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Today β€” 9 October 2026Main stream

Trump Announces White House Inquiry Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook

9 October 2026 at 14:42
President Trump said the White House would investigate unsubstantiated claims that Lisa D. Cook committed mortgage fraud and hold a hearing next month.

Β© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The announcement is the latest escalation in President Trump’s campaign to remove Lisa D. Cook from her position as a governor at the Federal Reserve.

China and Europe Agree to Deal to Limit Chinese Exports of Hybrid Cars

9 October 2026 at 14:35
The European Union said that the deal could roughly halve Chinese shipments over four years. But it also could lead to an even stronger Chinese auto industry.

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Maros Sefcovic, the European Union’s top trade official, at a news conference in Beijing late Friday night.

How Correspondent Banking Can Enable Sanctions Evasion

9 October 2026 at 14:29
The correspondent system for banking has enabled globalism β€” and has been exploited by companies trying to skirt U.S. sanctions.

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Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank, a regional lender in China, has large presences in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan β€” countries with close economic ties to Russia.

Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial

9 October 2026 at 14:25
CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg (R) looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press briefing with AI executives following a meeting on artificial intelligence, outside the West Wing of the White House on September 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like "Little Marco" and "Crooked Hillary"; he changed "fake news" from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press at large. Over the past few weeks, he's clearly decided he can work the same magic to promote artificial intelligence - branding a technology he wants to accelerate "super", while turning "artificial" into his latest go-to pejorative and declaring resisters "THE ENEMY." Some of the biggest names in AI are going along with him. But he's picked a tough linguistic batt …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around β€” can it survive Muse?

9 October 2026 at 14:00
Photo of a phone on a table showing Instinct AI texts.
Instinct’s agent is always just a text away.

Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct.

In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet, Instinct quickly became the buzziest thing in AI, garnering praise for its straightforward, text message-based interface and its ability to handle chores like booking DMV appointments and sending follow-up emails.

Then Muse arrived, followed not long after by Dots. The same products, more or less, from two far more powerful companies.

With Big Tech players suddenly in the mix, it was looking dubious that the startup's buzzy launch could keep …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Paintings Stolen From Renoir Museum Are Recovered, Authorities Say

9 October 2026 at 13:55
Officials also said that six suspects had been arrested in the robbery, which targeted a museum in southern France last month.

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A police officer at the entrance to the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France after the robbery in September.

India Cancels Trains, Floods Capital with Police to Block Protests

A planned protest against a sweeping voter roll revision prompted police to order a virtual shutdown of New Delhi, the capital. The country’s highest court intervened.

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There was a heavy police presence in central New Delhi on Friday, with yellow barricades chained together near the site of a planned protest.

A week with Googlebooks: four notes from our testing so far

An HP Googlebook 14 laptop with the Android Play Store open.
Software, software, software. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Google's new operating system is off to a rocky start. The five newly launched Googlebook laptops have hardware that ranges from great to excellent, but the software in its current state is the weak point. There are four of us on staff at The Verge actively testing Googlebooks and, frankly, our internal Slack discussions have been mostly filled with collective venting of frustrations, disappointments, and bewilderment.

The promise of Googlebooks as a fresh and smartly designed alternative to Windows or Mac for Android phone owners sounds great, but there's more than just a few kinks and quirks to work out. Some of its issues and challenges …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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