https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/28/google-alphabet-q3-earnings-report

I hope that my life goes this well one day

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Reddit shares tumbled 29% on Friday, marking their biggest single-day drop and hitting their lowest level in over a year, after the company warned that Google’s AI-powered search was hurting referral traffic and could shrink its user base.

The online discussion platform still appears in Google search results but is attracting fewer clicks, as users increasingly rely on the tech giant’s AI tools for direct answers.

"When more than a million search referrals a week disappear because Google’s AI answers the question itself, investors are no longer looking just at the next three or four months, but at how much of Reddit’s audience it will really own in the years ahead," said Vitor Madeira, senior market specialist at Capital.com.

Reddit warned that its daily active unique visitors could fall by a low double-digit percentage in the fourth quarter if referral traffic kept declining.

If current losses hold, Reddit is set to lose more than $7 billion in market value and Pinterest about $900 million. The two stocks have fallen about 44% and 23%, respectively, this year through their last close.

Reddit has a 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio of 19.03, compared with Snap’s 7.53 and Pinterest’s 8.48, according to LSEG data.

Separately, Reddit on Friday said it has extended its cloud services agreement with Google through 2029, committing to spend $580 million over three years.

At least 11 brokerages cut their price targets on Reddit, and at least 13 did so on Pinterest.

I love drawing Frieren so much.. 🥲

Paxtonfreude is a bipartisan business in Texas these days. “This is one of the biggest dirtbags that has ever run for office,” the lawmaker who sent the picture tells me. With a measure of satisfaction, he says that his party’s pollsters report that “there’s no amount of money in the world that can save him.” The lawmaker supported his party’s failed effort to impeach Paxton in 2023. He tells me he’s in a large group chat with other veterans of that fight, many of whom paid a heavy price for crossing Paxton. The chat is active. Every bad poll, every bad pic, every embarrassing leak. “Forty times a day,” he says.

Former House Speaker Dade Phelan, a longtime Paxton foe, tells me Republicans across the state are telling him they’ll skip the ballot line for Senate. “That never happened in 2018,” he said, when Beto O’Rourke lost by only 2.8 points to Ted Cruz. “I don’t even know if I want him to win,” says a longtime Republican consultant about Paxton. While he can’t support Talarico, he says, “there might be a certain sadistic pleasure for me in, like, us getting our just deserts.” Trump seems to understand the problem. Paxton “may not dress right, he may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I’ve ever seen,” he says. But he is, for better or worse, Trump’s man.

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Everyone is fine, except me. Pictured is my own cat who i am so grateful for right now.

I've been catsitting for my neighbours for years. One best girl in particular is the first cat who I truly fell in love with. She was skittish for a few years but in the space of a couple of sittings I guess she fell in love with me too. One day she just out of nowhere came and sat on my lap. Not long after she started curling up on my neck like she was my scarf.

I've spent more Christmases with her than my own father. I've loved my neighbours other cats too but she was special to me, and a big part of why I got my own. They knew how much I loved them.

I found out in the space of 5mins Patrick Stewart had died, and my neighbours had moved out yesterday. They said they would let me know beforehand so I could say goodbye. "Take care, thanks for everything". Just gone.

She is white and orange. Goodbye my beautiful little tofu pumpkin. I love you.

Edit: forgot the extra bit. On my way to work i saw a cat sitting right in front of a car wheel and heard the engine running. NOT TODAY MOTHERFUCKER'd that situation. Dude was startled and I apologised saying I just didn't want everyone having a very sad day.

Like it's amazing, I needed my tooth out because it was infected, the doctor told me straight up to do a root canal I'd need to be forwarded to an oral surgeon and then it costs $3 grand and then it's only good for about 4-5 years. So we decided on pulling the tooth, the roots of the other tooth that I had that fell out, and treating the infection with medicine.

If I didn't have medicaid I'd be super boned. Now with that said, modern dentistry is amazing, he shot me up on both sides of my mouth and in 10 min he extracted the tooth and the roots. EVERYONE should have access to this, it's a human right!!

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/45502817

[purple, speaking]
We could fix everything

[purple, proudly]
It'd be easy actually, we have most of the political power

[purple, smug]
But we won't

[zoom on purple's face, smiling creepily at us]

https://thebad.website/comic/could

Consider this geometric bear shapes… ur the librels

Sucks.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58736023

Canada and Europe have announced a new alliance of like-minded nations to serve as both a “protective canopy under which our citizens can thrive” and a powerful hedge against the unpredictable nature of geopolitics, while welcoming other countries to join.

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Carney pointed to a planned merger between the Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc and Germany’s Aleph Alpha GmbH as a step to lessening reliance on American AI giants. The tie-up will see the newly formed company have dual headquarters in Berlin and Toronto, and Canada’s federal government has announced a stake in Cohere worth up to C$1.6bn.

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Brussels and Ottawa also announced an agreement on Friday that would bringing Canada into Europe’s supercomputing network, giving Canadian access to European machines to train AI models.

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In addition to lofty promises of helping to reshape the global order, or giving safe harbour to like-minded nations looking to weather uncertainty, Canadian and EU leaders also pitched their new, deeper relationship as one that addressed key sources of anxiety for residents, including the cost of living.

“When trade becomes a tool of economic pressure, it’s the families that pay the price, from the supermarket shelf to the cost of a new car,” Von der Leyen said, noting that previously trusted trusted suppliers of energy, critical minerals or semiconductors “are increasingly turned into instruments of pressure”.

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Canada and the EU announced more than twenty new measures that will create greater affordability, opportunity, and sovereignty on both sides of the Atlantic and launched negotiations to deliver multiple others.

• Keep prices fair when Canadians shop. Canada and the EU concluded negotiations toward a new Canada-EU Competition Agreement to enable Canadian and European authorities to crack down on anti-competitive practices by companies operating on both sides of the Atlantic.

Over the coming months, Canada and the EU will negotiate:

• Faster payment systems. We will support connecting Canada and the EU's instant payment systems to enable Canadians to send money to people and businesses in the EU seamlessly.
• More choice in banking and insurance. Canada and the EU will launch a Joint Working Group to explore opening their markets further to each other's banks, insurers and fintech companies.

To create more opportunities for Canadian students, researchers, and entrepreneurs, today Canada and the EU announced that we will:

• Give Canadian scientists access to some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Canada has joined the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking. This initiative will give Canadian researchers, innovators and businesses access to JUPITER, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. It will also accelerate collaboration on AI and research – speeding up discovery.
• Make it simpler for Canadian businesses to sell online across Europe. We concluded a new Canada-EU Digital Trade Agreement that will make it easier for Canadian businesses to sell goods and services online across Europe by updating digital trade rules and making cross-border transactions simpler.

[You'll find much more in at Newswire.ca.]

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