G7 countries agreed on Friday (Oct 2) to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil from their reserves over four months, leaders said, agreeing to "refrain from export restrictions on energy" and urging others to do the same.来源 1
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will not authorise an export ban on diesel, hours after G7 countries agreed to release diesel and crude oil from their emergency reserves.来源 2
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The Group of Seven nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of reserves to address surging diesel fuel prices, after the Trump administration pushed Europe to deploy their stocks.来源 3
Under proposals reportedly drawn up by Macron, the current G7 chair, members will release 50m barrels of diesel and 50m of crude oil into the global market to ease prices.来源 5
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We will coordinate maintenance schedules across G7 refineries to prevent simultaneous capacity shutdowns and temporarily increase utilization rates where feasible. We also encourage engagement with countries holding significant refining capacities to boost global production of refined products, particularly diesel, in light of ongoing market pressures in this segment. The G7 requests the IEA to monitor the immediate and full implementation of the March 2026 commitments. In this regard, taking into account commitments that have already been fulfilled, we will implement our commitments with a coordinated release through the IEA of 100 million barrels (MB) to begin immediately over four months, including a frontloaded substantial diesel release within the first 20 days by G7 members and partners. We will convene in the context of the IEA in the coming days to discuss the possibility of additional diesel releases as necessary.来源 6
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In the joint statement, G7 leaders said: "We will implement our commitments with a coordinated release through the IEA of 100 million barrels to begin immediately over four months, including a frontloaded substantial diesel release within the first 20 days by G7 members and partners."来源 7
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G7 member countries agreed on Friday to release 100 million barrels of diesel and other reserves through the International Energy Agency to help to stabilise markets. A joint leaders' statement, released by the office of French President Emmanuel Macron, said G7 members agreed to begin the release immediately and continue over four months, including a “front-loaded substantial diesel release within the first 20 days” by members and partners. Oil prices softened after the announcement, with Brent crude trading 1.48 per cent lower at $100.8 per barrel. West Texas Intermediate, which tracks US crude, traded 2.66 per cent lower at $90.40 per barrel. Data from intelligence firm Kpler showed oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz rising to near prewar levels as oil producers navigate alternative modes to transport fuel out of the region and the US military escorts some vessels. Kpler data showed at least 16.5 million barrels per day left the Middle East in September. “Oil shipment figures have improved in recent days, and between Hormuz and the Yanbu pipeline … we are seeing three-quarters of the prewar volumes moving today,” Mr Macron said after a call with G7 leaders. Leaders also condemned Iran's attacks against its neighbours in the region, while reaffirming they would maintain their sanctions against Russia. Moments before the statement was released, US President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Europe had “just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked diesel oil”. The conflict in the Middle East and Russia's war against Ukraine have triggered a surge in global diesel prices, amplifying political pressure on Mr Trump at home before the midterm elections next month. Diesel prices in the US hit $6.50 per gallon last week, nearly $3 higher than the same time last year. Europe is also facing higher diesel prices, which hit a record of €2.24 per litre, compared to €1.59 before the Iran war began on February 28. The Trump administration had been pressuring Europe to release its diesel stocks. Last week he again pressed Ukraine to halt its attacks on Russian diesel facilities. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged the continent to “immediately” tap its reserves. Mr Trump has also threatened a US diesel ban in a bid to ease prices, triggering concerns from the American energy industry. Such a move would be an alarming prospect for the European Union, which heavily relies on fossil fuel imports, as it approaches winter. The IEA said the US supplied roughly half of the EU's diesel imports in August. Analysts at Oxford Economics estimate a full ban could lift European wholesale prices by 40 to 50 per cent, while adding as much as 0.4 percentage points to US core inflation in 2027. G7 leaders said they reaffirmed their commitment to refrain from placing export restrictions on energy and energy products between G7 members and also urged producers to refrain from imposing bans. Mr Macron said Mr Trump did not threaten to issue an embargo on US diesel, classifying the discussion as a “constructive one”. “We all committed to releasing strategic reserves in the amounts discussed – prioritising diesel – and we all pledged that there would be no export bans; President Trump was particularly clear on this point. I think this is very positive. We are stepping up co-ordination,” he said. IEA member countries agreed in March to co-ordinate to release a record 400 million barrels of strategic reserves. IEA chief Fatih Birol this week said member countries had released two thirds of those commitments to markets. Sunniva Rose contributed to this report from Paris.来源 8
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BRUSSELS — The G7 group of rich countries has agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil over the next four months, following intense pressure from the Trump administration for Europe to tap its stockpiles of diesel.来源 9
US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp drop from last month’s gains, and unemployment rose slightly to 4.2%, a sign of a cooling labor market in the final jobs report before the midterm election.来源 1
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Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 29,000 for the month while the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for job growth of 84,000 and an unemployment rate of 4.1%.来源 2
