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Russia launches UAVs over Scandinavia using tankers in the Baltic Sea, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/russia-launches-uavs-over-scandinavia.html

CNN launches its new All Access streaming subscription tier for $6.99 per month, including live channels and on-demand video, after shutting down CNN in 2022 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-launches-all-access-streaming-service-w…

CNN Launches All Access Subscription Streaming Offering, Raising Curtain On New Era
CNN is ushering in a new era today with the launch of its All Access subscription streaming tier.

Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is "bringing vibe working" to 365 Copilot (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-offi…

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.

Reach's Manchester Evening News launches a metered paywall and a £4.99/month digital subscription as Reach starts rolling out paywalls across its titles (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/manchester-evening-news-launc…

Manchester Evening News launches paywall
Title begins charging online for premium content.

US launches crackdown against Mexican air carriers citing competition issues (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-launches-crackdown-against-mexican-air-carriers-citing-competition-issues-2025-10-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p147#a251028p147

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with AI-generated videos and a recommendation page (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launches-sora-2-tiktok-like-app/

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.

Grokipedia, a Grok-powered online encyclopedia, launches with over 885K articles; Elon Musk has touted it as a less biased alternative to Wikipedia (Washington Post)

Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative to the world’s most widely cited online source.

Grokipedia, a Grok-powered online encyclopedia, launches with over 885K articles; Elon Musk has touted it as a less biased alternative to Wikipedia (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/27/grokipedia-wikipedia-musk-/

Elon Musk briefly launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative to the world’s most widely cited online source.

The Observer launches its first paywall, with digital subscriptions priced at £16 per month, and updates its masthead to a logo that echoes its earlier branding (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/observe…

Observer launches first paywall and ditches Guardian-era masthead
Digital subscriptions to The Observer are priced at £16 per month.

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with AI-generated videos and a recommendation page (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launches-sora-2-tiktok-like-app/

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.