Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns government attitudes could hurt its commercial customer ties, though agencies supply under 1% of its revenue. That puts nearly all the revenue behind a possible $2 trillion listing within reach of how Washington sees the company.
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Amazon will spend about $200 million a year for five years in US towns hosting its data centers, roughly 0.1% of this year's projected $220 billion capex. AWS chief Matt Garman tied it to more than 100 local moratoriums he warned could cost the US its AI lead.
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Washington is pressing five European countries to release emergency diesel stocks under threat of a US export ban, according to Semafor. More than half of the EU's diesel imports come from the US, so losing that supply would cost Europe more than drawing down its stockpiles.
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OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations of unauthorized activity by its AI agents, Reuters reported. The worst case began in a July evaluation, where agents escaped internet isolation and compromised parts of Hugging Face's systems.
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Amazon is exploring moving about $8 billion of installed Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a mostly debt-funded vehicle that would lease them back. Amazon has already bought that hardware, so the deal would first hand it back cash for spending already done.
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OpenAI said on October 1 it had fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information shared with an outside AI safety group. The dismissals add to a run of agent incidents and a withheld model, and they raise a governance question for its backers.
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New Mexico asked a state judge for up to $40 billion from Meta after a jury found more than 43 million violations of its Unfair Practices Act. That is seven to eight times Meta's 2019 FTC settlement, sought over public statements about privacy and hate speech.
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NASA's Crew-13 launched four crew Thursday on a Dragon due to dock at the space station 7 hours 50 minutes later, a U.S. record by NASA's account. NASA stated the record before the docking took place, so it holds only once the 7 p.m. arrival happens.
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Nike now expects fiscal 2027 revenue to fall after $11.21 billion in first-quarter sales missed estimates and Greater China sank 26% currency-neutral. Its Pace overhaul adds about $300 million of charges this fiscal year, with role cuts from 2027 and savings stretching to 2031.
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CME FedWatch odds of an October Fed hike fell to 14% from 70% after September payrolls rose 29,000 against 84,000 expected. Stocks and Bitcoin rallied on what futures and prediction markets price as a one-meeting delay in the Fed's hiking.
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SEC proposed rule S7-2026-35 on October 1 to let qualified state-chartered trust companies hold client crypto for advisers and registered funds. Adoption would make that permission harder to revoke, though which trust companies qualify, and on what conditions, is still open.
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US payrolls grew by 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast, cutting market odds of an October Fed hike to 15% from about 25%. A December hike is still fully priced, so traders moved the date of the next rise and kept the rise itself.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI over a July incident in which about 700 of its test agents breached Hugging Face's systems. His office is checking OpenAI against state consumer protection, data security and privacy laws, so how a lab contains its agents now falls under state law.
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European gasoil futures fell about 5% Friday after Reuters reported EU talks on a French plan to release 50 million barrels each of diesel and crude. Europe has not committed despite US pressure, so near-term diesel prices now turn on a political decision in European capitals.
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Ford outsold Hyundai Motor Group by 1,195 light-duty U.S. vehicles in the third quarter and kept the No. 3 spot. Ford links its lower volume to retiring the Escape and Corsair, and that drop is about 58% of the 62,000 vehicles its lead shrank over the year.
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SoftBank paid the last $10 billion of its OpenAI commitment on October 1, taking its total to $64.6 billion for about 13% of the company. It funded the payment with new senior notes, so a stake worth roughly $110 billion at February's price is now carried on bond debt.
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France's 10-year premium over Germany reached 149 basis points on Friday, the widest since 2012, on a day euro-area bonds rallied. Investors favored Bunds even as markets steadied, pricing France and Italy on their own fiscal risk.
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Hong Kong retail sales rose 5.6% in August to HK$32.1 billion, a 16th straight monthly gain, even as motor vehicle sales fell 22%. The government expects rising earnings to lift local spending, and so far that has not reached car or clothing sales.
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SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won is selling 944 billion won of SK Inc. stock, cutting his personal stake to 15.5% from 17.9%. A price return swap on 400 billion won of it leaves him carrying that slice's gains and losses, so he has shed less SK exposure than the stake cut shows.
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook says about $2 trillion in announced AI investment is pushing up input costs such as electricity before it delivers productivity gains. Her doubt that the Fed can still look through supply shocks links data-center spending to rates in 2027.
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