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According to Politico: The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to suspend new models from UK testers before they are reviewed in the United States.

The three major U.S. stock indexes are mixed, with the S&P 500 leading the gains. As of now, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.11%, the S&P 500 is up 0.14%, and the Nasdaq Composite is down 0.08%.

Russian Foreign Ministry: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Grossi met during the High-Level Week of the 81st United Nations General Assembly.

According to Reuters, the EU needs to make a "decisive change" in the "scale and speed" of its defense spending in order to prepare to defend against Russia by 2030.

Sources say the U.S. and Iran are discussing a phased agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade.

Sources indicate that Russia's Kuibyshev oil refinery has suspended crude oil processing operations following a drone attack on September 22.

Google (GOOG.O): The GKE agent migration tool can convert Amazon Cloud EKS infrastructure-as-code into GKE configurations by automatically creating pull requests.

BNP Paribas and Google Cloud (GOOG.O) have signed a five-year artificial intelligence agreement.

Fannie Mae: For the week ending September 24, the average yield on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages in the United States was 7.03%, the highest level since January 16, 2025, up from 6.95% the previous week.

Market news: The United States is seeking to join Musk in his court battle with the European Union over a fine for X.

A Blue Owl spokesperson stated that Blue Owl, Stack Infrastructure, and Oracle (ORCL.N) are highly aligned on Project Jupiter.

Oracle: Force majeure notices are common in developments of this scale and are typically used to protect contractual rights between project partners.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

The German DAX 30 index closed down 168.99 points, or 0.66%, at 25257.80 on Thursday, September 24th; the UK FTSE 100 index closed down 26.36 points, or 0.25%, at 10678.90 on Thursday, September 24th; and the FCHI index closed down 41.98 points, or 0.52%, at 8081.43 on Thursday, September 24th. The Euro Stoxx 50 index closed down 27.42 points, or 0.44%, at 6272.40 on Thursday, September 24; the Spanish IBEX 35 index closed down 61.84 points, or 0.31%, at 19570.36 on Thursday, September 24; and the Italian FTSE MIB index closed down 433.99 points, or 0.83%, at 51553.50 on Thursday, September 24.

Market news: South Africa has proposed to US investors the establishment of a key mineral platform.

Market news: The United States is seeking to join Musk in legal proceedings against the European Union over fines imposed on the X platform.

ICE data shows that UK natural gas prices rose 5.55% in recent months to 189.45 pence per thermom.

ICE data shows that the wholesale price of natural gas in the Netherlands rose 5.5% in recent months to €76.00 per megawatt-hour.

The percentage of US Treasury bonds auctioned for the 8 weeks ending September 24 was 23.84%, compared to 2.93% previously.

The US Treasury auction for the 8 weeks ending September 24th yielded a winning bid of 3.99%, compared to 3.92% previously.