Articles by alephnerd
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Apple launches legal challenge against UK attempt to access encrypted user data (ft.com)

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The fading American Dream: Visa uncertainty drives Indian tech workers back home (thefederal.com)

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Mexico became a surprise cornerstone of America's AI boom (ft.com)

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Trump Admin Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students to Work Post-Grad (OPT) (bloomberglaw.com)

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U.S. Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation (wsj.com)

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Samsung Electronics, SK Group seal $950B in deals with AI firms (reuters.com)

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The Creator Economy Has a New Middle Class (bloomberg.com)

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The Full List of Trump's New Tariffs on 60 Economies (bloomberg.com)

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Google revenue surges on AI-driven boom in Cloud unit (ft.com)

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China weighs tighter export controls on AI models and chips (ft.com)

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'Made in EU' password manager shares codebase with Russian State-certified firm (brusselssignal.eu)

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EU to give industry more time to pollute and more funds to clean up (ft.com)

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EU set to axe 2039 net-zero industry target (euractiv.com)

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Brazil's Pix – The payments darling in Trump's tariff crosshairs (ft.com)

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Taliban 'National Keyboard' App Risks User Surveillance (afintl.com)

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The Taliban's Drone Manufacturing Program (themiddleeastuncovered.com)

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India to allocate $20B to semiconductor and smartphone manufacturing (techcrunch.com)

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Indian capital signs $1.57B subsidy to promotes EVs to tackle pollution (nikkei.com)

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IBM shares plunge 23% as customers shift spending to AI (ft.com)

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Meta's Louisiana Data Center Campus to Surpass $250B Price Tag (bloomberg.com)

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Learning from Brazil and India's Instant Payment Systems [pdf] (hks.harvard.edu)

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Battery startups see 'crazy' demand to smooth power surges in data centers (ft.com)

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Willy Wonka Competition Show at Netflix Uses AI to Re-Create Gene Wilder’s Voice (hollywoodreporter.com)

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US announces $17.5B in loans for nuclear power supply chain (reuters.com)

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Europe faces rising competition for energy from Asia (politico.eu)

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Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why? (ft.com)

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SPACs are back, thanks to Wall Street's mega-IPO frenzy (reuters.com)

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France's Mistral AI pursuing Palantir-style partnership with Kyiv (intelligenceonline.com)

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Asia is now buying America and nobody is talking about it (nikkei.com)

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AI-referred US shoppers browse longer, spend more per visit (reuters.com)

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Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity (economist.com)

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Justice Department Approves Paramount's Acquisition of Warner Bros (politico.com)

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China prepares $295B plan to fund nationwide AI data center buildout (reuters.com)

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China-linked operatives used ChatGPT to influence data centers debate (axios.com)

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Roblox Wants Deluge of Child Sex Abuse Cases Moved Out of Court (bloomberg.com)

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Bus, cars, houses torched in Belfast anti-immigration riots (thetimes.com)

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Alberta pitches cheap NatGas for data center boom, at odds with CA's green aims (reuters.com)

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Iran attack on Kuwait airport injures at least 63 and damages terminal building (reuters.com)

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Xavier Becerra has doubts about California's EV ambitions (politico.com)

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Leaked Files from Putin's Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated EU Elections (vsquare.org)

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Canada Dips into Technical Recession for First Time Since 2020 (bloomberg.com)

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China overhauls biggest surveillance network with advanced AI (ft.com)

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Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player (intelligenceonline.com)

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Europe regulated itself into American vassalage (economist.com)

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US manufacturing activity rises to four-year high in May, S&P flash PMI shows (reuters.com)

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StanChart to cut over 7k jobs and use AI to replace 'lower-value human capital' (reuters.com)

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NextEra and Dominion in talks over tie-up to create $400B US utility giant (ft.com)

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Iran's Internet Shutdown Enters Its 77th Day (mastodon.social)

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LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff in latest tech-sector cuts (reuters.com)

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US Adds 115,000 Jobs in April (ft.com)