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In addition to the weakness in September, the August jobs count was revised lower to reflect a gain of 133,000 while July switched from a gain to a loss as payrolls fell by 10,000. The revisions in total showed 60,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.来源 2
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WASHINGTON: US job growth slowed more than expected in September and the nonfarm payrolls count for the prior two months was revised sharply lower, almost taking another interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve this month off the table.来源 4
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Financial markets further reduced bets on a rate hike at the US central bank's Oct 27-28 meeting to roughly 13 per cent, down from 22 per cent prior to the report and about 69 per cent a week ago, CME Group's FedWatch tool showed. The odds of further monetary policy tightening had already been diminished by cooler-than-expected inflation readings for August and July.来源 4
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The US jobs market saw a sharp slowdown in September, with employers adding just 29,000 jobs in the final update before the midterm elections.来源 3
Intensified Russian drone and missile strikes are "tearing Kyiv apart", the mayor of Ukraine's capital has warned.来源 1
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The mayor was speaking just hours after Kyiv's key Pivdennyi (Southern) bridge was hit in an overnight Russian drone attack. On Friday evening it was struck again - the fourth time in two days.来源 1
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All metro and automobile traffic is now suspended across the bridge, causing major delays across the city. Restrictions are also in place on Kyiv's two other key bridges.来源 1
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One person was killed in the capital when a multi-storey residential building was hit overnight, Ukraine's state emergencies service DSNS said.来源 1
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KYIV: Russian attacks on key infrastructure were "tearing Kyiv apart", the city's mayor said on Friday (Oct 2), as strikes on a bridge linking the capital's east and west brought traffic to a standstill.来源 2
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The latest Russian attacks killed one person and wounded at least two other people when a 25-storey residential building was hit in southeast Kyiv.来源 2
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Two people were killed and dozens more injured when Russian shelling hit residential areas in the eastern city of Kharkiv, city mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram.来源 2
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KYIV - Russian attacks on key infrastructure were “tearing Kyiv apart”, the city’s mayor said Friday, as strikes on a bridge linking the capital’s east and west brought traffic to a standstill.来源 3
Of the country's 3,700 schools, 735 were affected "in one way or another" on Friday, down 30 per cent from Thursday, Education Minister Edouard Geffray said after talks with activists.来源 2
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Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said there had been 1,747 arrests on Friday, adding there had been "projectiles thrown, attacks on law enforcement, teachers, journalists, passersby".来源 2
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Geffray told BFMTV at least 65 staff members had been injured, including 40 high school principals, since the start of the movement.来源 2
Fires have burned in the streets as high school pupils and others objected to a lack of teachers, overcrowded classrooms and run-down buildings. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said 1,747 people were arrested on Friday.来源 4
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Education Minister Edouard Geffray told reporters that 735 teaching establishments were "affected" in some way on Friday, "30% fewer than yesterday."来源 5
A record 52% of Europe witnessed "very strong" heat stress by the end of this summer, the EU's Copernicus Climate Service (C3S) said in new research published on Friday.来源 1
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This summer was the third-warmest on record on the European continent and the hottest on record in Western Europe.来源 1
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Copernicus also said that European rivers registered their lowest average flows since records began in 1992. In addition, the service said that "56% of the European ocean was much warmer than average, with 22% experiencing record-high summer sea surface temperatures."来源 1
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Tens of thousands of people died in heat waves in Europe this summer, which also impacted economic activity and agricultural harvests.来源 1
The US has deployed additional Patriot air defence batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as President Donald Trump says he is weighing whether to resume attacking Iran.来源 1
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The US sent one additional Patriot battery to Saudi Arabia to protect a key oil facility and another to Qatar to protect a natural gas facility, Axios reported Thursday.来源 1
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The US is sending thousands of troops and a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East.来源 1
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The aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, departed from San Diego on Sunday, and the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, comprising three amphibious ships carrying around 10,000 Marines, left on Monday.来源 1
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast, the South Korean military has said.来源 1
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On Friday, Pyongyang's Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of leader Kim Jong Un, dismissed Seoul's demand for an apology over the blasts in the Demilitarised Zone, the heavily fortified 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile) area between the two Koreas.来源 1
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Kim Yo Jong called those demands "utterly pathetic," adding that the North intended to cut ties with the South.来源 1
