Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), hunting at Richardson Bay near Strawberry, California
The author argues the fear that AI will wipe out work misreads history: unemployment has stayed flat for decades despite automation, and no broad job disruption shows up in the data yet.
After investigations by The Markup and Brazil's Agência Pública, Doctoralia, the world's largest health appointments platform, removed web trackers that were sending user data to Google, LinkedIn and TikTok.
Security firm White Circle used downloadable tools and open models to attack image generators, bypassing their filters in roughly 13% of cases, and found newer versions even easier to break.
Character.ai told a bankruptcy court it had cut costs and added ads, yet as of August it was still losing about $8 to 9 million a month.
Stablecoins give up scarcity for a dollar peg, and Tether turns the Treasury interest on its reserves into profit of about $10 billion in 2025 with roughly 200 staff.
OpenAI's reported $70 billion annualized revenue was revised to $50 billion after the FT found it counted cloud-partner sales differently from Anthropic.
In 1797 a New York governor used a public hanging to assert state power, while critics called it a display of excess. Historians ask whether watching such a death could ever deliver a real warning.
BYD plans to grow its own car-carrier fleet from eight ships to 18, citing expensive charters and war-disrupted routes, as its overseas sales climb fast.
A Tsinghua team had ten large models trade China's stock market for about 16 months. Once style exposure was stripped out, only Claude Opus 4.7 kept a positive excess return, at 0.2%; the rest were negative.
Researchers found that elephant carcasses keep reshaping soil and plants for years, flooding the ground with nutrients while leaving only a few species to thrive.
