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Long Reads20 May 26
SpaceX Files for IPO, Revealing Crypto Treasury and $1.25 Billion Monthly AI Compute Deal
Markets20 May 26
SpaceX's $1.5 Trillion IPO Bet: Bitcoin, Gas Turbines, and the Arithmetic of Musk's Empire

Long Reads20 May 26
How South Korea Is Leveraging the Global AI Chip Race

Europe20 May 26
Heartbeat From the Sun: Scientists Detect 20-Day Solar Radio Signal as Britain’s Oldest Inhabitant Burial Is Found

Long Reads20 May 26
Singapore's AI Gambit: A City-State Cultivates Tech Power as Silicon Valley Restructures
Long Reads20 May 26
Signals and Silence: Trump Administration's Simultaneous Pressure on Iran and Cuba
Economy20 May 26
Seoul's Economic Fault Lines: Starbucks Boycott and Samsung Strike Expose Shifting Korean Consumer Power

Science20 May 26
Senate Advances Iran War-End Bill as Treasury Yields Hit Post-2007 High and Military Cost Data Emerges

Long Reads20 May 26
The Seized Tanker and the Dollar's Edge: What the Indian Ocean Interception Tells Us

Asia20 May 26
Russia and China Double Down on Rail Link as Visa-Free Travel Gets Extended
Africa20 May 26
Russia Africa Corps Strikes JNIM Camp in Mali — What the Doundé Operation Tells Us

Culture20 May 26
How Regional Media Rewrites the Script on US-Iran Confrontation

Long Reads20 May 26
The Indictment of Raul Castro and the Architecture of American Hostility Toward Cuba

Long Reads20 May 26
The Quiet War on Ukraine's Grid
Long Reads20 May 26
Putin and Xi's 'Just System': What Beijing's Embrace of Moscow Tells Us About the Multipolar Moment

Asia20 May 26
Putin lands in Beijing as Xi extends hand — the day after Trump left town

Long Reads20 May 26
Putin in Beijing: The Strategic Logic Behind the China-Russia Axis

Europe20 May 26
Poland Warns Kyiv Over Drone Incursions Near NATO Borders

Europe20 May 26
Pentagon Drawdown Tightens Pressure on European NATO Allies Facing a Prolonged Stand-Off in Ukraine
Americas20 May 26
Pentagon Assesses Cuban Response Scenarios as US Eyes Cuba Military Contingencies
Long Reads20 May 26
The Proof, the IPO, and the Pitch: Three OpenAI Moments That Reveal the Company's True Ambition

Long Reads20 May 26
Two Tech Giants, One City, Diverging Fortunes: OpenAI and Meta's Singapore Divided
Long Reads20 May 26
OpenAI's IPO Moment: What the Market Is Actually Pricing In

Opinion20 May 26
OpenAI's Credibility Problem Is Now a Business Model

The Weekly20 May 26
Oil Prices Tumble on US-Iran Deal Optimism as Tehran Denounces "War" Push

Long Reads20 May 26
Nvidia's $81.6 Billion Quarter and the Architecture of a Divided AI World
Investigations20 May 26
Nvidia Earnings: How Markets Priced the AI Economy Into a $350 Billion Wager
Investigations20 May 26
Nvidia's $81.6 Billion Quarter Puts AI Dominance to the Test
Europe20 May 26
Netherlands, Spain and Canada Summon Israeli Envoys Over Samud Navy Activist Treatment

Europe20 May 26
The 32-Hour Week Goes Mainstream: How the Netherlands Became Labor's Great Experiment

Europe20 May 26
NATO's New Arithmetic: What Trump's Force-Reduction Review Means for European Defence

Europe20 May 26
NATO's Rutte Backs Gradual US Force Adjustments in Europe as Alliance Absorbs Strategic Shifts
Long Reads20 May 26
NATO's Dual Pressure: Hormuz Shadow and the American Retreat

Energy20 May 26
NATO's Hormuz Contingency and the Limits of Allied Signaling

Africa20 May 26
Nairobi Court Awards Divorced Woman Half of Husband's Estate in Landmark Unpaid-Labor Ruling
Science20 May 26
Musk v. Altman: The AI Civil War Reaches a Courthouse
Economy20 May 26
Moscow and Beijing Sign Multipolar World Declaration as Putin, Peng Reunion Caps Summit Week

Culture20 May 26
Michael Bay's Iran Rescue Film: Hollywood's Latest Geopolitical Spectacle

Culture20 May 26
Michael Bay Returns to Familiar Territory With Iran Rescue Mission Film
Culture20 May 26
Michael Bay Returns to Familiar Territory With Iran Rescue Mission Film
Culture20 May 26
Michael Bay's Iran Rescue Film Is a Geopolitical Moment Dressed as Entertainment

