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cn economy 8 4m ago 4 min read

China's Rare Earth Magnet Exports to the US Fell 21% in August Ahead of Thursday's Trump-Xi Summit

Chinese customs data show rare earth magnet shipments to the US dropped 21% in August to 512 tons, still below pre-2025 levels, as Trump and Xi prepare to meet Thursday with the export truce expiring November 10. A new Council on Foreign Relations report argues the West's mine-and-refine fixes are too slow and too narrow to break Beijing's grip.

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us economy 9 30m ago 4 min read

Xi Arrives in Washington as China Burns Through Oil Reserves It Built for This Exact Moment

Xi Jinping lands in Washington today for Thursday's summit with Trump, and China's own numbers show the strain the Iran war is putting on Beijing: three inventory draws in four months and a 640,000-barrel-a-day supply gap in August alone. Both leaders arrive with leverage and liabilities, Trump facing $100 crude and record diesel prices heading into the midterms, Xi facing a shrinking stockpile and an Iranian oil trade that's collapsed under a U.S. naval blockade.

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us defense 8 45m ago 4 min read

Congress Wants to Help Small DoD Contractors Pass CMMC — Is It Enough?

Two bills moving in Congress this month aim to ease the CMMC burden on small defense contractors — a House information-clearinghouse bill and a Senate NDAA grant program capped at $100,000 per company. Tested against the specific pain points sponsor CloudFit Software raised in its own reform-task-force filing, neither bill touches the structural issues CloudFit and others flagged: assessment scaling, redundant control re-verification, and outdated evidence standards.

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us tech 5 45m ago 4 min read

Workera Survey: 68% of Workers Now Use AI Daily, but 56% Get Zero Time to Learn It

A new Workera report out today finds AI use among enterprise employees jumped from 40% to 68% in a year, while 56% say their employer gives them no work hours to actually build the skill. Companies are spending big on AI training programs and still not changing how people spend their day, and separate research says the squeeze is hitting entry-level workers hardest.

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us defense 6 55m ago 3 min read

Bipartisan Senators Demand Rubio Prioritize Jailed Journalist as US and Iran Hold Indirect UN Talks

Four senators, two Democrats and two Republicans, told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that jailed American journalist Reza Valizadeh's life is in danger inside Evin Prison. The letter landed one day before Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held indirect talks with Iranian officials at the UN, but no one has said whether Valizadeh's case came up.

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au energy 6 1h ago 4 min read

Coalition Leader Angus Taylor Vows to Scrap Net Zero Law, Safeguard Mechanism and Four Offshore Wind Zones

Opposition leader Angus Taylor and shadow energy minister Dan Tehan unveiled an eight-point plan to gut Australia's climate and energy laws within 30 days of a Coalition election win. Labor, the Greens, independent MP Monique Ryan and the Climate Council blasted it as reckless, while the Coalition says the country has already done enough and affordability and reliability now come first.

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us economy 5 1h ago 4 min read

GM Brings Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Back to 2027 Silverado and Sierra After Three-Year Ban

GM spent three years telling customers they didn't need CarPlay or Android Auto. On September 15, the company reversed course, building both into the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. Turns out you can't out-engineer what people already carry in their pocket.

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us finance 6 1h ago 5 min read

Novo Nordisk CEO Open to Direct NYSE Listing as Stock Sits Roughly 70% Below Its 2023 Peak

Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar told the Financial Times he'd consider ditching the company's American depositary receipts for a direct New York Stock Exchange listing, as the Danish drugmaker fights to keep pace with Eli Lilly in the weight-loss market. The move comes alongside vision-loss lawsuits over Ozempic and Wegovy, a new Trump administration Medicaid drug-pricing deal Novo has joined, and a widening AI partnership with Anthropic that's drawing its own scrutiny.

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pk health 6 1h ago 3 min read

Dozens of Pakistani Children Contracted HIV After Routine Hospital Visits, Parents Say Six Have Died

Families in Pakistan say their kids went to the hospital for ordinary illnesses and came out HIV positive, with parents blaming reused syringes and needles. Six children have died. No government investigation results appear in the reporting, and accountability for the alleged infection-control failures remains unresolved.

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us tech 6 1h ago 4 min read

Five Drug Giants Trained One AI Model Without Sharing a Single Protein File

AbbVie, Astex, Bristol Myers Squibb, J&J, and Takeda ran a federated-learning experiment that let a shared AI model learn from each company's secret drug-discovery data without any file ever leaving its home server. The result beat every public benchmark model, but the numbers come from an unreviewed blog post and no actual drug has come out of it yet.

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us tech 5 1h ago 4 min read

IonQ Says a MacBook Chip Ran Quantum Error Correction in Real Time. Stock Jumps 12%. Catch: It Was All Simulated.

