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Finally, Minecraft’s Copper Age Update Arrives – Golems, New Gear & More

Finally, Minecraft’s Copper Age Update Arrives – Golems, New Gear & More

The Copper Age Update On September 30, 2025, Mojang officially “entered The Copper Age”, rolling out Game Drop 3 of 2025. Minecraft’s blog excitedly proclaims that players can now “express yourself in every shade of copper” as they use the versatile metal for tools, light sources, smart storage, and even lively mechanical companions known as copper golems Windowscentral. In its trademark tone, the developers say “this is the start of a new clonking era of creativity!” Windowscentral. In short, copper – an ore mostly used for decoration since its introduction – finally gets a wealth of new uses. This update
1 October 2025
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Battery Monster vs. AI Superphone: Xiaomi 17 Pro Max Takes on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL

Battery Monster vs. AI Superphone: Xiaomi 17 Pro Max Takes on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL

Rival Flagships & What’s Next The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max and Pixel 10 Pro XL are entering a crowded flagship arena in late 2025. Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max is a formidable rival, with Apple’s A19 Pro chip making it “the most powerful smartphone around” in benchmarks wired.com and camera upgrades like that 8× telephoto to keep Apple fans loyal apple.com. Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra (launched January 2025) remains a powerhouse too: a 6.9-inch AMOLED with S-Pen, a 200 MP main camera, dual zoom lenses (up to 5× optical, plus 10× hybrid) and a trusty 5,000 mAh battery phonearena.com phonearena.com – though
30 September 2025
Xiaomi 17 Pro Max vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: Monster Battery, Second Screen & the Ultimate Flagship Showdown

Xiaomi 17 Pro Max vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: Monster Battery, Second Screen & the Ultimate Flagship Showdown

Introduction: A New Challenger Approaches When Xiaomi unveiled the 17 Pro Max in September 2025, it didn’t just launch another Android phone – it declared war on the traditional kings of the premium segment. Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun literally shared the stage with side-by-side comparisons to Apple’s latest devices, underscoring where he believes the Xiaomi 17 series has the upper handts2.techts2.tech. In an unprecedented (and cheeky) move, Xiaomi even skipped the number 16 entirely – leaping from last year’s Xiaomi 15 straight to Xiaomi 17 – explicitly to match Apple’s iPhone 17 namingts2.techts2.tech. “The company even skipped a generation in naming, just so it
30 September 2025
AI Video Showdown: OpenAI’s Sora 2 vs Google’s Veo 3 – 2025’s Next-Gen Video Generators Face Off

AI Video Showdown: OpenAI’s Sora 2 vs Google’s Veo 3 – 2025’s Next-Gen Video Generators Face Off

Introduction: The Dawn of AI-Generated Video (Late 2025) Generative AI has moved beyond text and images – 2025 is the year AI video generation hit the mainstream. OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3 stand at the forefront of this revolution. These models can take a written prompt and produce a short video clip complete with moving visuals and matching audio, something unimaginable just a couple of years ago. Both tech giants are hailing their latest creations as breakthrough systems that inch closer to “cinematic” AI content. OpenAI likens Sora 2’s debut to a “GPT-3.5 moment” for video – a
30 September 2025
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Nike Stock Skyrockets After Earnings Beat – Experts Weigh In

Nike Stock Skyrockets After Earnings Beat – Experts Weigh In

Q1 FY2026 Results: Revenue and Profit Surprise Nike’s late-September earnings release showed a clear beat on both sales and profit. Total Q1 revenue was $11.72 B, up 1% year-over-year; analysts had expected a decline to about $11.0 B businesswire.com reuters.com. On the bottom line, Nike earned $0.49 per share, far above the $0.27 consensus estimate businesswire.com reuters.com. The 1.5-point rise in gross margin to 42.2% was powered by stronger-than-expected wholesale restocking. Indeed, wholesale revenues jumped 7% to $6.8 B businesswire.com. In contrast, Nike’s Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) sales (retail stores and digital) were down 4% ($4.5 B) businesswire.com, as Nike cuts promotions and trims excess inventory.
30 September 2025
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Warren Buffett’s $10B Oil Bet: Could Berkshire’s OxyChem Deal Supercharge Occidental (OXY)?

Warren Buffett’s $10B Oil Bet: Could Berkshire’s OxyChem Deal Supercharge Occidental (OXY)?

