Oil crosses $100 as US and Iran trade naval strikes
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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 89 and a low of 70, with cloudy skies.
- Oil prices pushed back past $100 a barrel this morning after the US military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf. Tehran swiftly retaliated by launching ballistic missiles at an American base in Jordan and targeting commercial shipping near the Strait of Hormuz, leaving crude markets bracing for a drawn-out standoff.
- The trade dispute between the US and Canada escalated sharply as Ottawa enacted retaliatory tariffs on roughly $20 billion in American goods. The Trump administration responded by moving to ban Canadian imports like whiskey, motorcycles, and molasses, while President Trump threatened to block sales of Canadian-made Bombardier aircraft.
- Britain, France, and Canada have banned imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, accusing settlers of ethnic cleansing that threatens prospects for a two-state solution.
- OpenAI announced that an internal model running 10,000 parallel agents solved the century-old Navier-Stokes smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize enigmas. The claim has provoked an academic dispute, however, with outside mathematicians questioning whether OpenAI leaned on their unpublished fluid-dynamics research.
- A prominent Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, resigned to sound the alarm on AI safety, warning on social media that runaway superintelligence could wipe out humanity before 2030.
- Republicans opened their first-ever midterm party convention in Dallas, banking on two prime-time speeches from Donald Trump to rally their core voters. But attendance is noticeably thin among vulnerable swing-state candidates, who privately worry the president's 32% approval rating will prove a drag at the ballot box.
- Establishment candidates dominated New Hampshire's primaries, setting up a marquee Senate showdown between Democratic Representative Chris Pappas and former Republican Senator John Sununu. Meanwhile, Stefany Shaheen, daughter of retiring Senator Jeanne Shaheen, secured the Democratic nomination to contest Pappas' open House seat.
- Houthi rebels launched their largest strike on Saudi Arabia since a 2022 truce, injuring at least 73 people and disrupting domestic energy infrastructure. Saudi warplanes responded with airstrikes in Yemen, as dual blockades in the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz straits cut Saudi crude exports to 13-year lows.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is suddenly fighting for his political life following a major state election win by the far-right AfD. As The New York Times’s Berlin bureau chief Jim Tankersley noted, conservative allies aren’t abandoning Merz yet, but right-wing pressure is mounting fast.
- Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in southern France, stealing two paintings valued at nearly $10 million, including an 1886 canvas and a 1910 portrait.
- Newly released city records indicate New Yorkers were urged to return to Lower Manhattan before conditions were safe. The files show monitors detected asbestos half a mile away 10 months after 9/11, while internal memos revealed local officials were already bracing for lawsuits over toxic exposure.
- American tennis player Ben Shelton upset defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in a five-set quarterfinal thriller that ended at 3:33 a.m., the latest finish in US Open history.
- Apple introduced its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, starting at $1,999. The device features an inner screen 80% larger than its previous biggest model and marks the first major hardware launch under John Ternus, who took over as chief executive on September 1.
- Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent designed to execute real-world tasks like booking travel and handling correspondence through a built-in virtual machine browser. The app includes a free tier alongside subscriptions up to $100 a month, marking Meta's push into directly monetizing consumer AI.
- Lonnie Bunch the Third announced he will step down as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at year's end after nearly four decades with the complex.
- Long-term US Treasury yields climbed to three-year highs near 4.85% even after the Treasury Department announced an expanded $6 billion buyback of older debt. Markets largely shrugged off the move, with analysts noting that financial engineering cannot offset growing investor anxiety over federal deficits.
- Amazon struck a multi-generation AI chip agreement with Qualcomm valued at up to $60 billion to supply custom inference processors for AWS data centers. The deal, which includes an option for Amazon to buy up to $4 billion in Qualcomm stock, directly challenges Nvidia's market dominance.
- LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund pulled financial backing. The tour is now asking a bankruptcy judge to void lucrative contracts with stars like Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, aiming to reorganize operations as a player-owned entity.
- And before you go, a little extra from The New York Times. That is how much money, per book, Anthropic must pay to authors whose works it pirated in training Claude, its chatbot. The answer: $3,000
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