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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945. The conflict between Iran, the US and Israel has seen 12 countries in the Middle East directly involved in fighting — making it the most widespread war in the region for decades. In east Asia, North Korea is pursuing a rapid military build-up and has renounced the goal of peaceful reunification with the South. Meanwhile, China has stepped up its naval exercises around Taiwan and seems…

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Investing.com — stock is sliding 4.5% in morning trading after the regional lender’s pre-market Q2 2026 earnings report delivered a mixed set of results that left investors focused squarely on the revenue shortfall. Total revenue came in at $196.9 million, up 12% year over year but below the roughly $199.7 million Wall Street had anticipated, while net interest income of $153.6 million fell short of the approximately $156.7 million projection — a notable miss for a metric that analysts had flagged as the key watchpoint heading into the report. On the positive side, diluted EPS of $1.47 edged past the…

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This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Monday and Friday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersAnother day, another tariff. Last week, President Donald Trump created more of the sort of chaos he loves by throwing down the tariff gauntlet again to dozens of nations. Some of it was about trying to make sure forced labour is being taken out of the supply chains of nations sending goods to the US. Some of it was about using antiquated rules…

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Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new artificial intelligence safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyberattack committed by rogue OpenAI models continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to defend itself, with guardrails not distinguishing between aggressor and defender. Instead, it turned to a self-hosted, open-weight Chinese model, which was not bound by those same restrictions.In the wake of U.S. lawmakers increasingly weighing how to curb growing adoption of Chinese AI models, the most advanced…

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A forest fire rages in Saint-Jean-d’Illac, some 30km from Bordeaux, on July 26, 2026.Romain Perrocheau | Afp | Getty ImagesA monster wildfire engulfing parts of France’s Bordeaux region has claimed hundreds and thousands of acres of land and forced one of the largest evacuations in the country. The fire began in the Southwest of France in Gironde last Wednesday and has burned nearly 104,000 acres in France, and around 190,000 acres in the Avila and Toledo areas in Western Madrid. In what’s been described as an “unprecedented” and “historic” situation, France has seen almost 250,000 acres burned since the beginning…

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Goldman told Ars that although the copyright meme case is niche, the significance of a win for Saflor could resonate beyond the meme ecosystem and inform some of the biggest AI copyright fights. It matters that the meme generator’s outputs include actual copies of Saflor’s original work, Goldman said. In some of the most high-stakes AI copyright fights, a “big contention” among model makers that’s key to their defense is that original works are not included in outputs, Goldman pointed out. “And we’ve seen where the copyright owners are able to replicate identical outputs, that actually makes the cases much…

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Voters across Greater Manchester will head to the polls on Thursday to elect a new mayor for the city region.It is a very important role – only the prime minister and the mayor of London have more power in English politics. After Andy Burnham was elected in the Makerfield by-election last month, paving his way to Downing Street, he automatically had to resign as Greater Manchester’s mayor.Labour’s candidate to replace him is the current leader of Manchester City Council, Bev Craig.She faces a tougher task in the other nine boroughs. While Labour has often won elections across the city region,…

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