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**Ferrari’s new engine has closed the gap at the front, with Kimi Antonelli warning that the Scuderia’s cornering strength could make qualifying a “tight fight for pole” despite his own grid penalty. Lewis Hamilton, 0.337secs adrift of his teammate, admitted his car’s balance was “really difficult” in P2 but praised the engine upgrade, while Lando Norris conceded McLaren are “struggling for pace” compared to recent weekends.**

**Friday race simulations suggested Mercedes hold the edge on hard tyres, with Antonelli 0.038secs faster than Russell on average and the McLarens about 0.5secs back, while Ferrari’s soft-tyre runs left Hamilton and Leclerc under 0.2secs off the pace. Max Verstappen, still chasing his first win of the year, ended the day ninth, 0.818secs off the top, as slipstreaming looms large for a potentially controversial qualifying session.**

**Antonelli will start from the back after Mercedes chose this race for his engine-parts penalty, hoping the long straights aid his recovery, but the Italian’s long-run pace marked him as the quickest on race simulations. Off track, F1 confirmed a three-day fan event in Milan from 18-20 February, featuring all 11 teams and drivers ahead of next season.**

The Six Nations is exploring the possibility of staging a competitive fixture in the United States for the first time in its 143-year history, with Boston and New York identified as potential host cities. Rugby’s commercial chief Tom Gilpin believes matchups like Italy vs Ireland could thrive in America by tapping into the countries’ large expatriate fanbases, though he acknowledged the delicate balancing act of moving games away from traditional home venues. The proposal follows the All Blacks’ successful US exhibitions, including Ireland’s historic 2016 win over New Zealand at Chicago’s Soldier Field and a lucrative 2025 rematch. However, England women’s head coach John Mitchell has expressed skepticism, warning that American sports fans may not embrace new rivalries and that rugby union remains a difficult challenge in large parts of the country.

The Economic Scenario Explorer v1.0, released in September 2026, is a new interactive tool for modeling AI’s impact on the economy, according to the disclaimer and acknowledgments accompanying its launch. The model simplifies reality by isolating key economic forces while omitting policy responses, business cycles, financial disruptions, and catastrophic risks, making it a work in progress expected to evolve. Reviewers like Daron Acemoglu and David Autor provided feedback that improved the scenarios, such as incorporating how AI may raise capital returns and widen wage gaps between affected and unaffected occupations. The explorer should be viewed as a thought experiment for exploring technological developments’ economic implications, as actual outcomes may differ materially.

Nvidia is reportedly in early discussions with South Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a potential technical partnership, investment, or acquisition, according to Bloomberg. CEO Jensen Huang recently met Rebellions co-founder and CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters, though the talks remain preliminary and may not result in a deal. Rebellions, a 2020-founded startup valued at roughly $2.3 billion, designs neural processing units optimized for AI inference and has raised about $850 million from investors including SK Hynix, Samsung Ventures, and Arm. The move would mark Nvidia’s fourth license-and-hire style arrangement in under a year, a strategy the company has used to absorb rival chip and engineering talent while avoiding antitrust scrutiny.

Uber and Wayve have launched London’s first robotaxi service, but every Ford Mustang Mach-E in the fleet still has a licensed safety driver behind the wheel. The vehicles are licensed as private hire vehicles rather than automated vehicles, so full driverless operation requires a separate permit neither company has yet obtained. With fewer than 20 cars approved for a one-year trial, the service cannot demonstrate the cost savings that make autonomy attractive, while Waymo already runs fully driverless in 14 US cities.

Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is stepping down on October 30 to join an early-stage private company, sending $PINS shares down as much as 3.8% in after-hours trading as investors weighed the leadership change. Vikram Naidu, currently VP of finance and business operations, will serve as interim principal financial officer while Pinterest conducts an external search for a permanent successor. Donnelly leaves behind strong momentum, including 11 consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth, Q2 revenue of $1.18 billion (up 18% year over year), a record 640 million monthly active users, and $270 million in free cash flow. However, with Q3 revenue growth projected to slow to 13%–15% and a $4 billion AWS cloud commitment plus over $2 billion in share buybacks already underway, the next CFO will inherit a complex capital allocation and cost-management agenda.

The U.S. Treasury Department has denied credentials to individual journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News for the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, marking another instance of media access restrictions under the Trump administration. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed the decision has „nothing to do with point of view,” but no official explanation has been provided. The Times condemned the move as a „blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny,” while Bloomberg News said excluding its journalists „undermines media freedom and public accountability.” The G20 meeting, running Saturday through Tuesday, covers critical global economic issues including sanctions, bond markets, and inflation.

🌦️ **AI weather models have a blind spot — and drones are flying in to fix it.** According to Bloomberg, AI forecasting is only as good as the data feeding it, and the critical lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere are going under-measured as radiosonde balloon launches decline. Enter weather drones like Meteomatics’ Meteodrones, reusable uncrewed aircraft now delivering operational data to the US National Weather Service and NOAA. Energy traders and militaries are among the keenest buyers, because sharper low-altitude forecasts mean real money and real battlefield advantages. **The irony? The future of AI weather prediction may depend less on smarter algorithms and more on who owns the sensors in the sky.** #AI #WeatherForecasting #Drones #Meteomatics #Bloomberg #ClimateTech #EnergyTrading #NOAA

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**Nvidia told GPU owners to enable ECC to stop Rowhammer attacks — University of Toronto researchers just proved that advice wrong.** Their new GPUThor attack is the first Rowhammer technique to defeat error correction on Nvidia GPUs, turning ordinary unprivileged CUDA programs into root shells on four Ampere workstation cards with ECC switched on. Published on 25 August and set for ACM CCS in November, the exploit achieves 6.6x the hammering intensity of prior GPU attacks and up to 23,500 times more bit flips, slashing a 21.9-hour privilege escalation to just 1.1 minutes. There is no patch, the code goes public on 15 November, and researchers say a real fix requires new GPU hardware.

**Why it matters:** If you share a physical GPU across tenants or run untrusted code on Nvidia Ampere hardware, ECC no longer protects you — and the mitigation Nvidia recommended last year is exactly the one this paper breaks.

France’s finance minister calls AfD’s victory a „grave moment,” highlighting rising nationalism and its threat to European unity, while global reactions split between concern and celebration. The far-right party’s win in Saxony-Anhalt sparks debates on immigration and political shifts, drawing praise from figures like Trump and Orban but alarm from France and Poland. Explore how this viral election outcome fuels far-right momentum across the continent and reshapes diplomatic tensions.