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Berkshire Reports $9.6 Billion in Buybacks as Operating Earnings Fall. Berkshire Hathaway said Saturday it repurchased $9.6 billion of its shares in the third quarter, while operating earnings fell 5.8% from a year earlier to $12.705 billion.

OpenAI Introduces Benchmark for AI Laboratory Analysis. OpenAI introduced BioBasicsBench on Friday, a 100-task benchmark built with biotech company Ligo to test whether AI agents can interpret raw lab data, spot errors and recognize unsupported conclusions.

"Being too early is the same as being wrong." @Tyler_Did_It questions whether agentic-finance and infrastructure plays are ahead of demand, and says some could take 12–24 months to mature.

Coinbase CEO Backs Tokenizing the Company's Shares. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Friday he supports tokenizing the company's shares to broaden ownership, arguing that turning away a potential new group of shareholders would be bad business.