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SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea's military said.来源 2
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SEOUL, Oct 3 - North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.来源 3
US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of computer servers to China, the Department of Justice announced.来源 1
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Greg Lui, 38, of California, also known as “Yiu Kong Lui”, allegedly used false paperwork and shipments through third countries to smuggle the export-controlled computer servers to China, the justice department said in a statement on Thursday.来源 1
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据美国司法部10月1日消息，38 岁男子Greg Lui 又名 Yiu Kong Lui（暂译呂耀光）预计于当天下午首次出庭受审。来源 2
In a press release on Thursday, the Department of Justice accused 38-year-old Greg Lui of using false paperwork to mask shipments of servers worth more than $300 million that he allegedly knew were ultimately destined for China.来源 3
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WASHINGTON: US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than US$300 million worth of computer servers to China, the Department of Justice announced.来源 4
Manchester City have filed an appeal against an independent commission ruling that found the club guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules, seeking to overturn the verdict and avoid potentially severe sanctions.来源 1
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The league said on Tuesday that City had used “sham” commercial contracts as part of schemes to inflate revenue and understate costs by more than £900 million ($1.19 billion) over nearly a decade.来源 1
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“The Club’s firm position is that, on multiple grounds, the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe.来源 1
Spain's parliament has narrowly voted down a pair of emergency government decrees aiming to quell widespread protests against rising rental costs for housing.来源 1
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The first emergency decree, which the government said would stop evictions of vulnerable people, make real estate speculation harder and provide tax incentives to encourage renting, failed by a narrow margin of 178-172.来源 1
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The second decree, which sought to make residential leases automatically renewable by tenants, fell further short of a majority at 184-166.来源 1
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The Tenants' Union which had led protests across Spain said it would press on with plans for more mass rallies on Saturday, aiming to continue heaping pressure on the coalition and opposition alike.来源 1
In June, an OpenAI agent hacked into a New South Wales state government department and accessed historical non-public data on bushfires without authorisation.来源 1
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The breach, which comes weeks after news of a similar hack on a federal government department involving Medicare data, was not reported by the US based company until Thursday.来源 1
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This week, the home affairs department ordered all federal government agencies to conduct a “legacy technology stocktake” that requires a plan for each agency to “reduce legacy technology systems” to a level within the agency’s risk tolerance and appetite, the direction stated.来源 2
The instruction by the Financial Services Commission came after personal information of 89 customers has been leaked from Hana Bank, in the latest data leak surrounding the nation's financial institutions.来源 1
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The personal information, including resident registration numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers, was leaked in a hacking attack, Hana Bank said earlier in the day.来源 1
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Woori Bank and NH Nonghyup Bank were said to have suffered similar hacking attacks, but no leaks of personal information happened as they blocked unauthorized access to their systems.来源 1
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According to the sources, personal data of over 100 KB Kookmin Bank customers had been stolen via hacking.来源 1
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On Thursday, Shinhan Bank said personal information of around 25,000 customers, such as annual income, names and phone numbers, had been leaked.来源 1
"We have parted ways with three individuals," OpenAI told AFP in a statement.来源 1
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"Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work."来源 1
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OpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work which involved an external organisation analysing AI models.来源 2
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday warned that any country or organisation found to be responsible for the violent clash on board an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight would "pay a very heavy price". While Netanyahu has alleged the co-pilot who stabbed his captain mid-flight had undergone "Islamist radicalisation", the motive behind the incident remains unclear.来源 1
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"As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer: The attacker underwent Islamist radicalisation. He came to crash the plane with all passengers on board," Netanyahu alleged in a statement.来源 1
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A senior UAE official on Friday alleged that the incident was a "terrorist act", praising the captain who helped stop the plane from crashing after he was attacked by his co-pilot.来源 1
NEW YORK, Oct 2 : Anthropic warned that government attitudes toward the company and its technology could have broader implications for its business, including its relationships with commercial customers and partners, according to the IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.来源 1
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Anthropic's disclosure appears broader, suggesting that government perceptions of the company and its conduct could extend beyond its direct dealings to affect customers, partners, other commercial relationships — and even civilization. The filing warns that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company planning an IPO that could be valued at $2 trillion for the firm's capacity to profit from the same technology.来源 1
