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Trump and Netanyahu diverge on Iran war’s future in tense phone call. Iran signals ‘gaps’ reduced—AND MORE
CNN: Netanyahu made his disappointment known on Tuesday, telling Trump that he believed delaying the expected attacks was a mistake, and that the president should continue as planned, the US official said. During the hour-long conversation, Netanyahu pushed for a resumption of military action, an Israeli source familiar said. The divergence was clear: Trump wants…
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Russians waking up to economic catastrophe of Putin’s war
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EU bets Germany will back trade clampdown as ‘Chinese steamroller’ squeezes industry
Politico: Germany has for a long time been reluctant to jeopardize its trade ties with Beijing, fearing retaliation if it imposes…
Trump says he’s willing to talk to Taiwan’s leader, a major departure from diplomatic norms
CNN: US and Taiwanese presidents have not spoken directly since 1979, when Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei.…
Trump’s allies already lining up to apply to his $1.8 billion fund
Washington Post: Mark McCloskey is eagerly waiting for details to emerge on how to apply for the Trump administration’s new $1.8 billion…
NATO commander: Europe has no alternative to Palantir’s warfare tech
Politico Europe: “So they said: we’ll take something off the shelf that the United States used,” Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme Allied…
Leaked: Secret Chinese surveillance programme tracking people like me
Telegraph: Foreign students, foreign spouses of Chinese citizens and even foreign journalists, including The Telegraph’s, were included in the…
Trump moves to police frontier AI models
Politico: The directive would ask tech companies to submit their advanced AI models to a review by federal agencies, people familiar with the…
Mind-blowing growth about to propel Anthropic into its first profitable quarter
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic’s revenue is set to more than double to $10.9 billion in the second quarter, an explosive rate of growth that…
Airbnb’s Chesky says US ‘misunderstanding’ use of Chinese open-source AI models
Bloomberg: Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky defended his company’s use of Chinese artificial intelligence models, saying US…
Inside Israel’s high-tech campaign to kill or capture every Oct. 7 attacker
Wall Street Journal: One by one, militants who videotaped their exploits that day have been identified and killed, in a measure of Israel’s…
Former Austrian intelligence official convicted of spying for Russia
Financial Times: Egisto Ott, an accomplice to fugitive Jan Marsalek, found guilty in European country’s largest postwar espionage trial.…
Pentagon official’s Beijing visit in doubt over $14bn US arms package for Taiwan
Financial Times: Elbridge Colby, under-secretary of defence for policy, has discussed a summer visit to Beijing with Chinese officials,…
JPMorgan banker fights back over ‘fabricated’ sex harassment claims
Financial Times: In a filing late on Tuesday, lawyers for Lorna Hajdini said the salacious claims were “entirely false, malicious, and…
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Le Grand Continent: While the first enthusiasm generated by AI in Generation Z is fading, we wanted to understand what it was like for a group…
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Politico: Astonishment is rippling through tax world at a settlement that goes far beyond the specifics of Trump’s suit — he sought billions…
Jan. 6 police officers sue to block Trump’s payout fund
New York Times: The two officers accused the administration of creating a “slush fund” to reward rioters and groups that committed violence on…
These 5 charts show how ChatGPT is flooding our lives
Washington Post: See the data that illustrates how ChatGPT has sparked a surge in the number of new books, scientific papers, self-filed…
US raises pressure on Cuba with indictment of former leader as island’s president condemns charges
Associated Press: The indictment accuses Castro of ordering the shootdown of two small planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the…
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