Occidental’s Background and Debt Burden Occidental Petroleum (ticker OXY) is a Houston-based oil & gas company with large Permian Basin and Gulf of Mexico production. It has grown aggressively through acquisitions, notably Anadarko Petroleum in 2019 (financed with $10 billion from Buffett’s Berkshire) and the CrownRock shale deal in 2024 Reuters Tipranks. These moves boosted production but also piled on debt. As of June 30, 2025, Occidental’s long-term debt stood around $23.3 billion Reuters, well above its management’s comfort zone (a stated target near $15 billion) Seekingalpha. To address this, Occidental has been selling non-core assets. In 2024–2025 it divested about $4 billion worth
30 September 2025
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unveiled: 10-Second AI Videos with Sound & Selfie Cameos

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unveiled: 10-Second AI Videos with Sound & Selfie Cameos

What is Sora 2? Sora 2 is OpenAI’s flagship video-and-audio generation model, building on the original Sora released in late 2024. It accepts text (and optionally images or videos) and outputs short videos with high-fidelity visuals and sound. According to OpenAI, Sora 2 is “more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than prior systems,” and it synchronizes dialogue, sound effects, and background audio with generated video Openai. In practical terms, Sora 2 can handle complex scenes that obey real-world physics (gymnastics routines, paddleboard flips with correct buoyancy, realistic ball rebounds, etc.) that earlier models could not consistently simulate Openai Venturebeat. OpenAI
30 September 2025
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Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s move to acquire Rivos comes amid a major push by Big Tech to own the chips that power AI. The Santa Clara–based startup Rivos is a “stealth” AI-chip developer whose founders include former Apple and AMD engineers reuters.com waldencatalyst.com. Rivos’ CEO Puneet Kumar explains the company’s strategy: by targeting smaller installations, Rivos can offer cost-effective AI chips “where Nvidia might seem like an overkill from a cost perspective,” providing a solution “that works well enough and can compete quite well” waldencatalyst.com. In practice, Rivos is designing its chip around software for large-scale AI models. As Kumar told Reuters, “usually
30 September 2025
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AI Models Are Scheming – Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Stop Deceptive AI Behavior

OpenAI’s New Sora App Turns You and Friends into AI-Generated Movie Stars

What is Sora? From Text Prompts to Hyperreal Videos Sora began as an OpenAI research model (announced Feb. 2024) that could turn text or static images into short, realistic video clips. It was first offered to ChatGPT users and researchers to showcase “hyperreal” video generation openai.com sciencefriday.com. The original Sora showed surprisingly high fidelity – so much so that Science Friday’s AI reporter noted it was “nearly impossible to distinguish” the AI clips from real footage sciencefriday.com. However, early Sora had limitations (struggling with physics and longer action scenes). The new Sora 2 model (just announced alongside the app) greatly
30 September 2025
UNFI Stock Rockets to 52-Week High on Q4 Earnings Beat and Organic Growth Tailwinds /update: 1:20 PM ET/

UNFI Stock Rockets to 52-Week High on Q4 Earnings Beat and Organic Growth Tailwinds /update: 1:20 PM ET/

UNFI is modernizing its distribution fleet – for example, rolling out electric-powered delivery trucks (pictured above) as part of its sustainability and efficiency efforts. Stock and Market Overview United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) has seen its stock price surge on Sept. 30, 2025, reaching new 52-week highs after the company released its fiscal Q4 results. The rally reflects investor relief that UNFI met or beat expectations despite a recent cyber disruption. At close on Sept. 30, UNFI traded around $35.4, up roughly 12% from the prior day marketbeat.com. This put the stock at its 52-week peak of $36.21 marketbeat.com.
30 September 2025
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Crown Electrokinetics (CRWV/CRKN) Surges Amid Takeover Buzz – Key Facts & Analysis (Sept 30, 2025)

Crown Equity Holdings (OTC:CRWE) Surges Into Spotlight: Joint Ventures Spark Speculation – Stock Update (1:20 PM ET Sept 2025)

Citations in the summary above: company business summary tipranks.com, market stats tipranks.com tipranks.com, financials mlq.ai, press releases crwepressrelease.comcrwepressrelease.com crwepressrelease.com crwepressrelease.com, analyst commentary newswireindiaonline.com newswireindiaonline.com, and regulatory filings crownequityholdings.com crwepressrelease.com crwepressrelease.com. Company Profile and Stock Overview Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. (CRWE) describes itself as “an online multi-media publisher” providing advertising, branding, and marketing services worldwide tipranks.com. It operates in the digital/media consulting space (after originally being named Micro Bio-Medical Waste Systems, Inc. before 2006). The company also touts its developing CRWE WORLD platform for news and business launches. Crown Equity is traded over-the-counter (OTCPink) and as of Sept 30, 2025 has
30 September 2025
Wolfspeed’s Wild Ride: From Bankruptcy Plans to EV Boom – What’s Next for WOLF Stock?

