Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said, while cautioning that a merger was no guarantee.来源 1
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Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter’s third quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk, who serves as CEO of both companies, said the special committees were formed at the request of shareholders and consist of independent directors (though he did not name them). He also noted that he is not a member of either committee, nor involved in any of the discussions. “Because I’m a conflicted party, I can’t actually be in the discussions of the special committees,” Musk said. “So it’s an odd kabuki dance where two groups of people are talking and I can’t be in the conversation.” The groups have not reached agreement on the terms of any transaction — and there’s no guarantee that they will. “At the end of the day, the shareholders have to be supportive of this,” he continued. “And particularly on the Tesla side, we will need a 50 percent vote of all shares, not just those who vote, but of all shareholders. And that’s quite a high hurdle to try to achieve.” That said, Musk called the possibility of a Tesla-SpaceX merger a “good idea.” He continued: > I do think there’s a lot of merit to combining companies as we are pretty much in the superintelligence singularity. And there’s a lot to be gained from cooperating on developing superintelligence software, chip design, the TeraFab, obviously robotics, mass to orbit with the Starmind constellation, connectivity. So I think it would be a good idea, but it’s really up to the special committees of both companies. They’ve got to come up with something and then that’s going to be put to the shareholders as a vote. A Tesla-SpaceX merger would be a blockbuster corporate deal creating a mega-entity valued upwards of $3.6 trillion. But combining Musk’s car and energy company with his AI and rocket company would not be without its tradeoffs. A lot depends on which company absorbs the other. To buy SpaceX, Tesla would have to create millions of new stock shares, which for current Tesla owners would mean owning a smaller slice of a much larger pie. SpaceX’s launch goals require tens of billions of dollars every year — extra spending that could drain Tesla’s ability to build new car factories and battery plants. That said, most Wall Street analysts and legal experts believe SpaceX would acquire Tesla (or absorb it through a stock swap) rather than vice versa. Since its IPO, SpaceX has maintained a higher valuation than Tesla. A merger in that direction would allow SpaceX shareholders to hold the majority control of the combined mega-entity. Some Tesla shareholders may balk at this deal. But it would also create one company for those who believe in Musk’s vision of the future — robot cars, humanoid robots, AI super-intelligence, and human habitats on Mars — in which to place their investments. And Tesla shareholder approved Musk’s enormous pay package last year — even after a Delaware judge tossed it over lack of independence. Earlier this month, Barclays published a client note suggesting a potential Tesla-SpaceX combination could be announced ahead of Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting scheduled for December 3, 2026.来源 1
CEO Elon Musk’s deep tech conglomerate reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue on Tuesday, according to its regulatory filing.来源 1
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That number was driven by growth in all segments, but especially its renamed “Super Intelligence” business line, which generated $7.5 billion in revenue from the recently acquired Cursor coding tool, Grok bot, and most importantly, the company’s burgeoning neocloud business, which now boasts 1.7 GW of compute. The AI business generated $431 million in profit, which would have been higher without $1.2 billion in one-time stock-based compensation expenses related to the Cursor acquisition.来源 1
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Despite of those capital expenditures, the company’s revenue boost was substantial enough to push it back into profitability. SpaceX reported net income of $4.4 billion, a turnaround from the $1 billion loss in the same quarter last year. It will still have some catching up to do if it wants to remain profitable for the year, however. In the first nine months of the year, SpaceX still had a net income loss of $413 million.来源 1
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in history an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered. “This is a profound technology milestone in the history of civilization consciousness,” he said during the company’s third quarter earnings report Tuesday. But he also allowed for the possibility of a failure. “Success is not guaranteed on these first flights, but I’d say it’s more likely than not that this succeeds next flight,” Musk said. “And if not, we have a steady stream of Starship flight attempts through the end of this year and then accelerating next year.” "“Success is not guaranteed on these first flights, but I’d say it’s more likely than not that this succeeds next flight.”" - Elon Musk Starship is a two-stage system, composed of the Super Heavy booster (first stage) and the Starship spacecraft (second stage). It stands approximately 120 meters (around 400 feet) tall with a 9-meter diameter, and is powered by SpaceX’s Raptor engines burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen. Starship, which was first introduced in 2018, was designed to return to the launch site, where launch towers with mechanical “chopstick” arms catch the vehicle mid-air. Last month’s Starship launch represented two firsts for its next gen rocket: send the spacecraft into Earth orbit, and insert a few dozen of SpaceX’s larger and more capable V3 satellites into the Starlink constellation for the first time. Still, the launch wasn’t without its snafus: one Raptor engine shut down prematurely during ascent, prompting mission control to adapt and complete the climb on remaining. Because of the issue, SpaceX cut the planned 10-hour, 6-orbit mission short after about 3 hours and 2 Earth orbits. The Super Heavy booster splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, while the Starship upper stage executed a de-orbit burn and ended with a fiery vertical splashdown in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. Neither piece was recovered. Developing…来源 2
