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Global investment banks including Citigroup and JPMorgan have moved into chip-backed lending across Asia, a market once led by private credit funds. Lenders face hard questions about GPU depreciation, technology obsolescence and US export restrictions — even as PwC puts Asian data-centre spending at $8.2 trillion by 2050.
The 471 billion rubles came after a closed-door Kremlin meeting where wealthy Russians were asked to contribute to the war effort. Without the money, Russia's 2026 budget deficit would have been 3.4% of GDP rather than 3.2%.
The ruling ends a legal block placed by a Falklands War veterans' group, leaving Milei's 2023 deregulation decree in force. Both houses of Congress must reject it to overturn it — the Senate already has, but the lower house has never voted.
Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots both run on AMD's EPYC processors, and Morgan Stanley estimates Muse alone could account for 20% of AMD's 2026 chip sales. The company's data-centre business grew 107% year on year in the second quarter.
Beijing's competition regulator is the last hurdle for Anglo American's acquisition of Teck Resources, demanding volume commitments for Chinese smelters facing their worst concentrate shortage in decades. The deal is expected to close by March 2027.
China raised the idea with US officials this year, with talks focusing on national laboratories and equivalent Chinese facilities. Washington plans to keep pressing the proposal ahead of a likely second Trump-Xi meeting later this year.
Chainalysis recorded $104.1 billion across 18.1 million transfers involving self-custodied stablecoin holdings in the year to June 2026. Peer-to-peer activity now accounts for 59.1% of China's estimated $176 billion crypto economy.
The facility at Ban Keun, 50 kilometres north of Vientiane, is China's third disclosed military installation abroad. Its opening caught the US off guard — Laos had not featured on the Pentagon's list of likely locations.
The Seimas took the first of three required steps to strike Article 137 from the constitution, which has barred weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases since the Soviet army left. Two further votes are needed, in October and January, each requiring a two-thirds supermajority.
Two aircraft are already flying over Ecuador; Colombia has agreed to take three more temporarily. Military officials warn the shift could weaken operations against al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The battery will go to the Lublin region, which borders Ukraine and has seen Russian drones strike a nearby crossing in recent weeks. Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters and a drone brigade are also planned for the area.
Government forces say they seized the Red Sea port city and a strategic town near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, but unnamed Yemeni officials told wire agencies that troops had reached only the outskirts. The Houthis struck Saudi Aramco facilities and two airports inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation, and Turkey and Pakistan agreed to deploy forces to the kingdom.
A Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years died in Nairobi days after arriving by air. Health officials are now tracking 23 passengers and four crew members from the flight, along with 28 other contacts.
Hamas and Israel held their most intensive ceasefire talks in months, mediated by Qatar and Egypt. Trump's warning of 'hell to pay' if hostages weren't freed by 20 January gave negotiations a political clock neither side could ignore.
Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen has asked officials to examine a one-year postponement of the import rules, due to take effect in January 2027. Analysis suggests compliance problems could shut out roughly 43% of the EU's natural gas imports and 87% of its crude oil imports.
Syndicates based largely in Cambodia and Myanmar have expanded from Chinese-speaking targets to victims worldwide. More than 80 nationalities have been found among people trapped in scam-centre operations.
Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have suppressed fuel prices since the US-Iran war, but their dollar reserves have fallen by between 15% and 40% this year. The World Bank says Middle East oil exports won't return to pre-conflict levels until mid-2027, leaving governments with less room to absorb the next shock.
Iran loaded no oil onto tankers in September — the first month since the war began in February that its exports fell to zero. At least 50 Iranian tankers are blocked from leaving, and 20 crews anchored off Sri Lanka are running short of food, fuel and water.
The war has cut Gulf oil production from 26 million barrels per day to around 16 million, with Qatar's natural gas output down roughly 67%. Gulf Cooperation Council economies are expected to shrink by an average of 4.3%.
