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Technology

OpenAI models make huge gains in modernizing decades-old software with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI has significantly improved its models’ ability to write software in older programming languages and...

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Business

Amazon backs 960-MW nuclear plant proposal with 12 reactors at former Indiana coal site

Amazon is backing plans for a 960-megawatt nuclear power facility in Indiana that could house...

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Auto & Technology

30-lb trailer gadget could save US truckers 3 gallons of diesel every 1,000 miles

A US company has just presented a redesigned aerodynamic system that has the potential to...

20 Oct4 min readAutomated

Science

Japan launches world-first mission to return samples from a Martian moon by 2031

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

World

China announces first strategic missile test from third-generation nuclear submarine

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Russia revives Soviet-era Tu-160 bomber production, overhauls 80% of its systems

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

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Mercury 3 claims to outperform GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5 at 8 times the speed

California-based AI research and product company Inception has unveiled Mercury 3, its latest diffusion language...

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Heat-map renderings of a face showing the regions the FAHR-Face model focuses on for survival (left) and age (right) predictions

Technology

AI model predicts cancer patients’ survival from a single face photo, Lancet Digital Health study finds

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have built FAHR-Face, an AI foundation model trained on more than 40 million face images that estimates biological age and directly predicts cancer survival from an ordinary photograph.

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Still from a US Justice Department court filing showing a man looking behind a television in an OpenAI conference room

Technology

Ex-OpenAI engineer accused of bugging executive conference room denied bail as prosecutors cite Saudi ties

A San Francisco federal judge ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room, held without bail, citing a significant risk he would flee.

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Technology

Nscale in talks over a second $45 billion computing deal with Anthropic as AI IPO valuations come under pressure

Nvidia-backed Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic about $45 billion of computing power from a second building at its Monarch campus in West Virginia, even as investors push back on the IPO valuations both companies are seeking.

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Amazon diagram showing the TorchNeuron software stack layered from PyTorch down to the AWS Trainium chip

Technology

Amazon’s TorchNeuron lets PyTorch code run natively on Trainium chips, taking aim at Nvidia’s software moat

Amazon is releasing TorchNeuron, a free open-source tool that lets developers run PyTorch code on its Trainium AI chips with a single configuration change and no rewriting, in a bid to erode a key advantage behind Nvidia’s dominance.

20 Oct2 min readAutomated

Technology

US Homeland Security bans DeepSeek from federal civilian agencies’ systems and purchases

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying products from China’s DeepSeek and to remove DeepSeek technology, including third-party services built on its models, from their IT systems.

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

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Economy

Mapped: Salary Needed to Buy a Home in 50 U.S. Cities (2026)

Buying a median-priced home takes $492,364 a year in San Jose but $71,567 in Pittsburgh. See the salary needed to buy a home in 50 U.S. cities.

20 Oct5 min readAutomated

Economy

Ranked: The World’s 30 Busiest Shipping Ports

20 Oct4 min readAutomated

The “policy rate benchmark” chart and two book covers shared in Gan-Ochir Doojav’s Facebook post. Image: Gan-Ochir Doojav / Facebook

Economy

Gan-Ochir Doojav: New Keynesian benchmark puts a policy rate consistent with Mongolia’s inflation expectations at about 15–16%

19 Oct7 min readAutomated

Economy

Ranked: The Most and Least Affordable U.S. Cities for Fast Food

19 Oct4 min readAutomated

People walk past the State Palace on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Reuters

Economy

Mongolia becomes a donor to the World Bank’s International Development Association

17 Oct2 min readAutomated

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Business

Amazon backs 960-MW nuclear plant proposal with 12 reactors at former Indiana coal site

Amazon is backing plans for a 960-megawatt nuclear power facility in Indiana that could house...

20 Oct3 min readAutomated

Business

SpaceX’s ambitious, expensive gamble to replace AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

17 Oct49 min readAutomated

A geologist’s hammer on mineralised rock, Erdene Resource Development

Mining

Erdene’s Zuun Mod molybdenum-copper project needs US$687 million in initial capital, study finds

17 Oct2 min readAutomated

Mongolia’s State Great Khural in plenary session on October 16, 2026, in the Ikh Khuraldai hall of the State Palace. Photo: parliament.mn

Mining

Mongolia’s parliament passes Minerals Law overhaul, doubling local royalty share and resetting copper royalties

17 Oct3 min readAutomated

Business

“ШИНЭ ХОВД” ҮЙЛДВЭРЛЭЛ, ТЕХНОЛОГИЙН ПАРКИЙН БҮТЭЭН БАЙГУУЛАЛТЫГ ЭРЧИМЖҮҮЛНЭ

17 Oct2 min readAutomated

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Mongolian President U. Khurelsukh and Finnish President Alexander Stubb. Photo: Montsame

Politics

President Khurelsukh to pay a state visit to Finland on October 22-24

President U. Khurelsukh will pay a state visit to Finland at the invitation of President Alexander Stubb, the first visit by a Mongolian head of state in 16 years, with about 10 cooperation documents set to be signed.

20 Oct2 min readAutomated

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