Oil fell Monday, amid news that both the U.S. and Iran are pursuing diplomacy amid ongoing Mideast tensions
Crude oil dives to session low on Iran peace talk hopes ahead of midterms
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Anthropic reports $17 billion in Q3 revenue, purchase commitments of $895.4 billion in revised S-1
Anthropic unveiled its S-1 prospectus last week, but the initial filing only included the company's financials through the first half of the year.

Binance releases proof of reserves data for ten cryptocurrencies; oil tumbles amid hopes of Iran war breakthrough – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Yi He, co-founder of Binance, has said that its top priority is to “ensure the environment is secure, after which users can withdraw their funds and Binance can resume operations.” She rejected comparisons with collapsed rival FTX , writing on X: Every action has a motive. Look at some fraudulent exchanges that absconded, P2P platforms, and commercial banks: their ledgers are opaque; once the website is shut down, they simply abscond with the funds, the company is liquidated or goes bankrupt, and all they need to do is give you an arbitrary excuse. As for how much money was actually in the account and where it went, there is no way to know. These kinds of closures happen without any warning—they just disappear. There is no real operation, no one comes out to explain what happened, and it is even less possible for withdrawals to b
Oracle files to sell $20 billion in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
Oracle filed plans on Monday to issue stock new shares and more debt to finance its artificial intelligence buildout.

Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’
‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to Peru, we threw in a T rex!’ I joined Core Design in the summer of 1994 and met Toby Gard, who showed me his concept sketches for Tomb Raider. He’d already come up with the title and drawn a mock-up box cover with a woman holding two pistols. Continue reading...
Marvell to buy Lumentum in all-stock deal, a massive bet on AI connectivity
The AI infrastructure deal is expected to close during the first half of 2028.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy hospitalized after stroke, office says
Murphy's office says he was taken to the hospital this weekend after experiencing numbness in his arm. His chief of staff said he is responding well to treatment and expected to make a full recovery.