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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in BerlinThe west looks for signs of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s weakness in the form of a high-profile split in the elite, or falling popularity ratings as the public mood sours. Yet while the regime is under real pressure, it remains resilient. The erosion that matters is easier to miss — perhaps even a little dull. Fiscal discipline slipped long ago, and now budgetary processes and parliamentary checks are also being…

IOWA — Connie Klug didn’t leave the Republican Party. The party left her, she said.She was raised in the GOP, considers herself a fiscal conservative and married a registered Republican.But decades ago, Klug said, she felt the party drifting. The isolation she felt intensified more recently, as she watched her former political comrades turn a blind eye to what she views as President Donald Trump’s abuses of power.”It’s astonishing to me how the Republican Party is just looking the other way. Trump continues to stretch the law, and no one’s doing anything,” Klug said from the kitchen of her home…

OpenAI unveils custom chip it designed with Broadcom to boost its AI infrastructure Source link

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOpenAI and Broadcom on Wednesday unveiled their debut custom chip, called Jalapeño, marking the ChatGPT maker’s first entry into artificial intelligence silicon. The chips will be made by Broadcom and used by OpenAI for inference, the compute-intensive process of serving its AI models to users in ChatGPT and other applications. It’s a major step in OpenAI’s plan to “build the full stack behind its models and products,” according to the press release.”By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advanced AI toward broader access,”…

The Treasury Department will oversee Iranian funds when they are released under President Donald Trump’s interim Iran agreement, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.””A very large percentage of it will go to buy U.S. foodstuffs and medicines,” Bessent said, repeating what the president had said about how the unfrozen funds will be spent.The administration’s pledge has already run into a competing account from Tehran. Iranian officials on Tuesday rejected the idea that Washington or its partners would dictate how Iran spends unfrozen assets, saying any agricultural purchases would be based on price and quality rather than…

Dollar Extends Gains Without Support Of Higher Rates Source link

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressed confidence Wednesday that the U.S. economy can get back on the path to 3% growth as the Iran war nears conclusion.”We can have something with a three in front of it this year,” Bessent said in a live interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “The underlying economy has been strong.”Growth, however, has been slow over the past two quarters as the domestic economy has battled a number of factors including a resurgence in inflation, what had been a moderating labor market and the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.Gross domestic product rose at a 1.6% annualized…

SK Hynix targets $29 billion US listing as AI demand surges Source link

LOS ANGELES — Electric vehicle startup Slate Auto expects to defy challenging market conditions and avoid the losses its peers have seen by profitably selling a highly customizable EV that starts at just under $25,000.Slate CEO Peter Faricy said every vehicle produced by the Michigan-based EV startup — which is backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Los Angeles Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter — will be gross margin positive. That will lead the company to positive free cash flow and earnings before taxes, depreciation, and amortization by 2027, he said.”It’s an ambitious goal,” Faricy told CNBC during an interview…

Keir Starmer is set to face his first Prime Minister’s Questions since he announced his resignation as Labour leader. Source link