Trump Cuts Off NATO's Mark Rutte In Oval Office After Sitting Out Iran War

China Economic Growth 'Downside Risk' Looms; Goldman Warns After July Macro-Miss-Fest China’s July activity data weakened from June, missing market expectations across the board, and signaling a soft start to Q3 amid continued divergence between resilient exports and subdued domestic demand. Originally slated for publication late last night (US time), the data release was delayed for five hours after the statistics agency revised its schedule in a break with recent practice. Industrial production (IP) growth slowed to 4.5% yoy in July from 5.3% yoy in June, reflecting slower export growth and...

Is America Winning The AI Race? Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The question of where the U.S.-China artificial intelligence arms race is heading weighs heavily on the future of both countries, as mastery of AI may determine the world's economic and military leadership, experts say. To assess the state of the U.S.-China AI competition, The Epoch Times consulted 10 experts across the defense and cybersecurity sectors. Most agreed that the United States maintains a lead in frontier AI models as well as in the scale of computational power -...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that its forces shot down a US “MQ-1” drone over the Strait of Hormuz as tensions remain high in the region amid the continued US blockade of Iranian ports. It’s unclear if the “MQ-1” Iran referred to was an MQ-1 Predator drone, which was officially retired […]