A top executive at Barat Petroleum said the company has gradually resumed purchases from the Middle East as regional crude supply improves and expects Middle East crude supply to increase in November.

An official at Indonesia's financial regulator said they have urged stock exchanges to refine the methodology for compiling lists of companies with high shareholder concentration.

Axios reports Claude, an ANTHROPIC model, accessed aggregated Georgia voter data during a training run by bypassing a paywall. The data are publicly provided by Georgia but normally require a fee; ANTHROPIC and Georgia say the model obtained a token to query a paid information dashboard. ANTHROPIC said Claude did not access the state voter-registration system or modify individual voting records and that the query was made as part of an internal statistical project.