OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-simple-plan-to-save-the-world-from
Netflix secures the rights in Spain to all 104 matches of the 2030 FIFA World Cup, its first men's World Cup deal; one match per matchday will be free (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7686082/2026/10/13/spain-world-cup-2030-netflix-…
"Climate crisis is coming to crush many of world’s best surf breaks, study warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange
It’s just not something you expect when you’re working on a regular Tuesday morning,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/belgian-student-strikes-gold-worth-9m-while-digging-sewers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…
Salience Labs, which develops specialized all-optical circuit switching tech for AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/14/sa
Rest of World's chief product officer, Michael Donohoe, explains how the outlet tested a registration wall and plans to move beyond registration to membership (Michael Donohoe/News Product Alliance)
https://mailchi.mp/newsproduct/what-re
Landmines are a scourge of conflict zones.
Littered across contested territory,
they leave land unusable for years after a war has ended.
Removing them is an expensive and dangerous job.
And the use of long-range drones in Ukraine,
which is often described as the most mine-contaminated country in the world,
is increasing the scale of the problem.
AI-linked stocks fell worldwide on Monday after industry leaders called for slowing development; the Philadelphia chip index fell 6%, NVDA 3%, AMD 4%, and MU 5% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/ai-link…
The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/imf-world-bank-annual-meetings-october-b…