ISSUE No. 025 · Personal Edition · Est. 2026
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
✈ 16 days until Jakarta


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A roughly 8 percent cut in pipeline gas has pulled Indonesia and Singapore into a widening diplomatic row.
Indonesia has cut pipelined gas to Singapore by about 8 percent as of Saturday, saying it is safeguarding domestic supplies. The reduction has since grown into a diplomatic spat. Singapore's foreign minister is now heading to Jakarta amid the tensions, while an Indonesian senior minister has taken a fresh swipe at Singapore over the supply cut.
Jakarta Post commentators see it differently. One column says Jakarta is gambling that resource nationalism, keeping gas at home to fuel domestic industry, can build real economic muscle. Another warns that Indonesia's credibility as an economic partner, its ability to attract long-term investment and its standing as a regional leader are all at stake. The foreign minister's visit comes as the row keeps mounting.


Four Paws assessed 332 brands and found more certification pledges, but little effort to cut animal-derived materials.
Animal welfare group Four Paws has assessed 332 fashion brands on how they use animal-derived materials. Its findings, reported by WWD, point to down as the material driving whatever shift is under way. Brands have made wider commitments to certification, which means more of them now promise that the animal materials they use meet an outside standard.
The catch is what the assessment did not find. Few brands are making efforts to actually reduce how much animal-derived material they use. In other words, the industry is getting better at labelling and certifying the materials it already relies on, not at moving away from them. For a business that talks often about sustainability, that gap between certifying and reducing is the part worth watching.



The sportswear giant will launch a new running line with Our Legacy's sustainability-focused WORK SHOP project.
Nike has announced it will team up with Our Legacy WORK SHOP to launch a new running line. WORK SHOP is a sustainability-focused project run by Our Legacy, the Stockholm, Sweden-based brand. Hypebeast reported the news on Tuesday.
The pairing is interesting because of who is involved. Nike is one of the biggest names in running, while Our Legacy is a Stockholm label whose WORK SHOP project is built around sustainability. Putting the two together suggests the collaboration is as much about how the clothes are made as how they look. Details of the line itself were not part of the announcement summary, so the pieces themselves are still to be seen.



Hundreds of pages of S-1 paperwork, and one analyst says investors are still owed more information.
Anthropic filed documents on Monday ahead of a blockbuster IPO, giving a rare look at the company's financials, risk factors and views on the future of AI. The S-1 filing runs to hundreds of pages. Even so, WIRED reports it leaves out quite a few financial details, and one analyst put it bluntly: "Anthropic owes investors more information."
The filing is also a window into how the company sees the road ahead. WIRED's companion reading calls it an AI doomsday primer, noting that Anthropic thinks "closing the loop" is the best path to AI triumph, and that the same approach is a recipe for "existential" threats to humanity. So the document pairs missing numbers with unusually frank warnings, which is why it deserves a careful read.













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