Iran has approved no draft for a preliminary memorandum of understanding with the United States on ending the war, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the Iranian negotiating team.
“The dangers of AI sycophancy in the military domain far exceed those in daily life, posing a systemic erosion to operational cognitive chains, the quality of command decisions, and the resilience of human-machine collaboration”
Inflation is so high that it's erasing all wage gains.
Inflation: 4.2% in May for the past year
Wage growth: 3.4% in May for the past year.
Americans are getting squeezed financially. This isn't just "bad vibes" about the economy. There is real pain, especially for middle-class and lower-income households. It's tough because so many basic items are seeing sizable price increases: gas, electricity, food, medical care.
Oil strategists keep raising alarms over shrinking oil reserves. Carlyle's Jeff Currie: "It is robbing Peter to pay Paul -liquidating the buffer built over decades to suppress the very price signal that would trigger the investment response the mkt needs" https://t.co/tXF2pWyUo6
SoftBank Group is investing up to €75 billion (roughly $87 billion) to build and operate 5 GW of artificial intelligence data center capacity in France, creating Europe's largest AI infrastructure project.
U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase has overtaken Mizuho Bank of Japan to become the leading lender to SoftBank Group, as the Japanese tech investor pours cash into the artificial intelligence sector.
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@JavierBlas This uneven weather severely stresses crop yields—particularly in the Asia-Pacific—and frequently drives up crude oil demand and prices due to diminished hydroelectric output.
Despite objections from China and Russia, which said the United Nations Security Council had already ended its review of the Iran nuclear issue, the UN Security Council still held a public meeting early Wednesday morning and approved a procedural measure by vote. Sun Lei, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said in response that certain countries deliberately ignored the Security Council members' differences and concerns, forcibly pushed for the Security Council to reimpose sanctions on Iran, insisted on convening a Security Council meeting on an issue that has already been terminated, bearing full responsibility for the current difficulties facing the Council, China Central Television reported on Wednesday.
@zerohedge A secret Cabinet Office dossier revealed that over £28 billion in taxpayer money was inadvertently handed to terrorists, hostile states (such as Russia and China), and organized crime groups between 2015 and 2021. https://t.co/c9WAtcF2vZ
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had carried out attacks against a US base in Jordan and 21 other targets in the Gulf in retaliation for American strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported https://t.co/CvK95IfwNN
@Amena__Bakr How many times has Trump claimed an Iran deal is around the corner? Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 37 times. https://t.co/mEuZmgmLsC
@business The United States and China are locked in an escalating, multi-front battle for global AI supremacy, characterized by a fundamental divergence in strategy.
Chip giants launch a 3.91 billion yuan private equity fund to boost the country’s ‘hard tech’ sectors amid tightening US export curbs https://t.co/2uqSC3tZov
World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China.
Datacentre off Shanghai coast uses less power and water than land-based equivalent https://t.co/i1m98HidBh
If you don’t have your own supply chain, then how do you intervene [in the supply chain]? Only about 1 per cent of ASML’s sales are in Europe, compared to about 80 per cent in Asia. https://t.co/Zr8S8Ts4z5