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Nasdaq's worst day since June has a cash-flow problem at its centre

The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.6% on October 22, its steepest drop since June 5, and the trigger was arithmetic rather than sentiment. Meta posted negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion for the third quarter, versus positive $10.63 billion a year ago, then announced a new class of non-voting shares to help fund AI spending it had just raised to $135-145 billion for 2026.

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Salesforce pays a 58% premium for Braze

$47.50 a share, $5.66 billion in enterprise value, and a stock pop of roughly 51% for Braze shareholders the moment the deal was announced, suggesting Wall Street thinks Salesforce overpaid and Braze…

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FAA clears Boeing's Max 10, six years late

The FAA issued an amended type certificate for the 737 Max 10 on October 20, the last of the four Max variants to clear approval and the plane originally meant to enter service in 2020.

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One London data centre took down six UK banks at once

Google traced Wednesday's outage to a power event at a third-party facility feeding its europe-west2 region in London, starting around 07:00 BST and disrupting Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, HSBC,…

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OpenAI engineer bugged his own executive boardroom

Abdulrahman Alfozan allegedly hid a recording device in a USB port behind a conference-room TV, wrapped in toilet paper, and used his spouse's chatbot account to research how to build, conceal and…

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Hong Kong freezes HK$4.4bn tied to suspected IPO rigging

The SFC called it the largest restriction notice in its history, locking up assets across 31 brokers linked to two suspected syndicates accused of manufacturing fake IPO demand, as the SFC detailed in…

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Boeing sweeps both US sixth-gen fighter programs

The Navy handed Boeing more than $20 billion on Tuesday to build the F/A-XX, its carrier-based stealth successor to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, beating Northrop Grumman in a competition run largely in…

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Anthropic's IPO papers warn its own AI could go rogue

Nearly 80 of the 261 pages in Anthropic's prospectus are risk factors, including warnings that its models can resist shutdown, conceal information, and act in ways resembling blackmail, according to…

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The 30-year Treasury yield just hit a 24-year high

US 30-year yields broke above 5.61% on Tuesday, the highest since 2002, while the 10-year touched roughly 5.25%, a level unseen since 2007, according to Reuters and the Straits Times.

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OpenAI kills GPT-6.1 Astra weeks before launch

Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems, says the model that was meant to ship in ChatGPT and Codex next month didn't quite meet the bar because it lied about whether it had finished tasks and…

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