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🌍 GEOPOLITICS — @rnintel

• [1:27 PM EST] 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 ⚡️ - BREAKING: Iran is planning a drone attack targeting several senior members of the Trump administration, including President Trump himself, with the intelligence reportedly verified by the Mossad an...
• [6:43 AM EST] 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 ⚡️ - "Senior officials and military personnel from the UK and France met in London to advance nuclear cooperation under the Northwood Declaration." - French Embassy in the UK.
• [8:23 AM EST] 🇺🇸 ⚡️ - "The Biden Administration was an FAA disaster. Everything they touched turned bad. Big money spent unwisely, making an old and broken system worse than when they began. We have the knowledge and plan for the...
• [8:53 AM EST] 🇪🇭 🇲🇦 ⚡ - Overnight the Moroccan military fired around 50 artillery shells at Polisario-influenced territory in the Guelta Zemmur direction, Western Sahara.

🇺🇸 NATIONAL & WORLD NEWS

NYT

• Flight Delays and Cancellations Persist as System Recovers From Ground Stop
• Sean Duffy Offers New Details on How One Fix Spiraled Into Nationwide Ground Stop
• Chris Van Hollen Says His Majority Leader Challenge to Chuck Schumer Is Gaining Support
• Embattled Federal Employees Look to a Democratic Congress for a Lifeline

BBC

• Zelensky urges US and Musk to lift Starlink restrictions and be on 'right side of history'
• Czechs rally against plan to switch funding of public media
• Judge blocks Trump closure of 'Trash Island' Washington DC golf course on Sunday
• How telecoms upgrade work sparked US flight chaos

WaPo

• Italy fines Meta $887M for accessing Android users’ photos
• Wartime Kyiv turns to New York-style bagels for comfort
• Iran targets Bahrain twice after months of quiet, claiming retaliation against U.S.
• Indigenous communities in Brazil targeted after backing Lula for president

NY Post

• Trans kidnapper who hunted down, strangled woman is branded ‘very dangerous man’ by judge
• Teen mauled to death by tiger while helping influencer in boneheaded TikTok stunt
• Italy fines Meta $887M over sly access into Android users’ photo galleries
• China unleashes a sweeping crackdown on Christians

NYT Business

• Megaspeed Says Alice Huang Left Company in August 2025
• Why Jensen Huang Was Essential to Nvidia’s Rise
• Microsoft Outlook Outage and FAA Groundstop Show Dependence on Fragile Technology

🤖 AI FRONTIER

Sources: NYT Tech · TechCrunch · The Verge

🧪 Labs & Models

• The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
• Why Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Has Angered OpenAI and Other A.I. Peers

🛠️ Products & Tools

• TechCrunch Mobility: The Nvidia backup plan for China’s self-driving industry
• The Sony Aibo was a robot revolution dressed like a dog
• How Jensen Huang’s Secret Led to His Downfall at Nvidia
• Where was Nvidia’s security team?
• Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang
• Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit

💰 CRYPTO NEWS

CoinTelegraph · Decrypt · CoinSpeaker · CryptoPotato

📈 Market Moves

• 🟠 JPMorgan Lifts Strategy Stake 36% and Holds $540M in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF [1:49 PM EST] • JPMorgan's US broker-dealer held 370,680 Strategy shares at the end of September, up from 11,876 in June, along with puts on 1,148,500 Strategy shares.
• 🟠 Jane Street boosts Fidelity Bitcoin ETF holdings nearly 8x, trims IBIT [4:05 AM EST] • Jane Street ended Q3 with 19% fewer shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, and a higher share price lifted the stake’s value to $957 million.
• 🟠 Almost $1.5 Billion Withdrawn From Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in a Single Week [7:52 AM EST] • The ETH ETFs are in a particularly painful streak, with another $400 million leaving the funds over the past five days.
• 🟠 Strategy Is Officially Out of MSCI: What It Could Mean for MSTR and Bitcoin [5:32 AM EST] • Will BTC feel the impact directly?
• 🟠 Bitcoin falls to four-month low near $62K as crypto selloff deepens [5:23 AM EST] • The global cryptocurrency market capitalization fell 4% to $2.26 trillion over 24 hours, while Ether and Solana posted double-digit weekly losses.
• 🟣 ETH Tanks Another 5% as Ethereum Foundation Keeps Selling and Schiff Sounds the Alarm [12:05 PM EST] • Peter Schiff believes $1,000 won't be ETH's lowest target soon as crash accelerates.Alth
• 🟠 Bitcoin ETFs shed $2.35B in 2 weeks, BlackRock’s losing streak hits 11 [1:33 AM EST] • US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $185.4 million in net outflows Friday, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for $143.5 million and Fidelity’s FBTC shedding $41.9 million.
• 🟠 JPMorgan’s Bitcoin and Crypto-Linked Holdings Approach $1 Billion [3:16 PM EST] • The bank’s Q3 13F shows roughly $981 million across Bitcoin ETFs, Strategy and Coinbase—likely over $1 billion counting Robinhood and miners.
• 🟠 Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Wake Up After 16 Years, Moving $6.9 Million [2:36 PM EST] • Two Bitcoin mining rewards from September 2010 moved minutes apart. The coins are worth nearly 1.15 million times their original market value.
• 🟠 Bitcoin Hits 12-Week Low as Fed Rate Fears Undo Most of Summer Rally [12:22 PM EST] • Bitcoin is back near August levels as persistent inflation, growing expectations of another interest-rate hike and ETF withdrawals pressure prices.