Putin ordered the seizure of additional Japan Tobacco assets in Russia.

Apple researchers submitted a paper to arXiv on Nov. 4, Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation, detailing HALO, a humanoid autonomous-control system. They deployed HALO on Unitree’s G1 humanoid to transfer simulation-trained motions into unfamiliar real rooms and published data, training and deployment code covering motion generation, tracking, task sequencing and sim-to-real operation. In six unscanned real environments the team ran 360 single-task trials with an average success rate of 91%. In one real environment they ran three composite tasks 10 times each, averaging 70% success; the sequence duck-under-obstacle → walk-to-target → push-box succeeded 50% of the time.

BMO Capital Markets chief economist Douglas Porter said in a weekend report that Canada’s federal budget contains larger-than-expected fiscal stimulus, prompting BMO to raise its 2027 GDP forecast to 2.0% from 1.8%. He noted the Bank of Canada has raised rates to counter higher inflation expectations and may tighten further, calling the fiscal and monetary directions “pulling in opposite directions.” Porter added weak employment, falling oil prices and a tech sell-off could prompt BoC policymakers to reassess whether a further hike in December is necessary.