IonQ announced on September 22 that a standard Apple M4 Max CPU decoded simulated quantum errors fast enough to keep pace with a 408-logical-qubit workload, and the stock jumped over 12% in after-hours and premarket trading. The result is real math on real silicon, but the quantum computer it was tested against does not exist yet, a distinction IonQ's own paper acknowledges and one Japanese outlet Xeno Spectrum pressed harder on than the U.S. financial press did.

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us finance 6 2h ago 4 min read

Netflix Gets Its Second Wall Street Downgrade in a Week as YouTube Eats Into TV Viewing Share

HSBC cut Netflix to Hold on Tuesday, September 22, days after Wells Fargo slapped a sell-equivalent rating on the stock, both pointing to YouTube's growing living-room dominance. Netflix shares are down 23% this year while the S&P 500 is up nearly 14%. The bears say Netflix's original content has gone stale; the stock's own history of surprise hits is the strongest case the bears could be wrong.

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us energy 6 2h ago 5 min read

Washington's $9.5 Billion Hydrogen Bet Stalls While 90% of U.S. Hydrogen Still Comes From Fossil Fuels

The 2023 National Clean Hydrogen Strategy promised 100,000 jobs and a 10% emissions cut by 2050 for $9.5 billion in federal spending. Three years later, the Trump administration is slow-walking that money, and Clean Energy Group data shows over 90% of actual U.S. hydrogen production still comes from natural gas. Meanwhile microcap stocks are riding AI hype to promote unproven 'natural hydrogen' discoveries in Saskatchewan.

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us finance 7 2h ago 4 min read

Wall Street Earnings Outlook Turns Negative for First Time in 23 Weeks, Citigroup Data Shows

Analyst downgrades of US corporate earnings outpaced upgrades for the first time since April, according to Citigroup, ending the longest streak of positive revisions since 2021. The shift follows the Fed's first rate hike since 2023 and comes as Morgan Stanley's Michael Wilson warns the S&P 500 could fall up to 7% if inflation forces more tightening.

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ir energy 8 2h ago 4 min read

Iran War Rattles Oil Markets While Guterres and Al Gore Push 'Polluters Pay' Climate Agenda

The Strait of Hormuz conflict has jacked up oil prices and, according to Carbon Brief, will knock global emissions down 0.5% this year, mostly because war and a Chinese demand slump are choking off fuel use, not because clean energy suddenly won. Outgoing UN chief António Guterres and Al Gore's investment firm are using the chaos to demand fossil fuel companies pay up, while President Trump says he's talked to Iran directly and hopes the war itself is close to over.

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us defense 8 2h ago 4 min read

Zelenskyy Asks Trump for Trilateral Putin Meeting, Patriot Missile Licenses as Kremlin Calls Summit 'Premature'

Zelenskyy told reporters at the UN he's ready for an energy ceasefire and a three-way sit-down with Trump and Putin, and he's pushing Washington for Patriot missile production licenses. The Kremlin's response, hours later: a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting right now would be a 'waste of time.'

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gb politics 8 3h ago 3 min read

UK Freezes £120 Million-a-Year Chagos Payments After Trump Calls Deal 'Terrible'

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting confirmed Wednesday that Britain is pausing annual payments to Mauritius under the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal after President Trump trashed it to PM Andy Burnham's face at the UN. A £35 billion giveaway for islands America needs for a military base was always a bad trade, and now it's stuck in limbo with no US buy-in.

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us finance 8 3h ago 4 min read

OECD Raises 2026 Global Growth Forecast to 2.9%, Warns 30-Year Bond Yields Are at 15-Year Highs in Six G7 Nations

The OECD's September 23 Interim Economic Outlook nudged global growth up to 2.9% for 2026, crediting AI investment for cushioning the Middle East energy shock, while flagging that 30-year government bond yields are at their highest levels in 15-plus years across most of the G7. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says debt is climbing 'like a staircase,' but economists cited by Breitbart argue the yield spike is mostly about Fed rate-path expectations, not fiscal panic. Both things can be true, and the sources disagree on which matters more.

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us economy 8 3h ago 4 min read

Denmark Doubles Its Growth Forecast on Novo Nordisk's US Boom, Days After Novo's Own Stock Got Hammered

Denmark's central bank more than doubled its 2026 growth forecast to 4%, crediting Novo Nordisk's surging U.S. sales under a pricing deal with the Trump administration. Days earlier, Novo shares fell as much as 9% after Wegovy sales missed estimates and analysts said the company's long-term targets don't answer the looming patent cliff. Same company, same week, two very different verdicts.

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us politics 8 3h ago 4 min read

Trump Calls Ukraine Deal 'Close' at UN, Warns He Could 'Annihilate' Iran If Talks Fail

Trump met Zelensky at the UN Tuesday and predicted a Ukraine peace deal is near, even as neither side has agreed to stop hitting the other's energy infrastructure. In the same UN speech, Trump threatened to "annihilate" Iran if no deal materializes after the midterms, while the Pentagon's own inspector general says the Iran war has already strained U.S. munitions stockpiles.

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