🚀 At the AI Driver & RecSys conference, experts explored Sber’s recommendation systems. Each month, they deliver 13 billion personalized recommendations to 110 million people. By factoring in customers’ context and long-term goals, the algorithms influence one in every three sales—while leaving the final decision in customers’ hands.

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⚠️ The United States has sanctioned five Chinese companies under a 2022 law designed to protect American intellectual property.

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✴️ Open interest on prediction markets has hit an all-time high. Kalshi holds 71% of the total, while Polymarket accounts for 24%.

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✴️ CryptoRank spotlights the seven biggest token unlocks this week.

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📰 Russia’s Finance Ministry plans to meet with the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to discuss possible changes to the windfall profits tax, though measures that would cut budget revenue are unlikely. Amendments to the tax code introducing excise duties on imported steel are expected before the bill’s second reading, subject to the Industry Ministry’s position. Talks are also underway on tax incentives for hard-to-recover gas reserves, with hopes they’ll be approved during the second reading of the tax amendments in the State Duma. Read more.

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✴️ The Moscow Exchange has revised the weightings of crypto exchanges used to calculate its foreign digital currency indices. Find out more here.

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⬆️🇺🇸 U.S. stocks are staging a strong rebound. All eyes are on the closing numbers as traders watch the market closely.

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🔍 U.S. Senator Marco Rubio says ending the war in Ukraine is now a U.S. priority, Xinhua reports. His remarks highlight the urgency Washington attaches to resolving the conflict and its wider geopolitical stakes.

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⚠️ Tensions over oil and geopolitics are mounting as Iranian officials say the country has no choice but to take control of the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇺🇸 Apple will hold its “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles on October 28.

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🛢 Yemen’s Houthis say they have launched attacks on the Shaybah oil field, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, and Abha Airport.

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🇺🇸 Musk promised that every child in the US would receive SpaceX shares through “Trump Accounts” — yes, those Trump Accounts.

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🇩🇪🇺🇸 Germany has partnered with Nvidia to advance industrial AI, according to an official statement.

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⚠️🇺🇦 An official IMF report names Ukraine as Europe’s largest debtor to the Fund and the world’s second-largest.

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⚠️🌎 Majid Al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: “We may already be in the first year of World War III.”

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🔔 European leaders are reportedly weighing two proposals to end the conflict with Russia. One would freeze the fighting along the current front lines and rule out Ukraine joining NATO. The other would give Russia the rest of Donbas in exchange for Ukraine’s NATO membership.

European officials doubt Putin would accept either option and view both as a betrayal. Still, the EU increasingly sees direct participation in peace talks as essential. A call between European leaders and Putin may take place soon, with communication channels already in place, the FT reports.

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⚠️🇺🇸 Former President Trump blamed Democrats for driving inflation to its highest level ever.

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🔥 Former President Trump has proposed a trilateral meeting with Russia and China.

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🔥 Former President Trump says he plans to discuss the situation in Ukraine with Chinese President Xi Jinping, hinting at a possible diplomatic push.

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⚠️ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine could halt strikes on Russian refineries if the U.S. helps supply Patriot missiles.

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