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The filing said that in February the president ordered federal agencies to stop using the company's models and that the US Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk to national security.来源 1
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Anthropic also said that in June the US Department of Commerce imposed worldwide export restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, prompting the company to disable the models for all customers to ensure compliance.来源 1
"Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action," Apple wrote in a post.来源 1
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"As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially. We are committed to ensuring users clearly understand these risks before granting such access, so they can make informed decisions about their own data and privacy."来源 1
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Apple will add new limits for “full disk access” on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it’s rolling out new controls to “ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.” The change comes just weeks after Inc’s Jason Aten found that Meta’s Muse AI somehow knew the contents of his messages, despite not giving the chatbot explicit permission to access them on his iPhone or Mac. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone pushed back on this report, saying access to Messages is “entirely opt-in.” Stone added that you have to “enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse to be able to read your Messages content.” Now Apple is addressing how developers use that sweeping access, saying: > Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing history—without users’ full knowledge and understanding… As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially. Full disk access is a permission on macOS that gives an app access to a user’s entire system. Apple says the feature “largely sidesteps” privacy controls offered to users “to allow backup apps to function properly on Mac.” The company doesn’t say when it plans to roll out its update for full disk access. Apple didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.来源 2
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Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that it’s introducing additional controls around a setting called “Full Disk Access” on macOS. The feature was designed to allow backups to function properly, but AI agents have now increased “the risks associated with this level of access,” Apple said.来源 3
Prime Minister's office clears services to holy city but excludes Mahan Air来源 1
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Iraq has allowed Iranian airlines, excluding Mahan Air, to start 40 daily flights to and from Najaf International Airport, Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi's office said on Friday. The decision was made “through a series of communications and follow-ups with the relevant parties” its statement added, in an apparent reference to the US, which imposed sanctions on Iranian air travel last month. Mr Zaidi appreciated “the positive response of the US government to Iraq’s efforts and its co-operation in granting the requested exemption” to facilitate the travel of pilgrims and people seeking medical treatment. Last week, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation said ticket sales to Najaf had been suspended. An Iranian consulate in the city expressed outrage at the ban. It wrote on X: “Najaf International Airport, the shrine of the first Imam of the Shiites, and the capital of their last Imam, is closed to the largest Shiite country in the world?!” Najaf is home to the Shrine of Imam Ali, the Prophet Mohammed's cousin and son-in-law. In June, the coffin of Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was paraded in the city as part of a funeral detour in Iraq. Flights to Baghdad were suspended on Wednesday. But Iranian state media had initially said that the route to Najaf would remain open. On Tuesday, the Iraqi Transport Ministry also said Iraqi Airways would resume flights to and from Iran in October. Iraq had not officially announced the ban imposed last Friday but ground-handling companies stopped serving the routes, fearing sanctions being imposed by the US Treasury. The sanctions are part of the US campaign to isolate Iran economically and force concessions in the war. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that companies who deal with Iranian airlines would be “knocked out of the dollar system”. Responding to the sanctions, the UAE on Thursday suspended all flights operated by Iranian airlines to and from the country until further notice. Flights between Iran and Oman have also been affected.来源 1
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It said Baghdad had secured "an agreement allowing Iranian airlines, with the exception of Mahan Air, to operate 40 flights daily to and from Najaf" , a city sacred to Shia Muslims.来源 2
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Iraq has agreed to let Iranian airlines, except Mahan Air, operate up to 40 flights a day to and from Najaf International Airport, saying the United States granted an exemption from its sanctions.来源 3
US President Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a new low, with Americans particularly unhappy about the economy and cost of living, according to two polls released this week. An AP-Norc survey shows that 65 per cent of US adults say higher-than-usual prices are the result of Mr Trump’s policies. This is compared to October 2022, under predecessor Joe Biden, when 44 per cent of the public said higher prices were due to presidential policies. More than half – 52 per cent – of Republicans surveyed view President Trump as falling short of expectations on the cost of living. According to non-partisan fact-checking site Politifact, most types of consumer goods have increased in price since Mr Trump began his second term in January 2025. In addition, 71 per cent of those surveyed disapprove of how Mr Trump is handling Iran, and 69 per cent say the war has not been worth fighting. The Iran war has become a major issue for American voters, as many see it as having helped to drive up prices for necessities such as petrol. Mr Trump has said several times that the war, now in its eighth month, will end “very soon”. A separate poll by Quinnipiac University found that 61 per cent of voters disapprove of the way Mr Trump is