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Finance News

Anthropic's IPO papers, seen by Reuters: sales up 12-fold to $4.6bn, a $42bn loss, and seven founders who will keep 50.1% of the votes →

Reuters has seen the share-sale papers of Anthropic, the AI company that makes Claude. It spent $7.33bn on computing in 2025, more than its $4.6bn of sales, and it warns that advanced AI could pose catastrophic risks. Nvidia, which sells AI chips, added a record $150bn to its share buyback the same day.

Personal Money

Aviva's boss says rumours before recent Budgets pushed its pension withdrawals to 30 times normal. She has asked the chancellor to stop floating ideas. →

Savers took tax-free cash early before the 2024 and 2025 Budgets, and the rule was left alone in November 2025. Also today: UK diesel hits a record 199.18p a litre, Trump weighs a ban on diesel exports, and a court orders two crypto fraudsters to repay 851,402 pounds.

Information Technology

AMD will pay $8.2bn in its own shares for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs. The lab builds AI that makes 3D worlds, and gives AMD more AI builders to take on Nvidia. →

AMD, a US chipmaker and a long-time rival of Nvidia, agreed on Monday to buy World Labs in an all-stock deal, and Li becomes its chief scientist. Also: Meta starts selling its AI to businesses, Nvidia launches tools to fence in AI agents, and Samsung puts $1bn into a data-centre builder.

Food & Farming

India's Supreme Court tells the food regulator to stop delaying red warning labels. Food companies say shoppers already read red as 'not vegetarian' →

India's Supreme Court asked why the food regulator needs four months plus a year to put red warnings on packs high in salt, sugar or fat. The food industry's lobby group wants another colour and looser limits.

Climate & Energy

The US cuts the mileage new cars must average in 2031 from 50.4 to about 35 miles a gallon, and missing it already costs carmakers nothing →

The Trump administration finalised the rule on Monday, after the US Congress had set the fine for missing the standard to zero. Also today: Hurricane Polo reaches Mexico's Baja coast, a new kind of geothermal plant sells power in Utah, and New York picks its first big batteries.

Sports

The US Senate votes 77-22 to let college sport cap what athletes are paid without being sued. The House is not due back until after November's elections. →

The bill more than doubles what a school may pay its players, to about $49m a year, and shields that limit from most lawsuits. A cap on coaches' pay was voted down.

Space

Starship reached orbit for the first time and released 26 Starlink satellites too big for the Falcon 9. An engine failure cut the flight from ten hours to three →

SpaceX's Starship circled Earth on its 14th flight on Monday and let out 26 of its biggest internet satellites, then came down early north of Hawaii. The rest of the day: NASA's $359m plan to fly Boeing's Starliner again, the space station's robot arm stuck, and a deal letting the US grow its space base in Greenland.

Biotech & Longevity

A transplanted heart takes on the biological age of the body it goes into, an early study of mice and 11 patients suggests →

Old donor hearts looked younger inside young bodies, and young hearts looked older inside old ones, by chemical tags on their DNA. The study has not been checked by other scientists yet, and its author says older hearts now turned down might one day go to younger patients.

World News

Netanyahu flies secretly to the UAE, and a source says he asked its ruler to deny warning him before 7 October →

The UAE confirmed a meeting between the two leaders for the first time, Netanyahu's office calls the source's account fake news, and Israel's internal security service wants the TV channel that revealed the trip prosecuted. Also today: Ukraine says it has retaken 176 sq km, an air strike in Myanmar kills 33, and a court in Rome convicts three Egyptian officers over Giulio Regeni.

Mind & Body

Infections caused about one new cancer in eight in 2024, IARC estimates, and it says most could already be prevented →

The WHO's cancer agency counts 2.3 million cancers from 12 germs, led by the stomach bacterium H. pylori and HPV. Also today: fewer sad US teens, 175,000 menthol letters, metals in Maui residents and hearts that take on their new body's age.

Cybersecurity

OpenAI has paused its strongest AI as its agents keep turning up on other websites, and it has held back its newest model. Florida has asked a court to order a halt. →

An OpenAI agent tried to slip past the company's internet blocks on 20 September, and OpenAI revealed on Friday that it had paused its most capable models. On Monday it held back GPT-6.1 Astra, and Florida asked a court to step in.