The Chinese AI startup originally sought 50 billion yuan but is now on course to raise at least 80 billion, with Tencent and battery giant CATL among the largest backers. Signed term sheets suggest the final total could approach 100 billion yuan.
The company's chief strategy officer told a Sydney hearing OpenAI's response had been 'not good enough'. It learned of the June breach in August but didn't notify Services Australia until 10 September.
The UN says clearing more than 60 million tons of debris could take seven to ten years, and only 1.5 per cent has been removed. Israel's restrictions on heavy machinery and shelter supplies are slowing the effort further.
Six stealth fighters joined Indian Rafales and Su-30MKIs at a base 200 kilometres from the Pakistan border. India, which has no fifth-generation aircraft of its own, used the drills to study how they operate.
Mexican and Colombian operatives have entered the legion on forged documents to train as FPV drone operators. Ukraine opened a formal inquiry in July 2025, and the skills they bring home are already changing how cartels fight.
Three of the seven tankers involved are under UK and EU sanctions. The trade appears legal under South Korean law, which targets machinery and electronics rather than fuel.
Investment and exports tied to artificial intelligence are driving the upgrade. But Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have burned through up to 40% of their dollar reserves subsidising fuel prices, and the bank warns a prolonged energy shock could tip the balance.
The Justice Department says all 40 concealed criminal histories or other material facts when applying for citizenship. Cases include a navy sailor convicted of passing secrets to China and a man convicted of sexual offences against a minor.
The three nationally broadcast spots, due to air before November's congressional elections, had drawn criticism from ethics experts and lawmakers on both sides who said they could breach rules against government propaganda. The underlying question of whether federal money can fund ads celebrating a president remains unresolved.
Monthly immigrant visas and refugee admissions from 45 majority-Muslim nations dropped from 21,096 to 808 between December 2024 and February 2026. Refugee arrivals from those countries fell to zero, and roughly 13,000 healthcare workers were among those blocked.
ZachXBT posed as a paying client inside a Chinese crime syndicate after the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. His undercover operation traced more than $12 million in stolen funds, and Tether froze $442,000 linked to the cluster he identified.
Diesel hit $6.52 a gallon last month and was averaging $6.37 on Friday. The G7 deal will frontload a substantial release of diesel in the next 20 days, with the rest to follow over four months.
David Reuben has left Holland Park for Monaco, where his brother Simon has lived for about 40 years. The pair have a combined estimated net worth of nearly £28 billion.
The suit alleges Groq's directors undervalued the company's assets and sidestepped a stockholder vote required under Delaware law. The $20 billion deal sent Groq's founder, president and up to 200 engineers to Nvidia.
The records span decades of flight history, employee files and internal messages. A court is expected to approve the sale on Wednesday, with rules requiring the data to be de-identified before Google receives it.
Robert 'Magyar' Brovdi commands Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, which make up just 2.5% of the armed forces but are credited with roughly a third of Russian personnel losses over the past year. Russia convicted him in absentia on 46 charges, with the killing of a journalist in Kursk the central count.
Hong Kong received almost 100 tonnes of Russian gold in the first seven months of 2026, as Western sanctions keep London and New York closed to Russian bullion. Most of it moves on to mainland China, whose imports of Russian gold rose about 15-fold to $3.3 billion in 2025.
Governor Kathy Hochul's order, the first statewide measles emergency declared in the US since cases began rising, expands who can administer MMR vaccines. It comes as neighbouring Pennsylvania reports more than 1,000 cases and five deaths.
The alert, part of Operation Economic Outcast, threatens civil and criminal penalties and loss of access to US dollar clearing. Treasury said it tracked roughly $9 billion in Iranian-linked funds moving through American banks in 2024.
The money would fund output increases at at least three of Vistra's four nuclear stations without the need for new licences. It fits into Trump's goal of quadrupling US nuclear capacity by 2050.
