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– Wall Street faces a packed week of corporate earnings and policy events, led by results from three members of the Magnificent Seven. Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon will report quarterly figures as investors seek proof that their huge AI spending

– Brent crude futures rose $1.21 to $110 a barrel on Wednesday, October 21, Reuters reported, as Middle East tensions kept oil markets on edge. US West Texas Intermediate crude climbed by more than $1 to $99 a barrel. Fresh

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– President Donald Trump has suspended new sanctions and tariffs on Russia that Congress approved under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. The White House released the executive order on Friday, October 16, two days

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– Meta has paused the conversation-sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security researchers showed that thousands of shared chat links were discoverable through public internet records. The exposure could have revealed sensitive personal and business details. Meta said

– OpenAI is getting ready to build humanoid robots, taking its artificial intelligence beyond screens and into the physical world. Chief Executive Sam Altman confirmed the move on Fortune’s Sources podcast, telling host Alyson Shontell that the company will make

– The international police organization INTERPOL has launched a campaign warning the public about scams that use AI-generated or AI-altered media. The initiative, announced on Monday, October 19, centers on three short videos that were themselves produced with artificial intelligence.

Surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure prompted the World Trade Organization to raise its 2026 global merchandise trade growth projection to 3.9 percent. The latest Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report highlights that multinational enterprise spending on intelligent computing hardware

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