Wolfspeed’s Wild Rebound: Stock Jumps 33% as Chipmaker Escapes Bankruptcy /1:20 PM ET/

Stock Performance Wolfspeed’s share price has been extremely volatile. After peaking near $134 in late 2021, WOLF plunged on operational setbacks, falling into low single digits by mid-2025 eetimes.com. It briefly hit multiyear lows (around $0.39) during the summer bankruptcy period reuters.com. The Sept. 30, 2025 trading day saw WOLF trade up around 46% intraday (close ~$32.39) reuters.com, fueled by the Chapter 11 exit announcement reuters.com. This dramatic rebound put the stock roughly 80% above its prior 52-week low and firmly at a one-year high. Trading volume has spiked accordingly, reflecting frenzied investor interest. (For context, Wolfspeed’s market cap is now on
30 September 2025
Kazakhstan’s Crypto Gambit: State Launches BNB-Fueled Digital Reserve Fund

Kazakhstan’s Crypto Gambit: State Launches BNB-Fueled Digital Reserve Fund

Kazakhstan’s bold move into crypto reserves reflects its ambition to become a regional digital finance hub. The Alem Crypto Fund is explicitly designed to accumulate high-grade crypto assets over the long term. By choosing BNB (market cap ~$138 billion) as its first holding, Kazakhstan is not buying Bitcoin or an obscure token, but a leading utility coin at the heart of Binance’s network gov.kz cointelegraph.com. BNB’s functions – from transaction fuel to staking and governance – give the fund both financial upside (fees, staking rewards) and strategic influence in a major crypto ecosystem. As a result, the fund serves as both
30 September 2025
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Capital One Savers Cheated Out of Billions – $425M Settlement Payout Deadline Fast Approaching

Capital One Savers Cheated Out of Billions – $425M Settlement Payout Deadline Fast Approaching

Capital One’s $425 million settlement stems from a years-long fight over alleged bait-and-switch tactics. The crux of the case is that Capital One promoted its “360 Savings” account as a top high-yield product, yet kept its rate locked at about 0.30% even as national rates climbed. At the same time, the bank quietly introduced a nearly identical “360 Performance Savings” account, which did pay much higher interest (reaching 4.3% by early 2024) reuters.com consumerfinance.gov. Existing 360 Savings customers were largely kept in the dark – for example, Capital One reportedly removed most references to the old account on its website and
30 September 2025
China’s DeepSeek Unveils AI Model Halving Costs by 50% – The ‘Sparse Attention’ Revolution

China’s DeepSeek Unveils AI Model Halving Costs by 50% – The ‘Sparse Attention’ Revolution

DeepSeek’s New V3.2-Exp Model Hangzhou-based DeepSeek burst onto the AI scene earlier in 2025 with its R1 model (a heavily RL-trained chatbot) techcrunch.com. This time, DeepSeek’s announcement focuses on efficiency. On Sept. 29 the company published a post (on Hugging Face) unveiling DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an experimental large language model built on its V3 series techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. According to DeepSeek, V3.2-Exp maintains similar reasoning performance to V3.1 but uses far less compute for long inputs. The key innovation is a “DeepSeek Sparse Attention” (DSA) mechanism: rather than comparing every token to every other in a long document (the dense attention used by
30 September 2025
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Trump Unveils ‘TrumpRx’ Plan with Pfizer Deal to Slash Drug Prices

Trump Unveils ‘TrumpRx’ Plan with Pfizer Deal to Slash Drug Prices

What Is “TrumpRx”? A Direct-to-Consumer Drug Website “TrumpRx” is a planned federal website that will let Americans buy prescription medicines directly from the government at cash prices. According to administration officials, TrumpRx will negotiate discounted rates with drugmakers and allow patients to pay out-of-pocket for certain drugs, bypassing insurers and middlemen wbtv.com reuters.com. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on social media that Trump will announce TrumpRx, and a Wall Street Journal report says the site will be branded TrumpRx newsweek.com reuters.com. It is not yet clear which medications will be offered, but the idea is to force prices
30 September 2025
Pokémon GO’s Steel Skyline Event Unleashes Shiny Dynamax Duraludon – How to Catch the New “Alloy” Pokémon

Pokémon GO’s Steel Skyline Event Unleashes Shiny Dynamax Duraludon – How to Catch the New “Alloy” Pokémon

