Asia stocks fall for third day, oil edges up as markets track Iran war

The war has reduced the passage of tankers through the strait to a trickle. Only 15 vessels have made the trip since Tuesday, compared to an average of almost 140 each day prior to the outbreak of the conflict, carrying a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies. Almost 800 ships have been left…

A number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, went down for many on Tuesday, due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare. Thousands of users began reporting issues with the sites, as well as other services, to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly after 11:30 GMT. Cloudflare said th “significant outage” occurred after a…

Both Fable and Mythos, which are essentially the same model but with different safeguards and levels of access in place, can work “unattended” on human commands that the tools are given for longer periods of time “than any previous Claude models.” Anthropic added.

US investment group RedBird Capital has pulled out of a deal to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £500m. RedBird had a previous attempt to buy the Telegraph rebuffed by politicians as it was majority-funded by Abu Dhabi’s IMI group – which is owned in turn by the Abu Dhabi royal family. A law…