Business
BLM acknowledges Maverick’s Gator drilling notice in Nevada
Maverick Gold and Silver said the US Bureau of Land Management acknowledged its notice covering roads, eight drill pads and proposed drilling at Gator in Nevada.
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Technology
OpenAI research examines agent use across the EU
OpenAI Economic Research published an analysis of usage across ChatGPT Business and Enterprise accounts in the European Union. The company reports that Codex and ChatGPT Work generated more than half of output tokens in its EU enterprise sample. Weekly active users of these tools at EU small and medium businesses grew more than eightfold from May 2026.
Technology
Arm describes multi-model and compute choices for local AI systems
An Arm technical post dated October 13 argues that local AI requires choosing models, frameworks and processors across the whole workflow. It cites event demonstrations of a translation pipeline using more than 30 models and speech synthesis running on one Arm CPU core.
Energy
Brazil regulator approves tariff adjustment for CPFL Piratininga
ANEEL approved new CPFL Piratininga electricity tariffs effective 23 October, with average effects varying by consumer class.
Energy
Brazil regulator approves annual tariff adjustment for EDP São Paulo
ANEEL approved new EDP São Paulo electricity tariffs, effective 23 October, with different average impacts by consumer class.
Agriculture
Embrapa study maps priorities for monitoring agricultural water pollution
A study reported by Embrapa on 13 October classified Brazilian municipalities by agricultural diffuse-water-pollution sources and climate vulnerability. It identified higher monitoring priorities in Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás and Matopiba, as well as some municipalities in Paraná and São Paulo. These are risk and monitoring-priority maps, not direct measurements of pollutant concentrations.
Business
Getty Copper expands fall drilling beyond 20,000 metres
Getty Copper said it expanded its drilling program beyond 20,000 metres after Getty South results in British Columbia; two rigs are operating.
Business
Neotech commissions first resource estimate and PEA for Hecla-Kilmer
Neotech Metals engaged DRA Global to prepare a maiden resource estimate and then a preliminary economic assessment for Hecla-Kilmer in Ontario.
Business
Seabridge agrees to acquire Wyoming’s Slaughterhouse project
Seabridge Gold said it agreed to acquire the Slaughterhouse gold and critical-minerals project in Wyoming, subject to closing conditions.
Business
Toogood Gold starts 3,000-sample soil program in Newfoundland
Toogood Gold said it began a soil program of about 3,000 samples to advance regional gold targets in Newfoundland.
Business
Valor targets Courageous Lake study update for early 2028
Valor Gold outlined optimization work aimed at an updated pre-feasibility study for Courageous Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories in the first quarter of 2028.
Technology
AWS outlines a genomic workflow for querying resistance genes
An AWS reference architecture dated October 12 processes public sequencing reads from NCBI SRA with HealthOmics and makes resistance-gene results queryable in natural language. It is a demonstration architecture, not new surveillance data or a clinical system.