Event Overview: Steel Skyline Launch Niantic’s official announcement confirms that the Steel Skyline event will run from September 30 to October 7, 2025, with Dynamax Duraludon as its centerpiece pokemongo.com pokemongo.com. In a news update, the Pokémon GO team stated: “Dynamax Duraludon will make its Pokémon GO debut in four-star Max Battles!” and reminded trainers that, if they’re lucky, “you may encounter a Shiny one!” pokemongo.com. In other words, this event marks the first appearance of Duraludon (and its rare shiny variant) in Pokémon GO. The schedule confirms that all local timezones will see the event begin at 10 AM on
30 September 2025
Black Ops 7 Multiplayer Unveiled: 18 Maps, Insane New Overload Mode & Beta Dates Revealed

Black Ops 7 Multiplayer Unveiled: 18 Maps, Insane New Overload Mode & Beta Dates Revealed

Overload Mode & Map Lineup In its multiplayer deep dive, Treyarch and Raven have detailed every major mode and map coming to Black Ops 7. The standout is Overload, a brand-new 6v6 mode described as a “push-and-pull” game of keep-away. Players must grab and carry the single Overload Device into enemy zones to score. Treyarch’s blog teases that “momentum swings sharply as the device changes hands, making every pickup, player escort, and interception a pivotal moment” callofduty.com. The HUD even highlights the device on the mini-map and grants a personal radar to whoever holds it callofduty.com, so expect constant skirmishes
30 September 2025
Inside Salesforce’s Generative AI Revolution: How Marketing GPT and Einstein GPT Are Reshaping CRM

Salesforce (CRM) Stock News: Shares Slide 3% on Weak Guidance, AI Ambitions Tested

Sources: Stock prices and trading data from Investing.com investing.com; company press releases and financial results salesforce.com salesforce.com; news reports and analysis from Reuters, Salesforce Ben, and MarketBeat reuters.com salesforceben.com marketbeat.com capital.com marketbeat.com. These provide the latest market info, expert quotes, and forecast estimates.
30 September 2025
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Bugatti Veyron Turns 20: How the Hypercar Icon Is Being Celebrated with Spectacular Festivals and Record-Breaking Auctions

Bugatti Veyron Turns 20: How the Hypercar Icon Is Being Celebrated with Spectacular Festivals and Record-Breaking Auctions

Origins – Piech’s “Impossible” Hypercar The Veyron traces its roots to one man’s audacious idea. In the late 1990s, VW Group chairman Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Piëch (grandson of Ferdinand Porsche) sketched on a train a vision for “a 736 kW [1,000 PS], 400 km/h road car” motor1.com drivencarguide.co.nz. His engineers thought he’d “lost the plot,” but Piëch had a history of defying convention. After VW bought Bugatti in 1998, he pushed several concept studies (EB118, EB218, EB 18/3 Chiron, and an in‑house EB 18/4 “Veyron” concept) toward a final production car motor1.com news.dupontregistry.com. The result was unveiled at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show
30 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

Nvidia stock jumps 8% as AI chip stocks rebound on Big Tech spending — what to watch next week

Nvidia stock jumps 8% as AI chip stocks rebound on Big Tech spending — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
New York, Feb 7, 2026, 12:14 EST — Market closed. Nvidia shares surged 7.8% on Friday, capping a sharp rebound in AI stocks tied to chips and data centers after investors leaned back into the “picks-and-shovels” trade. AMD climbed 8.3% and Broadcom gained 7.1%, pushing the Philadelphia semiconductor index — a widely watched gauge of chip stocks — up 5.7%, while Amazon slid 5.6% after flagging a more than 50% jump in capital expenditures, or capex, this year. Ross Mayfield, an investment strategy analyst at Baird, said the selloffs have drawn buyers back because “there’s real demand” for AI products.
Bitcoin price wobbles below $69,000 on weekend — what matters before Monday’s reopen

Bitcoin price wobbles below $69,000 on weekend — what matters before Monday’s reopen

7 February 2026
Bitcoin fell 1.1% to $68,917 Saturday after volatile trading, while Ether held near $2,036. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs saw $330.7 million in net inflows on Feb. 6, reversing outflows the previous day. Strategy shares rebounded after hitting a low of $111.27 Thursday. Traders are watching Monday’s U.S. market open and the upcoming inflation report for direction.
XRP price today slips near $1.42 as thin weekend liquidity keeps traders on edge

XRP price today slips near $1.42 as thin weekend liquidity keeps traders on edge

7 February 2026
XRP fell about 5% Saturday to $1.42, extending a 22% weekly drop as thin liquidity and macro jitters drove sharp swings. Bitcoin rebounded above $70,000 after a brief plunge, while ether surged 12%. Ripple outlined plans for an “Institutional DeFi” roadmap, including a new lending protocol and permissioned DEX. The Federal Reserve held rates steady last week, with officials signaling caution on inflation.
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