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US plans fresh strikes on Iran as soon as this weekend. Illicit Iranian gambling network helped pull off $4 billion sanctions dodge—AND MORE
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George Santos accused of ‘manipulative activity’ in prediction market trades
Washington Post: The former congressman agreed to pay $35,000 to settle charges by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which cited…
House push to integrate defense industries of Israel, U.S. draws scrutiny
Washington Post: “It compromises our sovereignty and hurts our national security by limiting our options,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen…
Tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily leave after crossing into Spanish territory of Ceuta
Associated Press: Some migrants swam several miles through the sea and faced down authorities who tried to turn them back with water cannons,…
Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations
Reuters: The feature, powered by Google’s Nano Banana 2 AI model, had allowed users to generate photorealistic images grounded in Google…
OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe
Reuters: The new breakouts were uncovered during the company’s publicly announced investigation into how one of its agents escaped what was…
Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems
Reuters: Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to…
Trump to appeal judge’s ruling denouncing I.R.S. suit as exercise in self-dealing
New York Times: The notice of appeal and a request to pause the judge’s order, both filed in Federal District Court in Miami, were the latest…
China smarter about subsidies than everybody else
Financial Times: US techies might retort that they do better without state help. Maybe so. But there is another key issue the IMF paper does…
Amazing tales from inside Nord Stream sabotage plot
Michael Isikoff and Jeff Stein: n September, 2022, powerful underwater explosions blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that had been built to…
China’s London ‘Super Embassy’ plan survives court challenge
Bloomberg: The UK’s approval of a new Chinese embassy in London was lawful, according to High Court judges, who found the government had…
‘The boss wants this money’: Inside Trump’s unprecedented fundraising operation
Wall Street Journal: Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from…
SpaceX moves to keep Chinese nationals, parts out of supply chain
Nikkei Asia: U.S. rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is taking aggressive measures to ensure there is no Chinese influence on its operations or…
Trump threatens to withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, dealing blow to nomination
New York Times: Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general suffered a serious blow on Thursday when President Trump threatened to…
In Silicon Valley, some say A.I. bubble would be just fine
New York Times: “Bubbles are a part of technology and innovation,” said Tomasz Tunguz, an investor at the venture capital firm Theory…
Musk plans to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in Midterms
New York Times: Mr. Musk, the world’s richest person, has authorized his super PAC to spend $100 million to $120 million on a new field…
Trump’s DOJ charged hundreds with assaulting officers. Many cases were dropped, but damage was done
Reuters: The Trump administration has brought criminal charges against at least 851 people accused of attacking or impeding federal officers,…
How Volkswagen’s flying-car dream crashed in China
Reuters: A bold venture in Beijing aimed to leapfrog rivals by developing a futuristic passenger drone for the super-rich. But behind the…
Donald Trump ‘not sure’ he will let Ukraine build Patriot missiles
Financial Times: “It’s a very extraordinary weapon, and . . . we have to be a little bit careful of who we licence to. We don’t really licence…
‘My life’s screwed’: Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts
Financial Times: “The losses are ballooning day by day. I am really stressed out. I don’t know what to do about it,” she said. “I’ve never…
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