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India Set To Miss Budget Deficit Target As Oil Shock Strains Public Finances Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com India may be on track to miss its target for budget deficit for the first time since 2021 as the oil supply shock pressures government coffers. The government of the world’s third-largest crude oil importer is preparing to exceed its own deficit target from early this year as the Middle East crisis is testing the resilience of public finances amid soaring energy import bills, an Indian official with knowledge of the plans told...

White House Rejects 'Complete Fabrication' Of Peace Framework Reports From Iranian Side Summary White House rejects 'complete fabrication' of Iranian TV reporting on MOU and draft deal status. IRGC keeping up the rhetoric: warns that Iran would "turn the area from Chabahar to Mahshahr into a graveyard for aggressors" if the ceasefire collapses. CENTCOM: "Clearly the Iranians are trying to hedge their bets here and put more pressure on the US." Iranian president: "The main battleground today is the economic war." Tabriz International Airport in northwestern Iran- which sustained heavy damage from airstrikes during the...

Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race The biggest AI story to start the week is the Trump administration's decision to place export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing Dario Amodei's frontier AI lab to restrict foreign access. The move comes as Chinese open-source models have been rapidly closing the compute gap with U.S. labs. Anthropic's latest release appears to have widened that gap again, particularly in frontier reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity use cases. Export controls could have second-order effects on the global AI...