Briefs

Afternoon briefs

Short items from today's intake that did not lead a full story, each with its source. Nothing here is a stitched article — every item stands on its own outlet.

Reported with AI assistance from public sources. Every item below names its outlet and links to it. An editor pass and fact-check ran on the edition's full stories before publication. — Align Newsroom, part of Creytix.

ai

Full story: Gemini 4 Carbon, the next frontier model

Route and orchestrate models with GitHub Copilot Fusion — GitHub — Changelog

Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results [pdf] — Hacker News — Front Page

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt — Hugging Face — Blog

Why Agents Love Supabase — Latent Space — Newsletter/Podcast

😸 WATCH: Robots That Learn Jobs by Watching You — The Neuron — Newsletter

v0.40.13-rc0 — Ollama — Releases (watched repo)

rust-v0.166.0-alpha.5.1 — OpenAI Codex — Releases (watched repo)

money

Full story: The central bank chooses to wait before raising rates again despite inflation

Japan girds for new wave of food price hikes as tanker rates soar — Nikkei Asia

Fed holds rates days before US midterms as two officials push for another hike — Euronews

Présidentielle 2027 : Gabriel Attal pour l’organisation d’une « grande primaire des démocrates » — Le Monde

us-politics

What’s next for Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro after election defeat? — Al Jazeera English

Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after defeat in Brazil's presidential election — BBC News — World

Palestinian citizens of Israel hope election results bring change — Africanews

EN DIRECT, Midterms 2026 : Donald Trump attendu dans l’Ohio, Barack Obama en Géorgie... Suivez la campagne des élections de mi-mandat aux Etats-Unis — Le Monde

world

Full story: Spain high-speed train collision and the differing death toll reports

Recreatrales festival transforms Ouagadougou neighbourhood — Africanews

Belgium's finance and tax agency hit by cyberattack — Euronews

Falklands approves bill on oil pollution emergencies in relation to offshore installations, and responsibilities — MercoPress

Real Madrid issues apology to China over Mbappe’s Mao remarks — South China Morning Post

UN votes to condemn embargo of Cuba despite US lobbying push — Al Jazeera English

How did Flávio Bolsonaro end up in Miami? — BBC News — World