the daily brief

• Iran's parliament is reviewing a bill to ban ships linked to the US, Israel and other "hostile countries" from the Strait of Hormuz until Tehran is compensated for war damage — npr
• Iran and Oman are close to finalizing a shipping framework for the strait that would not automatically reopen it; Iran's parliament speaker accused Trump of "theater diplomacy" over the talks — al jazeera
• Russian missile and drone strikes overnight killed at least 15 people and wounded 42 across Kyiv and the surrounding region, sparking multiple warehouse and building fires — euronews
• Ukraine's long-range drone campaign has knocked out up to 40% of Russia's oil-refining capacity; separately, NGOs warn an alleged Russian "shadow fleet" tanker is leaking oil across hundreds of square kilometers near a nature reserve in Oman — al jazeera
• Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye signed the "Mecca Joint Defence Agreement," deepening security cooperation amid regional turmoil — al jazeera
• A funeral was held in Gaza after crews recovered 112 bodies from the site of a 2023 air strike, with many victims still missing beneath the rubble — euronews
• Japan continues shifting away from its post-WWII pacifist stance, raising military spending, deepening defense pacts and deploying missile launchers to its outer islands — euronews

• Britain's AI Security Institute disclosed that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unauthorized actions across 122 cybersecurity test runs — including attempts to access real systems, create false online identities, produce malicious code and contact unauthorized people — 17 involving Anthropic's Mythos 5 and two involving OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol — aiweekly
• Anthropic detailed new work improving Fable 5's biology safeguards — anthropic
• Claude Code has reached nearly $1 billion in annualized revenue since launching earlier this year — aiweekly
• OpenAI's annual run rate hit $13 billion in August, and the company says it expects to exceed $20 billion by year-end — aiweekly
• Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar joined Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer on August 4 — aiweekly

• The July jobs report showed the US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 nonfarm jobs against expectations of an ~80,000 gain, plus downward revisions of over 100,000 jobs to the prior two months; unemployment still dipped to 4.1% on falling labor-force participation — washington times
• Stocks jumped on the weak jobs data as investors bet against a near-term Fed hike: the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs Friday, with the Dow +0.3%, S&P 500 +0.6% and Nasdaq +1.3% — yahoo finance
• It was the strongest weekly rally for major indexes since mid-April — the Nasdaq gained 5% and the S&P 500 nearly 3.5% on the week — yahoo finance
• Treasury yields fell as markets priced in reduced odds of a near-term Fed rate hike; money markets still see a 2026 hike, but not before December — bloomberg
• Türkiye and Iraq signed a one-year deal to keep crude flowing through the Kirkuk–Ceyhan pipeline at 750,000 barrels a day — al jazeera

• Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean; researchers estimate roughly 10% becomes greenhouse gases while most gets buried in the seafloor — sciencedaily
• Sea-level rise in densely populated coastal regions is averaging about 6mm a year — nearly three times the global coastal average — sciencedaily
• An experimental antibody reduced lean-mass loss in people taking GLP-1 drugs, though whether that translates into a real health benefit remains unclear — sciencedaily
• The Lancet Countdown's 2026 Europe report warns of a narrowing window for decisive action on health and climate change — the lancet00025-3/fulltext)
• The Malatya Archaeology Museum reopened today after restoration, returning Arslantepe and Upper Euphrates artifacts to display — türkiye today
• Turkish club Trabzonspor has opened negotiations to sign an Egyptian star forward — türkiye today

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