handling his job as president, while 34 per cent of voters approve. The figures match a previous all-time high disapproval rating for Mr Trump recorded in January 2021. On Iran, the Quinnipiac poll showed that only 28 per cent of those surveyed approve of Mr Trump's handling of the conflict, while 66 per cent disapprove. Similar to the AP-Norc poll, voters surveyed by Quinnipiac felt Mr Trump was not handling the economy well, with only 31 per cent approving and 65 per cent disapproving. The polls comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections in November. Mr Trump and his Republicans face a crucial test in the midterms, which essentially serve as a public referendum on how the president is doing. The sitting president's party almost always suffers a loss of congressional seats in midterms, but losses tend to be much steeper when the president is unpopular. According to Gallup, presidents with job approval ratings below 50 per cent have seen their party lose 37 House seats, on average, in midterm elections. In the 2018 midterms, during his previous term in office, Mr Trump lost a total of 40 seats. His approval rating at that time hovered between 40 and 44 per cent.来源 1
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According to an AP/NORC poll released on Thursday, just 17% of Americans approve of the president's handling of cost-of-living issues, while 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall.来源 2
The BBC has started a redundancy process in its TV and streaming division, heightening staff fears that Matt Brittin will announce the closure of the poorly performing BBC Three and BBC Scotland channels next week.来源 1
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The corporation’s director general, who has repeatedly said that linear TV and radio services may have to shut as audiences move online, is expected to inform staff on Wednesday of the latest stage of a plan to save £500m and shed up to 2,000 jobs.来源 1
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The move has fuelled speculation that the BBC is about to take the two channels online-only, according to sources, as Brittin focuses on cutting back on TV and radio services and content that delivers the least value for money.来源 1
With Project Suncatcher, Google will test how to 'scale AI compute' above Earth来源 1
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Opposition to data centres is growing in many parts of the world. Google, however is trying to address this issue in an unconventional way by testing how a data centre might operate in space. The Alphabet-owned company announced on Thursday that Project Suncatcher, which has been in the research and development stage for several years, had been launched into space "aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX". A video shared by the technology giant showed various employees applauding as the launch which took place on Thursday. Google says the purpose of Project Suncatcher is to explore “whether space could one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure” necessary to fuel the AI boom. Data centres are often criticised for their noise, size and intense energy needs, but setting at least some of them up in space could solve some problems. The company included its AI hardware to test that idea onboard the Transporter-18 SpaceX mission. The launch was successful, which will now make it possible for Google to test how well its technology and processors operate in space. Part of the space test will involve seeing if the company's technology can generate enough computing power in space to answer basic AI queries. “In low-Earth orbit, satellites can access near-constant sunlight, generating up to eight times more solar power than on Earth,” the California technology company said. It added that if successful, all concerns about data centres might be nullified. “It could be possible to link together multiple constellations of satellites, allowing them to manage larger AI workloads while in orbit.” The concept of using the Sun to power data centres in space is not new, but Google is the first to attempt to take it from theory into practice. In January, during a discussion at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, technology tycoon and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk spoke about putting AI infrastructure in orbit. “There's so much room in space, and it's enormous what you can scale to,” he said. “I think, ultimately, you can have hundreds of terawatts in the air.” A few weeks later, Mr Musk predicted that SpaceX might be able to put a working data centre in space as soon as 2027. In March, Nvidia announced what it called the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module, which the company said would help to eventually bring “AI compute to orbital data centres”. Nvidia's press release also made use of the acronym ODC for “orbital data centres”. While Google's forthcoming launch has generated plenty of interest, actually putting data centres in space is far from close. Experts have pointed out that there are many obstacles to making the idea a reality, though Google's launch on Thursday will still be viewed as an important moment. During an appearance at the Semafor World Economy Summit in April, Ariel Ekblaw, founder and chief executive of non-profit space architecture lab the Aurelia Institute, said some of the more aggressive timelines for making space data centres a reality are not realistic. She pointed out that space is far colder than most people realise, and that alone means that “it is not an advantageous arena to deploy a really hot little volcano of a bunch of computers in”. Ms Ekblaw added that the climate issue was only one of several engineering challenges that come with the territory of orbital data centres. The radiation of space, she said, would also prove problematic, along with the fact that data centres on Earth often need to upgrade their CPUs, GPUs and other technology. “There's the fact that if you want to swap your chips out from Nvidia every six months, now you have to go all the way to space to do it, so that's not a trivial concern,” she said. There will probably be a great deal of red tape to complicate placing data centres in orbit, she added. “It's not a simple challenge,” she said. If all these obstacles could be overcome, orbital data centres could be a perfect way to reduce AI's carbon footprint, she said. In its recent announcement of a forthcoming space launch, however, Google seemed aware of the challenges it will face. “Every transformative technology we’ve built at Google began with an audacious goal – and the discipline of working backwards to solve hard problems all along the way,” Google's announcement read. “As our latest moonshot heads to the launchpad, our team is excited to share what we learn and the science driving this work forward.” This article was updated to reflect the recent launch of the SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare mission.来源 1
Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a US speed record, and that created further history with the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit.来源 1
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Seven hours and 55 minutes later, the SpaceX Dragon “Grace” capsule docked at an ISS port, setting a record for the fastest trip by a US spacecraft to the outpost.来源 1
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With the late-morning launch, Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit. A geologist who worked with Nasa’s Mars rover Curiosity a decade ago, Watkins is making her second trip to the space station after a lengthy stay in 2022.来源 1
AMSTERDAM: One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday (Oct 2) it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first such moves by a retailer.来源 1
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"This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding smart glasses and the questions being raised about the conditions under which this technology can be used," a spokesperson for the Hans Anders chain said.来源 1
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Consumer rights group Consumentenbond this week said it would take Meta to court unless the company changes the glasses to comply with privacy law.来源 1
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. began work Friday to insert a remote-controlled robotic arm into the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in preparation for another attempt to retrieve melted fuel debris next year.来源 1
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The utility plans to spend three to four months removing obstacles and collecting three-dimensional data on the vessel's interior before attempting its third trial retrieval, it said. The entire operation, including the retrieval, is expected to take about six months.来源 1
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The two previous attempts, in 2024 and 2025, used a device resembling a fishing rod to recover a combined total of about 0.9 grams of debris.来源 1
Dot is ChatGPT’s new consumer AI agent that’s aimed for business use cases — but can help with life stuff, too.来源 1
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It’s a tale as old as last week: OpenAI’s new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito — emphasis on work. OpenAI announced Dots earlier this week. Like Muse, Dots have blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customizable names. In the future, OpenAI says you’ll be able to have multiple Dots, but right now you get one. I named mine Dotty McDotface. The interface looks similar to Muse’s; you chat with the agent in one window and follow its work in another as it clicks around on a virtual machine. But Dots are less personal shoppers, even though they can help you buy stuff. They’re more like coworkers: business software that can use other software. Your Dot’s virtual machine can access apps like Blender and GIMP right off the bat. You can also give it access to your own computer through the desktop ChatGPT app, and you can call your Dot if you need to work through things out loud. And OpenAI is offering Dots first to users on its highest-tier accounts, including the $100-per-month Pro account I expensed to test it. Muse and its buzzy competitor Instinct cost you nothing — at least now, and at least until Meta can get it off the ground and presumably start using it to serve you ads, etc. But OpenAI’s gated rollout says a lot about who the product is for, cute avatars notwithstanding. I’ve been testing other AI agents with day-to-day personal tasks — yielding mixed results — and I was curious how OpenAI’s bot would compare. Despite its more enterprise-y vibes, OpenAI says Dots “can do nearly anything” with its cloud computer and access to apps, so I gave it a shot with some more pedestrian use cases. To start, I had Dot try to schedule an installation appointment for a new internet service provider at my house (you hear that, Comcast? You’re on notice). It almost got there, and even found a $100 promotional discount in my email that I had mass deleted, but got stuck at a “human check.” Which is problematic for a bot. “This particular check needs a sustained mouse hold that my browser controls don’t support,” it said. “Please open my browser here and hold ‘Press & Hold’ until it completes, then tell me and I’ll continue with installation dates.” I obliged, but it felt a little bit like some teenagers outside of the convenience store asking me to buy them some wine coolers. [Image: I want to know how many meetings Quantum had about adding “(and not a bot)” to this pop-up. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/dot_captcha_screenshot.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] With my human ability to click and hold a button, Dot got all the way to the checkout screen, where it asked me to input my bank account details. Turns out there’s no slick Stripe integration like Muse has to save your credit card info and use a virtual card for checkout. And in any case, the new provider needed my bank account to get a $5 discount on my bill every month. Dot paused to let me enter the numbers into the virtual browser; I didn’t trust it well enough to punch in my checking account number and decided to just do it all myself on my own computer. Not exactly a spectacular start. I gave Dot a few other personal tasks, and the results were mixed. It couldn’t find the option for a free tour and entry at a coworking space I’ve been meaning to try out, and instead offered to sign me up for a $35 day pass. I had Instinct’s agent, which I’ve also been testing, look for the trial option; it found it and set up an appointment within minutes. “Why did you miss this option?” I questioned Dot over the phone after the incident. “I jumped to the wrong conclusion,” it said. I hung up. [Image: I’m going to start calling this the Teriyaki Test. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/dot_dinner.