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Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Oil at $99 hit farms and shops, and investors paid for rockets that have never flown

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The war's oil price is showing up in everyday bills High ↑
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  • World

    The United States bombed Iranian tankers, and Houthi fighters hit oil and power sites in Saudi Arabia. A barrel of oil went back above $99.

  • Finance

    A Canadian shop chain said higher fuel costs for its deliveries cut into its profits.

  • Climate

    Europe goes into winter with the least stored gas in fifteen years. Some US states are cutting their 2030 climate targets, partly because the war made energy dearer.

  • Food

    A Montana wheat farmer is paying record prices for diesel, and Canada's new tax on American goods has not even reached him yet.

Investors are paying for things that have not been built yet High ↑
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  • Space

    Stoke Space, a rocket company that has never launched, has now raised $2.3bn. A European company raised $450m for a space capsule that has only flown as a smaller test version.

  • Tech

    Mistral, a French AI company, raised 3bn euros. Two chip makers, TSMC and Samsung, ordered $400m chip-printing machines they will not switch on before 2028.

  • Finance

    Banks launched eighteen loans to heavily indebted companies in one day, the most since May.

Courts are being asked to settle what talks could not Building ↑
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  • World

    Nicaragua argued at the World Court that Germany is helping Israel commit genocide in Gaza.

  • Sports

    Europe's football leagues asked the European Union to rule that FIFA sets the women's match calendar to suit its own tournaments.

  • Finance

    Paramount asked a judge to clear the way for it to buy Warner Bros Discovery, another media company.

  • Tech

    OpenAI, Microsoft and the New York Times each asked a judge to decide whether an AI may legally learn from a newspaper's articles.

Copying an AI system is being treated as theft Building ↑
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  • Tech

    Three US security agencies accused six Chinese labs of copying American AI systems on a huge scale.

  • Cyber

    Criminal gangs stole a healthcare company's drug research and the AI system it had built. The same six Chinese companies were named again.

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