UK inflation rose to 3.5% in September as motor fuel prices surged 30% amid Iran war disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, putting the Bank of England on track to raise rates to 4% in November.
In Nashville lectures framing AI regulation as a path to centralized control, Peter Thiel accused Barack Obama and Pope Leo XIV of using public anxiety about artificial intelligence to boost their own influence.
A deadly run of Houthi missile strikes on Saudi airports and Aramco's headquarters is reviving investor security fears just weeks before Riyadh's flagship Future Investment Initiative summit.
The Treasury Department has finished auto-enrolling nearly 70 million children in tax-advantaged "Trump Accounts," but parents still have to actively claim each account before the money can be invested or used.
A bipartisan Senate bill would fast-track permits for solar farms, power lines, and pipelines alike as data center power demand strains the grid, but environmental groups warn it guts bedrock protections.
Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg are among a growing class of ultrawealthy buyers quietly acquiring nearby homes to house staff and family, often through LLCs designed to keep the true owner's identity hidden.
Patagonia's $100-per-referral voting incentive sold out in four days, reaching nearly 500,000 people ahead of the midterms — and doubling as a new front in the company's fight with the Trump administration over public lands.
Animoca Brands president Evan Auyang says his years running a Hong Kong bus operator shape how he sees stablecoins — as regulated public infrastructure, not the next speculative crypto boom.
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The Australian mining billionaire is racing to strip fossil fuels from Fortescue's iron ore operations by 2030 while funding a parallel effort to build a harder-to-target power grid for Ukraine.
Insilico Medicine's Alex Zhavoronkov says Chinese regulators, not just AI, are why his company's lung-fibrosis drug became the first AI-discovered treatment to reach large-scale trials, part of a bet that China, not the US or Europe, becomes biotech's next capital.
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The 10-year Treasury yield hit 4.92%, its highest since 2023, as oil above $100 a barrel and ugly inflation data push investors to price in a Fed hike before Kevin Warsh's Fed has even decided one. Economists warn the bond market's own tightening could overshoot.
With Wall Street pricing in a September hike after Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole remarks, the White House is mounting an unusually broad pressure campaign against the very Fed chair Trump nominated to be more dovish.
An expanded class action alleges Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses fed intimate footage of unknowing bystanders to overseas data-labeling workers, an outsourcing pipeline first exposed by Swedish reporters, to train its AI models.
The Givati Brigade Association has launched a new drone innovation center aimed at competing in the trillion-dollar global defense industry, pairing institutional leadership with a field-tested development model built around live battlefield data.
John Ternus is now Apple's CEO, but Cook is staying on as executive chairman specifically to keep handling policymakers and regulators, a split that reflects how much Apple's trade, tariff, and antitrust exposure still needs a government-facing executive at the top.
The Court didn't rule on whether Trump's order restricting mail-in voting is legal, only that the states suing over it moved too soon. Justice Jackson's dissent warns the same logic could let a final rule take effect too late for states to stop it before November.
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A bomb-carrying drone near a Ukraine supply hub, foreign agents tailing a drone-parts CEO, and a disinformation blitz on state elections: Elisabeth Braw traces a pattern of likely Russian gray-zone attacks that shows vulnerability, not hostility, is what makes a target.
A new State Department initiative recruits defense and surveillance tech firms to advise on digital freedom of expression, a pairing experts call baffling given the companies' own track records on data collection and border surveillance.
Bolivia holds a fifth of the world's lithium but mines almost none of it. President Rodrigo Paz needs a constitutional change and Indigenous buy-in to fix that, while residents around the Salar de Uyuni say opaque contracts with China and Russia have already cost the government their trust.
Alliances
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement treats an attack on any one signatory as an attack on all three, pairing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, Turkey's military and drone industry, and Saudi oil wealth in a pact officials call defensive but that Iran and Israel are already reading as aimed at them.
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Days after Moscow warned Britain would 'pay a higher price' for arming Kyiv with long-range drones, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged the UK's support for Ukraine is '100 percent' and unchanged.
After absorbing thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks and years of quiet economic ties, the UAE halted all trade and financial transactions with Tehran, a sharp escalation that landed hours after a call between Trump and the UAE's president.
With a 72-hour tariff pause running out, Washington and Ottawa are trading concessions on steel, autos, and lumber, and Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is heading into the deal from a position of strength.
Sanctions
Tehran is promising a crushing response to Washington's threatened new sanctions package, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly pressures China, Iran's largest oil buyer, to fall in line. Beijing is refusing.
Ecuador's Daniel Noboa has staked his presidency on a close partnership with Washington, but a stalled economy and a second state visit to Beijing show he isn't willing to leave Chinese trade and investment on the table.
The engineer tapped to run Gaza's postwar administration wants to push war rubble into the sea within three years, but Palestinians fear the technocratic National Committee he leads is built to make economic recovery a substitute for self-determination.
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