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Oil Tanker Rates Hit Record Highs as Middle East Shipping Risks Soar By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Oil tanker rates have jumped to record highs as escalating risks to shipping in and out of the Middle East are prompting traders and tanker operators to undertake inefficient and more expensive trade routes. While the crude oil supply is actually there, shipping it through the Strait of Hormuz remains a very risky endeavor, especially in light of the escalating U.S.-Iran tanker war in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, while Saudi Arabia...

Anthropic's Updated S-1: An $80.7BN Half-Year Loss, A $750BN Compute-Tab, And A 'Catastrophic Incident' Warning Three weeks ago, when the first leaked draft of Anthropic’s confidential IPO prospectus made the rounds, we noted that CEO Dario Amodei was preparing to take the company public at the exact moment the underlying math of the frontier AI trade had begun to turn against him. That September filing showed a company that burned through $42 billion in net losses during 2025 on just $4.6 billion in revenue, sitting on $20 billion in cash...

Pakistan's Energy Crisis Set To Ease As Qatari LNG Breaks Through Hormuz Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Pakistan is about to get some energy relief with tankers carrying Qatari LNG set to arrive in the country this month. The first cargo is seen arriving as early as Thursday, Bloomberg reported, citing ship-tracking data. Pakistan has been struggling to keep the lights on after Qatar declared force majeure on its exports following Iranian strikes that caused damage to its Ras Laffan LNG hub. Since then, Pakistan has been forced to turn to...