[Overnight global news you need to know on Thursday: The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively closed down; the Federal Reserve minutes showed unanimous support for a September interest rate hike, with most participants leaning toward another rate hike within the year; senior Iranian officials said Iran will never give up its right to enrich uranium] 1. The minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting showed that there was unanimous support for raising interest rates at the September meeting, and most participants preferred another rate increase within the year. 2. Iran stated that it will soon block the "illegal" passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and that the range of weapons can be expanded according to battlefield needs. Iran reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until its demands are met. 3. The International Energy Agency issued a statement on the 7th saying that its member governments agreed to speed up the implementation of the oil reserve release plan announced in March this year. If all previously committed but not yet released reserves are put on the market, it is expected that about 100 million barrels of oil will be released. 4. Yahya Saraya, the military spokesman of the Houthi armed forces in Yemen, issued a statement on the social media platform on the 7th, saying that in the past 24 hours, Saudi Arabia launched 156 air strikes and missile attacks on six provinces in Yemen. 5. A senior Iranian official said that the United States’ recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium is Iran’s “red line” and Iran will never make any concessions on this point. 6. Saudi Arabia’s General Civil Aviation Authority issued a statement on the 7th saying that Abha International Airport in southwest Saudi Arabia and King Khalid International Airport in the capital Riyadh were attacked from the 6th to the 7th, resulting in a total of 3 deaths and 36 injuries. 7. The British Maritime Trade Action Office issued a report on the 7th saying that an oil tanker was hit by multiple projectiles in the waters near Qatar that day and reported casualties. 8. OpenAI fully launches GPT-6 for all ChatGPT free and paid users around the world, officially replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA. 9. Anthropic released the latest AI model Claude Haiku 5.5, which is used to perform cost-sensitive tasks. The pricing of the new model is significantly lower than that of Haiku 4.5. 10. Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for its project to develop customized artificial intelligence (AI) chips in cooperation with OpenAI. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group are among the lenders in talks to participate in the financing, people familiar with the matter said. 11. Solidigm, a subsidiary of Hynix, has selected the lead investment bank for its U.S. initial public offering next year, including Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley. The IPO is expected to raise approximately US$10 billion, and it will be officially listed as soon as 2027, with a post-investment valuation of up to US$100 billion. 12. RTX Spark equipped with NVIDIA chips has officially started pre-sale. Also unveiled at the same time is NVIDIA's first desktop AI supercomputer specially built for Windows enterprise desktops - NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows preview version. 13. The one-year inflation expectation of the New York Fed in the United States in September was 3.9%, the highest level since May 2023. The expectation is 3.64%, compared with the previous value of 3.58%. 14. The World Gold Council reported that global gold ETFs attracted US$10 billion in September, pushing third-quarter inflows to a record US$31 billion, led by European and North American listed funds. 15. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a proposed rule on the 7th that would impose high fees on international students using the "Selective Internship Training" program to work in the United States. This is the latest move by the U.S. government to tighten policies related to international students. 16. The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively closed down, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.66%, the Nasdaq Composite Index falling 0.22%, and the S&P 500 Index falling 0.22%. Popular technology stocks had mixed gains and losses. Micron Technology rose by more than 4%, Super Micro Computer rose by more than 3%, and Meta, SpaceX, Qualcomm, and SK Hynix fell by more than 2%. 17. The major European stock indexes closed generally lower. The UK's FTSE 100 index fell by 0.79%, the French CAC40 index fell by 1.44%, the German DAX30 index fell by 1.41%, and the FTSE Italian MIB index fell by 2.51%. 18. The settlement price of WTI crude oil futures was US$88.28/barrel, down US$1.16, or 1.30%. Brent crude oil futures settled at $100.20 per barrel, down $0.38, or 0.38%. 19. COMEX gold futures closed down 1.2% at US$4,136.7 per ounce; COMEX silver futures fell by 2.5% at US$60.05 per ounce.