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10-day Lebanon-Israel cease-fire goes into effect. US-Iran deal will take months, Gulf and Europe officials say—AND MORE
New York Times: A 10-day cease-fire went into effect at midnight on Friday morning in Lebanon. The truce…
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Cyberwar’s new frontier: How AI agents will threaten global security
Foreign Affairs: The same properties that make AI agents so capable are the ones that make them difficult to stop…
Xi welcomes slew of world leaders as Trump fights with allies
Bloomberg: President Xi Jinping is wrapping up what’s been an unusually busy week of diplomacy in Beijing, showcasing the fervent interest of…
Inside China’s probe of Meta’s ‘conspiratorial’ $2bn Manus deal
Financial Times: Chinese regulators have since mobilised across multiple agencies to review the transaction, drawing in bodies including the…
$10 billion startup training AI to replace white-collar workforce
Bloomberg: Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a…
Era of solo unicorn is near
Bloomberg: Thanks to AI hype, a billion-dollar startup with one person on the payroll could quickly go from fantasy to reality…
Acting ICE chief Todd Lyons resigns, a year into Trump’s deportation campaign
Washington Post: “This was not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one for me and my family at this time,” Lyons wrote to Homeland…
Sam Altman’s side hustles blur line between OpenAI’s interests and his own
Wall Street Journal: Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman’s personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts…
White House moves to give US agencies Anthropic Mythos access
Bloomberg: The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC’s powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major…
Former British ambassador to US Peter Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision
The Guardian: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by the Foreign Office to ensure he could…
Bill ‘against foreign interference’ announced by Macron, one year before presidential election
Le Monde: These instances of interference “have sometimes affected you ,” he told the newly elected municipal officials from the March…
Could digital twin make you into ‘superworker’?
BBC: Who owns an AI digital twin – the employer or the employee? Should people using them get paid more, since they’re able to do…
What is ‘Ozempic personality,’ and why does it make life feel ‘meh’?
Wall Street Journal: Doctors and patients across social media are reporting a kind of emotional flattening while on GLP-1 drugs…
Has era of mega-layoff arrived?
Wall Street Journal: Welcome to the era of the mega-layoff. In Silicon Valley and beyond, companies that are cutting staff are doing it with a…
EU countries to call for faster green transition over Iran fuel crisis
Politico Europe: European governments are poised to call for swifter deployment of clean energy to combat fossil fuel shocks as the Iran…
Online age checks coming in Europe
Politico: The EU is rolling out a way to check people’s ages online within weeks as it plows ahead with efforts to protect kids on the…
EU to relax merger rules in bid to create ‘European champions’
Financial Times: The European Commission will give greater weight to “innovation, investment and resilience of the internal market”, when…
US warns that buyers of Iranian oil could be hit with sanctions
Reuters: “We have told countries that if you are buying Iranian oil, that if Iranian money is sitting in your banks, we are now…
US, Iran weigh truce extension despite Hormuz blockade. Ship traffic stays way down — PLUS MORE
Bloomberg: The US and Iran are considering a two-week ceasefire extension to allow more time to negotiate a peace deal, according to a person…
China to drive weight-loss drug price war
Financial Times: More than 60 drugs are in advanced testing, with cheaper semaglutide versions on the way. China has the manufacturing scale…
Republicans worry White House ‘nonsense’ is hurting midterm prospects
Politico: A sputtering economy, high gas prices, a fight with the pope and a pair of foreign policy setbacks — in Pakistan and Hungary — have…
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