The IMF pegs global growth at 3.1% for 2026 — a tidy single figure that hides a world pulling apart. India runs at 7%, the Middle East and Central Asia region contracts 0.3%, and the euro area crawls at 1.1%. Here's how to read a divergence this wide.

Former Slack CPO Noah Desai Weiss and ex-Browser Company engineering lead Dolapo Falola left stealth with $34M and an Accel-led pre-seed to build a shared context engine: the layer that tells an AI agent what your team already knows.

Apple HomeView is a $299 smart-home display that recognizes up to six people and runs a new Siri AI on an A18 chip. The camera in the most private room of the house is the risk — and Apple has made on-device privacy its whole answer.

Google DeepMind's new flagship reasoning model, Gemini 4 Argon, is globally available. The benchmark scores grab headlines, but the figure that changes what you can build is the output limit: 1M tokens, up from 64K. Here's how to read the launch.

Oxide Computer announced a $445M Series D led by Eclipse. The company builds a full-stack 'Cloud Computer' rack enterprises own outright — and says it has to scale manufacturing because demand is running ahead of what it can build.

Government data released today put India's retail inflation at 5.54% for September, up from 4.83% a month earlier. The headline moved; the food basket moved almost twice as hard.

Sequoia led a $60M Series B into Mecka, with Nvidia, Microsoft's M12, Qualcomm and Samsung alongside. The bet isn't a robot — it's a dataset of real human motion, and a revenue curve that already looks nothing like an early-stage startup's.

Liquid AI open-sourced two "decision models" that answer a question without generating a single token — one of them, the company says, in 8 ms on a gaming GPU. Here is what a decision model actually is, why skipping text generation matters, and where it belongs in an agent stack.

Paramount Skydance closed its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition on October 6, folding WBD into one company named Skydance with nearly $70 billion in revenue. The roughly $78 billion price runs ahead of a year's sales, which tells you what the buyers are really after.