the daily brief

• Trump and Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit with no major breakthroughs but an agreement to extend their trade truce past its November 10 expiration; Xi invited Trump to Beijing for the APEC summit in November and said he expects to meet him again at the G20 in December — washington post
• ArcelorMittal halted all operations at its Kryvyi Rih plant after four Russian missile strikes killed five people and injured 17 there over the past five weeks — kyiv post
• Renewed Russian strikes on Kyiv killed seven people, including a 14-year-old boy, and injured 59 as drone attacks continued into daytime, with 25 people, including two children, hospitalized — kyiv post
• Trump reportedly favors granting Ukraine licenses to produce Patriot interceptor missiles domestically, though the State Department says no final decision has been made — kyiv post
• Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez and Novoshakhtinsk oil refineries and Russian radar stations, while reporting gains in a Donetsk region counteroffensive — kyiv post
• Saudi-led coalition forces intercepted Houthi drones headed for Riyadh — the national
• Foreign ministers of Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan condemned attacks on Mecca and Saudi economic facilities and discussed joint military support under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement — aa
• Rights groups warned a clause in Türkiye's COP31 host-country agreement could discourage activists and delegates from speaking freely when the climate summit opens in Antalya this November — climate watch

• Anthropic struck an $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud-computing deal with Akamai — potentially expandable to $20 billion — with Akamai issuing Anthropic a warrant for up to roughly 5% of its common stock at $111.33 a share — akamai
• Anthropic published new research on AI agents transacting on people's behalf ("Project Swap") and on Claude's long-horizon reasoning ("Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops") — anthropic
• Google plans to launch its experimental Project Suncatcher satellite, carrying four TPUs, aboard a SpaceX rocket on October 1, to operate in low Earth orbit for about a year — artificialintelligence-news
• Oracle's data-center partner Stack Infrastructure received a force majeure notice tied to Project Jupiter, a 2.45-gigawatt campus that's part of Oracle's $400 billion, five-site data-center deal with OpenAI and SoftBank — artificialintelligence-news
• MIT's new AI control system let its tiny flying robot boost its speed by about 450% and complete 10 somersaults in 11 seconds — artificialintelligence-news

• Stocks closed higher Friday to end a volatile week — the S&P 500 rose 0.51% to 7,743.41, the Nasdaq gained 0.5% to 27,068.72 and the Dow jumped 0.93% (478.64 points) to 51,828.62 — as hopes for an Iran-war diplomatic breakthrough pushed oil prices lower — yahoo finance
• WTI crude fell 2.33% to $92.41 a barrel and Brent dropped 2.14% to $104.32 — yahoo finance
• Akamai shares rose 3% on news of its Anthropic cloud deal — yahoo finance
• Meta shares pulled back slightly Friday but ended the week up roughly 13% on continued enthusiasm for its Muse AI agent — yahoo finance
• The World Bank approved $750 million in financing for Türkiye's Agrifood Sector project to boost the competitiveness of its agricultural value chains — aa

• GLP-1 weight-loss and diabetes drugs were linked to nutritional deficiencies in nearly 1 in 6 children who take them — sciencedaily
• Lake Powell hit a record low water level amid a snow drought and unusually warm conditions across the Colorado River Basin — sciencedaily
• Scientists say the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a critical ocean current, is weakening in ways that could have global effects — sciencedaily
• Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix moved its race to Saturday this weekend because Sunday coincides with Azerbaijan's Remembrance Day — yahoo sports

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