — as co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters sharpen focus before quarterly earnings.
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Trump Administration Finalizes Health Price Transparency Rules, Pressures Hospitals to Post Real Prices
New federal rules finalized October 5 require hospitals and insurers to publish actual dollar prices — and ban the "ghost rates" regulators say obscured real costs.
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NASA Opens Bidding for Private Space Stations to Replace the ISS by 2030
NASA released a 360-page request for proposals on October 9 inviting U.S. companies to design, build and operate commercial space stations to succeed the ISS.
