Today · latest update 6:01 AM · Thursday, October 15, 2026
Today's updates
Technology
· Updated 6:01 AM
The Federal Trade Commission has sent formal document demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over recent AI safety incidents, Axios reported, moving the agency's probe from a confirmed investigation to compulsory process.
Technology
· Updated 5:56 AM
A second worker has died of injuries from Wednesday's explosion at Intel's Fab 28 plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, where police suspect a gas cylinder detonated during a delivery transfer and the fire involved a leak of toxic nitrogen trifluoride.
Mining
· Updated 5:56 AM
Richemont, the owner of Cartier, and US retailer Signet Jewelers are in talks to take minority stakes in the Global Diamond Consortium, the preferred bidder for Anglo American's 85 percent stake in De Beers, Bloomberg reported.
Commodities
· Updated 5:56 AM
Asian tanker shares plunged on Thursday after reports that Washington is considering sanctions exemptions for blacklisted shadow fleet tankers, with COSCO Shipping Energy down more than 13 percent in Hong Kong and mainland listed peers hitting their 10 percent daily limits.
Rates
· Updated 2:44 AM
UK gross domestic product rose 0.1 percent in August, beating expectations of a 0.1 percent fall, as manufacturing output rose 1.2 percent while services stalled and construction fell for a fourth straight month, the Office for National Statistics said.
Technology
· Updated 2:04 AM
TSMC reported third-quarter net profit of NT$763.1 billion, up 68.7 percent from a year earlier and a record for a sixth straight quarter, on revenue of NT$1.49 trillion, with both figures ahead of LSEG SmartEstimates.
Rates
· Updated 2:04 AM
The Financial Stability Board published its final report on sound practices for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence on October 15, setting out 12 practices covering board-level AI governance and risk management across the AI lifecycle, and strongly encouraging banks to build them into their control frameworks.
Rates
· Updated 2:04 AM
People's Bank of China governor Pan Gongsheng attended the fourth China-GCC central bank governors meeting in Bangkok on October 14 and renewed a bilateral local currency swap agreement with Qatar's central bank governor, the PBOC said.
Rates
· Updated 12:50 AM
UBS is preparing contingency plans that could include moving its headquarters out of Switzerland if lawmakers tighten capital requirements, the Wall Street Journal reported, with options ranging from acquiring a US bank to merging with a European rival.
Technology
· Updated 12:50 AM
SK Hynix's US unit Solidigm is seeking a US licence to install more chipmaking equipment at its Dalian plant in China and is making a planned US NAND factory contingent on that approval, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Rates
· Updated 12:50 AM
The Philippine peso breached 63 per dollar for the first time on Thursday, weakening to 63.15 in early trading, a fresh record low, after closing at 62.87 on Wednesday.
Commodities
Ukraine has resumed attacks on Russian refineries, with the governor of Russia's Ryazan region reporting a fire at a refinery after a major drone attack on Thursday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the Financial Times the pause on energy strikes was over.
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