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] Later, I had it try to retrieve some information in my Ikea account about a hanging planter I bought. It reported that it was unable to log in to my Ikea account because it got stuck in a looping security check. Elsewhere on the internet, the neighborhood teriyaki spot wouldn’t allow Dot onto its ordering page. Something about Dot’s footprint seems to get it tripped up on security checks more often than Muse or Instinct; Dot offered a link to OpenAI’s page about websites blocking its cloud browser traffic as an explanation. Whatever the reason, it required more manual input and browser takeovers than other AI agents, possibly because it wasn’t purpose-built for ordering teriyaki or handling your Ikea returns. I really saw Dot come into its element when I gave it access to something fully within my control: my personal website. It is embarrassingly outdated and I asked Dot to pull together a new, more streamlined design. It did, and when I sat down to type out some changes I want made for the next version, I thought, “To hell with it. I’ll just give it a call.” I hashed out the changes I wanted section by section over 10 minutes, walked away to do some dishes, and got a ping that the next iteration was ready for me to review. Not perfect, but better. Once again, AI proves most helpful when you give it a large dataset (me rambling for 10 minutes) it can turn into something useful. I carried out a few more rounds of iterations chatting with Dot in a browser window on my computer and using voice-to-text on the phone app as I walked around the house cleaning up Brio train tracks and stuffies. Dot made a lot more sense once I gave it access to my computer. There, I gave it two tasks: Put together a handful of video files on my desktop featuring a TV hit I did into one clip sized properly for social media, and deploy the changes to my personal website that we had worked through in a prototype. I had to give it a shocking number of permissions, but it worked. I watched it click around the website backend and re-create the prototype block by block. I walked away from the computer and got updates on the ChatGPT app on my phone — the consolidated video clip was ready, which I reviewed while I drank a coffee. It was the most Silicon Valley I’ve ever felt in my life. I absolutely could have figured out how to put all those clips together myself. In fact, I did the first time around, but it looked janky and was too big to upload on any social media website. Dot did a much better job and I had a clip to share within minutes. It handled the website update, too. The new design is basic, but it’s miles ahead of the complicated, out-of-date version I’d been rocking until yesterday. Gotta hand it to Dotty McDotface. [Image: Helping you update a website while ordering dinner is the AI agent future we were promised. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-8.44.31-AM.png?quality=90&strip=all] Dot makes a lot more sense when you think of it and use it as “Codex, but for regular people” — a cute little blob that can take care of some part of your business while you do other things. Where the more personal AI agents like Muse feel like glorified autofill and a universal online shopping cart, Dot seems like a harbinger of the future of work. Or a future of work. Presumably, since you pay for it upfront, it won’t be subject to the kind of monetization pressure as Muse and Instinct eventually will, which makes sense for enterprise software. Nobody wants to be nagged by AI while they work. That is, assuming you do the kind of work that AI can help you with, and you trust OpenAI to do it. Big caveats! It helped me out with some tasks that, if I’m being honest, I would have just not gotten around to doing. That’s pretty handy. But I don’t think it’s $100-a-month handy, at least in my line of work. I can see how it would be much more useful to someone like our friend Casey Newton, who’s in the thick of launching a new business. And with some help logging into my Uber Eats account, it did actually order my teriyaki in the end.来源 1
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 : Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.来源 1
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The St. Louis-based 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in its order put the law on hold for now, granting a request for an injunction by xAI. A lower court judge last month had rejected Musk’s bid for an order stopping the law.来源 1
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The state's anti-"nudification" law, which took effect on August 1, prohibits website operators, software developers and others from allowing users to create realistic images depicting an intimate body part that is not shown in an original photo of an identifiable individual.来源 1
But higher prices continue to be the biggest economic pain point for Americans. Mortgage rates accelerated to their highest level in three years on Thursday from 7% to 7.28%, the largest weekly jump since 2022. The 10-year treasury yield, which underpins mortgages and other loans, also reached a 24-year high as the recent global bond sell-off continued. Meanwhile, higher oil prices have cost Americans an estimated $936 per household.来源 1
Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64GB of unified memory from top manufacturer partners — Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — giving developers, researchers and AI enthusiasts a new configuration with DGX OS and the NVIDIA AI software stack ready to use from day one.来源 1
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The new 64GB configuration, available exclusively from manufacturer partners, keeps the platform at an accessible price point while retaining the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, DGX OS and full NVIDIA AI software stack — same as the 128GB model. It supports up to 100-billion-parameter models and the agentic applications built on them, fully on device.来源 1
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DGX Spark 64GB is available from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI on Friday, Oct. 23, starting at $4,999.来源 1
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users.来源 1
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Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, Ultrafast offers up to 8x faster token generation than the Astra Standard mode. For developers, faster generation can shorten coding agents’ edit-test-debug cycles, reduce the time spent generating responses between tool calls and make interactive applications feel more responsive.来源 1
