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New federal government reports shed light on sweeping fiscal toll of Middle East conflict

Every day Ukraine keeps fighting, Russian influence grows weaker in the countries of the ex-USSR that Moscow refers to as the “near abroad.” Nowhere is this Russian retreat clearer than in Armenia, writes Joseph Epstein. The post With Putin overextended in Ukraine, Armenia is turning away from Russi

Jaime Magyera, BlackRock senior managing director and head of US Wealth and head of Retirement, said advisers are using artificial intelligence to help parse increasingly complex capital markets after AI company Anthropic announces new ties with Blackrock. Magyera also said that AI is helping create

Iran war cost hits $38 billion, forecast to rise $3 billion a month, CBO says Reuters

Concerns about catastrophic risks to humanity have put artificial intelligence at the top of the agenda for the leaders’ upcoming meeting. The post Don’t count on Trump and Xi to slow down AI. Don’t count them out either. appeared first on Atlantic Council.

How Beijing will weaponize digital chokepoints.

Trump has already undermined NATO and allied deterrence.

International flows into American equities exceed government debt for first time this century outside pandemic and aftermath of global financial crisis

The new prime minister wants a feelgood factor. But tax rises look all but inevitable — just to stay still

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe they possess something that should give them that privilege: Saud