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Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Video Games
The Golden Joystick Awards have opened public voting for their top prize, Ultimate Game of the Year. The 12 nominees include Resident Evil Requiem, 007 First Light, Crimson Desert, Forza Horizon 6, Pragmata, Phantom Blade Zero, Control Resonant, Pokémon Pokopia and The Blood of Dawnwalker. Voting closes October 30, and the winner will be announced at the ceremony in London on November 11.
Stock Market
Stocks rose on Monday, with the S&P 500 up 0.70% to 7,676.77, the Nasdaq up 0.82% to 26,169.38 and the Dow up 0.28% to 52,361.58. Anthropic's IPO filing revived buying in AI chipmakers, sending the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 2.8%, and falling oil eased inflation worries. The Federal Reserve begins its two-day meeting today, and Microsoft and Alphabet report earnings on Wednesday.
Technology
SpaceX has a binding commitment for about $40 billion in financing from Apollo Global Management, which will buy GPUs, including Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin chips, and lease them to SpaceX for about five years starting in 2027. The equipment will power Grok and SpaceX's cloud services. The deal shows how fast AI spending is climbing: SpaceX expects to spend $35 billion to $40 billion in the fourth quarter alone, and its AI business brought in $7.6 billion of its $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue.
World News
Israelis are voting today for all 120 seats in the Knesset, in what is widely billed as the most consequential election in the country's history and the first since the war in Gaza began in October 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud and its far-right coalition face an opposition bloc that includes the Yashar party of former army chief Gadi Eisenkot.
Movies
Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov on the original Star Trek and in seven Star Trek films, died on Sunday night, his representative confirmed. He later played the telepath Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. Co-star George Takei paid tribute, saying "Walter was more than Chekov."