Carney’s model, in notable contrast to Rutte’s, suggests that non-American NATO members must develop independent defense capabilities—not only as a hedge against a drawdown in potential U.S. capabilities but as a way of reducing dependency and vulnerability to a US foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/15/n...

NATO Is Splitting in Two

Mark Carney and Mark Rutte offer competing visions for the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

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" major obstacles remain, including Iran’s near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile, sanctions relief, frozen Iranian assets in Qatar and Israeli pressure on Hezbollah in Lebanon" @ezgi_akin @ElizHagedorn www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

US-Iran deal could take ‘a few days’ as roadblocks emerge, nuclear talks deferred

Mediators are scrambling to secure a deal that would end the war, while leaving unresolved the thorniest issues that predated it.

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The European Commission has chosen Swedish investment firm EQT to manage its new €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund after a closely-watched race among the region’s top firms like the UK’s Atomico and France’s Eurazeo. sifted.eu/articles/eqt...

EQT beats Atomico to manage €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund

The firm will be in charge of investing into European deeptech startups working in areas like quantum computing and AI

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The most important American virtue is the commitment to pluralism—the ability of diverse cultures to coexist and thrive under equal protection. It means lawyers should be joined by engineers, economists, and other sorts of humanists ... www.noahpinion.blog/p/book-revie...

Book Review: "Breakneck"

In which Dan Wang offers a compelling theory of China vs. America.

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Iranian officials—even hard-liners—increasingly recognize that China prioritizes regional stability over ideological alignment, and its patience for prolonged disruptions in Hormuz is limited www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @AlMonitor

Ahead of Trump-Xi summit, Iran looks to China as guarantor — but with reservations

Tehran is closely watching the Trump-Xi meeting to determine whether China will continue acting primarily as a protector or if it will gradually emerge as the power capable of pressuring Iran into a…

al-monitor.com

MBS learned two painful lessons over the Saudi intervention in Yemen: one, there is a cost to impulsive decision-making; two, there is no such thing as a quick war. This might explain his reluctance to participate in the war against Iran. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/05/how-... by @NeilQuilliam1

How the Iran war is reshaping Saudi strategy: From Hormuz and Houthis to the UAE’s OPEC exit

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has revealed a key threat to Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 strategy and plans for economic transformation.

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Qu’est-ce que « l’ontologie » de Palantir ? Palantir la définit comme une cartographie systématique des données à l’aide de concepts sémantiques significatifs. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

Avec Palantir, le plan «ontologique» d'Alex Karp et Peter Thiel pour créer un État digital | Le Grand Continent

Aux avant-postes de l’empire algorithmique de Trump, Alex Karp et Peter Thiel, les fondateurs de la toute puissante Palantir, sont persuadés d’avoir déjà gagné : « les sceptiques sont désarmés,…

legrandcontinent.eu

While Google is a direct competitor in AI models, it’s also a key infrastructure supplier to Anthropic. Anthropic relies heavily on Google Cloud for chips and infrastructure, including access to Google’s tensor processing units by @RebeccaBellan techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/g...

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute | TechCrunch

Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.

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Reports say the yacht “Nord” owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Mordashov passed through the Strait of Hormuz. The 142-meter yacht reportedly left Dubai on April 24, crossed the strait on the night of April 25 according to MarineTraffic data, and continued toward Oman.

Oil prices continued to climb on Tuesday, as peace talks between the U.S. and Iran appeared at an impasse, with negotiators deadlocked over proposals to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker traffic and restrict Iran’s nuclear program.

Oil Prices Jump Again as U.S.-Iran Talks Appear Deadlocked

Investors parsed reports that President Trump told advisers that he was not satisfied with Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 10mo ago

‘President Trump had called the plan [to reduce shipping emissions] a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they had voted in favour.’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

The move signals growing concerns in Washington about the health of the private credit sector and its rapid growth www.ft.com/content/09f4... #private-credit

as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon put it in an interview with Fortune magazine: “When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.” www.ftm.eu/articles/pri...

Is this how the next global financial crisis begins?

The financial markets are in turmoil – and might not be stable enough to weather the next big shock, experts warn.

