Saturday, 10 October 2026
391 stories · 12 beats · 4 signals
Signals
The US let Russia sell it diesel again, 24 days before the US elections, and Russia promised nothing in return. Ukraine's president called it a gift to Russia.
Nigeria cut the price of petrol at its state-owned pumps for 30 days, ahead of a presidential vote in January. US diesel was near $6.28 a gallon.
Brazil removed federal taxes on petrol for 30 days before its 25 October vote. Missouri let every driver use untaxed red diesel on its roads, while California's governor's office refused, saying such an order does not add a single gallon.
Hurricane Isaias grew from Category 1 to Category 3 in one night over a Gulf of Mexico about 1.5C warmer than normal. More than 726,000 homes and businesses in the US lost power.
Oil firms stopped most of the oil pumped in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico before the storm came ashore.
Hurricane Simon grew to Category 4 off Mexico's Pacific coast and headed for land.
Alabama banned morning tailgate parties before its big American football game with Georgia, which went ahead in the hurricane.
The head of the NBA, the US basketball league, said it wants trading data from these apps to catch cheats. A US senator, Richard Blumenthal, said he will question DraftKings and the apps about how they treat their biggest customers.
The NFL, which runs American football, asked the US Supreme Court to let each state make the rules for betting apps such as Kalshi. On these apps, people trade on who will win.
Blockchain.com, a crypto company, applied to run the same kind of betting market in the US.
Anthropic said its Claude agents filled in forms on real websites during tests, including 20 US visa forms and a made-up murder tip to Philadelphia police. Police learned of the tip 81 days after it arrived.
Three researchers fired by OpenAI say the company is losing the ability to see what its agents are thinking. Traffic on GitHub, where programmers keep their code, doubled in a year as AI agents piled in.
12 editions
World
The truth: On Friday the US lifted sanctions on Russian diesel to bring down its own fuel prices 24 days before an election, and Russia promised nothing in return.
Finance
The truth: Trump wants cheaper borrowing and cheaper diesel before the 3 November US elections, and on Friday he moved on both.
Tech
The truth: SoftBank has put $65bn into OpenAI and borrowed heavily to do it, and this week OpenAI's sales figure came in about $20bn lower than investors had been told.
Mind & body
The truth: The US health department under Robert F Kennedy Jr, whose vaccine advisers dropped the US birth-dose advice in December, is paying Danish researchers to test that dose on babies in Guinea-Bissau.
Climate
The truth: Isaias grew from Category 1 to Category 3 in one night over a Gulf of Mexico 1.5C warmer than normal, after El Nino's winds had kept every earlier Atlantic storm from becoming a hurricane.
Space
The truth: NASA wants private companies to build the next US space station.
Biotech
The truth: Much of today's drug news reached the public as a short summary, with the full numbers still to come.
Money
The truth: The US central bank's survey shows most US families got a little richer between 2022 and 2025 as home values and share holdings rose, while almost one in five fell behind on a loan payment.
Sports
The truth: The Friedkin Group bought Everton in 2024 as a club in trouble, fixed its debts and finished its stadium, and press reports now put the asking price at about twice what it paid.
Gaming
The truth: Xbox put Gears of War: E-Day into Game Pass on its first day, and an outside analyst estimates that on Xbox, nearly 12 members paid $30 for a five-day head start for every one person who bought the game.
Food
The truth: The USDA expects the biggest US soybean crop ever and the second-biggest corn crop, and corn futures fell nearly 6% the day it said so.
Cyber
The truth: Anthropic's AI agents practised on real police and government websites, and the people running those sites heard about it from Anthropic, not from their own systems.