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As U.S. markets recovered Monday, investors and executives wrestled with a single, dominant theme: rapid AI investment is reshaping corporate budgets, trading patterns, and employment plans. The result is volatile equities, targeted job reductions, and a fresh scramble to fund massive computing projects.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank plans roughly US$50 billion in AI, data center, and new-tech investment in Malaysia, a move that could accelerate Kuala Lumpur’s push to become an “AI nation” by 2030. The pledge builds on earlier framework agreements and raises questions about timelines, energy, jobs, and local industrial participation.
Portuguese police moved in on October 25, 2026 to dismantle long-running housing protest camps in Lisbon and Porto, sparking clashes that left dozens injured and dozens detained as activists decried rising rents and government inaction.
Nepal’s film selection committee has chosen Elephants in the Fog as the country’s official entry for the International Feature Film category at the 2027 Academy Awards, the committee said in a press statement today. The selection marks a strategic push to place Nepali cinema on the global festival and awards stage.
Italy's cabinet approved an emergency security decree this week in response to violent street clashes in Milan and other northern cities. The measures include a new criminal offence for violent participation in demonstrations, expanded detention powers for minors and the deployment of 500 soldiers to Milan through the end of the year.
A new FilmLA research update shows Greater Los Angeles on-location shoot days declined in the third quarter, even as projects backed by California tax credits account for a growing share of scripted production. The numbers underscore continued fragility in local production and the uneven early impact of incentive expansion.
Day two of the Singularity South Africa Summit in Johannesburg on October 22 focused on practical AI adoption, skills pipelines and local investment, with companies and funders outlining how applied artificial intelligence could be scaled across African industries.
US President Donald Trump told reporters the United States and India are "pretty close" to a bilateral trade agreement, remarks that arrived while Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on a three day visit to India. The comments revive momentum around a deal whose framework was announced earlier in 2026 and could reshape tariffs, supply chains and investor expectations if finalised.
Ankara has submitted the trilateral Mecca defence agreement for parliamentary approval, a step that could formalise closer military cooperation between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey as Riyadh faces sustained Houthi attacks. The move raises questions about troop mandates, operational roles and regional implications for Pakistan.
Police in Lisbon and Porto removed encampments and detained dozens of protesters after demonstrations against soaring rents and a bill to loosen eviction rules. Organisers immediately regrouped, vowing to continue action as activists and authorities brace for court hearings and further mobilisations.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told La Repubblica she is not opposed to a parliamentary debate on banning children under 14 from social media, comments that come as the government advances emergency public order measures after recent unrest in Milan and other cities.
The UK government has confirmed a higher tax credit for visual effects in film and high end television, a move the BFI and VFX houses say will keep major Hollywood productions and post production work in Britain and strengthen the country’s special effects pipeline.
Aolani and YCO Cloud announced plans to build a large Nvidia Blackwell GPU cluster in the Philippines, aiming to deliver sovereign AI compute for government, enterprises and startups with an initial phase targeted in early 2027.
On Wednesday, communities, schools and businesses across New Zealand took part in ShakeOut 2026, the country’s national earthquake preparedness drill and tsunami hīkoi. The one minute Drop, Cover and Hold exercise is designed to make life saving actions automatic and to test local evacuation planning in tsunami zones.
China’s central bank will conduct overnight reverse repurchase operations every day from October 21 to November 2, capping daily injections at 1 trillion yuan and already injecting 800 billion on the first day. The move follows Governor Pan Gongsheng’s proposal to make the overnight rate the central policy signal, a change with immediate implications for liquidity management, money markets and bond yields.