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The developer of the Claude models showed 46% quarterly revenue growth and a second consecutive adjusted profitable quarter. The company plans an IPO in November with a valuation of up to $2 trillion, which would be a record, surpassing SpaceX's listing. Growth is nonetheless slowing, and annual revenue may fall short of investor expectations.
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood threatened a full entry ban on Eritreans if Asmara does not start taking back migrants and foreign criminals. From Thursday, Eritrean diplomats will be restricted in movement outside London. Asmara called the move a 'political trick' and said it had not received a single visa since 2023, which the Home Office denies.
Zelensky's adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said SpaceX overnight introduced a speed limit for Starlink terminals — about 160 km/h — without warning Kyiv, disrupting interceptor and strike drone operations. The reasons for the restrictions are unclear: Musk said Starshield is controlled by the US government. The restrictions coincided with massive Russian strikes that left 600,000 people without electricity and with a deterioration of Kyiv–Washington relations. By Wednesday evening, connectivity was restored.
Romania said seven people were missing after a fire broke out on a vessel flying the San Marino flag on Thursday morning, the latest incident in the Black Sea which has seen an increase in drone attacks both off Romania and Bulgaria's coasts, on NATO's Eastern flank. The vessel, named the Wine Trader, reported a fire at around 7:00 am (0600 CET), inside Romania's territorial waters, approximately 13 nautical miles southeast of the city of Sulina, the Romanian Naval Authority said in a press rel
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has come under criticism over her legal credentials: she is not registered with the bar of any state, and when asked about taking the bar exam she answered “when I moved to China.” The group Campaign for Accountability filed a complaint with the State Bar of California.
Zelensky told the Financial Times that the three-day pause in strikes on Russian oil infrastructure, introduced at the US request, has ended because Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy facilities. Russia reported a drone attack on a refinery in Ryazan. Kyiv also accused Washington of restricting intelligence sharing and Starlink as leverage; Ukrainian sources told BBC of a partial restoration of the Starshield service.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has published a draft resolution on liberalizing the liquefied gas market: by May 1, 2027, proposals on free pricing must be prepared, a pilot with private suppliers is underway in Andijan region, privatization of LPG-Trade and retail sale of cylinders are planned. The retail price is proposed to be raised from 2,000 to 5,000 soums per kg with compensations for those in need.
Yandex Uzbekistan said that services interrupted after the October 11 outage are being restored in stages. Payouts to partners and drivers were processed automatically, but some payments may be executed with errors or delays. Cases of incorrect charges are being reviewed, though the growing number of support requests is slowing down problem resolution.
An international team led by Deron Burkpyle of the University of California, Santa Barbara studied 40 elephant carcass sites. The remains markedly change soil chemistry: ammonium content is on average 31 times higher, nitrates 7 times, and phosphorus 3 times compared with control plots. High nitrogen concentrations are toxic to plants, so plant and soil microorganism diversity near the remains is reduced even after 7.7 years. At the same time, the grass around is richer in nitrogen,
American companies Hypercraft, Forterra and 9 Mothers combined in one vehicle the autonomous Razorback platform, the AutoDrive control system and the Edda turret. The development is designed for delivering cargo along supply routes under fire and countering small drones at ranges of 10 to 100 meters.
In the Kasansay district of the Namangan region, a man was detained who promised to arrange low-interest loans via Telegram and received more than 250 million sums from citizens. He created a fake 'Microcredit' page in the messenger, asked users to transfer money to bank cards in advance, and then stopped responding. The suspect had previously been convicted of fraud. A criminal case has been opened under Article 168 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan; investigative actions continue.
Qarshi's «Nasaf» club played its second match in the AFC Champions League Two group stage against «Al-Vahda» (UAE) and lost with a score of 1:2.
Updated on: October 14, 2026 / 12:50 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — The Justice Department has ordered California to review a list of people who the federal government believes may have received mail-in ballots for the upcoming November election despite not being U.S. citizens, according to a letter reviewed by CBS News. In the Oct. 13 letter, acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter imposed a 48-hour deadline to review the list of names, which were provided on a password-protected thumb
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said at Russian Energy Week that on October 14 the Kyiv regime attacked two Russian oil refineries, in the Saratov and Ryazan regions, citing data from the Ministry of Energy and companies. He stated that Ukraine is not showing movement toward an energy truce.
The Academy of Sciences commented on the relocation of the Navoiy Literary Museum. It was noted that the museum's collections are being temporarily moved to storage facilities to ensure the integrity and safety of the rare sources and to conduct an inventory check of them.
A container ship sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday as Iran escalated its attacks on commercial vessels. The GFS Pride, registered in Singapore, sank after it was struck by an unidentified projectile and caught fire. The ship's 21 crew members were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore . "Such attacks are unprovoked, unjustifiable and a breach of international law," the Singapore maritime authority said in a statement W
The Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found some of the largest banks serving the U.S. allowed political considerations, public pressure and social concerns to influence decisions about who received banking services, according to a sweeping report released Wednesday. The OCC said it reviewed the nine largest national banks under its supervision, examining nearly 100,000 complaints and about 420,000 pages of documents. It found that all nine had used "reputation ris
Lithuania announced that it has frozen the assets of Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov under national sanctions. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys announced this on X, stating that sanctions pressure on Russia and those who contribute to its war must be strengthened and maintained. He also called the removal of the two Russian oligarchs from the EU sanctions list an «incorrect signal». At the end of September, EU member state ambassadors agreed to remove Fridman and Usmanov from the sanctions lists, while the EU extended sanctions against 3,000 companies and individuals for three years — the first such three-year extension, as previously the sanctions had to be renewed every six months. France and Slovakia had requested the removal of sanctions from Usmanov, and Luxembourg from Fridman.