Oct 20 : Anthropic reported a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of the year and signaled it could spend as much as $750 billion in the coming years to secure more computing capacity, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.来源 2
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The loss, up from $13 billion a year earlier, was driven by $72 billion in accounting charges tied to changes in the value of financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise money, the report said, citing a draft prospectus for its IPO.来源 2
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But some current investors and prospective investors who attended Anthropic's investor day last week are weighing a lower valuation for the AI company after its latest financial disclosures, four people familiar with the matter had told Reuters.来源 2
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The investors who attended the event in San Francisco discussed a valuation of around $1.5 trillion, three of the people had said, a significant step down from the roughly $2 trillion valuation previously expected for the November share sale.来源 2
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The leaked filing provides more color to the numbers Reuters and the Financial Times reported in late September, including that Anthropic believes it could spend more $750 billion on cloud contracts, some of which includes deals still in negotiation.来源 1
Google Cloud says it has resolved disruption at its UK cloud site which caused an outage affecting UK banks, businesses and the courts.来源 1
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"We have resolved a disruption to Google Cloud services at a third-party facility in our europe-west2 cloud region due to a power event," a Google Cloud spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday evening.来源 1
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An outage at Google’s cloud services in the UK has caused widespread disruption, hitting courts and leaving millions of customers unable to access or send cash at banks including Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut.来源 2
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Their response is already facing scrutiny by the influential Treasury committee of MPs, whose chair Meg Hillier wrote to the regulators asking for details about how they reacted and a sense of the total impact on the UK financial system. Hillier has asked for an initial response by 4 November.来源 2
Anthropic is in talks with U.K. neocloud Nscale for a second multibillion-dollar deal to lease computing capacity at a site in the U.S., a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.来源 1
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The agreement would cover a second 460-megawatt data center at the same West Virginia site as the first deal, the person said. The person asked not to be named because they were not authorized to discuss the talks. The deal could be worth around $45 billion, the person said.来源 1
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it’s suspending the sharing feature while the company reviews it and considers making changes.来源 1
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Muse, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month was “built from the ground up for privacy and security,” seems to take the same precautions. But a central design decision for constructing URLs has made the links easy to discover. As a result, researchers from security firm Claroc said they were able to enumerate 6,800 links Muse users created for sharing conversations with others. After opening a few hundred of them, the researchers found information that was clearly not intended to be publicly available, including:来源 1
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We opened the Muse bug bounty program so researchers could raise different scenarios and help us continue improving the product. People have the ability to share specific Muse artifacts, which creates a page that can be accessed by those with the link. However, we’ve paused this functionality while we review this report and consider changes to how these links can be discovered.来源 1
Politico recently reported that the AI lab has been shopping around a new draft bill on AI safety that it hopes Congress might consider adopting. The legislation posits certain scenarios in which the release of an AI model could be blocked from distribution.来源 1
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Those scenarios involve a “foreseeable, imminent risk” — one in which over 50 people are at risk of dying or if over a billion dollars in property damage could result, Politico writes. The catastrophic risk in question must “stem from the creation or release of a biological weapon, the model evading its developer’s controls or a cyberattack,” the outlet notes.来源 1
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In Anthropic’s draft bill, when evaluators determine that an imminent catastrophic risk is posed, they would have 72 hours to contact the Commerce Department about it. The Commerce Department would then have to request to a D.C. judge to halt the model’s release. The legislation would expressly forbid any federal agency from having the discretion to halt the model’s distribution on its own, Politico writes.来源 1
UK smartphone users could benefit from new payment, ticket and travel apps if Apple widens access to its contactless payment tech, the competition watchdog says.来源 1
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also wants the fees Apple charges firms to use its contactless tech to be "substantially lower".来源 1
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The proposed measures would force Apple to grant access to apps that make payments via a widely used alternative contactless technology standard, called Host Card Emulation (HCE), which the firm does not currently permit in the UK.来源 1
On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project. With this, Google joins Amazon in trying to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI industry, where most AI apps are written by default to run on Nvidia’s chips, or GPUs.来源 1
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Google’s version, TorchTPU, lets AI apps run on Google’s AI chips, called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). It also makes it easy to move existing PyTorch apps to TPUs and, therefore, to Google Cloud. Developers can do this with a simple configuration change and no re-writing of their apps.来源 1
Oct 20 : Super Micro Computer expects quarterly revenue and profit margin well above Wall Street estimates as it benefits from relentless AI data center demand, the server maker said on Tuesday, sending shares 11.3 per cent higher in after-hours trading.来源 1