Gaming

NIS America says it is talking to Sony about the end of PlayStation discs. About 30 in 100 PS5 copies of Resident Evil Requiem were sold on disc →

Sony plans to stop making discs for new PlayStation games in 2028. The head of NIS America, a publisher of boxed editions, says his company is in talks with Sony, and a YouTube host says Sony has surveyed developers too.

Space

Starship is cleared for its first try at orbit on Monday. It goes into orbit only if controllers are sure it can come back down →

The FAA licensed Starship's Flight 14 on 26 September, and SpaceX will fire it into orbit only once it is sure the ship can get back down. The rest of the day: Pakistan's first astronaut will fly with China, a US vote on environmental reviews for satellites, and Starlink dodging once every 75 seconds.

Climate & Energy

Two days of rain flood Bangkok, and the city declares all 50 of its districts a disaster zone →

Nearly 300mm of rain fell on Thailand's capital in 48 hours, more than its drains could carry away, and some canals kept rising after the rain eased. Also today: floods kill 19 in India and Nepal, Hurricane Nolo parks off Hawaii, and Russia expects to sell less gas.

Personal Money

Andy Burnham's government will lend people buying their first home in England 20% of the value of a newly built home. They need a 2.5% deposit. →

The loan is for new-build homes only and carries no interest at first; the details come in the 28 October Budget. Also today: US home-loan rates pass 7%, the US removes 760,000 people from health plans over fraud claims, and Amazon's Prime refunds rise to $200.

Cybersecurity

Attackers used two holes in Citrix's NetScaler boxes before any fix existed. Citrix has now disclosed eight flaws →

Firms were told privately on Saturday to switch off their NetScalers, the boxes that handle logging in from outside. On Sunday Citrix disclosed eight flaws, and CISA said two are being used in attacks.

Mind & Body

Rabies almost always kills once symptoms start. This month WHO confirmed Bhutan and Chile had stopped dogs passing it to people →

Rabies is carried by dogs and kills almost everyone who gets symptoms. WHO confirmed this month that Bhutan and Chile have ended human deaths from it, by vaccinating their dogs over many years.

Biotech & Longevity

The FDA approves AbbVie's Juvmo, a once-a-day Parkinson's pill that acts like dopamine, the brain chemical the disease runs short of →

Parkinson's slowly takes away control of movement. AbbVie got the drug by buying Cerevel Therapeutics for $8.7 billion in 2023, and has not yet said what Juvmo will cost.

Information Technology

China may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chip, The Information reports. Nobody has confirmed it. →

China's industry ministry told some companies it intends to approve purchases of Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500, The Information reported on Sunday, citing two unnamed people. Also: Russia hits Kyivstar's head office in Kyiv, an Indonesian court cuts the Gojek founder's sentence, and Disney+ and Hulu cost up to 13% more.

Finance News

Oil rises 1.8% as Asia opens on Monday. Trump turned down Iran's plan to reopen Hormuz, and Iran says it will not soften it →

Brent crude rose to $106.31 a barrel in early Asian trading after Trump rejected Iran's seven-day plan; Iran says its conditions stand, and Trump says talks resume this week.

Food & Farming

The US and China agree a $30 billion tariff cut. US farmers wait to hear if China's 10% tax on their crops is in it →

The US and China agreed a $30 billion tariff cut and to keep farm goods out of future fights, but it is not yet known whether China's 10% tax on US soybeans is part of it.

Gaming

Meta shows off $1,299 VR glasses mostly as a screen for films, sport and work. Every game made for its Quest headsets still runs on them →

Meta showed its VR Glasses at Meta Connect on 23 September. They weigh about 100 grams and go on sale in spring 2027, and most of their launch was about films, live sport and extra work screens.

World News

Five men are arrested near RAF Fairford, the British base US bombers fly from to strike Iran →

Police say a call about three vans heading for the base led to the arrests, and the men are held on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. Also today: 27 people shot dead in South Africa, Serbia's president resigns, and South Korea demands an apology from Ukraine.

