Straight from CNBC…
- Amodei's essay landed after an Anthropic researcher set off a firestorm on social media this week by announcing he quit his job at the company.
- AI tools can help find the right tone and language for difficult workplace conversations about performance and pay, and managers are already using them.
- Stocks came under pressure last week as surging oil prices and bond yields stoked renewed concerns about inflation and the Fed's next move.
- America's housing market is short inventory and workers, pressuring home affordability. Constructions robots are reality, but to date not humanoid homebuilders.
- Even with soaring price tags, a growing number of private colleges are in financial distress.
- Xi, Putin and Modi meet in New Delhi as U.S. tariffs, sanctions and the Iran war test whether BRICS members can find more common ground.
- Warren Buffett has said he paid too much for Precision Castparts in 2016. Now its complex metal castings are in high demand.
- On his first visit to India, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he will not surrender to the U.S. and Israel, as New Delhi renewed its appeal for peace.
- Boeing and its engineering union reached a tentative contract agreement on Friday, union officials said.
- Trump sees Iran war ending soon after mid-term elections, predicts oil prices will then fall sharplyOil prices retreated on Friday on hopes of a resumptions in negotiations, but notched sharp weekly gains after soaring above $100 a barrel.
- Take The Lead founder Gloria Feldt recalls working with Gloria Steinem and the part of her legacy she will carry with her.
- Bank of America says there are several stocks that are too attractive to ignore.
- The U.S. crude oil price on Thursday topped $102 per barrel for its highest close since May.
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- Most battery cells currently rely on raw materials from China. GM is seeking to establish domestic supply chains both for EVs and energy storage.
- The talks could include politically sensitive topics such as economic issues and Irish leaders' concerns over the Iran war.
- Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the world's seventh-richest person, can sell up to 50 million of his shares in the software company under a new trading plan.
- CNBC's Jim Cramer sees parallels between today’s market and the fall of 2018, when rising rates and geopolitical tensions preceded a 20% S&P 500 sell-off.
From NPR…
- That's a quote from former rugby star Gareth Thomas, who is HIV positive. At the International AIDS Conference in Rio this year, he spoke out about the isolation and discrimination tied to the virus.
- A moment to remember those lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks 25 years ago yesterday.
- As state governments grapple with how to determine who's sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some families are already struggling with what illnesses guarantee health coverage because of a disability.
- President Trump held talks in Dublin with Irish President Catherine Connolly and Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin during a weekend visit centered on a major golf tournament.
- Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland
- The cargo plane crash in Miami is raising concerns about the safety culture at 21 Air, one of the carriers that fly for Amazon. Former pilots were sounding alarms even before Sunday's accident.
- As an Anthropic resignation and OpenAI agents' hack on Hugging Face capture public attention, some researchers worry the industry is racing too fast to develop powerful AI while safety measures lag.
- The assassination of far right activist Charlie Kirk opened the floodgates of neighbor-on-neighbor doxing. A year later, the damage to political discourse in the U.S. remains.
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders of the BRICS nations for a summit on trade, investment, and global conflicts.
- Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The move threatens Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution after it came under attack.
From The NY Times…
- President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
- An organization allied with Senate G.O.P. leaders has booked more than $51 million in ads. Now, Ken Paxton has a financial edge after months of being outspent by his Democratic rival.
- A neckless raccoon named Jimothy captivated the internet, and sent this Seattle resident out looking.
- Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.
- Gas prices are high, mortgage rates are climbing and inflation remains well above target, complicating the president’s midterm appeal.
- Jeffery Lee’s case has grappled with questions in Alabama about emerging execution methods and an abandoned sentencing practice that sent him and others to death row.
- Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.
- President Trump’s trip comes after a two-day Republican rally in Dallas, where he tried to energize voters amid fears that the party could face losses in the midterms.
- Shane Goldmacher, one of our national political correspondents, looks at the Republican candidates who spoke this week at their party’s unusual midterm convention, called a “Trumpapalooza.” Some other vulnerable candidates avoided it because of President Trump’s unpopularity.
- The judge, in halting the pretrial fact-finding process, said President Trump’s claim of immunity could “dispose of the entire case” involving the library to be built in Miami.
- The legal wrangling over a congressional map redrawn by Republicans has election officials, candidates and voters scrambling before November.
- The only fraternal organization for women special operations veterans held a gala to mark the wars that began 25 years ago. It came as the Pentagon questions women’s roles in the military.
- Stark warnings from A.I. researchers have reverberated across the country.
- The president attacked three Democrats running for Senate this week with inaccurate claims to portray them as too extreme.
- In Shanksville, Pa., the fa
- The spy agency released dozens of intelligence documents it had sent to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, outlining what was known about Al Qaeda.
- The president appeared to embrace the idea that after 9/11, no risk can be tolerated, an echo of reasoning used by previous American officials in the “forever wars” that he has long denounced.
- It remains unclear whether the administration would seek to use the court again after successfully obtaining an order from its chief judge to expel the woman.