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EUNICE, NEW MEXICO — Paul Lorskulsint was a shift manager at a brand new uranium enrichment facility deep in the American Southwest when catastrophe struck Japan in 2011.A massive tsunami and earthquake had caused a severe accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Thousands of miles away in Eunice, New Mexico, Lorskulsint turned on the television to make sure his team could witness what was happening across the Pacific Ocean.Lorskulsint knew the disaster in Japan was a watershed moment for the nuclear industry. The plant where he was leading an operations shift had just opened in 2010, after the…

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.)Buffett seen as ‘winner’ in what may be his last big buy as CEOA screen displays the trading information for Occidental Petroleum at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., October 2, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe deal builds on an already close relationship between the companies:  Berkshire is Occidental’s largest shareholder with a stake of almost 27% currently valued at $11.9 billion.In addition, Occidental is paying an…

Retail investors’ fear of an “AI bubble” appears to have fallen off after spiking this summer. It could mean the stocks have further to balloon before they ultimately top out. The number of U.S. and worldwide web searches for the term “AI bubble” peaked on Aug. 20 and Aug. 21, respectively, according to Google Trends data spanning the past three years. Searches for the term dramatically outpaced searches for “stock market bubble,” “AI boom” and “crypto bubble” at the time. Peak interest in AI bubble searches came shortly after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report found that 95% of organizations…

Jane Goodall, the acclaimed conservationist who captured the world’s attention through her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees in Africa, died of natural causes at age 91 on Wednesday.She was on a speaking tour in Los Angeles when she passed. And her commitment to working in her 90s aligns with a common trait of the happiest and healthiest people who live close to the age of 100, or beyond it: they often keep working and never retire.Goodall’s dedication to her work and the health of the planet even trickled down to her diet. For decades, she only ate plant-based foods.”I…

Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOpenAI launched short-form video app Sora this week, and users have flooded the platform with artificial intelligence-generated clips of popular brands and animated characters.The startup could soon face a deluge of copyright lawsuits, experts told CNBC.”A lot of the videos that people are going to generate of these cartoon characters are going to infringe copyright,” Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School, said in an interview. “OpenAI is opening itself up to quite a lot of copyright lawsuits by doing this.” Sora allows users to create short videos for free by typing in a…

Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensOct 4, 2025, 07:40 AM ETBARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said it is impossible to say if Lamine Yamal will be fit for the first Clásico of the season against Real Madrid later this month.Yamal, 18, returned from a groin injury as a substitute in last week’s win over Real Sociedad and played 90 minutes in Wednesday’s loss to Paris Saint-Germain, when he suffered a relapse.Barça have said he will be out for up to three weeks, missing Sunday’s trip to Sevilla and the international break with Spain, and Flick said he could even be absent…

Mohammed Kudus opened his account for his new club as Tottenham Hotspur beat Leeds United at Elland Road to move up to second in the Premier League before their rivals play this weekend.Spurs’ victory ended a sequence of seven straight defeats in their last match before an international break — a run that stretched back to a 2-1 loss at Wolves in November 2023.Ghana forward Kudus fired the winner shortly before the hour-mark after Leeds winger Noah Okafor had cancelled out Mathys Tel’s opener for Spurs before the break. It was Leeds’ first home league loss since a 1-0 defeat to Burnley…

Harrison Burrows missed a late penalty for struggling Sheffield United as Hull secured their third win of the Sky Bet Championship season, winning 1-0 at the MKM Stadium.David Akintola gave the Tigers a first-half lead after 30 minutes before the Blades’ Gustavo Hamer shot against the post. Hull sat on their lead for large periods of the second half and Hamer was denied a leveller on more than one occasion before goalkeeper Ivor Pandur came to his side’s rescue when he saved substitute Burrows’ weak spot-kick.Hamer curled an early free-kick wide of the target from 25 yards before the hosts…

Tottenham ended their international break curse with a 2-1 win at Leeds to go within a point of Premier League leaders Liverpool thanks to deflected strikes from Mathys Tel and Mohammed Kudus.Spurs had lost their last seven matches immediately before each mid-season pause since a 1-0 win at Luton on October 7, 2023 nearly two years ago to the day, but luck was on their side at Leeds, whose unbeaten run at home in the league ends after more than a year. Both of Spurs’ goals went in against the run of play after taking a deflection off Leeds defender…

Augustus Kargbo scored his first goal for Blackburn to rescue a 1-1 draw against Stoke.Valerien Ismael’s struggling side looked set for a defeat after Million Manhoef grabbed the opener for Stoke in the second half. But Blackburn rallied and Kargbo, who faced heavy criticism for his role in Swansea’s winner in midweek, lashed in a late leveller from close range.Kargbo struck the woodwork before the end as Rovers almost forced an improbable winner, but Blackburn will be relieved to have gained a deserved point. By contrast, Mark Robins will wonder how his Stoke side squandered their control of the game,…