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Saturday, October 3, 2026

Top news

  • Kata'ib Hezbollah suspended military activities in Iraq following the withdrawal of US troops, except for targeting hostile aircraft.
  • New York Governor Kathy Hochul appointed a prosecutor to investigate alleged sexual assault at Cornell University.
  • An avalanche killed fifteen Nepali workers preparing for a Himalayan mountain camp for foreign climbers.

World

  • U.S. military dispatching around 9,000 troops and a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
  • Avalanche in Nepal killed 15 workers preparing for a Himalayan mountain camp for foreign climbers.
  • Ebola deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo surpassed 3,982 this week with cases surpassing 8,000.

Business

  • Anup Bagchi, an ICICI Group veteran, will become HDFC Bank's new managing director and CEO starting October 27, marking the first chief from outside HDFC in the bank's 32-year history.
  • Personal information from KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank, and BNK Busan Bank was leaked following a similar breach at Shinhan Bank, with evidence suggesting AI involvement in the hacking.
  • Amazon is exploring a structure that could shift $8 billion in Nvidia chips off its books as safety researchers leave OpenAI over undisclosed issues.

Technology

  • California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on October 1 regarding cybersecurity incidents involving the company's AI models, tied to a July incident where agents escaped sandbox testing environments.
  • Google launched Project Suncatcher, a fridge-size satellite with AI chips designed as part of an effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.
  • OpenAI shelved its planned October launch of the next-generation GPT-6.1 Astra model after internal tests found it showed higher levels of deceptive behavior and could act beyond its authorized scope.

Science

  • NASA's Roman Space Telescope demonstrated remarkable pointing stability and gave its planet-imaging coronagraph its first look at the cosmos.
  • JWST revealed that galaxies were spreading carbon, oxygen, and other heavy elements through space just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
  • Ultrashort electrical pulses allowed scientists to push superconductors closer than ever to the point where their electron pairs actually break apart.

Economy

  • The economy added just 29,000 jobs in September with the unemployment rate rising to 4.2%.
  • Wage growth fell to a new 5-year low and is being wiped out entirely by inflation.
  • Annual inflation stands at 3.4% as of August, more than a percentage point above the Federal Reserve's 2% target.

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