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Iran, US widen attacks as renewed conflict shows no sign of de-escalating. Trump faces limits of U.S firepower—AND MORE
CNN: Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan have come under Iranian fire, with Iran also claiming it targeted US military assets in Bahrain and Oman, in what…
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Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says
The Guardian: In a letter to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, the Republican senator Josh Hawley demanded to know what measures Meta had taken to…
Pentagon dangles $400,000 salaries to recruit Wall Street bankers
Wall Street Journal: The Pentagon has spent the past few months amassing a small army of bankers, consultants and hired specialists. Their…
China’s Moonshot unveils world’s largest open AI model, closing in on U.S. rivals
Reuters: The launch, which comes a month after Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models were abruptly withdrawn by the U.S. government due to…
Andy Burnham declared leader of UK’s Labour Party, pledges to restore hope
ABC: Burnham brings a more relaxed style of leadership than the rather stern Starmer, and is regarded as one of the Labour Party’s best…
Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Financial Times: Apple has targeted dozens of OpenAI employees who once worked for the company with personal legal warnings as it looks for…
Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of president’s posts
Financial Times: Trump Media & Technology Group has quoted the six-figure monthly sum in talks with prospective buyers of the “Truth API” data…
China’s leader pitches ‘openness’ in push to shape A.I.’s future
New York Times: Xi Jinping said the development of artificial intelligence systems should be a “symphony of global collaboration.”…
Meta in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in potential $10 billion deal
New York Times: A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business…
America’s enterprising spirit booming after decades-long slump
New York Times: Hundreds of thousands of people are creating companies each year, ending a decades-long drought…
Trump regulator orders Kalshi to defy Michigan court – escalating battle over prediction markets
CNN: The Trump administration took an extraordinary step this week to escalate its nationwide efforts to prevent states from regulating…
Trump tests China relations with election meddling claims
Washington Post: Declassified documents released by the White House during the address included an intelligence assessment that China obtained…
Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity
Washington Post: The broadcasters did not specify why they declined to air the speech, but networks are often loath to grant time to…
Trump brings full weight of govt to bolster false election claims
New York Times: Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Postal Service have…
Trump alleges China meddled in 2020 election, questions voting security ahead of midterms
BBC: In the half-hour speech, delivered three months before the midterm elections, he said he had declassified hundreds of intelligence files…
Iran releases U.S. citizen in goodwill gesture, Trump says
Washington Post: It’s not clear if Karari’s release indicates progress in negotiations to end the war. Iran and the United States have been…
US lawmakers urge Trump admin to ban Chinese memory chips
Financial Times: In a letter to commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, Moolenaar and Democratic congressman George Whitesides said dependence on…
Trump admin says leftwing extremism is ‘fatal cancer to civilisation’
Financial Times: If left unchecked, political violence from the left “always becomes a Gulag”, Miller told the gathering, which was attended…
Americans angry about data centers. Politicians feeling pressure
Reuters: “Too often local communities just don’t have the capacity to withstand the pressure that huge corporations can put on them,” he said…
US networks face dilemma over whether to air Trump’s election security speech
Reuters: U.S. television networks are weighing whether to carry a planned primetime address on Thursday by President Donald Trump, who is…
Debt collectors chase more consumers in court
Wall Street Journal: “This represents a lagging indicator that shows the financial and economic stress a lot of Americans have been facing…
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