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semafor.com > article > 09 > 13 > 2026 > inside-the-us-treasury-secretarys-tense-relationship-with-financial-media

Exclusive: Inside the US Treasury secretary’s tense relationship with financial media

9+ hour, 8+ min ago   (820+ words) Last September, Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got a call from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The secretary had been a regular on Bloomberg’s TV programming and in its reporting for years, first as the founder of a hedge fund,…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 13 > 2026 > brics-highlights-opposition-to-tariffs

BRICS highlights opposition to tariffs

11+ hour, 35+ min ago   (154+ words) Opposition to US tariffs formed a point of consensus among the otherwise divergent interests at the BRICS summit, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted the bloc’s “coming of age.” BRICS highlights opposition to tariffs Opposition to US tariffs formed…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 13 > 2026 > iran-and-the-uae-meet-in-new-delhi

Iran and the UAE meet in New Delhi

11+ hour, 35+ min ago   (152+ words) Iran and the UAE held their highest-level meeting since the start of the Iran war at the BRICS summit, where the two countries found a rare space for direct diplomacy. Iran and the UAE held their highest-level meeting since the…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 13 > 2026 > everyone-expects-two-ai-blocs-the-gulf-is-betting-on-both

View: Everyone expects two AI blocs. The Gulf is betting on both

14+ hour, 43+ min ago   (286+ words) Saudi Arabia is building enormous AI infrastructure, partnering with US firms and using American chips — AWS alone has committed $5.3 billion to data centers in the kingdom. Yet at Riyadh’s LEAP conference this month, state-backed HUMAIN unveiled Arabic technology built on…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 12 > 2026 > how-the-ai-apocalypse-story-escaped-containment

View: How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (557+ words) The “AI is going to kill us all” news cycle continued into the weekend, as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and XAI’s Elon Musk joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to invite independent reviewers into AI labs to ensure the world’s smartest…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 10 > 2026 > republicans-promise-cash-and-a-flexible-new-economics-for-the-midterms

Republicans’ midterm promise is more populism, and more cash

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (471+ words) DALLAS – Republicans arrived at their first midterm convention ready to sell their wins for “working class” Americans, including hundreds of billions of dollars for tax cuts, refunds, and savings accounts.They left it ready to spend another trillion dollars in…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 10 > 2026 > nato-allies-foil-russian-operation-to-cut-undersea-cables

NATO allies foil Russian operation to cut undersea cables

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (153+ words) A joint operation between the US, UK, and Norway thwarted a Russian operation to sabotage undersea cables with a “secret weapon” near the Arctic’s Svalbard archipelago. A joint operation between the US, UK, and Norway foiled a Russian operation to…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 10 > 2026 > experts-warn-of-new-terrorism-threats-from-ai-drones

Experts warn of new terrorism threats from AI, drones

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (144+ words) 25 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Western societies face resurgent terrorism threats from drones and AI. The global jihadi movement is fractured 25 years after the Sept 11 attacks and lacks the capacity to launch similarly sophisticated operations, analysts said, but societies face…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 10 > 2026 > how-do-you-price-the-end-of-the-world

View: How do you price the end of the world?

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (131+ words) A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream. The SceneExistential AI fears broke containment this week after an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that frontier labs are…...

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semafor.com > article > 09 > 10 > 2026 > ukraine-is-going-into-winter-with-a-gas-surplus-despite-war

Ukraine is going into winter with a gas surplus, despite war

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (249+ words) Ukraine is also angling to increase exports to Europe this winter, the CEO of the country’s top private energy company said. Despite attacks by Russia on its natural gas production fields, Ukraine has moved to a gas surplus and is…...