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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

Jet Engine Shortages Threaten AI Data Center Expansion As Wait Times Stretch Into 2030 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-28 AI

After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players” (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-28

Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs across its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 from 2022 to 2023; the company employed 1.55M people globally in June (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-28 Amazon

OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-28 India

Amazon Says It Will Cut 14,000 Corporate Roles To Remove Layers (slashdot.org)
2025-10-28 Amazon

World's oldest serving head of state wins another term (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28

Germany in ‘dramatic' economic decline – leading think tank (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28 Germany

EU officials are scrambling to resolve a growing trade clash with China over rare earths and chips, as the bloc gets caught between Beijing and Washington (t.co)
2025-10-28 China

Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby completes a secondary share sale of existing shareholders' stakes, valuing it at $4.5B ahead of a possible IPO (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-28 IPO Startup

ExxonMobil Accuses California of Violating Its Free Speech (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-28 California

Is the India–China détente real? (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-10-28 China India

Ukrainians arrested in Poland on espionage charges (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28 Ukraine Poland

Argentinа's Milei secures crucial mid-term victory (www.rt.com)
2025-10-28

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