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Work & City LifeCanada’s unemployment rate rises to 6.7% in October as youth joblessness hits 13.7% and household financial stress climbsBusinessChina initiates anti-dumping probes into EU and Japanese chemical and aramid materials as seven ministries issue shipping insurance blueprintEnergy & IndustryFAO Food Price Index dips 1.2% to 133.9 in October as US completes 300,000-barrel heating oil reserve exchange and $237M grid solicitationTechnologyOpenAI unveils 100-task BioBasicsBench wet-lab benchmark and partners with Hacktron on cross-service security testingInnovationSEMI Foundation launches global Chip the Future Challenge as IBM unveils 120-qubit Quantum System Two in ChicagoWork & City LifeUS nonfarm payrolls rise by 165,000 in October with +84,000 prior-month revisions as unemployment edges to 4.1%BusinessCanada tables Budget 2026 with $52 billion in new clean electricity commitments and extended investment tax creditsEnergy & IndustryChina’s National Energy Administration publicizes 93 AI-plus-energy pilot projects as MOFCOM renews countervailing duties on US n-propanol
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Issue 2026-11-04

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Archival photo: Solar panels on the slope of the former Eichelbuck landfill in Freiburg, Germany, with trees in the foreground
Energy & Industry/

New York landfill solar project receives permission to operate; US$7.3 million is an earlier deal value

PowerBank says the Camillus community solar project has received permission to operate. The closed-landfill project has not yet reported measured generation or subscriber benefits.

Archival photo: A member of the 624th Operations Center speaks on a telephone in front of multiple computer monitors
Technology/

CrowdStrike introduces an AI agent kill switch, initially cutting access to models

Falcon Guardian currently blocks unauthorised agents from model access through connected gateways. Coordinated containment across endpoints, cloud and identity systems remains planned.

Archival photo: Groups of white battery enclosures within the fenced Reid Gardner storage site in the Nevada desert
Energy & Industry/

LG Energy Solution details new storage orders, with North American capacity targets still ahead

LG Energy Solution details a storage project for a big technology customer, North American production-line progress and plans for more than 70 GWh of regional storage-battery capacity by the end of 2027.

Archival photo: Two green printed circuit boards with chips, connectors and traces on a dark tabletop
Innovation/

OpenAI demonstrates AI-assisted hardware design, with manufacturing constraints still requiring engineers

OpenAI reports internal trials involving device, mechanical and circuit design, including prototype timelines, benchmark results and limits encountered in manufacturing preparation.

Archival photo: Job seekers and employers talking inside a meeting room at a First Source Jobs Program job fair
Work & City Life/

US September job openings near 7.5 million, with little change in hiring or layoffs

September JOLTS data show about 7.5 million job openings, 5.4 million hires and 5.3 million separations. Quits rose, while layoffs and discharges changed little.