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The Benchmark U.S. Treasury Yield Topped 5% For The First Time In Years. Odds Of A Rate Hike Climbed Further.

Should the 10-year yield hit 5.2%, it would be the highest since July 2007, before the global financial crisis.

Oil Is Climbing And Tech Companies Agree To Pace AI Development. Stocks Are Falling.
Hostilities Climb Further In The Middle East With No Signs Of De-escalation. Oil Is Jumping More.
Saudi Arabia's Key Pipeline Has Been Hit. 4% Of The Global Oil Supply Could Be Threatened.

Trump Rejects Pacing AI Development, Takes On Anthropic's Amodei: 'Pretending To Be A 'Perfect Little Angel''
"The Trump Administration has stopped AI 'people' from doing bad, or potentially bad, 'things,'" Trump claimed in a social media post.
Oil Is Climbing And Tech Companies Agree To Pace AI Development. Stocks Are Falling.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei said swarms of rogue AI agents could take over the internet in six months time if development goes uncontained.
Saudi Arabia's Key Pipeline Has Been Hit. 4% Of The Global Oil Supply Could Be Threatened.
Riyadh could take up to six weeks to fix the East-West pipeline, according to a new report.
China Pushes Back Against AI Warnings From Top U.S. CEOs: 'Fear Mongering'
"Fear mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt the process of global AI governance," said a spokesperson for Beijing's Foreign Ministry.
Sam Altman Joined Calls To Pace AI Development. He Says AI Could Get Out Of Control In Two Main Ways.
"Avoiding these two threats requires walking a narrow middle path," Altman warned.
The World's Biggest AI Companies Were Racing To Build Faster. Now Their CEOs Are Hitting The Brakes.
Increasingly capable AI systems have intensified concerns over cybersecurity, alignment and the ability to keep advanced models under human control.

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Oil Is Moving Through The Strait Of Hormuz Again, But Not As Much As Trump Says: Report

Trump said on August 31 that the strait had been averaging "30 ships a night."

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The massive miss on jobs creation fanned fears about the US economy

The Job Market Is Stable But Workers Say It Feels Frozen: Report

Washington Wants To Limit Chinese AI Models. One Of Them Helped Contain OpenAI's Cyber Incident.

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Leopold Aschenbrenner Returns to the Market After Situational Awareness' Rout With New AI Options Bets
Situational Awareness has begun buying options tied to several prominent AI and technology stocks, including Advanced Micro Devices, Bloom Energy, and CoreWeave.
- Trump Says He Has No AI Extinction Concerns Despite Warnings From Top Companies And Researchers
- China's Nvidia Rival Just Hit The Stock Market. Enflame Is Riding The AI Chip Boom And Soaring.
Odds Of a Fed Rate Hike Climbed After Hotter-Than-Expected Core Inflation. Stocks Climbed Anyway.
Consumer sentiment also continued dropping sharply in September, falling 7.5% month-over-month as inflation fears take hold.
- Saudi Energy Infrastructure Keeps Getting Hit. Riyadh Has Now Shut Down a Key Pipeline.
- Core Inflation Rose More Than Expected In August. Odds Of a Fed Rate Hike Are All But Certain.

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A Bitcoin Network Lost $320 Million In A Hack. The Attackers Say They're The Good Guys

The breach adds to a string of major crypto security incidents that have put exchanges, wallets and blockchain infrastructure under scrutiny.

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Trump Has Promised U.S. Adults $5,000 if The GOP Wins The Midterms. He Says He Wouldn't Need Congress To Do It.
"Well, we think not. I think they will do it if we needed it. But we think not," Trump said when addressing the promise.
America Remembers The 25th Anniversary Of 9/11 With Ceremonies Across The Country
Trump Wants To Send Americans $5,000 If Republicans Win The Midterms. Questions About The Deficit Arise.

Saudi Energy Infrastructure Keeps Getting Hit. Riyadh Has Now Shut Down a Key Pipeline.
The Saudi Energy Ministry said it shut down the East-West Pipeline as a precaution.
The Houthis Are Making Gains, Threatening Saudi Arabia's Oil Exports. Satellite Images Raise Further Concerns.
North Korea Escalating Nuclear Program In 'Deeply Troubling' Move

More Researchers Are Quitting Anthropic And Google. Warning About Where AI Is Headed Escalate.
Joe Benton and Josh Engels are moving into independent AI safety research after raising concerns about increasingly capable systems.
Concerns About The Pace Of AI Development Are Mounting. OpenAI Is Reportedly Considering Slowing Down.
Ripple Is Putting AI Agents In Charge Of Corporate Cash. Humans Will Still Have The Final Say.