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2026-10-26 14:00 UTC | BLOCK 973243
BITCOIN $79,930 | GOLD $4,004 | OIL $110.23

1. Anthropic Files for Nasdaq Debut in Test of AI Valuations
-- Anthropic filed a prospectus to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, a debut the Financial Times says could be the largest in stock-market history; the BBC reports the company's expected valuation exceeds SpaceX's roughly $1.8 trillion.
-- A public listing hands investors the first audited look at a frontier AI developer's economics, and CNA's reading of the filing flags explosive growth, material risks and staggering costs; a weak reception would make equity a costlier way to fund the industry's computing build-out, with OpenAI expected to follow early next year.

2. Democrats Lay Groundwork to Probe Trump's Russian Diesel Deal
-- Four Senate Democrats in line to chair the Foreign Relations, Banking, Finance and Judiciary committees told major banks and ports to preserve records tied to Russian diesel imports and related deals, Axios reported, with Rep. Greg Meeks, in line for the Foreign Affairs gavel, joining the demand.
-- The letters turn a trade dispute into document preservation across banks and port operators and signal that Democratic gains in November would carry the Russia file into corporate records; the senators argue that importing Russian diesel may raise legal questions and invite litigation, not only hearings.

3. Zelensky Says Hegseth Has Stalled Patriot Missile Approval for Nearly a Month
-- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has waited nearly a month for U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to sign off on interceptor missiles for Patriot and NASAMS systems, with Kyiv pressing Washington, Europe and other holders of PAC-2 and PAC-3 stocks.
-- Missile supply rather than launchers now gates Ukraine's air defence as Russian strikes hit generation and industry, leaving fewer interceptors ahead of winter and a concrete item for Kyiv to press at November's Ramstein meeting.

4. Apollo to Buy Nearly 10% of Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital
-- Apollo Global agreed to buy almost a 10% stake in Mubadala Capital, the Abu Dhabi-backed alternative asset manager, extending the U.S. firm's presence in a city CNBC calls the "capital of capital".
-- Gulf sovereign capital has become a core funding channel for Western private-markets firms, and holding equity in a sovereign-linked manager gives Apollo a claim on its fee income and co-investment flow rather than just access to committed money.