🚨 Vatican confirms Pope Leo's Latin America trip after post-surgery checkup The Vatican press office said the pope’s recovery continues to progress in line with favorable assessments from his medical team. It also confirmed the pope is keeping the already ambitious trip program with no announced changes.

🚨 Brazilian opposition leader claims he was ordered to surrender his passport after losing election. Flavio Bolsonaro speaker below.

🚨 Jay-Z picks himself to headline the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Southern California Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, has won 25 Grammy Awards and received 89 nominations, the second-most in history behind his wife, Beyoncé — who has performed at two Super Bowls. His catalog also includes the albums “The Blueprint” and “The Black Album,” and hit songs such as “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),” “99 Problems” and “Empire State of Mind,” his collaboration with Alicia Keys.

🚨 Israel Polls: About 7.3 million Israeli citizens are eligible to vote in this election, including 1.2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel. Gazans are not eligible to vote.

🚨 Former Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who leads the Yisrael Beiteinu party, has called on Israelis to vote. “I’m putting an end to the [Benjamin] Netanyahu era,” he said on X.

🚨 DOJ charges former FBI Director James Comey with leaking national defense information.

🚨 Israel votes in first election since October 7 attack as Netanyahu faces crucial test A deeply divided Israel will head to the polls on Tuesday for the first time since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, with voters delivering their verdict on veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's rightward drift. Netanyahu, 77, has served as Israel's prime minister on and off for more than 19 years. Netanyahu's rivals have no clear path to power as opinion polls point to a very tight race. What might come on is a coalition government.

🚨 Jordan bombs southern Syria in response to attack on the Greek church attack. Says TERRORISTS hideout targeted.

🚨⚡ President Trump has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who reports voter fraud from past elections or the upcoming 2026 midterms, payable upon the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

🚨 US President Trump acusses Brazil's Lula Da Silva of rigging elections. Trump gives no evidence.

🚨 Saudi Arabia reportedly offered the Houthis $1B via Iran, to halt strikes on the Kingdom. Gulf diplomatic sources say Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman flew to Tehran for talks on a ceasefire deal, with one claiming he brought the money on a military aircraft. A Saudi official has not confirmed any transfer. It ties to older understandings on salary payments and reconstruction aid in exchange for quiet. Riyadh’s public line is still no new funding or ceasefire until the Houthis return seized territory. Paying protection money to an Iran-backed proxy while they hammer airports and oil sites? Peak Middle East realpolitik.

🚨 Ex-DOGE staffers’ AI cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to access Anthropic’s internal systems in under 12 hours, reaching sensitive employee data, meeting transcripts, and Slack messages about its advanced AI models.

🚨⚡ Two Israeli opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday of spreading “terror” and “panic” among Israelis ahead of the country’s parliamentary election. Netanyahu posted an artificial intelligence-generated image early Sunday depicting a nuclear explosion in Tel Aviv, accompanied by a warning about the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and a call to continue confronting Tehran during the remainder of US President Donald Trump’s term. Gadi Eisenkot, a former Israeli army chief and leader of the Yashar party, accused Netanyahu of hysteria and resorting to the same tactics he used in previous election campaigns: “lies and spreading fear.” “This time, you are threatening Israeli citizens with total destruction, after failing to achieve the goals of the war in Iran,” Eisenkot wrote on the US social media platform X. Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats party, also criticized Netanyahu in a post on X. “The prime minister of Israel posted a picture of an atomic bomb over Tel Aviv,” Golan wrote. He called for the Israeli premier to be barred from social media, saying Netanyahu and those around him had “lost their minds” as pressure mounted.

💰 NOTHING NEW HERE San Francisco-based startup Marathon Fusion claims to have successfully transmuted mercury into stable gold using fusion-generated neutrons at a rate exceeding a CERN benchmark by a factor of ten. The process relies on bombarding stable mercury-198 with high-energy neutrons to yield radioactive mercury-197, which subsequently decays into stable gold-197, though the unverified claims face limitations including radioactive cooling requirements and lack of commercial fusion scale - DEALROOM Scientists have been doing this, but the gold only stays for a fraction of a second.

🚨 Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees. Microsoft's voluntary exit offer is the company's latest attempt to slim its workforce without another round of involuntary cuts. After spending heavily on AI infrastructure and reducing headcount this year, Microsoft is offering remaining employees a chance to leave, testing whether voluntary departures can cut costs. This is according to a memo Chief People Officer Amy Coleman sent to employees Monday.

🚨 Hours to election, Benjamin Netanyahu still dreams of a nuclear free Iran.

🚨 CHINESE AI Stock bubble burst - Takes out $480 billion in market value - Reuters While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports. The meltdown, tanking the mainland STAR50 index, opens new tab of AI and semiconductor leaders by 40% in less than four months ​and vaporising some $480 billion in market value, is an ill omen for wobbly world markets and a dampener on China's efforts at encouraging its savers into stocks to ‌fund the AI boom.

🤖 Apple updates the iPad Mini with a larger OLED display Apple isn't waiting for its "Pro and Tell" event to unveil new hardware. On Monday morning, the company announced the 2026 iPad mini. The new tablet has 8.5-inch OLED display, which Apple will allow customers to spec with its nano-texture coating.  Inside, the iPad mini has Apple's latest A20 Pro system-on-a-chip, which debuted alongside the iPhone 18 Pro earlier this year

🚨 Anthropic's IPO will make firm surpass Elon Musk's SpaceX in value. According to documents, the filing lays out a plan to 'revolutionize every area of human endeavor' with AI That offering, widely expected to come sometime in mid-November, could value the Claude developer at more than $2 trillion. That could surpass the current record holder, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which raised $75 billion in an IPO in June that valued the rocket-AI-social-media firm at $2.1 trillion.

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