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Trump holds off on major escalation against Iran as advisers raise concerns. Iran’s best missile getting more dangerous—AND MORE
New York Times: President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran, with particular concern…
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Sweden launching its own MI6
The Economist: The new agency is the brainchild of Carl Bildt, a former prime minister, who published a review into Sweden’s spying apparatus…
Japan startled by Prime Minister’s grueling sleep schedule
New York Times: Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life…
Silicon Valley splits over closing borders to Chinese A.I.
New York Times: On one side are leading A.I. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which claim that some A.I. models are too dangerous to be…
Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system
Washington Post: The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a…
Trump’s insult-laden speech to press dinner draws mostly stunned silence
Washington Post: President Donald Trump attacked a slew of journalists and some of his favorite political foils at a slimmed-down redo of the…
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
Financial Times: But I didn’t want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about addiction and dehumanisation, about power and…
Maha Inc: Companies tied to Kennedy’s movement poised to benefit
Financial Times: One likely beneficiary is Enhanced Group, a telehealth company whose investors include Donald Trump Jr. It is preparing to…
Kim Jong Un upgrading his spy network
Wall Street Journal: In a rare mention of the country’s spy program earlier this month, he presided over a meeting that called for “radical”…
Islamic bookshops allowed to bring ‘skilled’ migrant workers to Britain
Telegraph: Islamic bookshops selling anti-Semitic texts have been granted the right to bring “skilled” migrants to Britain, The Telegraph can…
EU waters down Russia sanctions over fears China could seize key LNG assets
SCMP: Bloc concludes banning Greek companies from transporting Russian gas to third countries may hand strategic shipping advantages to Beijing…
New warnings that Russian operatives are targeting emails of US nuclear scientists and defense contractors
CNN: Their targets suggested an interest in nuclear fusion technology and intelligence that may aid in the Kremlin’s war with Ukraine. US…
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against ‘premature restrictions’ of open-weight models
CNBC: “Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe: they can be breached, misused, or fail in ways that outsiders cannot detect,”…
US small businesses file lawsuit challenging Trump’s new ‘forced labor’ tariffs
Reuters: The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, argues that the new tariffs require more detailed…
Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for week
Reuters: The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t notice until well after…
Knives out for Vance in GOP. His allies say it’s coordinated ‘op.’
Washington Post: Vance’s political team remains dismissive of the social media onslaught and its impact on Republican voters, believing that…
Paramount delays merger with Warner Bros. that would fold in CNN
Washington Post: Paramount Skydance said Friday that it had agreed to halt its merger with fellow Hollywood heavyweight Warner Bros. until as…
Yang Zhilin, rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI
Financial Times: “The fact that Yang could get top grades while doing all that made him famous at Tsinghua,” one former classmate said.…
US tech groups cut 140,000 jobs despite AI spending boom
Financial Times: Sweeping job cuts have become the norm in Silicon Valley since the Covid-19 pandemic, when companies embarked on a hiring…
ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan removed from post over sexual misconduct allegations
Associated Press: By a large majority, the ICC’s 125-member states ousted Khan from his position, the first time a chief prosecutor has ever…
Trump threatens EU with ‘substantial TARIFF’ for ‘ROBBING’ U.S. tech giants
CNBC: President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union that will cancel hefty fines…
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