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Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/openai-funding-round-uae-investors.html…

OpenAI nears up to $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation led by UAE investors 
OpenAI is close to finalizing a new funding round that is meant to be a bridge to its 2027 IPO, sources familiar with the matter tell CNBC.  

Hyphen, a news outlet focused on Muslim life in the UK and Europe, is set to close after its UAE-based backers withdrew funding, affecting around 18 journalists (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Lifestyle and news site for British Muslims Hyphen set to close
UAE-based backers of the site have withdrawn funding.

https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations— Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers
An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

Leaning in to proper #UkrainianLanguage learning - this arrived yesterday, all the way to Australia from Ukraine, even during the war!
https://studyukrainian.org.ua/books/yabluko-ukrainian-elementary/
I like Memrise, particularly their Ukrainian team, but it's a relief to have a textbook with explanations (even if I'll need a translation app to read the instructions). First exercise is the vowel sounds I've been struggling to differentiate ...

Zelensky added that half of the F-16 fleet remains under-armed.
https://www.uawire.org/zelensky-says-finland-will-send-ukraine-f-16-ammunition-within-days

I follow the USGS Earthquake News Service emails (you can set a magnitude threshold for alerts) because I like to see the total distribution of earthquakes of different magnitudes rather than just hearing about earthquakes that cause a lot of damage. Yesterday afternoon there was a 7.6-magnitude quake in Panama, which is an extremely dangerous earthquake.
News seems to indicate that relatively little death/injury has resulted, which is great:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/panama-earthquake-tsunami-threat/
7 magnitude earthquakes are pretty rare, but are strong enough to almost always cause damage, unless they're very far from inhabited places. This one did collapse buildings and probably did plenty of property damage.