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Inside the $9 billion World Cup: How Gianni Infantino built a FIFA-dom with a tight grip on soccer’s biggest global event thumbnail
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Inside the $9 billion World Cup: How Gianni Infantino built a FIFA-dom with a tight grip on soccer’s biggest global event

For Zurich’s bankers and executives, May 27, 2015, began as a normal Wednesday—until Swiss police stormed the financial hub’s five-star Baur au Lac...

The union behind California’s billionaire tax is blinking, but Gavin Newsom wants to inflict total defeat thumbnail
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The union behind California’s billionaire tax is blinking, but Gavin Newsom wants to inflict total defeat

A labor union behind a controversial tax on California billionaires significantly scaled back its proposal a day after it qualified for the November ballot, but...

Why men keep dropping out of the labor force: It starts in childhood, when kids see how males around them struggle, economists say thumbnail
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Why men keep dropping out of the labor force: It starts in childhood, when kids see how males around them struggle, economists say

The male labor force participation rate in the U.S. has been falling for generations, perplexing economists who have struggled to come up with...

U.S.-Iran talks just started and Trump is already threatening to attack, causing negotiations to pause thumbnail
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U.S.-Iran talks just started and Trump is already threatening to attack, causing negotiations to pause

High-level U.S.-Iran talks on their interim deal to end the war had a tense start Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran took offense at comments by President...

Dow futures drop and oil jumps as first day of U.S.-Iran talks sees Trump threaten Tehran on Hormuz: ‘You close it and you won’t have a country’ thumbnail
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Dow futures drop and oil jumps as first day of U.S.-Iran talks sees Trump threaten Tehran on Hormuz: ‘You close it and you won’t have a country’

U.S. stock futures fell and oil prices rose after peace talks between the U.S. and Iran got off to a rocky start on...

Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: The government can shut it down thumbnail
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Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: The government can shut it down

Anthropic has filed confidentially to go public as soon as this fall, pitching investors on a single thesis: that it leads the enterprise...

Anthropic’s Fable fiasco leaves the door open for open-source AI, particularly cheaper models from China thumbnail
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Anthropic’s Fable fiasco leaves the door open for open-source AI, particularly cheaper models from China

The U.S. government’s decision to stop Anthropic from offering its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models to non-U.S. nationals may end up providing...

Decision on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models means the U.S. has a licensing regime for frontier AI—it just doesn’t want to admit it thumbnail
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Decision on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models means the U.S. has a licensing regime for frontier AI—it just doesn’t want to admit it

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Anthropic scrambles to try to reverse U.S. export controls on its Fable and Mythos...

Vietnam has to find $200 billion to fund its ambitious growth agenda. Techcombank’s CEO thinks that has to come from overseas thumbnail
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Vietnam has to find $200 billion to fund its ambitious growth agenda. Techcombank’s CEO thinks that has to come from overseas

When Techcombank CEO Jens Lottner looks at Vietnam’s growth ambitions, he sees a simple mismatch: big plans, not enough money. Vietnam’s economy grew...

Citi, Ford, and Experian share their strategies for scaling AI agents thumbnail
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Citi, Ford, and Experian share their strategies for scaling AI agents

“To be able to trust, you need to be able to see what is happening.” This seemingly simple maxim is at the heart...