Watch: Police fire tear gas at protesters in Peru
Police fired tear gas at protesters who could be seen sheltering in doorways.
Day: October 16, 2025
Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets — Unprecedented funding leads 10 groups including Open…
CNBC Daily Open: Major U.S. banks enjoy a blowout quarter — assuaging trade war concerns
Whether traders continue pushing equities to highs amid fractious relations with China will depend, in part, on the earnings of major technology companies.
South Korean major clears out tankers after long-term BP charter
Kmarin looks set to earn at least $135m from nine-year-old trio
UK PM Starmer publishes key witness statements in China spy case – Reuters
UK PM Starmer publishes key witness statements in China spy case ReutersGovernment publishes key witness statements in collapsed China spy case BBCQuestions for CPS after No 10 publishes key witness statements in China spy row&nbs…
GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google’s AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh (Rest of World)
Rest of World:
GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google’s AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh — Using Google’s Flood Hub, nonprofit trial program sends …
Australia’s rainforests are releasing more carbon than they absorb, warn scientists – BBC
Australia’s rainforests are releasing more carbon than they absorb, warn scientists BBCAustralian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source The GuardianAboveground biomass in Australian t…
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC sees nearly 40% jump in its net profit thanks to the AI boom
Taiwan’s leading computer chip maker, TSMC, has reported its net profit surged nearly 40% in the last quarter, boosted by the surge in use of artificial intelligence.
Clashes in Barcelona as pro-Palestine protest turns violent
Violence erupted at a pro-Palestine protest in Barcelona, with clashes continuing into the night on Wednesday (15 October).
How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes:
How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October — The crash of the NFT market led OpenSea to fire more than …