The Brief

Core inflation beat, and Wednesday’s Fed meeting is now priced as a hike · Fifteen ships went through the Bab el-Mandeb yesterday, and diesel hit $6.16 · A swarm of AI agents broke into 440 servers in 48 countries, and ignored its operator’s own exclusion list · On Monday, the open-ended student visa stops existing · A Boston judge stopped the government asking job applicants to write about advancing the President’s agenda · The US has traced Chinese commercial satellite imagery into the strike that killed three American soldiers · The bank examination threshold doubled on Monday, inside a housing law, without notice and comment · Florida & Tampa Bay: The state is investigating whether dengue killed a Hillsborough woman · plus fourteen short items under “Also today”

Boston judge stayed the civil-service essay · August CPI leaked into the core · Bab el-Mandeb halved, East-West dark, diesel $6.16 · Nvidia talks $10bn Anthropic IPO · FCC closed the Covered List component loophole · Chinese satellite imagery and the July troop deaths · JPMorgan wants two hikes · Frontier-lab staff on RSI · Japan’s next US money is for power plants · Florida: possible dengue death in Hillsborough · plus ten short items under “Also today”

Bab el-Mandeb traffic halved after Perim · US links Chinese satellite imagery to July troop deaths · JPMorgan now sees Sep and Dec hikes · Frontier-lab staff on RSI risk · Monday Oman is a meeting date, not a corridor · Florida: possible dengue death under investigation; vaccine comment closes Sunday · California AI conduct bills — 18 days · Duration of status ends Monday · plus ten short items under “Also today”

August CPI printed; diesel still an energy story · The Hormuz workaround was hit; Saudi crude at a three-decade low · Iran put a date on the Hormuz talks: Monday in Oman · Florida week 35 dengue — Hillsborough 95 of 111 · On Monday, every student visa stops being open-ended · Canada duty-list modifications bite Monday · California still has nineteen days on the AI conduct bills · MbS asked for Houthi strikes; Washington offered targeting help · Two structural defaults come off nonimmigrant status · plus eleven short items under “Also today”

Iran put a date on the Hormuz talks the evening cut could only stand up as rumour

The Houthis took the island in the middle of the Bab el-Mandeb, and now hold both sides of it · Diesel passed $6 a gallon this morning, and the government’s own print already set a record · Treasury declined to fill its own buyback, and the reason was partly in Frankfurt · A Yemeni weapons cell used Claude to write missile guidance software, its maker says · California has enacted the first AI audit laws in the country, with the labs’ blessing · DHS proposed this morning to end the 60 days an H-1B holder gets after losing a job · The US grounded 27 Iranian airlines on Monday, and the wind-down closes on the 23rd · Canada’s whisky, cheese and motorcycles stop entering the United States on 29 September · Florida & Tampa Bay: Pinellas wants to close seven schools, and the reason is the birth rate · plus eleven short items under “Also today”

The administration has proposed writing millions of people out of the count that apportions Congress · On Monday, every student visa in America stops being open-ended · Diesel rose 24 per cent at the factory gate last month, and producer prices are running at 5.4 per cent · The Supreme Court ended the Missouri map fight this morning, and the 2022 districts stand · The grid regulator has told all six market operators to justify how they connect data centres · Agencies skipped public comment on seven in ten major emergency rules, and GAO has now counted them · War-risk premiums on chip cargo are up 40 per cent · One Miami pilot warned the other they were too fast, repeatedly · Florida's missing dengue report finally published, and the number is 73 · plus nine short items under “Also today”

The U.S. destroyed five Iranian tankers; oil crossed $100 and diesel set a record this morning · Treasury tripled today’s buyback to $6 billion and long yields went up anyway · Missouri: a new application at the Supreme Court, and a contempt hearing, both at 10 a.m. · Anthropic disclosed a fourth model breach and handed its transcripts to an outside investigator · The Miami 767 touched down at 158 knots with no speedbrakes and no reversers · Where things stand: PPI at 8:30 this morning, CPI tomorrow, a hike-or-hold meeting on the 16th · Four AI bills sit on California’s governor’s desk with a 30 September deadline · Florida & Tampa Bay: Pasco’s school levy went up $17 million Tuesday · Florida & Tampa Bay: Physicians formally demanded a hearing on the school vaccine rule

Missouri now has two live, incompatible map orders · The official fuel print is Thursday, not this afternoon · Iran sketched the restricted zone. It still has not published coordinates

The SPR is under 290 million barrels; AAA diesel set an all-time high this morning · Where things stand: Friday’s CPI is the last print before a hike-or-hold meeting · Treasury’s enlarged long-end window opens today · Responses in the mail-ballot stay are due at 4 p.m. · Canada’s matching tariffs are now in force · Iran still has not published the restricted-zone coordinates · Florida & Tampa Bay: Helicopters sprayed South Tampa at 4 a.m.