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Everyone agrees AI could kill us all. Congress is thinking about maybe doing something about it.

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Trump says he’ll give everyone $5,000 if Americans vote Republican—but it’s questionable whether he can deliver on the promise

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‘I am the house now’: Scott Bessent dares currency markets to move against him

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09.09.2026 2

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Out-of-control OpenAI agents hijacked a German site to make a secret message board

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08.09.2026 20

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Crude awakening: The White House’s oil numbers don’t add up

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03.09.2026 20

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Fed’s Goolsbee says AI is ‘not far’ from overheating the economy

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02.09.2026 4

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The bond market is in open revolt as Trump declines to accept an Iranian peace deal and oil hits $92 a barrel

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01.09.2026 3

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Trump threatens to blow Kharg Island ‘to smithereens’ as U.S. and Iran trade fresh strikes in the Gulf, driving up the price of oil

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31.08.2026 5

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Temu spent up to $962 million on ads that helped finance an army of fake creators on Meta platforms, research claims

DEK: Among the top 100 influencers collaborating with Temu, about 73 are fake, ORL researcher Vendula Prokůpková says.

31.08.2026 20

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Nvidia’s massive future spending commitments ‘make the company’s risk profile more complex,’ Saxo says

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28.08.2026 8

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Nvidia stock up 7.63% overnight after blockbuster earnings call: ‘I think the whole market was like, ‘Whoa,’ analyst says

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27.08.2026 20

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There’s a deal on the table to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Trump isn’t part of it—yet

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26.08.2026 10

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In U.S.-Canada trade war, Trump says they are ‘the worst’ and Canada’s top trade envoy tells him to ‘kiss my ass’

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25.08.2026 8

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Apple to launch $2,000-plus foldable ‘iPhone Ultra’ in early September: report

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Bond traders believe Bessent’s ‘band-aid’ was ‘a heinous financial crime’

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21.08.2026 20

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Bessent’s $4 billion bond plan is like ‘rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic given the U.S. national debt of $40 trillion,’ ING says

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The Iranians have Trump right where they want him and suggest he seek ‘a dignified exit’

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19.08.2026 10

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Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate reportedly hits $65 billion

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Trump shrinks South Korea war games, citing ‘very good relationship’ with Kim Jong Un

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17.08.2026 10

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Anthropic’s $2 trillion problem: Its underlying business is nowhere near the IPO valuation it wants

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14.08.2026 10

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Anthropic reportedly plans a $2 trillion IPO in October—the largest ever—that will eclipse SpaceX

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13.08.2026 20

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‘An unattractive deal with Iran is the best of limited bad options’ if the U.S. wants to get oil flowing again

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12.08.2026 10

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Apple stock sinks as hopes that new CEO John Ternus will launch a high-end, ‘all-glass’ iPhone are shattered

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11.08.2026 10

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DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis was everywhere—except the office

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OpenAI’s new device is reportedly a $300 portable donut that watches you

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07.08.2026 10

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Iran says it has a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—and shipowners are outraged by its plan to charge fees

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06.08.2026 10

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A deal with Iran on the Strait of Hormuz—with a truckload of caveats—could come as soon as today

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05.08.2026 10

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Sam Altman’s OpenAI publishes brutal critique of Apple lawsuit: ‘Apple is getting this wrong’

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04.08.2026 10

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Wall Street shrugs off global slump as Trump promises (yet another) imminent deal with Iran

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03.08.2026 10

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‘Mutiny, if need be’: At the Fed, ‘Warsh can suppress dissent only so much,’ over credibility-testing interest rate decision, Macquarie says

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31.07.2026 20

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Wall Street reacts brutally to Fed chair Warsh’s interest rate hold: ‘the bond market puked on him’

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30.07.2026 10

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Insiders knew advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc, former OpenAI board member confesses

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29.07.2026 30

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China’s chipmakers trigger bloodbath in global tech stocks

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28.07.2026 10

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Stocks rise globally on hopes of peace talks with Iran—but the Fed may deliver a shock on Wednesday

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Trump weighs ‘massive attack’ on Iran as Tehran’s chokehold on oil gets tighter

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Google just posted the biggest quarterly profit ever—$112 billion—and Wall Street is punishing it for doing so

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AI world stunned by OpenAI model that secretly escaped secure environment and hacked into a rival company

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Iran calls for ‘full-scale war’ but behind the scenes a peace proposal might reopen the Strait of Hormuz—if Trump can stomach it

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21.07.2026 30

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‘Harvest now, decrypt later’: Hackers are stealing data they can’t even read yet—banking on quantum computers to crack it later

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20.07.2026 30

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Tech stocks lead steep global sell-off as investors lose faith in AI chip trade

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17.07.2026 40

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Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX stock deflates—and Wisconsin officials want him investigated for election ‘bribery’

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16.07.2026 30

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Trump threatens Iran with more bombing as U.S. missile stockpiles decline, the Strait of Hormuz slams shut, and there’s no endgame in sight

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The price of oil shoots upward as Trump demands tolls in the Strait of Hormuz

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14.07.2026 20

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Ships go dark as the clock runs out on Trump’s ‘undeclared naval war’ in the Strait of Hormuz

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13.07.2026 30

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James Murdoch may have reaped as much as $7.5 billion from his pre-IPO investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX

His early bet on the rocket company has likely made him much richer than his father Rupert Murdoch ever did.

12.07.2026 30

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Strait jacket: Wall Street is worried President Trump has no good options for ending the war with Iran

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10.07.2026 40

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Trump is set to rip up the ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Iran—and Wall Street doesn’t care

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09.07.2026 30

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Iran strikes 85 U.S. military sites in the Gulf, sparking a global selloff in stocks and a spike in the price of oil

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08.07.2026 30

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Game over for 20% of Xbox staff as Microsoft hits reset: We ‘didn’t focus on the core business,’ CEO says. ‘We simply spread ourselves too thin.’

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$29 billion stock offering going live this week will test investor appetite for AI companies

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