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Mysteel says China's lithium carbonate supply is falling short of expectations in Q4; SMM says tungsten has one market and two prices. Both are data firms' estimates.

Arafura says it broke ground at its Nolans rare earths project in Australia's Northern Territory on 8 October. It is the start of construction, not production.

A strike at Antofagasta's Centinela copper mine in Chile began on 7 October. Unions say November output could fall by half; the company declined to comment on that.

After talks in Beijing, China says it is willing to keep facilitating rare-earth and magnet export licences for the EU. It is an understanding, not a rule change.

Hightouch says it has acquired Strata, a startup whose AI agent builds API integrations without code. Terms were not disclosed, and the account is Hightouch's own.

Polars 2.0, released 6 October, makes the streaming engine the default for lazy queries and no longer guarantees row order in joins and group-bys. Its benchmarks are its own.

A preprint says Timer-M1, a forecasting model, ranks first on FEV and TIME. Its authors call the TIME margin over TimesFM-3 narrow. Not peer reviewed.

Tencent Cloud's TeamAI shares skills, rules and MCP settings across a team's AI coding agents via Git, under MIT. The 76% cost claim is Tencent's own.

Databricks put code execution in Genie One into public preview and Snowflake began previews of agent-led marketplace search and a decision model. No prices or benchmarks yet.

IPS says its Wakayama cable landing station proposal was selected, and will now apply for a grant. Strathclyde gets £5.47m from ARIA to test protein-guided hollow-core fibre.