Monday, 26 October 2026
Mon 26 Oct · At a glance
Monday, 26 October 2026
Serbia's leader accepts defeat, Brazil's loser does not, and oil stays above $114
216 stories in 12 beats
Signals: what moved across the beats
- Dearer fuel from the Iran warHigh → · 4 beats
- Votes changing who rules, and moving moneyHigh ↑ · 4 beats
- Rules for AI, from governments and storesBuilding ↑ · 2 beats
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Dearer fuel from the Iran war
Day 6 of this signal
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World
A barrel of Brent oil cost about $114.50 on Sunday, against $72.48 the day before the war began.
The World stories →Finance
Oil slipped 1.89% to $114.51 on Monday, after Friday's highest price since April. JetBlue's lenders hired debt advisers after the airline's fuel costs jumped.
The Finance stories →Money
US drivers pay $4.29 a gallon for petrol, up from $2.98 before the war, and the US president said oil companies are making a fortune.
The Money stories →Climate
Heating oil in north-east England costs about 1.19 pounds a litre, against 52p in October 2025.
The Climate stories →What is going on
The war has pushed the world price of oil up by more than half, and oil companies earn more on every barrel they sell at that price.
What is going on
Drivers, homes heated with oil and airlines pay it, and one airline's lenders are already planning for trouble.
Votes changing who rules, and moving money
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World
Vucic conceded as the Student List won about 141 of 250 seats on the highest turnout since 1992. Flavio Bolsonaro lost Brazil's runoff by 4.4 million votes and asked for it to be annulled.
The World stories →Finance
A New York fund of Brazilian shares fell nearly 20% after Lula's win. JPMorgan, a US bank, says Israel's currency could swing 3% on Tuesday's vote.
The Finance stories →Food
Lula will govern alongside Brazil's most right-wing Congress since democracy returned, and nobody yet knows what his win means for farm rules in the Amazon.
The Food stories →Climate
Marine Le Pen promised to undo France's 2017 ban on new oil and gas permits if she wins the presidency next May.
The Climate stories →What is going on
A vote changes who rules only when the loser accepts it, and Serbia's loser did within 90 minutes while Brazil's has not.
What is going on
Investors who bet on the losing side sold at once, so people holding Brazilian shares lost about a fifth before Brazil's market opened.
Rules for AI, from governments and stores
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Tech
China drafted a list of 23 AI technologies that need a licence to leave the country, and gave the first licences to DeepSeek and MiniMax, two Chinese AI makers. The US Treasury drafted a ban on American money for Chinese AI.
The Tech stories →Gaming
Tim Sweeney, who runs Epic Games, called Steam's rule that games must say when they use AI political. Steam, the biggest PC game store, released 18,433 games in 2024, against about 1,100 on Epic's store.
The Gaming stories →What is going on
A Chinese lab now needs a licence to sell some AI abroad, and an American investor may soon be barred from backing one.
What is going on
On Steam a game made with AI must say so, and its maker may lose sales if buyers avoid the label.
Where the day is heading
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Dearer fuel from the Iran war
The next fixed date is the US vote in early November, where pump prices are a main worry.
Votes changing who rules, and moving money
The next test is Israel's vote on Tuesday.
Rules for AI, from governments and stores
The next date is 15 November, when public comments on China's AI export list close.
The day, beat by beat
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World · 41 stories
Serbia's Vucic concedes after 12 years as a student-led movement wins a majority in parliament
- Lula wins Brazil, and his rival will not concede
- Voters turned away in Brazil's late extension
- Trump weighs strikes or a deal with Iran
Finance · 16 stories
Brazilian shares and the real face a steep fall after Lula's comeback win, as a New York fund of Brazilian shares drops nearly 20% overnight
- Oil slips 2% from Friday's high
- Chip shares fall across Asia
- Indian shares and the rupee slip
Tech · 23 stories
China clears DeepSeek and MiniMax under its new AI export licence rules, which leave open-source models and online AI services free to cross borders
- OpenAI checked fired researchers' phones
- Anthropic's share-sale papers may come today
- Claude reached Georgia's paid vote data
Mind & body · 14 stories
People from Black, Asian and mixed backgrounds in England are up to a third less likely to have breast cancer found by routine screening, a study of 86,564 patients finds
- Inquest hears birthkeeper may face perjury referral
- Bird flu in Utah mink, with no checks on workers
- 63% of Australians now pay nothing at the GP
Climate · 14 stories
Britain's finance minister backs drilling the Rosebank oil field while its energy secretary leans against it, and the prime minister may have to decide
- Storm Boelo kills two men in Britain
- Storm Austen cuts power in France and Germany
- Le Pen promises to bring back oil drilling
Space · 3 stories
The US Space Force gives SpaceX its sharpest satellite-tracking data, while the civilian traffic office built for that job fights for its budget
- SpaceX plans a bigger Starship site in Florida
- Members pay for three asteroid projects
Biotech · 14 stories
Roche's pill divarasib beats two lung-cancer pills already on sale in a head-to-head final trial, and patients on it live longer
- Two pills beat chemotherapy after Tagrisso fails
- A Chinese antibody beats Imfinzi in bile duct cancer
- AstraZeneca's stomach cancer drug doubles survival
Money · 8 stories
Trump says US oil companies are making a fortune from the Iran war, as US drivers pay 4.29 dollars a gallon for petrol, up from 2.98 before it began
- Saudi Arabia pays cash before bills rise
- MPs press for longer paid paternity leave
- Earning just over 100,000 pounds costs families childcare
Sports · 42 stories
Mbappe scores twice as Mourinho's Real Madrid win 2-1 at Barcelona, ending Barcelona's perfect league start and cutting their lead to three points
- Antonelli wins in Texas, title waits
- Larson wins at Talladega, nears the title
- Logano's car flips at Talladega
Gaming · 18 stories
Epic's boss Tim Sweeney attacks Steam's rule that games must say if they use AI, calling it political and agreeing it is an opening for Epic's store
- 200,000 sign to save Mass Effect
- Tomb Raider turns 30 with a remake
- Chiikawa takes 45% of Korea's cinemas
Food · 13 stories
FAO finds Pakistan's food supply holds more cereals and sugar than a healthy diet needs and too few vegetables, fruit and pulses, as its farms split into smaller plots
- What Lula's win means for Brazil's farm lobby
- Emilia-Romagna bans raw cherry tomatoes
- Oyster illness reaches 55 people in 19 US states
Cyber · 10 stories
A researcher says one hacked device on a Tailscale network can take full control of other servers, and Tailscale has no fix out yet
- PHP flaw used against a European government
- Router flaw from 2010 has no fix
- Ransom gang let AI do the break-ins
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