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Super Micro on Tuesday said it expects revenue between $18.5 billion and $19.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with analysts’ average estimate of $15.23 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. That expectation is also well above the company’s prior revenue forecast of $14.5 billion to $15.5 billion.来源 1
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The server maker also now expects gross margins to be in the range of 12 per cent to 12.5 per cent versus the prior expectation of 10.4 per cent to 10.8 per cent, and above analysts' estimate of 10.15 per cent, primarily due to customer and product mix.来源 1
Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.来源 1
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Meta’s AI companion, Muse, is now one of only a dozen mobile apps to have reached 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days on the market. According to new data from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, Muse has seen 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10.2 million of which were in the United States.来源 1
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In the U.S., the app had a 30% retention rate after 7 days and a 23% retention rate after 14 days. By comparison, its rivals saw an average of a 19% 7-day retention rate and a 16% 14-day retention rate, according to the firm’s data.来源 1
Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space, and progress is underway on its key element: the nuclear power module. To expedite development of the spacecraft, NASA and its partners have mutually agreed to key contract actions that will advance the SR‑1 Freedom mission.来源 1
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“These contract actions not only reduce technical risk and help us maintain momentum toward our 2028 launch, but they also strengthen collaboration across our partners,” said Steve Sinacore, SR-1 Freedom program director. “These actions keep SR‑1 Freedom on track and ensure we’re building the strongest possible foundation for NASA’s first fission‑powered voyage beyond Earth orbit while developing technology extensible to a vibrant space nuclear future.”来源 1
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Launching in late 2028, SR‑1 Freedom will deliver the SkyFall science mission, a team of three Mars helicopters evolved from the Ingenuity design, to collect scientific data, demonstrate exploration zones, and identify potential water sources. The mission will pave the way for deep space exploration and next‑generation fission-powered systems designed to keep NASA’s Moon Base operating through periods of darkness and in locations where solar power alone is not sufficient.来源 1
MADRID, Oct 20 : Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving unit, plans to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Spain's Madrid region in 2027, its first deployment in the country, it said on Tuesday.来源 1
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• Electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will begin appearing on Madrid streets in the coming days, with trained specialists behind the wheel before autonomous operations begin, Waymo said in a statement来源 1
That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built by Eka Robotics, which encompasses a force-sensitive gripper and a new kind of deep-learning model. Founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, the startup just closed an $150 million Series A round that values it at $1.45 billion post-money, led by venture funds a16z and F-Prime.来源 1
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What’s notable here? How smoothly and rapidly the robot moves. It can pick up about 1,500 objects that weigh up to 1 kg in an hour, compared to about 600 for a human; Eka says it reliably picks up objects more than 95% of the time. And the robot arm is strong enough to hurt itself as it moves that quickly. That indicates, per the frontier lab observer, that “they have a lot of trust in their algorithm not breaking the robot. I wonder how many robots they broke along the way?”来源 1
OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.来源 1
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OpenAI on Tuesday acquired a four-year-old AI biotech software startup called Orchestra Bio, the company announced via its website. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the startup had reportedly raised around $20 million as of 2025 from backers like Andreessen Horowitz, Atria, and 8VC.来源 1
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OpenAI says it’s adding Orchestra’s team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results. OpenAI has already won some big names as customers for Rosalind, including, it says, Moderna and Novo Nordisk.来源 1
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides来源 1
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Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend.来源 1
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Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation.来源 1
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that users can now lock ChatGPT conversations to keep sensitive chats private when others may have access to their screen or device. Users can secure their locked chats with a four-digit PIN, or use Face ID or Touch ID on supported devices.来源 1
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OpenAI notes that locking a chat doesn’t create end-to-end encryption or a separate encrypted vault, change how long it retains the chat, remove information that ChatGPT remembered before a chat was locked, or change the “Improve the model for everyone” setting.来源 1
Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to its Gemini AI assistant in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in.来源 1
