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A visitor pauses at one of the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at ground zero on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Sept. 11, 2026.Jeenah Moon | Getty ImagesOn Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists backed by al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airliners. They flew two planes into the twin skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York, the first at 8:46 a.m. and the second at 9:03 a.m., and both towers collapsed later that morning. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, while a fourth — believed to have…

The on/off Middle East crisis is on again this week, sending up oil prices in response. Dated Brent – a key benchmark based on North Sea oil – is above $100 for the first time since July at the time of writing.Every time oil moves in a significant way, it raises the question of how best to play higher prices. One answer to that depends on what kind of move you expect.Dated Brent – which is the benchmark that you tend to hear most – reflects what is happening to demand for physical oil right now. It is an example…

EnergyTechnology would lower uranium import dependence but presents challengesThe Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Monju, a prototype fast breeder reactor, was decommissioned in 2016. (Photo by Maho Obata)KAZUNARI HANAWASeptember 12, 2026 06:45 JSTTOKYO — Japan is weighing the construction of a next-generation fast breeder nuclear reactor, a technology that would reduce the country’s dependence on imported uranium.

Sky Protocol, earlier known as MakerDAO, is a decentralized finance (DeFi) project built on Ethereum. The crypto project is best known for its USDS stablecoin. Pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, USDS attempts to keep its value the same as that of the dollar. Total Stablecoins Market Cap, Source: DeFiLlama As per the onchain analytics platform DeFiLlama, USDS has a market cap of more than $6 billion and accounts for over 2% of the total stablecoin market. Sky Protocol’s governance token, SKY, gives holders the right to vote on the protocol’s future. With a market cap of $1.38 billion, SKY…

Amazon’s newest feature for Prime Video is trying to make real life more like TV by letting you immediately buy what your favorite actors are wearing—or something similar. The company on Thursday announced a new feature called Shop the Scene that will let users shop for products featured in a show or movie. With minimal interruption to the viewing experience, users can pull up items on the Amazon Shopping app inspired by what’s being shown in the scene they’re watching at the moment. Amazon said Thursday that the Shop the Scene feature is now available on more than 600 Prime…

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Oracle Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOracle shares whipsawed on Friday after the software company reported 30% revenue growth for the latest quarter, topping estimates, with sales fueled by strong demand for cloud infrastructure. The stock popped after the open before later closing nearly 2% lower.Fiscal first-quarter revenue increased to $19.35 billion, beating LSEG consensus estimates of $19.14 billion. Net income climbed 60% to $4.7 billion from $2.93 billion in the prior year. Cloud revenue rose 62% from…

On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned over safety concerns and wrote about why. He said the leading labs are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence” and gambling with everybody’s lives. The people building AI, he wrote, earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Then a colleague answered him in public. Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead, agreed. He wrote that “we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” and put his personal odds at greater than 10% within the next decade. Not a disgruntled ex-employee. Not a…

Saudi Arabia said Friday that it shut down the kingdom’s crucial East-West crude oil pipeline as a precautionary measure after multiple attacks by drones launched from Iraq.The drones targeted the pipeline in the Riyadh and Medina regions Thursday morning causing fires and some damage, the Saudi government said. Several people were injured in the attacks, it said. The Saudis have relied on the East-West pipeline to shift crude oil exports away from Persian Gulf as the U.S. and Iran battle for control over the Strait of Hormuz. The pipeline, which has a capacity of 7 million barrels per day, runs…

Why is war so economically costly? Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors, but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently. Using uniquely comprehensive firm-level data collected during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we document a dramatic collapse in allocative productivity in Ukraine. To sharpen identification and explore key mechanisms (including the role of war intensity, internal displacement, reallocation, and macroeconomic instability), we exploit spatial heterogeneity across Ukrainian districts and comparisons with Russian aggression in 2014 and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Our key policy implication is that restoring…