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Oil routes in peril as attacks shut Saudi pipeline and Houthis threaten key waterway. White House weighs how to use Defense Production Act to expand US oil refining capacity—AND MORE
Washington Post: “This is the first day that Iran really started winning the war,” a Yemeni official said of Houthi territorial gains that give Tehran…
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C.I.A. releases intelligence sent to White House before Sept. 11
New York Times: The documents do not appear to contain major new revelations, and they remain redacted to obscure the sources of the…
Crypto investor pardoned by Trump donates £36 million to Farage’s Reform UK
Reuters: Delo, the British co-founder of crypto trading platform BitMEX who was convicted of a Bank Secrecy Act violation in the United…
Tech’s new rich suffering from ‘sudden wealth syndrome’
Bloomberg: Walling says the people who handle a windfall best tend to hold two ideas at once: “I worked really hard, and I got really lucky.”…
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Financial Times: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, prompting fears…
Anthropic says Iran used its American AI model to target U.S. navy warships
Wall Street Journal: An Iranian-linked group compiled information from ship and aircraft transponders, military photographs and commercial…
Cyberattack by rogue AI swarm stokes fears of out-of-control agents
Wall Street Journal: The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new…
MI5 chief says Britain faces greater danger now than on 9/11
Independent UK: “Sadly, mass-casualty terrorist ambition endures… but the terrorist threat now sits alongside strategic national security…
IMF ditched top candidate for chief economist job over Trump tariff remarks
Financial Times: LSE professor Ricardo Reis had said the US president’s trade war would hurt American consumers…
Republicans face tough midterm odds. Their convention told different story.
New York Times: Amid the glitz, glamour and party atmosphere of an unusual midterm convention in Dallas, the president boasted of his…
British man ‘prepared to sabotage UK drone factory for Russia’
Independent UK: Joshua Cammidge, 31, allegedly researched four drone manufacturing sites in Swindon in addition to a wifi jamming device and…
Some in G.O.P. balk at Trump’s $5,000 offer: ‘We’re $40 trillion in debt’
New York Times: Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir and a major Republican donor who was a co-host of a Wednesday night party at the Dallas…
Anthropic says it blocked possible attempts to use AI to develop bioweapons
CNN: The new report outlines five real-life case studies in which users “circumvented controls” that block users from specific regions and…
Behind scenes, Vance gathered unvarnished views of Iran war. Tehran producing ballistic missiles again—AND MORE
New York Times: Mr. Vance came away from some of his conversations with deep concerns about the overall strategy and the prospects for…
China overplayed its hand on critical minerals
Scott Morrison/Wall Street Journal: The virtue of the Trump administration’s measures is that they can’t be easily reversed by China’s market…
US grant for MAGA-aligned groups in Europe excludes French applicants over election fears
Reuters: The decision has already been communicated to French officials, one of the sources said. It reflects a recognition in Washington…
Farage donor scandal turns spotlight on UK polling industry
Politico: The scandal hinged on donations from undercover reporters posing as a wealthy American benefactor and his son that were used to pay…
Moscow claims Ukraine planned to start war between Russia and U.K.
New York Times: Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., arrested an unidentified Russian man, described as a former security…
Security guard at UK’s Moscow embassy accused of spying for Ukraine
Telegraph: The Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed the man, a Russian citizen working for an agency guarding the British embassy in Moscow,…
NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot
Reuters: Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret…
In Ukraine, fraud and waste rewarded with more weapons contracts
New York Times: Secret military audits reveal a military procurement system riddled with mismanagement. In 2024 alone, Ukraine lost $1.2…
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