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Supreme leader calls for revenge in new message as Trump threatens Iran in overnight post. Nuclear deal unlikely, senior U.S officials confide—AND MORE
CNN: In his first message since the funeral of his father and predecessor, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement attributed to him…
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China again warns Russia not to use nuclear arms against Ukraine
Japan Times: Senior Chinese officials confirmed they’d relayed that message to Moscow in talks with a Western government ahead of this week’s…
AI’s soon-to-be billionaires want to know what to do with all that money
Washington Post: How they spend newfound billions could influence politics and civic life far outside the industry…
Apple sues OpenAI alleging theft of top-secret information
Financial Times: Apple claimed that the ChatGPT maker has used its former and current employees to steal hardware designs as the start-up…
Trump ups pressure on US companies in drive to lower prices
Financial Times: Donald Trump is piling pressure on US companies to cut prices as the war-driven surge in costs pushes inflation to a…
Merz casts himself as reformer to stem German far right’s rise
Politico Europe: A series of incremental reforms pushed through by the chancellor is unlikely to deliver the political inflection point needed…
Marco Rubio running Venezuela from afar
New York Times: The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its…
Trump admin subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns around new Air Force One
CNN: The Times said in its report that it will fight the court order, which is highly unusual and is a direct threat to the news media’s…
Europe considering proposals to allow navigation fees in strait of Hormuz
The Guardian: Europe is studying proposals that could allow navigation fees to be charged in the strait of Hormuz, provided the payments are…
News outlets urge judge to sanction OpenAI in high-stakes AI copyright fight
Associated Press: The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement…
Why Chat Control 1.0 is EU’s most Orwellian law yet
Euronews: A loophole in parliamentary procedure allowed MEPs to extend mass scanning of private communications until 2026 — without a direct…
Nobel-winning U.S. chemist will move to China to lead A.I. institute
New York Times: Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, will head an initiative to apply artificial intelligence to the…
OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups
Financial Times: The US companies confirmed to the FT that they have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba,…
EU threatens Instagram, Facebook with fines if it doesn’t change addictive design
Politico Europe: The EU executive issued its findings under the Digital Services Act on Friday, telling Meta to disable features like autoplay…
Continued myth of Russia’s imminent collapse: Lessons from Prigozhin’s mutiny three years on
Sean Wiswesser/The Cipher Brief: The third lesson is perhaps the most consequential. Putin’s system was never designed to depend solely on the…
Trump again declares ceasefire over but says US has agreed to talks with Iran. Israel shared intelligence with US of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump—AND MORE
CNN: President Donald Trump said the US has agreed to continue talks with Iran but that Washington has informed Tehran the ceasefire is over.…
How Trump’s tariffs really ‘work’
Wall Street Journal: But the President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost…
As consumers pare spending, grocery stores race to cut prices
New York Times: But while shoppers may get better deals on some items, their overall grocery bill is unlikely to fall. Prices across all food…
China, Russia and others seek to inflame debate over A.I. data centers
New York Times: China, Russia and, to a lesser extent, Iran have sought to use state media outlets to turn the controversy over data centers…
Volkswagen to slash half its models as sales fall
New York Times: Volkswagen said Thursday that it would cut the number of models it offered by as much as half to reduce costs and better…
EU Parliament passes Chat Control bill for mass scanning of private messages
Wired: Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to…
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