Trump said the US is cooperating with Venezuela to extract millions of barrels of oil to supply the United States.

Beijing Huixi Technology Co. registered for IPO counseling with the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau on Oct 28, 2026, indicating plans to pursue an initial public offering and listing. CITIC Securities is the counseling sponsor. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Daxing, Beijing, the company develops high-compute chips for embodied intelligence and aims to build a full-stack compute platform for that market.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has moved to slow data‑center construction ahead of midterm elections, and the policy shift is already affecting developers. Abbott has shifted from a pro‑development stance to a skeptical one, prompting developers to consider relocating projects to Utah, Georgia and Iowa. The change risks slowing Texas’s data‑center growth; the state had been positioned to overtake Virginia as the largest global hub. Abbott has ordered the state environmental regulator to stop issuing any data‑center permits until the state grid operator completes evaluations of applicants seeking power interconnection, and those applicants are currently awaiting approval to connect to the grid.