Brazil: Lula wins a fourth term 51.79%–48.21%; Bolsonaro demands annulment, and the law says that's very hard

Monday, October twenty sixth, twenty twenty six — an unusually tech heavy day, with Brazil and Serbia now resolved.

First, tech and artificial intelligence. Anthropic filed its listing document with the S-E-C, planning a Nasdaq debut under the ticker A-N-T. First-half revenue: sixteen point three billion dollars, versus one point two billion a year earlier. Of the eighty point seven billion dollar headline net loss, seventy two point four billion is a non-cash accounting charge from Anthropic's own rising valuation. The real operating loss was six hundred ninety three million dollars. The sleeper number: roughly four hundred seventeen billion dollars in new compute obligations signed this year. The Wall Street Journal says a listing the week of November sixteenth at a valuation up to two trillion dollars — single-outlet, unconfirmed by Anthropic.

Second, tech security. Sunday's open question — whether the PHP2Shell bug moved from attempts to a confirmed breach — was answered today. A Perplexity researcher captured a complete remote-code-execution chain in his honeypots, and Marcus Hutchins called it the highest-quality confirmation seen. Keep the caveat: this is still one researcher's honeypot evidence. No vendor or government has confirmed a production-site compromise, and the flaws are not yet in the federal known-exploited catalog. The practical instruction is identical: patch PHP now, and treat every password that passed through a vulnerable server as potentially exposed. Microsoft shipped emergency fixes for a separate Brotli flaw, and the PHP project says two more emergency patches are imminent.

Third, tech and space. Elon Musk admitted he personally ordered speed restrictions on Starlink terminals in Ukraine — reversing his claim that the U-S government decided it, which Trump also denied. The Wall Street Journal reports the cap landed after Ukraine struck Russian refineries, and President Zelensky says the limits are still not fully lifted, hampering interceptor drones. Four Democratic senators are demanding answers, and a Republican congressman says if Musk ordered it, that is likely a violation of law. The accounts conflict: Reuters put the order inside the White House; Musk blamed Trump; Trump said it was not him. Musk's terms-of-service justification is also contested. Meanwhile, the Space Force signed a contract giving SpaceX unusual access to military space-tracking data.

Fourth, tech. Amazon built its one thousandth Leo satellite, with commercial service expected within weeks. Amazon claims download speeds three times Starlink's — the company's own unaudited numbers. The real story: after the Ukraine throttle, government buyers finally have a named second source.

Fifth, politics. In Brazil, Lula won a fourth term, fifty-one point seven nine percent to forty-eight point two one percent. Bolsonaro refuses to concede and is petitioning to annul the result. Analysts call reversal very improbable — the law requires proven irregularities nullifying more than half the votes. Expect street protests, not a courtroom reversal.

Sixth, politics again. In Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic conceded after fourteen years in power. The Student List won about fifty-two percent and a projected one hundred forty of two hundred fifty seats. One flag: pro-government media published an early partial count showing Vucic ahead, a minute before he conceded against his own party's fuller data.

And back to tech: OpenAI released G-P-T six point one Terra, a mid-tier work-agent model that reads screens and operates computers, at one tenth the flagship price. The performance figures are vendor-reported, and the tier was cancelled after failing internal safety tests before relaunching with the same safety stack.

Watch next: whether the government adds the PHP flaws to its known-exploited catalog, Brazil's court ruling on the annulment petition, Serbia's final seat count and next prime minister, whether Amazon's speed claims survive an independent benchmark, whether independent evaluators get hands on Terra, and the November third window around possible strikes involving Iran.