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French quantum computing scaleup Pasqal has announced it is set to float on the public markets in the US and Europe thanks to a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). sifted.eu/articles/qua...

Quantum scaleup Pasqal to go public at $2bn valuation

The announcement comes a week after Finnish competitor IQM announced its own plans to float via a SPAC

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The moves came as the Department of Defense accelerates plans for a next-generation missile shield known as the Golden Dome www.defensenews.com/space/2026/0...

SpaceX and Blue Origin abruptly shift priorities amid US Golden Dome push

The largest U.S. commercial space companies recently shifted priorities toward lunar development, just as DOD pushes its next-gen missile shield plans.

defensenews.com

"Après des années d'attente, les investisseurs marocains pourront enfin se couvrir contre les fluctuations du marché. Le lancement du marché à terme le 6 avril 2026, suivi des ETF et des fonds en devises" telquel.ma/2026/02/15/s...

Defence policy UK should consider resuming talks on EU defence pact, Starmer says @data.ft.com @theguardian.com

Read “Quantum Sundays |50⟩ Quantum Fog, Hidden Order, and the Price of Realism“ by Adnan Masood, PhD. on Medium: medium.com/@adnanmasood...

#Eutelstat: "This decision is exclusively linked to the critical nature of this activity in terms of French sovereignty and is in no way linked to the quality of the investor," Lescure wrote on Bluesky following his televised remarks.

The US State Department has approved the potential sale to Saudi Arabia of 730 missiles for the Patriot air defense systems and related equipment worth $9 billion

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/w... Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain met with President Xi Jinping of China as he sought to promote business ties with the world’s second-largest economy. #geoeconomics

In Beijing, British Prime Minister Sees ‘Huge Opportunities’

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[New op-ed] Who holds the power? Rethinking health data governance through a Data Feminism lens, By Anamika Kundu of the @eui-eu.bsky.social policyreview.info/articles/new... #datafeminism #EHDS #Regulation

"We argue that this is due to the lack of attention paid to the digital policies of smaller EU member states, a problem that is shared by both media reporting and academic research." Full op-ed here: policyreview.info/articles/new... 2/2

On #Greenland, Europe has more leverage than it seems. Lucid @bruegel.org piece by Moreno Bertoldi and Marco Buti. www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

Three ‘don’ts’ to protect Greenland from Trump

When confronting the Greenland crisis, the EU should apply lessons learned from the lopsided US-EU trade negotiations

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Escaping the French Budget Maze by Eric Hazan, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/T5Dxc0U

Escaping the French Budget Maze

Eric Hazan & Jean Pisani-Ferry think the real problem lies in a flawed method, not an absence of consent or fiscal prudence.

prosyn.org

En ayant massivement recours aux subventions pour prendre les marchés par des niveaux de compétitivité indépassables, la Chine s’est placée au cœur de la seule dynamique fermement positive de déploiement massif des renouvelables dans le monde. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/01/2...

Réaliser l’utopie électrique européenne

L’alternative est désormais évidente : devenir les vassaux d’un empire fossile ou refonder l’énergie d’une république. Alors pourquoi hésitons-nous ?

legrandcontinent.eu

Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president and a key power broker in Europe, stood up ashen-faced at the end of the speech that took aim at people like him www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Pendant des décennies, l’Union a en effet traité sa dépendance au dollar américain comme un problème d’ordre purement secondaire : désormais, alors qu’elle se retrouve dans une position extrêmement vulnérable face aux ingérences financières de Washington. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/01/1...

Comment Trump veut attaquer l’Europe avec des dollars

Pour vassaliser le continent, Donald Trump veut dollariser l’économie européenne. Le plan est prêt. Il en est à la dernière étape. Saurons-nous répondre à temps ?

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#Ontology combines the strengths of both #meta-paths and #adjacency_matrices. arxiv.org/html/2411.18...

In 1999, NBFI assets stood at approximately 140% of GDP; today, they are close to 400% of GDP, having almost tripled over this period. At their peak in 2021, NBFI assets temporarily reached 500% of GDP, underscoring their systemic scale and prominence. www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/sint...