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According to Iran's state media IRNA, Iran's First Vice President Aref stated that Iran has no choice but to assert its control over the Strait of Hormuz.

On Monday, Oct 19, the UK 10-year gilt yield rose 5.9 basis points to 5.432% by the close of European trading, reaching the session high after opening slightly lower. The 2-year gilt yield climbed 5 basis points to 4.927%, while the 30-year gilt yield gained 5.1 basis points and the 50-year gilt yield rose 4.8 basis points.

According to BASF's global head of procurement Matthias Dorn during the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in London, the chemical company's European factories will further reduce natural gas consumption this winter if prices remain at current elevated levels. Dorn stated that industrial companies will need to respond, with multiple options available in coming months to curb demand. He added that prices could decline slightly due to weather factors, but additional supply risks could push them i

According to Anthropic, Claude has reconstructed how the seed values behind several widely used NIST elliptic curves were generated, using the C library's lrand48 pseudorandom generator and Unix timestamps. For P-256, the AI model required 1,842 iterations through candidate outputs to reproduce the standardized seed. The research also examined P-192, P-224, P-384, and P-521. Anthropic emphasized that recovering the seed-generation history does not reveal an attack on these curves or establish vu

According to Reuters, Microsoft withdrew from Nscale's Loughton AI data center project in Essex on October 19, citing electricity grid connection delays that could postpone power availability to the early-to-mid 2030s. The facility was originally planned to host approximately 23,040 Nvidia GPUs and 50 megawatts of computing capacity. The setback complicates Nscale's reported $35 billion IPO ambitions, with the company filing to list on the NYSE under ticker NSCL. Microsoft stated the cancellatio

According to The Verge, Amazon signed an agreement today with X-Energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund a new nuclear facility in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, Indiana, delivering 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy to the regional grid and Amazon's data centers. The proposed plant will deploy 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) currently under development and licensing. These advanced reactors can be cooled using air, water, or a hybrid approach, allowing deployment in water-constrai

According to Reuters and security researcher Snorre Fagerland at NorForge, a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to gain unauthorized access to more than 100 company websites as of the week ending October 18, 2026. The attacker leveraged exposed instances of Carin, an open-source AI-powered problem-solving platform, to target businesses in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japanese e-commerce sites. Affected companies include farming equipment manufacturer Deere and home appliance mak

Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight AI models designed for enterprise agents and local deployment on AI PCs. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter model, is optimized for enterprise agents and delivers comparable accuracy to the larger Nemotron 3 Ultra in instruction-following and tool-use tasks. The company also unveiled two lightweight Bolt models: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (74B parameters) for local agentic tasks balancing speed and reasoning, and the smaller Bolt E4B for

On Monday (Oct 19), at the close of EU trading, ICE UK Natural Gas futures rose 0.17%, TTF Dutch Natural Gas futures fell 0.25%, and EU carbon emission trading allowance futures advanced 0.48%.

According to Citigroup analyst Veronica Clark, Canada's headline and core inflation rates both came in below expectations in September, making a rate hike difficult to justify for the Bank of Canada. Annual inflation edged up to 3.1%, driven primarily by gasoline prices, while food price increases were surprisingly modest, potentially providing policymakers some relief.

On Monday, October 19, Nasdaq 100 rebounded 1.44% as opening rally added an estimated $470 billion in U.S. equity valuations. Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.98% to 26,395.29, while S&P 500 rose 0.57% to 7,702.77. The rebound followed a difficult prior week when Nasdaq Composite fell approximately 4.5%, pressured by concerns over expensive AI infrastructure and profitability of computing investments. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped roughly 10% during that week. Analysts remain divided on

According to Bitget, Bedrock (BR) traded at $0.58 on October 19, up 40.98% in the past 24 hours.

According to Foresight News, Mesh, a crypto payment network, has partnered with Visa to enable users to spend cryptocurrency, stablecoins, and fiat directly at Visa merchants worldwide without prior conversion or transfer. Integrated digital wallets and platforms will generate Visa payment credentials for users, allowing contactless payments at standard terminals while merchants process transactions normally without equipment changes. Mesh will handle user account opening, KYC verification, and

According to BlockBeats, on October 19, SkyAI (formerly Sharps Technology) cleared all its Solana holdings to fund a stock and warrant buyback plan, shifting from the fifth-largest SOL treasury holder to zero position. As of October 16, the company holds approximately $223.8 million in cash and has completed all SOL sales, according to its Monday statement. SkyAI proposed repurchasing 95% of outstanding shares at $3 per share or warrant. The swift move contrasts sharply with September 14, when t

The MSCI Nordic Index fell 0.7% to 394.02 points today. Among the ten sectors, the Nordic industrial sector posted the largest decline. Mining company Boliden AB was the worst performer, falling 3.5%.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated in recent weeks that European countries are participants in the military conflict. He cited NATO Secretary General's announcement that over 500 U.S. fighter jets had launched operations against Iran from European military bases.

According to Bloomberg, HSBC has begun searching for a new chief executive officer for its asset management business to replace Nicolas Moreau. The bank has started contacting potential candidates to gauge their interest in the position. Moreau, 61, joined HSBC in 2019 and previously led asset management operations at Deutsche Bank and served as chief executive of AXA Investment Managers.

Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Index rose to -0.33 in the third quarter of 2026, reflecting improved commercial sentiment among Canadian businesses during the period.

According to The Block, investment bank StoneX reiterated a buy rating on Galaxy Digital (GLXY) on October 19, maintaining a $57 price target. StoneX believes Galaxy's current valuation underestimates its AI data center business and does not adequately reflect the value of its digital assets business. Market concerns center on CoreWeave's rising borrowing costs and its $35.6 billion in outstanding debt as of end-June.

According to Cedrik Neike, Siemens' chief executive officer, the company plans to raise factory automation from its current 30–40% to 70–80% by leveraging artificial intelligence, announced on Monday (October 19) at its Erlangen electronics plant in Germany. Siemens is collaborating with Nvidia to deploy "embodied AI" in manufacturing, using digital twins and AI models to simulate and optimize factory operations in a virtual environment before scaling to production. The company will invest €500