Elon Musk has donated more than $276 million to Republican groups and super PACs since early July, making him the largest single donor in U.S. midterm history. He gave $158 million this summer to the Senate Leadership Fund to help defend the GOP Senate majority. Musk also contributed over $76 million to a super PAC he founded in 2024, America PAC, to build a large voter‑mobilization operation targeting hard‑to‑reach Republican voters. For the 2025–26 federal cycle he has donated about $366 milli

On Oct. 13 Dalian Commodity Exchange deputy general manager Wang Yufei said at the 19th International Oilseed and Oil Conference that, beyond traditional trade houses, an increasing number of steelmakers are adopting futures. Price-lock hedging on long orders has moved from isolated cases to a standard model and basis trading has shifted from pilot to routine. Futures are increasingly used as benchmarks for production scheduling, procurement and sales. This year coking-coal and coke options were launched, bringing core coal–coke–ore contracts under combined futures and options coverage and further completing the industry risk-management toolbox; derivatives are becoming an increasingly important hedge against market volatility.

美國參議員桑德斯：我們必須在爲時已晚之前暫停先進人工智能的發展，並永久禁止人工超級智能（ASI）。