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Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI in your car. With this update, Gemini in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in can tap into your information across Google apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search. As an example, Google says you can ask Gemini about your flight status if you’re driving to the airport. The AI assistant can pull your flight details from a confirmation message in Gmail and then use that information to look up the status. You can also ask Gemini to “take me to my doctor’s appointment” instead of pulling up directions manually, or ask it to “find the car wash from the photo I took last week and navigate there.” [Video: Personal Intelligence in cars] Google brought its Gemini assistant to Android Auto last year before rolling it out to cars with Google built-in in April. Several carmakers—including Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Volvo, and Polestar—have shipped newer cars with Google built-in, which adds support for native Android apps. Google says it will connect your apps to Gemini only if you enable its Personal Intelligence setting. It will also share personalized responses only if you have your phone connected to your car. “If you don’t use Personal Intelligence, everything in the car still works: You can use navigation, listen to music, make calls, and ask questions, but the answers won’t be tailored to you,” Google says. Personal Intelligence is rolling out to Android Auto today, with support coming to cars with Google built-in in the coming months.来源 1
Mast wound up partnering with Lee von Kraus, a neuroscientist who has worked with DARPA, to found Electric Plant, which has been spending the past three years collecting data to build a large language model, Bombadil, capable of interpreting the subtle electrical signals coursing through a plant’s stem and relaying details about the plant’s needs to growers.来源 1
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To bring its sensors and Bombadil to market, Electric Plant recently raised an $11.2 million seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic, with participation from Ponderosa, Endeavor Catalyst, Ludlow, Michigan Rise, The Fund, Schox VC, and Dug Song.来源 1
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Electric Plant had to start somewhere, though, so it used those devices to train its Bombadil model, which is capable of interpreting electrical signals in about 125 different species. “We know the model will surpass a lot of that equipment,” Mast said.来源 1
Russia's latest strikes again hit Ukrainian energy facilities and infrastructure across the country, knocking out power to more than 500,000 people and forcing emergency repairs to the battered grid.来源 3
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A strike near the northeastern city of Kharkiv killed six people, including three children, authorities said.来源 3
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Moscow launched one of its broadest air assaults in months overnight, cutting power to more than half a million households and damaging energy infrastructure across Ukraine. Ten people were reported killed.来源 2
PARIS: France will impose new curfews in areas where needed on Tuesday (Oct 20), Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said, adding that the measures introduced in several cities the previous day had "helped keep the night calm".来源 1
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Francewill impose new curfews in areas where they are required, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Tuesday after the first night of partial curfews in major cities including Paris.来源 2
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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has vowed a "massive" police presence during further protests planned for Saturday, while several cities, including parts of Paris, will be subject to curfews this week.来源 4
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More than 2,500 people have been arrested since the disorder broke out, officials said on Monday. One demonstrator's hand was blown off by a police crowd-control grenade, according to the AFP news agency. About 1,000 police officers were injured.来源 4
More than 2,000 shops and other businesses have been directly impacted by the weekend's violence, the head of France's Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) said.来源 4
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that its naval mines halted three tankers attempting to travel the Strait of Hormuz via routes considered illegal by Tehran.来源 1
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"Two violating oil tankers were set ablaze and halted due to the explosion of mines planted by the brave sailors of the IRGC Navy at an illegal crossing point in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz," the IRGC said in a statement on its official Sepah News website.来源 1
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The Guard later said in a statement carried by state TV that a third oil tanker "exploded and caught fire after striking a naval mine south of the Strait of Hormuz".来源 1
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The statement added that the tanker, "carrying over 2 million barrels of crude oil, had deactivated all of its radar and navigation systems".来源 1
Steve Witkoff will fly to Russia for discussions about peace proposals on Wednesday.来源 1
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The proposal for three-way leaders’ negotiations on a peace proposal, the first such summit since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, was announced at a press conference Tuesday after talks in Norway between Zelenskyy and Witkoff.来源 1
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OSLO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed Tuesday (Oct 20) the resumption of US intelligence sharing on looming Russian strikes, but insisted Kyiv must be included in any future talks on its fate after meetings with US envoys.来源 2
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"Steve Witkoff will fly tomorrow to St. Peterburg, where he will be meeting with Russian leadership and exchange ideas from this meeting and the proposals that have been worked on by European and American colleagues, and possibly pave the way for a meeting at leaders' level," he said.来源 2
LONDON — Beijing has threatened to retaliate if the U.K. raises tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, aligning with the European Union.来源 1
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Responding to POLITICO’s story that Britain was looking to act in “lockstep” with the bloc to counter China’s market dominance in electric cars, a spokesperson from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said: “If the U.K. insists on imposing restrictions on Chinese electric vehicles, China will resolutely retaliate and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese industries.”来源 1