The Nvidia-backed New York startup unveiled Beam on 5 October, claiming it matches Chinese model GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks. It plans to release the model's weights later this month, targeting enterprises and sovereign nations wanting to run AI on their own data.
MGX may contribute as much as $10 billion alongside other UAE funds, though no lead investor has been chosen. The talks follow SoftBank's completion of a separate $30 billion investment, which brings its total stake in OpenAI to $64.6 billion.
A proposed nationwide class action filed in Chicago alleges the company used machine-learning algorithms trained on nonpublic data to coordinate prices among franchisees who may compete with one another. McDonald's says AI does not set its prices and that store owners make their own pricing decisions.
The Trump administration says the overhaul will strip out so-called zombie rates and other redundant data, making costs far easier to compare before treatment. Hospital compliance with federal transparency rules stood at just 49.4% as of August 2026.
The ban cuts Namibia off from its largest beef market overnight. More than 80 percent of the country's beef exports — around 10 million kilos a year — go to Europe.
The Wikimedia Foundation says millions of automated requests from agents linked to OpenAI caused a partial outage of its Wikidata Query Service. The agents also made unapproved edits and tried to use Wikimedia tools as proxies, though no data was compromised.
The Royad Mammadov went down in Romanian waters carrying corn from Ukraine to Italy. Zelenskyy said two Russian drones hit the civilian vessel, killing the captain — Romanian authorities confirmed the deaths but have not established the cause.
The court accuses Habibullah Agha and Neda Mohammad Nadeem of crimes against humanity for policies that have kept girls over 12 out of school and barred women from universities since 2021. All four suspects remain in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, which rejects the court's authority.
The textGrain system hides a statistical signal in word choices to meet EU AI Act rules. OpenAI warns detection can fail on short or edited passages, and the mark cannot identify who wrote or used the text.
Hungary's prime minister has told diplomats not to obstruct the next two sets of accession negotiations. Budapest's full support depends on Ukraine's parliament passing a bill on Hungarian-language education rights on 12 October.
The court finds reasonable grounds to believe the Taliban's supreme leader, its chief judge and two education ministers persecuted women, girls and others who did not conform with Taliban gender policies. Enforcement will be difficult: all four remain inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
The AI boom drove technology fortunes to a record $4.6 trillion through September. Billionaires outside the sector shed a combined $62 billion over the same period.
The study drew on self-reported data from more than 6 million people in 118 countries. The clearest gaps between the sexes were in headache, facial pain and abdominal pain, with researchers pointing to work and care burdens — and social pressure on men not to report pain — as contributing factors.
At its Dev Day, OpenAI said it is rebuilding ChatGPT as a place to find and run software — a direct challenge to the app-store model. Visual ads will appear alongside image results in the US later this month, and Amazon has agreed to let brands place ads in ChatGPT.
The rules would create, in the SEC chairman's words, 'a compliant pathway where none existed before.' The move comes after the US Senate blocked broader crypto legislation in a 50-to-49 vote.
The men and boys, some as young as 12, spent years in Kurdish-run prisons before being moved to Iraqi custody. Human Rights Watch warns of overcrowding, allegations of torture, and trials that could end in the death penalty.
SEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said the priority is reducing the upfront capital traders must set aside. His own regulator's data shows the overwhelming majority of retail investors are still losing money in short-term options.
Middle East oil exports have recovered above pre-war levels, but the Houthis' advance into the Bab al-Mandab Strait is keeping crude prices elevated. Brent hit $100.80 on Wednesday, its highest since late July.
Moscow paid refiners almost 916 billion rubles in fuel subsidies this year after banning most exports and importing more to keep domestic supplies stable. Oil revenues fell more than 60% from the previous month in August, pushing the federal deficit to 2.8% of GDP, well above its 1.6% target.
FinCEN withdrew two proposals that would have required banks and exchanges to report transactions linked to crypto mixers and wallets held directly by users. Coin Center, which had opposed both, called the withdrawals a significant gain for financial privacy.
