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Vance says Microsoft replaced laid-off workers with foreign hires. Here’s what the visa data shows

AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge

Days of Deadly Houthi Attacks Show Saudi Arabia’s Vulnerabilities

U.S. backtracked on critical mineral, data demands in health deal with Zambia

Oil prices jump on tanker attacks and slowing flows through Strait of Hormuz

Bulgaria ends search for missing crew after drone strike sinks cargo ship

Scott Bessent’s Interview Gets Weirder and Weirder

Dalio Says We’re Nearing Point Where AI Bubble May Burst

Trump Accounts’ Extraordinary Expansion Puts Individual Stocks Into Kids’ Holdings

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Fewer young Americans are ‘thriving,’ poll finds

Stock Rally Poised to Lose Steam as Euro Declines: Markets Wrap

Ethiopia’s forces retake Mekelle amid renewed Tigray fighting

Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks

China closes hundreds of banks to bolster financial system

‘No Rules Now’: Putin Orders Civilian Attacks, Zelensky Says

Broadcom Starts Amassing $60 Billion to Fund Chips for Anthropic

OpenAI Blames Moonshot for Mass Data Extraction on Its AI Models

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz May Be Heading to David Ellison’s Paramount-Warner Bros.

AI could force 11 million US workers into new careers by 2035

Persian Gulf oil exports hit 72% of prewar levels

Oil gains over 1% as Trump rejects Iranian proposal to reopen Hormuz Strait

Foreign banks have expressed UBS merger interest, Swiss newspaper reports

Ethiopia’s army chief accuses Egypt and Sudan of backing armed alliance seeking to oust Abiy Ahmed

How Trump's diplomatic week exposed the limits of his power

U.S. Embassies Issue Security Alerts for 10 Countries—What Travelers Need to Know About Possible Flight Disruptions

Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

As Trump and Xi meet, Chinese automakers could be a Pandora's box for U.S. auto industry

Exclusive / Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment

EXCLUSIVE: IDB drafts two-year Venezuela plan, says electricity and social needs are key

Delcy Rodríguez cashes in on bargain with Trump

Exclusive / Murphy pushes for athlete unionization rights in college sports bill

OpenAI and Anthropic Neared Deal to Stress-Test Each Other’s AI

China expels two top generals from party and military, alleging disloyalty and corruption

Impotent Russian spy gave away state secrets in exchange for treatment

New tanker orders spike as Iran war redraws trade routes

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI

AI titans invited to Trump-Xi dinner

What CEOs Really Think About the AI Apocalypse Threat

Exclusive / White House makes closing argument on crypto bill

Exclusive / Cassidy rips RFK Jr. on vaccines: ‘This is not making America healthy again’

What to watch as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before Congress

Fed's table is set for a rate hike, a first under Warsh

Trump Pushes Fed to Lower Rates Despite Pressure to Raise Them

IEA warns global oil refining system ‘stretched to the limit’ as Iran, Ukraine wars tighten market

What's happened to al Qaeda in the 25 years since 9/11?

EXCLUSIVE: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot

NATO allies have foiled a secret Russian military plot targeting critical subsea infrastructure.

EU proposes simpler public tender rules, 'Buy European' criteria to cut foreign dependence

Exclusive / Justice Department to take a closer look at Fox’s $22 billion Roku deal

Singapore PM salary set to rise to $2.85M under political pay overhaul

Exclusive / Senate Republicans say crypto bill likely to fail

WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls

German Far-Right Surges, in Threat to Postwar Taboo on Extremists in Power

After Fighting Russia Fiercely, He Wants to Forge Ukraine’s Path to Peace

Oil Jumps for Fourth Straight Day and Diesel Nears Record High

Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

OpenAI's reports into its agents' attack on Hugging Face holds lessons for every company

Ukrainian soldiers are finding deceptive uses for their unjammable fiber-optic drones as ambush tactics spread

Meta bricked the cameras on thousands of its AI glasses

Exclusive / New Leon Black book picks fight with the Times