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US-Iran talks postponed, peace deal under stress as Israel’s strikes Hezbollah. Vance warns Israeli critics over Iran deal: Trump is your only ally—AND MORE
CNN: Vice President JD Vance is no longer traveling to Switzerland for US-Iran negotiations today, with talks postponed. Iran has asked for guarantees that hostilities…
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New Super PAC aims to rally tech workers to help limit A.I.
New York Times: The Guardrails Alliance, which has raised $5 million, is positioning itself as a populist effort that will take on the…
Whistleblower kidnapped after explosive South Sudan revelations
Financial Times: A South Sudanese businessman who helped expose alleged state capture has been kidnapped at gunpoint in Nairobi and bundled…
Italy’s Meloni says Trump ‘totally invented’ story that she begged him for photo
Reuters: Meloni said she was “astonished” by his comments, which were “completely made up”. She also chided him for acting with far greater…
Trump’s new acting intel chief Bill Pulte arrives early, eyes firing hundreds
CNN: The sources said Pulte is eyeing to cut hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Pulte’s…
Lutnick’s Anthropic crackdown claims new power over AI models
Bloomberg: The Trump administration’s push to rein in Anthropic PBC relies on an unprecedented use of export control laws and raises legal…
Sweden may oppose Tesla’s supervised self-driving tech in Europe over speeding concerns
Reuters: In a previously unreported letter dated April 30, obtained through a freedom of information request, the Swedish Transport…
White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
Reuters: The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further…
Burnham’s emphatic Makerfield win leaves Starmer and Labour MPs with big decision on leadership
BBC: It has allowed Burnham and his team to road test an argument here – and we can expect to hear more of it in the coming days and weeks –…
Your PC might soon demand proof of age before letting you browse. Here’s what to know
PC Mag: Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect your age…
Amazon retaliated against workers who supported regulating data centers, complaint says
New York Times: The complaint was filed on the workers’ behalf by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an independent group of corporate…
How Peter Thiel-linked dialog club secretly ranks its members
Wired: Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays…
Germany taps Israeli, Ukrainian missile companies after Trump setback
Politico Europe: Germany is turning to Israel and Ukraine to potentially acquire the low-cost, long-range cruise missiles it needs to deter…
Pentagon tells lawmakers it needs $80 billion for Iran war and other bills
Wall Street Journal: Pentagon leaders have said they could start running out of money for operations this summer unless Congress passes a new…
White House talks with Anthropic shift to setting AI security rules
Politico: While a resolution to export controls may still be a ways off, the shift toward a technical standards-setting exercise is a clear…
China ran secret police operation in heart of London
Telegraph: The Chinese state used the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) to run what a court heard were “shadow police operations” on…
Trump admin ramps up effort to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans
CNN: The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, significantly intensifying its effort to revoke…
JPMorgan Chase cuts off Anthropic access for its Hong Kong staff
Financial Times: One person with knowledge of the move said the decision was based on the wording of Anthropic’s usage terms in its…
Budget office redirects $352M in Secret Service funds to White House security
Washington Post: The White House and the Office of Management and Budget did not specify the purpose of the unusually large shift in response…
Hegseth announces review of US forces in Europe and again criticizes NATO allies
CNN: “This will be a real review. It will be designed to ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly towards Europe stepping up to take…
US and Iran sign initial agreement to end war but tougher talks lie ahead. Israel sees it as ‘catastrophic capitulation’—AND MORE
CNN: President Donald Trump signed a copy of the US-Iran agreement at the Palace of Versailles in France, concluding his G7 trip. The US then…
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