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Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Agree to Develop Agent Standards Together
For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to ...

This Year’s Nice Rice Price Marks an 18-year Low Amid a Doubling of Per-Acre Yield https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-years-nice-rice-price-marks-an-18-year-low-amid-a-doubling-of-per-acre-yield/

This Year's Nice Rice Price Marks an 18-year Low Amid a Doubling of Per-Acre Yield
Humanity continues to make advancements with even the most primitive technologies, epitomized by this year's incredible Asian rice crop. 

Yay! Let's celebrate centralization :mortysmile:
"Microsoft Azure Faces Global Outage Impacting Services Worldwide"
https://cyberpress.org/microsoft-azure-faces-global-outage-impacting-services-worldwide/

Ahead of the German automotive summit, a new study by @… shows how policies could make EVs more affordable compared to cars with internal combustion engines. One key lever would be the reintroduction of a €6,000 purchase subsidy.

Policy Levers for Affordable EVs
The total cost of ownership of EVs and combustion engine vehicles and policy design options for effective market uptake

Just heard about the ceasefire agreement from folks in Gaza (was heads-down coding).
I want to be optimistic although I fear what Israel and Netanyahu’s government will do to sabotage it.
Also, is it too soon to talk about holding Israel and the IDF responsible for genocide?
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Updates: Israel approves Gaza ceasefire deal; Hamas touts US guarantee
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Thursday, October 9.

PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE (Paramount Skydance Corporation)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paramount-launches-all-cash-tender-offer-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery-for-30-per-share-302635412.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p56#a251208p56

Sjovt. Det ser ud som det tidspunkt, hvor MitID gik totalt på rŸven. Endnu en gang har man tilladt, at dansk infrastruktur skyder sig i foden ved at gŸre sig afhængige af andres tjenester i stedet for selv at drifte og kontrollere – endsige at have fallback. #dkpol

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Vaibhav Srivastav, Steven Zheng, Eric Bezzam, Eustache Le Bihan, Nithin Koluguri, Piotr \.Zelasko, Somshubra Majumdar, Adel Moumen, Sanchit Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Despite rapid progress, ASR evaluation remains saturated with short-form English, and efficiency is rarely reported. We present the Open ASR Leaderboard, a fully reproducible benchmark and interactive leaderboard comparing 60+ open-source and proprietary systems across 11 datasets, including dedicated multilingual and long-form tracks. We standardize text normalization and report both word error rate (WER) and inverse real-time factor (RTFx), enabling fair accuracy-efficiency comparisons. For E…

Rumble agrees to acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether (Billy Gray/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Robinhood Set to Enter Indonesia Market as Retail Investors Boom
Robinhood Markets Inc. is set to enter the Indonesian market after signing deals to acquire two local brokerages, underscoring the appeal of the Southeast Asian country’s growing ranks of retail investors.