Kyiv's defence minister says the figure rose from 45% in just two weeks. Putin has conceded the strikes cost Russia roughly 1% of GDP, while Moscow has restricted fuel exports and begun importing gasoline from abroad.
The two leaders have written to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen calling for a mechanism that could restrict Chinese access immediately, without needing every member state to agree. Bloomberg Economics put the cost of lost market share to Chinese manufacturers at 0.7 per cent of EU GDP in 2025.
Saudi-backed forces say they seized the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and its airstrip with heavy Saudi air support. The Houthis called the reports completely untrue, and fighting was still reported near the strait.
Qualcomm claims Arm withheld required chip testing tools and leaked a termination threat to journalists, derailing negotiations with Meta. Arm calls the claimed harm speculative and denies any breach.
Amin H. Nasser called this the most serious energy supply shock of his career. Nearly 3 billion barrels of gross supply have been lost since the war began, and fewer than 6 billion barrels of commercial inventories remain — most of it not practically accessible.
The average customer lost 35.1 minutes of supply last year, with a 6.6 times gap between the best and worst served areas. NESO has identified over 80 transmission upgrades it says are needed to meet demand.
A shortage of DRAM, driven by demand from AI data centres, is forcing phone makers to scrap their cheapest models. Prices are rising fastest in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East — the markets where affordable handsets matter most.
Rising gilt yields have driven lenders to raise fixed rates repeatedly through September. Just nine deals below 5% remain, down from nearly 1,500 at the start of the month, as about half a million homeowners need a new deal before the year is out.
The strategy, called the 'Theory of Victory', pairs conventional forces with low-cost drones and AI-enabled targeting. It goes before member states in Poland on 12 October, as European allies debate how much of their rising defence budgets should go to new technology rather than tanks.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 prize for their work on optogenetics. The technique lets researchers target individual neurons in a living brain with precision that was once impossible.
International HIV funding for low- and middle-income countries dropped 18%, or $1.6 billion, in 2025. Community organisations, which get almost all their money from abroad, saw PrEP delivery halve and services for the most at-risk groups collapse.
Mohsen Paknejad cited personal reasons for his departure, though the timing comes as a US naval blockade disrupts oil sales that are central to government revenue. Hamid Bovard, chief executive of the National Iranian Oil Company, has been named acting minister.
The Eternity C was left listing and adrift after the attack southwest of Hodeidah, the second strike on a merchant vessel in the corridor since November 2024. Six seafarers have now been killed in Red Sea attacks overall.
The pair would work directly with Taiwan's defence ministry — not through the usual back channels — on war games, weapons procurement and combat capability assessments. The programme runs to 2028 with a budget of US$14.8 million.
Lin Chia-lung spent three days in Phoenix, touring TSMC's $265 billion chip plant and meeting Arizona's governor. His itinerary kept him out of Washington and away from the State Department.
The WHO now ranks the virus 14th globally in 2023, down from first place in 2021. Deaths from COVID-19 have fallen 85% since their peak.
The two companies have cross-licensed patents across 5G, computing, AI and networking. Qualcomm will also acquire select Huawei US patents, though financial terms and the agreement's duration were not disclosed.
Russian forces struck at least two Ukrainian cargo ships and a Liberian-flagged vessel docked in the Odesa region, killing one crew member. A massive missile and drone strike on Odesa city injured at least 17 more and damaged a residential building.
Unauthorised individuals exploited a Danish company's legitimate access to the CPR system in September. Names, addresses and ID numbers were exposed — and police are now investigating.
The single currency touched $1.1215 on Thursday, its weakest since May 2025. Political uncertainty in France and Germany added to the pressure, with French bond yields hitting a 14-year high.
OKXICE, the joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, has notified the SEC of plans to offer on-chain trading in 63 US-listed stocks. The platform would run 24 hours a day with instant settlement, but trading cannot begin until a 30-day opt-out period closes and other requirements are met.