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US Economy Grows 2%, Boosted by Surging AI Investment (bloomberg.com)

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Kalshi suspends 3 US congressional candidates for 'political insider trading' (reuters.com)

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China, India place strategic bets on clean energy (H2) out of favour in the West (reuters.com)

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Mass shooting reignites push to loosen gun laws in war-torn Ukraine (reuters.com)

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America's coming revolt is in the 'wired belt' (ft.com)

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AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you (reuters.com)

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Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine (thetimes.com)

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The AI build-out is powering global goods trade (ft.com)

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Grid Battery storage is now cheap enough to unleash India's full solar potential (ember-energy.org)

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More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class (wsj.com)

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TSMC plans 12 fabs in Arizona as supply chain shifts from passive to active (digitimes.com)

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AI Is Rewiring India's Film Industry (reuters.com)

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US economy beats expectations to add 178,000 jobs in March (ft.com)

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Tehran Accuses Ukraine of Active Participation in Iran War (kyivpost.com)

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RSA 2026 – How many exhibitors could be replaced by a weekend of vibe-coding? (vibecoded.vc)

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Cape Town Seeks to Emulate India's High-End Outsourcing Push (bloomberg.com)

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Distressed-debt funds target priv credit downturn as 'best opportunity' since 08 (ft.com)

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WTO reforms talks stalled amid U.S.-India digital services taxation deadlock (reuters.com)

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Europe's Tech Exodus Drained $1.4T in Value (bloomberg.com)

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OpenClaw lands in WeChat, signaling a new era of AI agents in messaging (digitimes.com)

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Japan Flags Concern over GCAP Due to UK Domestic Issues Delaying Contracting (asahi.com)

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Honda confirms EV continuity with Honda 0's Alpha testing in India (automotiveworld.com)

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[flagged] Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia (bbc.com)

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DOE Announces $293M Genesis Mission Funding for Quantum and AI Research (thequantuminsider.com)

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Europeans get a downgraded version of AI, which can only delay their adaptation (lemonde.fr)

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Thailand Is Sleepwalking into a Demographic Crisis (grantthornton.co.th)

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Tender offers are growing–but they're no exit replacement (pitchbook.com)

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Tata expands in India market with $7k EV (nikkei.com)

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EU axes AI, semiconductors, and quantum from the Industrial Accelerator Act (sdxcentral.com)

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EU strips AI, chips and quantum from industrial plan aimed at countering China (scmp.com)

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Poland says foiled cyberattack on nuclear center may have come from Iran (reuters.com)

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Goldman executive says private markets clients glad about Iran war 'distraction' (ft.com)

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Uber rolls out women-only option in the US (bbc.com)

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White supremacist social media grips teens plotting attacks in Southeast Asia (reuters.com)

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What We Forget About Covid Will Shape the Next Pandemic (bloomberg.com)

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US Won't Allow India to Become Rival Like China, Official Says (bloomberg.com)

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EU proposes "Made in EU" rules for strategic sectors to limit China reliance (reuters.com)

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Defense contractors removing Anthropic's AI after Trump ban (reuters.com)

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Pentagon moves to build AI tools for China cyber operations (ft.com)

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US role as global talent hub in doubt amid Donald Trump's visa crackdown (ft.com)

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Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude to Steal Sensitive Mexican Government Data (bloomberglaw.com)

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3-Nation chip pact takes shape: Japan's capital, Taiwan's IP, India's talent (digitimes.com)

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Iran nears deal to buy supersonic anti-ship missiles from China (reuters.com)

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US GDP growth falls sharply to 1.4% in fourth quarter (ft.com)

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Germany seeks more F-35 jets as European fighter programme falters (reuters.com)

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CIA, Pentagon reviewed secret 'Havana syndrome' device in Norway, WaPo reports (reuters.com)

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Trump admin releases Maritime Action Plan aimed at resurrecting US shipbuilding (reuters.com)

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The United States Is Southern Now (bloomberg.com)

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Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools (economist.com)

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Introducing Sarvam Arya (railway.app)