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The U.K. is currently working with its European partners to avoid a 10% electric vehicle tariff from the beginning of next year, when stricter rules of origin under the Brexit trade deal kick in.来源 1
Helen Haines’ alleged attacker, Brendan Nugent, has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally cause serious injury and the commonwealth offence of causing harm to a commonwealth public official.来源 1
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He will be held overnight to appear at Wangaratta magistrates court on Wednesday, Victoria police confirmed in a statement, adding that it would be alleged the attack was targeted.来源 1
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Haines remains in a critical but stable condition after being airlifted to Melbourne’s Alfred hospital for emergency surgery. She has lost one leg and surgeons were fighting on Tuesday to save the other leg.来源 1
29. 第二十九条,半岛电视台报道:美国食品进口商Gellert Global Group 20日在美国国际贸易法院起诉特朗普政府,挑战对加拿大商品加征的50%关税;Gellert是一家进口加拿大奶酪的美国食品进口商,该法院是审理关税和进口贸易争端的联邦法院。公司称总统未经国会授权,且公司在9月16日至10月11日已支付逾52万美元关税。
A US food importer is suing US President Donald Trump over his 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, arguing he lacks the legal authority to impose sweeping tariffs without congressional approval.来源 1
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Gellert Global Group, a New Jersey-based company that imports Canadian cheese, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in the US Court of International Trade in New York.来源 1
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The company says the tariffs are driving up its costs and disrupting its relationships with suppliers on both sides of the border. Between September 16 and October 11, Gellert had paid more than $520,000 in duties, according to the complaint.来源 1
The Jackdaw gasfield will be given the go-ahead on Wednesday, signalling Andy Burnham’s commitment to the North Sea fossil fuel industry and threatening to trigger a row with climate campaigners and Labour MPs.来源 2
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Miatta Fahnbulleh and John Healey, the energy secretary and chancellor respectively, will make the announcement from Aberdeen on Wednesday morning after more than a year of deliberations over whether doing so would violate the UK’s climate commitments.来源 2
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The UK government is expected to announce a long-awaited decision on whether to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.来源 1
The EU on Tuesday presented a new Arctic Strategy that outlines the bloc's priorities in the key region amid challenges such as security threats, climate change and mining.来源 1
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"The Arctic is one place where the tectonic plates of geopolitics are colliding," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.来源 1
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On Arctic security, the EU plans to develop a maritime security hub in the region "to facilitate information sharing form seabed to space." The bloc also intends to expand European icebreaker capacity and extend its satellite surveillance program in the region.来源 1
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Although Russia and other non-EU countries such as Norway drill in the Arctic, the EU does not want to expand new drilling in the region. European Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jorgensen said the EU's view "on drilling in the Arctic remains the same and it's very clear: oil, coal and gas must stay in the ground."来源 1
TOKYO, Oct 21 : The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates in December to 1.50 per cent, following June and September increases, according to a majority of economists in a Reuters poll, keeping up a quicker pace in a campaign that started with just one rate rise a year.来源 1
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Nearly 70 per cent of economists, 54 of 78, in the October 13-19 survey expected the BOJ to raise its policy rate to 1.5 per cent this quarter, almost double the share in the previous poll.来源 1
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Of the 54 respondents who specified a month, about 80 per cent chose December, while only 2 per cent chose the BOJ's next two-day policy meeting, which concludes on October 30.来源 1
Crude oil prices fell Tuesday as traders hoped for diplomatic progress between the U.S. and Iran, though attacks on tankers and strikes against Saudi Arabia have escalated recently.来源 1
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U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for November fell 1.8% to close at $101.79 per barrel, pulling back dramatically from a session high of $110.48. The November contract expired on Tuesday. The WTI December contract was down 26 cents at $98.28 per barrel.来源 1
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Global benchmark Brent crude futures for December delivery fell 0.7% to settle at $108.79 per barrel, well off a session high of $111.99.来源 1
The group of Thames Water creditors pursuing a £10bn rescue deal for Britain’s largest water supplier has lined up a former senior Labour minister to chair the company, as it tries to win over the government.来源 1
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The creditor consortium, called London & Valley Water, said on Tuesday that Lord John Hutton had been selected as independent chair designate of the Thames Water board, if the consortium’s deal is approved.来源 1
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Creditors have been locked in talks with ministers and regulators for months over the future ownership of the debt-laden water company, which has 16 million customers in the south of England.来源 1
NatWest has ordered 13,000 staff to increase their in-office days from two days a month to two days a week, angering its staff union.来源 1
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The banking group, which serves customers under the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Ulster Bank and Coutts brands, will require all of its nearly 40,000 UK staff to follow a strict two days a week office schedule from February 2027, abolishing a remote-first policy for thousands of employees.来源 1
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Unite said it was a “kick in the teeth” for the 13,000 employees who attend the office only two days a month, and accounted for some of NatWest’s lowest-paid workers, including staff involved in technology, security, data analytics and human resources.来源 1