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Friday, October 2, 2026
RoboDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)

Trump expected to name intel chief Clayton as AI czar: reports

President Donald Trump is expected to name Jay Clayton, the US director of national intelligence, as the White House's new AI czar, CNN and other US media reported Friday.

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RoboDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
OpenAI says three staffers fired for mishandling 'sensitive' info

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Thursday that it has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling "sensitive information" and viola...

RoboDaily Oct 01, 2026 (AFP)
Rogue OpenAI agents covered up their tracks, report says

Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining unauthorized access to go...

RoboDaily Oct 01, 2026 (AFP)
UK fears grow over AI giant Palantir's health service deal

The UK government is facing mounting pressure to end a £330-million contract between the National Health Service and AI giant Pal...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Battle in Yemen's Taiz kills scores of combatants: sources to AFP

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area near a waterway crucial to global energy flows, killing 80 combatants ...

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DarwinDaily Latin America campaigners unveil model 'ecocide' law Petrobras discovers more oil off Brazil's Amazon coast After hottest summer, weeds turn historic Belgian canals green
AfricaDaily Drone strikes on dormitory, shelter kill 10 in Sudan's El-Obeid Malawi ex-army chief arrested following allegations over Sudan arms Dangote's $16bn Kenya refinery 'new chapter' for Africa
SinoDaily China a more positive influence than US in Latin America: poll Novartis in $575 mn deal with China's Abogen for RNA drugs US arrests man over alleged smuggling of $300 million worth of computer servers to China
PolicyDaily Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz: UK maritime agency Iraq says gets US exemption for Iranian flights to and from holy city Yemen hunger crisis could become 'absolutely devastating': UN
DisasterDay Thai Airways sacks CEO after floods flight chaos: reports Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead Rescuers pull nine bodies from landslide in flood-hit Myanmar
FiscalDaily Asian stocks hit as oil spike fans rate hike bets, eyes on US jobs US sanctions Iran's largest automakers, major rail companies Asian tech firms stand out on mixed day for stocks
BeyondLEO Four-member crew docks at International Space Station Seoul says no decision on Alaska gas investment announced by Trump Bezos space firm Blue Origin says raising outside funds, a first
SeedDaily UN worried about impact of latest Lebanon war on agriculture Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands Italy winemakers hail bumper harvest but cut output
BatteryDaily Russian drone hits Kyiv nuclear institute grounds, reactor undamaged Flexible Composite Shields Fusion Reactors From Radiation While Sealing Tritium Two top execs at scandal-hit nuclear plant operator resign
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RoboDaily HIGHTECH Sep 30, 2026 (AFP)
Google restricts access to new AI model over safety concerns

Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity...

RoboDaily HIGHTECH Sep 30, 2026 (AFP)
US regulator probes Anthropic and OpenAI over AI safety: report

The Federal Trade Commission has launched a broad investigation into artificial intelligence safety practices at Anthropic and OpenAI, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

RoboDaily HIGHTECH Sep 30, 2026 (AFP)
Brazil orders Discord to bolster child safety after teen suicide

A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered the messaging platform Discord to do more to protect underage users after detecting shortfalls that allegedly led to the suicide of a 13-year...

RoboDaily HIGHTECH Sep 30, 2026 (AFP)
EU probes video game firms over virtual currencies

European consumer authorities are investigating nine video game companies including France's Ubisoft over concerns their in-game virtual currencies might be violating users' rights...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
US Supreme Court to hear high-stakes climate case

The US Supreme Court hears a climate case Monday that could upend dozens of lawsuits aimed at making polluters pay for their role in global warming and allegedly deceiving the publ...

DisasterDay ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Sea levels to rise in California as coastal wave surges up west coast

Sea levels in California are set to rise by as much as a foot (30 centimeters) in the coming days as an enormous wave washes up the US West Coast.

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Space & Science
Quantum Decoherence Can Lock Cosmological Fields Into False Vacuums
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Silicon Solar Cells Could Cut Satellite Power Costs by Up to 90 Percent
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SpaceX puts Starship megarocket in orbit for first time
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JWST Finds Ammonia and Puzzling Chill in Giant Exoplanet's Atmosphere
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Austria sees record number of heat-related deaths in June and July
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Earth & Energy
Kenyan island paradise fears damage from mega-refinery
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Africa will be mostly self-sufficient in fuel by 2030: Dangote to AFP
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France puts out largest wildfire since 1949
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Bulgaria's battery boom pays off as drought hits power plants
SeedDaily
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency
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Tech & Industry
CORRECTED: Detailed plan led to Hong Kong model murder, court hears
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Asian stocks mixed as positive US data offset by elevated oil, bond yields
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Russia summons Danish envoy over helicopter incident
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Mystery over UK airbase scare as police find petrol not explosives
DisasterDay
In Nepal's flood zone, teachers mourn students who never returned
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PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Lebanon PM says scale of war recovery beyond state's capacity

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Friday that rebuilding regions destroyed in the latest Israel-Hezboll...

SinoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Taiwan receives its first US-made F-16V fighter jets

Taiwan received its first F-16V fighter jets made by the United States on Friday, as the island democracy upgr...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
New islands appear after Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano erupts

Two new islands have emerged in waters surrounding Mount Anak Krakatau following a major eruption last month t...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
World powers gather in Pacific to chart climate battle

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see t...