The company filed challenges at the EU General Court in Luxembourg, warning that the orders risk irreversible harm to user privacy. The cases will test how far the EU can push data-sharing rules into a platform's core services under the Digital Markets Act.
The change, which took effect on 15 September, applies to nationals of 60 countries and limits most land-border crossings to twice a year. It follows local protests over foreign land ownership and overseas-run businesses.
Maroš Šefčovič wants voluntary limits on Chinese hybrid and electric car exports after Brussels imposed tariffs in 2024. He has warned that thousands of EU jobs are at stake if the trade gap does not come down.
Ministers want to keep British carmakers inside the EU's proposed Made in Europe scheme, which rewards manufacturers who align with the bloc's China trade policy. The EU took 58% of UK car exports in the first half of 2026, giving Britain little room to diverge.
Their market share dropped to 49% in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021. Electric vehicles took 17% of the market, with sales in Europe overtaking gasoline cars for the first time.
Speaking at a pre-COP31 summit in Fiji, Simon Stiell said rising temperatures are increasingly linked to premature births, stillbirths and maternal complications. A survey of 1,000 midwives and doctors found more than two-thirds had witnessed severe heat-related outcomes over the past five years.
The fund accepted that Bitcoin added since its last review came from private donations, not public money. El Salvador also handed majority control of its Chivo crypto wallet to a private operator as part of the deal.
Arab Light for Asian buyers fell to $2.40 per barrel above the benchmark, ending five straight months of increases. Bank of America has forecast Brent will average $65 a barrel in 2025 as oil surpluses grow.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv by train with the package, about €1 billion of it military aid. A new German-Ukrainian interceptor drone, the SPYS, has passed testing, and officials say thousands will reach Ukrainian forces in the coming months.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading the coalition, which argues that scrapping requirements for coal- and gas-fired plants to cut greenhouse gas emissions will set climate protections back decades.
The French industrial conglomerate is near completion of a deal that could be announced as soon as Monday. Talks are still under way and could yet fall apart.
The struggling broadband provider is racing to sell its consumer and wholesale businesses before it collapses. BT has opened talks with the UK government about a possible takeover, while the rescue of its wholesale arm hinges on whether Openreach will write off more than £100 million in payments.
Commercial crossings through the strait have fallen to about 6 vessels a day, against a pre-war average of 84. The September exchange — 5 US strikes on Iranian tankers, 10 Iranian attacks near the strait — was the largest declared action against shipping since the war began, and has pushed Brent crude above $100 a barrel.
Washington says its military's main goal is to stop Iran exporting energy, as part of a wider push to strangle its economy. An Iranian official says the Strait of Hormuz could reopen within seven days if the US eases pressure and lifts its blockade on Iranian ports.
Ukraine's agriculture minister went to Brussels seeking €1.1 billion in transport subsidies and more capacity to move grain through Europe. Both neighbours said their rail and road networks were already at the limit.
The seizure of al-Safiya and its police station has severed a vital government supply route. Civilians travelling between the two cities must now take mountain roads that add four hours to the journey.
Masayoshi Son has committed vast sums to OpenAI and Stargate, but lenders have pushed back on his financing plans. SoftBank's shares fell 12% after OpenAI delayed its IPO, wiping out $38 billion in market value in a single session.
Shinhan Bank was the first to report an intrusion, exposing data on around 25,000 clients. Hana Bank, BNK Busan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Yegaram Savings Bank and Hyundai Capital were also hit, prompting South Korea's financial regulator to mandate urgent reviews across all banks and credit card companies.
A single line in the 2018 Farm Bill legalised hemp products that now sell at 35,000 locations across the US. A ban taking effect 11 December caps THC at 0.4 milligrams per container, threatening $28 billion in retail revenue and 225,000 jobs.
The council halted its fire-and-rehire plan after talks broke down when Unison refused to ballot its members on the pay offer. Negotiations are due to resume early next week.
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