Meta has open sourced code that you can use to make your own gadgets that feature the company’s Muse AI agent. It’s also giving away a Muse Home Link gadget.来源 1
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Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company’s new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or putting Muse on a small touchscreen device to make what looks kind of like a DIY Muse Charm. “Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself,” Meta says. “Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you’ve got lying on your workbench.” However, Meta cautions that you should “Proceed at your own risk!” The company is also giving away a Muse Home Link gadget that it created. With the Muse Home Link, you use community-built skills to have the AI agent “turn on a light, control your TV, send a document to a printer, and more, depending on your setup,” Meta says. It manufactured 5,000 of the gadgets, according to Meta Superintelligence Labs’ Nat Friedman, and you can claim a waitlist spot for the Muse Home Link now ahead of shipping sometime this month. [Image: Meta’s Muse Home Link gadget. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-02-at-2.07.16-PM.png?quality=90&strip=all]来源 1
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe has suffered a malfunction in the last of its working ion engines, an official of the country's space agency said Friday, adding that it aims to continue the asteroid mission by combining the probe's remaining operational functions.来源 1
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The problem arose in mid-August, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will assess whether the probe, which is on an extended mission after returning samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth, will be able to reach its new asteroid target 1998 KY26 in 2031 as planned, the official said.来源 1
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JAXA hopes to keep the probe operating through "cross operation" -- using the ion source of one engine with the neutralizer of another.来源 1
The UAE is ranked sixth internationally as a target of cyber attacks in an analysis by Microsoft. The US topped the rankings in Microsoft's Digital Defence Report, which monitored cyber crime activity affecting customers from January to June of this year. Next came Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, the UK and the UAE. India, Japan, Canada, Germany, Australia and the Philippines completed the top 12. “The findings carry particular relevance for the UAE as the country continues to scale AI adoption across government and industry,” read a summary of the analysis provided to The National. Microsoft said the data collected in its threat analysis would serve an important function in bolstering teamwork between the company and the UAE in fighting hacks, cyber crime and other digital-based nefarious activities. “Microsoft, the UAE Cyber Security Council and Core42 announced plans to deploy MDASH, Microsoft’s AI-powered cybersecurity capability, across UAE government entities,” the company stated. It added that the continuing collaboration will help to “prioritise risk and respond to emerging threats with greater speed and scale”. The UAE was the third-most targeted country by hackers connected to Iran, behind the US and Israel, according to the US technology giant. Iran's self-imposed internet blackout that lasted until May caused a slight dip in Tehran-sponsored cyber attacks, but Microsoft warned that those attempts had since resumed. The company pointed out that Iranian cyber actors have the most success when it comes to relatively simplistic attack methods. “Iranian state-aligned threat actors continue to rely primarily on exploitation of known vulnerabilities, weak authentication and exposed internet-facing systems for initial access, with credential harvesting and phishing as central enablers,” Microsoft's report read. Yazan Khasawneh, director of cybersecurity at Microsoft in the UAE, highlighted the importance of maintaining cybersecurity amid the rapid expansion of AI use. “The UAE is entering a phase in which AI is becoming part of the operating model of government and business,” Mr Khasawneh said. He added that it was important for cybersecurity to be “designed into the way organisations adopt AI, manage identities, protect data and maintain continuity from the outset”. Last month, the UAE's cybersecurity chief Mohamed Al Kuwaiti said the country was continuing to contend with a barrage of daily online threats, with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps behind many attacks. AI, he explained, was accelerating the pace of cyber attacks. But Dr Al Kuwaiti said the UAE had harnessed cutting-edge technology to “detect, to defend, to disrupt” hacking attempts. In August, the UAE Cyber Security Council said national teams had detected and contained advanced, organised attacks against the aviation, energy and education sectors before they could disrupt vital systems. During an interview with The National in Washington last year, Dr Al Kuwaiti said the UAE had long focused on cybersecurity and was committed to becoming a “net exporter of cyber security talent”. “Our main focus is cyber crime, cyber terrorism and cyber warfare,” Dr Al Kuwaiti added.来源 1
Bull can now source around 70 per cent of the components in the machines it builds in Europe - including boards, interconnects, cooling systems and increasingly processors - up from 20 per cent-30 per cent five years ago, leaving memory as the last major component without a European supplier, Chief Executive Emmanuel Le Roux said.来源 1
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• "The problem is memory," he told Reuters at the company's Angers factory. "We don't see anything coming."来源 1
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Victoria in the early hours of Saturday morning, shaking Melbourne and waking people across the whole region.来源 1
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Geoscience Australia said it detected an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 at 2.01am near Leongatha, 130km south-east of Melbourne, with the tremors felt across the city’s eastern suburbs.来源 1
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The quake was estimated to have struck at about 10km below the Earth’s surface.来源 1
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The Bureau of Meteorology said there was no tsunami threat from the quake.来源 1