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In a July 2021 issue brief, the Atlantic Council argued that Russia's push to isolate RuNet could make Kremlin cyber operations abroad more assertive. It said success was uncertain, so its five takeaways for US and European defenders were hypotheses to test.
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Six senators from both parties urged Trump to reverse his deal with Putin to import Russian diesel ahead of the midterms. Fortune reported that energy experts doubt the diesel will lower US pump prices.
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Bank of England deputy governor Sarah Breeden called leveraging AI the "best pathway" to economic growth in an Atlantic Council interview. She also said an increasingly autonomous financial system could act in ways regulators do not expect.
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Diesel at $6.53 a gallon is a political problem for Trump. The remedy under discussion would hold a record 1.6 million barrels a day at home, in a market where the world price still sets the US price.
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Microsoft says Star Blizzard has sent fake event invitations to more than 100 organizations since January, many from hacked WordPress and cPanel sites. The group, long known for stealing email passwords, now uses the messages to install a Windows backdoor.
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Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman says this year's eSLR changes freed as much as $5 trillion of headroom at primary-dealer holding companies. Dealers have used about $100 billion of it on Treasuries so far, and she concedes the reform's real test comes in a selloff.
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Microsoft says Russia's FSB-linked Star Blizzard sent fake event invitations to more than 100 organizations since January 2026. The lures pose as Chatham House and Atlantic Council events and carry a new Python backdoor, CosmicPulse, aimed at people working on Ukraine.
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Prediction markets have lifted the odds on a September 23 signing from 64% to 75% while still pricing a US acquisition of Greenland at 5.9%, and the agreement itself leaves sovereignty with Denmark pending a parliamentary vote.
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SAMA says it finished the proof of concept it joined to run and stopped there. The platform it left has cleared more than $55bn, a 2,500-fold rise that works back to roughly $22m of traffic in 2022.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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Scott Bessent discussed a U.S.-China channel for AI incidents up to a national security level. Analysts at CSIS and the Council on Foreign Relations told CNBC the likely output is shared definitions and a hotline, and that a deal to slow development is extremely unlikely.
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The four-way agreement signed in New York splits design, engineering, licensing and construction of a 300-megawatt reactor. The pipeline behind it runs to 40 units, against one under construction in Canada.
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The Saudi central bank spent about two years on China's CBDC settlement rail without committing to it. The four central banks still on mBridge now take a platform with roughly $55.5bn of volume toward commercial rollout, and the BIS is gone.
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Trump left Camp David early on Saturday after the first missile reached Riyadh since hostilities resumed. The contract on a US invasion of Iran by the end of 2026 went from 16 percent to 16.5 percent YES, a relative move of about 3 percent.
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With Hormuz shut, the truck run to Baniyas is carrying real volume, which makes a Syrian state one year past Assad an input into routing decisions rather than background risk. The rail meant to replace the trucks is years out.
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