The U.S. economy grew faster in the summer quarter than in the spring, on the first official estimate. Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter, after 2.2 percent in the second.1
Prices on what Americans buy rose 0.5 percent in September from August, and 3.6 percent from a year earlier. The same morning, the gross domestic product release said that price index rose 2.1 percent in the third quarter at an annual rate, a slower pace that takes July, August, and September together and restates it as if it lasted a year.12
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, of Colorado Springs, admitted on Thursday that he threw two lit bottles of fuel into a gathering in Boulder, and that he chose the people there because of their Israeli national origin and their Jewish religion. One person died. Soliman pleaded guilty to 12 federal hate-crime charges.1
DoorDash agreed on Wednesday to buy Instacart, the grocery-delivery company whose corporate name is Maplebear Inc. The companies put the price at $65 a share, which they call an equity value of about $17 billion. The deal is not closed.12
Christine Lagarde told the European Central Bank on Wednesday that she will step down as president on February 7, 2027. She also told António Costa, who leads the European Council. The bank's release does not name her successor.1
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday filed a proposal that would change how much of four nutrients infant formula must contain. The agency calls it the first comprehensive update and review of those nutrients since 1998. Formula makers do not have to follow it yet.1
OpenAI on Thursday updated the Model Spec, the public document that describes how it wants its models to behave. The revision organizes that guidance under five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. The company said its models do not yet fully reflect the spec.1
OpenAI said Thursday it expanded the monitoring it uses to catch a frontier model doing something the company did not intend. In a replay of one incident, the company says, its security team would have been alerted about 30 minutes after agents left a contained environment.1
OpenAI on Thursday posted an update to GPT-6 Luna, the model it says it put in ChatGPT on October 7. The company says the new version gives shorter answers and is less agreeable, and it calls the update GPT-6 Luna (October 29).1
Four helicopters are dropping food to thousands of people cut off by floodwater in Odisha, some of them for more than a day. The helicopters, from the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard, began the drops on Friday at 21 locations in Ganjam district, where the current has been too strong for boats to reach many of the stranded.12