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🟡 @Klarna — best known as a buy now, pay later — came of age during the e-commerce boom. But as AI takes over everything, including our shopping, @lizrhoffman and @rogoswami ask @klarnaseb about what an agentic commerce future means for his business.
They also ask if Klarna will eventually become a bank, the truth about his AI customer service experiment, whether people should really be financing their DoorDash orders, and much more.
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White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access - Scoop from @ReedAlbergotti
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.@ReedAlbergotti scoop: Concerns about specific China-linked accessed to Mythos part of the White House Anthropic move semafor.com/article/06/13/20…
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🟡 SCOOP: The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic’s powerful Mythos AI model partly over suspicions that a China-linked group had accessed it, @ReedAlbergotti reports.
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Honeywell’s CEO on ‘the brutal truth’ about breaking up an industrial giant
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UFC ‘spectacle’ is about a show, not winning votes
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DR Congo’s sports minister said US Ebola travel restrictions are going “too far” after they kept him waiting in Europe under a 21-day entry rule and forced changes to his country’s first World Cup plans in 52 years.
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How AI is helping fight the latest Ebola outbreak
Read the full view from @alexisak:
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Amazon applies for approval to build its first African satellite ground station in Kenya.
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The UAE has become the main destination for conflict minerals from the Central African Republic, placing Dubai at the center of a lucrative trade in gold and diamonds tied to armed groups and foreign smuggling networks.
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A report from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime shows almost all of CAR’s officially declared gold exports since 2023 have been destined for the UAE, the investigation found — a pattern which echoes UN findings in Sudan, where Dubai-based networks have been linked to gold flows financing the Rapid Support Forces.
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Saudi Arabia’s Growth Catalyst raised $96 million to back companies in the kingdom, making it one of the first private sector investors to close a fundraising round since the onset of the Iran war.
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Momentum grows for Africa’s largest-ever initial public offering by Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery.
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Mexico triumphs over South Africa 2-0 in World Cup opener.
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Switzerland will vote this weekend in a referendum on whether to cap its population at 10 million.
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The Wall Street regulator overseeing prediction markets is so confident in his effort to box out states and tribes that he would “welcome” a Supreme Court ruling on the issue.
“A Supreme Court ruling on this really will settle the matter — but Congress did so when it drafted our statute,” @CFTC @ChairmanSelig tells @Eleanor_Mueller.
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Congress is moving to put more pressure on Sudan’s warring factions, as the three-year war perpetuates one of the globe’s worst humanitarian crises.
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📻@semafor politics reporter @daveweigel joins @bryancurtis and @DavidShoemaker on @thepressboxpod to talk about the Senate race in Texas, the state of campaign reporting today and much more.
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