UKMTO said on Oct 12 a tanker departing the Strait of Hormuz came under shelling.

Goldman Sachs raised its December 2026 Brent crude price forecast to $90/bbl.

Oct 12 — Microsoft launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model built on Alibaba's Qwen. Microsoft said the model was trained from Qwen3.5-9B and outperforms other LLMs and Jev 1.13.0 on latency and accuracy in structured decision tasks. CEO Satya Nadella said on social media Microsoft is testing the model across functions including incident response, quality control and scientific discovery.