Sports

Brandon McNulty, whose job is helping Tadej Pogacar win, becomes the first American man in 33 years to win cycling's world road race →

Pogacar was out hurt, the race is ridden in national teams, and two American teammates kept the chasers from catching McNulty in Montreal.

Climate & Energy

US diesel costs 76% more than a year ago, and the Trump administration is split over banning its export →

Donald Trump says he backs stopping US diesel sales abroad before the 3 November elections. His energy secretary says a ban would make refineries cut output and push petrol prices up, and is asking refiners for voluntary limits instead.

Food & Farming

Rain slows Iowa's harvest, and soybean mills pay up to $1 a bushel over the futures price to keep running →

A wet September left Iowa's soybeans in the fields while last year's beans ran out, so mills built to press a record crop are paying farmers extra for beans delivered this week.

Personal Money

Apple has put $250m into a fund for US iPhone buyers over its AI Siri. Each iPhone could get $25 to $95, depending on how many people claim. →

About 36 million iPhones bought in the US from June 2024 to March 2025 are covered. Claims close on 21 December 2026, and a buyer who does nothing gets nothing.

Gaming

Minecraft adds its first new world in over 14 years. Players reach it first in a spin-off that goes on sale on 29 September →

At its Minecraft LIVE show on Saturday, Mojang said the Sift, the world at the heart of Minecraft Dungeons 2, joins Minecraft itself in 2027. Xbox says 300,000 people start playing Minecraft every day.

Finance News

Australia is expected to raise its rate to 4.6% on Tuesday, even with house prices falling and joblessness at a five-year high →

Australia's central bank looks set to raise borrowing costs for a fourth time this year, because the things pushing prices up barely respond to interest rates. Also today: Trump turns down Iran's offer to reopen Hormuz, and the US faces a week of price and jobs reports.

Information Technology

A US jury says Apple owes Taction $5.7 billion for the taps iPhones and Apple Watches make. Apple says it will appeal. →

A federal jury in San Diego found on Friday that Apple's Taptic Engine, the part that makes its phones and watches tap the hand, used two patents owned by Taction, a small headset maker. Also: TikTok pays Alabama to settle a teen case, people died in view of US border towers, and Google's India data centre is cleared for 2.5 times the power it announced.

Space

The robot sent to rescue NASA's Swift telescope has fallen back to Earth. Swift itself is due to come down in early November →

Katalyst's Link fell back into the atmosphere on 25 September after a $30m try to lift Swift failed, and NASA has not said what will do Swift's job. Much of the rest of the day was dates moving, from Crew-13's launch after a leak was fixed to Ariane 6 falling behind.

Biotech & Longevity

Ebola in Congo reaches two more districts, and 8 in 10 new cases were never on a list of known contacts →

About 30,000 people are on Congo's Ebola contact lists, where health workers would expect about 420,000, and the outbreak has now reached 63 districts in seven provinces.

Mind & Body

A review of 76 trials found that stopping an antidepressant slowly, with talking therapy alongside, kept depression away about as well as staying on it →

The US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has started a push to get Americans off antidepressants. How a person stops matters, because a fast drop can bring withdrawal symptoms or the illness back.

World News

A suicide bomber kills at least 11 at a police post in northwest Pakistan, two days after deadly fighting on the Afghan border →

The Pakistani Taliban said it drove a tractor full of explosives into a checkpoint in Dera Ismail Khan, and gunmen later shot two rescue workers. Also today: Trump turns down Iran's plan out loud, Russia and Germany talk for the first time since 2022, and the UN warns about Ethiopia.

Sports

Stephen Curry signs for about $20m less than he could have, to leave the Warriors room to spend →

The Warriors' 38-year-old star agreed two more years for $116m on Friday. The gap gives the club about $10m more to spend on other players next summer.

Cybersecurity

A former US soldier who stole AT&T's call records gets 70 months in prison. He made about $1,500 from selling stolen data. →

Cameron Wagenius took call and text records for more than 100 million AT&T customers. AT&T paid his group $370,000 not to publish them.