Long Reads20 May 26
Meta's Eight Thousand: What the Silicon Valley Cull Reveals About Big Tech's AI Pivot
Long Reads20 May 26
Meta’s Eight Thousand: What Silicon Valley’s Latest Layoffs Reveal About the Automated Future
Opinion20 May 26
The 4 a.m. Corporate Memo: Meta's Layoffs and the AI Productivity Question Nobody Wants to Answer

Europe20 May 26
Meloni-Modi Rome Summit Tests Italy's Indo-Pacific Ambitions
Europe20 May 26
Melodi Diplomacy: Modi and Meloni's Rome Summit Recalibrates India's European Footing

Long Reads20 May 26
The Last Libertarian Stand: Thomas Massie and the Republican Party's Trump Reformation
Long Reads20 May 26
Trump's Grip on the Republican Party: Massie's Defeat and the New Rules of GOP Primaries
Long Reads20 May 26
The Massie Purge: How Trump Redefined the Republican Party's Discipline

Obituaries20 May 26
Lebanon Counts Its Dead: 3,073 Lives Lost in Eleven Weeks of Conflict

Culture20 May 26
La Furia del Libro and the Quiet Architecture of Literary Resistance in Latin America
Asia20 May 26
Kremlin Buries 'Spirit of Anchorage'? Aide Denies Beijing Pivot While West Watches
Sport20 May 26
Knicks Complete Largest Conference Finals Comeback in Play-by-Play Era, Take 1-0 Lead
Tech20 May 26
Khamenei Commemorates Raisi's UN Quran Gesture as Symbol of Resistance Against Western Pressure

Culture20 May 26
A Deputy Director Breaks Ranks: What Kennedy's Iran Resignation Exposes
Culture20 May 26
Andrej Karpathy Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic in Latest High-Profile AI Talent Move

Culture20 May 26
Jensen Huang's China Noodle Moment Is a Master Class in Viral Commerce — If You're Paying Attention

Sport20 May 26
Jaxon Smith-Njigba posts video of errors on OPOY trophy as NFL reviews production process

Long Reads20 May 26
Japan's Tourist Tidal Wave Finds New Shores
Long Reads20 May 26
Japan's Tourist Map Is Being Redrawn — And Tokyo May Not Like the New Design
Europe20 May 26
Japan's Tourist Map Is Being Redrawn — and Tokyo Is Losing Its Grip
Long Reads20 May 26
How Japan cracked the tourist dispersal problem — and what the world learned

MENA20 May 26
Israeli Strikes Hit Three Southern Lebanese Villages in Rapid Succession
Long Reads20 May 26
Israeli Military Faces 12,000-Troop Shortfall as Strategic Calculus Deepens
Letters20 May 26
Israeli Forces Conduct Multiple Operations Across Nablus Area, Al Alam Arabic Reports
MENA20 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Pound Southern Lebanon as Border Tensions Escalate

Long Reads20 May 26
The Isolationist's Paradox: How America's Withdrawal Is Accelerating the Multipolar Moment

Long Reads20 May 26
The Isolation That Wasn't: How Putin Found His Way Back to Beijing
Defense20 May 26
Iran's IRGC Releases Drone Footage of Oil Tanker Near Strait of Hormuz as Naval Standoff Escalates
Culture20 May 26
Iran Warns of Unprecedented Military Escalation as US Ultimatum Deadline Nears
Long Reads20 May 26
The Invisible Architecture: How Iran's Air Defense Mapping and US Proposals Reveal a Stalemate Neither Side Can Afford…
Asia20 May 26
Iran-US Backchannel Talks Ongoing, Tehran Confirms

Culture20 May 26
Iran's Cultural Heritage Bears the Cost of Regional Conflict as Tourism Facilities Languish
Culture20 May 26
A Biography of a Martyr: How the Iranian State Manufactures Legacies in Print
Culture20 May 26
Iran and Saudi Arabia Convene on Hajj Consular Affairs, Extending Diplomatic Thaw
Culture20 May 26
How Iran's Revolutionary Education Model Went Global
Culture20 May 26
Iran-Pakistan Diplomatic Circuit: Islamabad's Interior Minister Returns to Tehran for Second Visit in a Week
MENA20 May 26
Iran Signals Readiness to Deploy New Weapons Amid Rising US Tension
Science20 May 26
Iran Demands Accountability Over Minab Incident as Diplomatic Tensions With US Escalate
Culture20 May 26
Iran Opens Its Classrooms to the World: A Soft Power Pivot in the Sanctions Era
Americas20 May 26
Iran's Health Minister Courts Arab Neighbours Ahead of Geneva Nuclear Diplomacy
Letters20 May 26
Iran Publishes Drone-Footage Strike on Oil Tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Culture20 May 26
Iran's Demographic Reckoning: A Third of the Country Elderly Within a Generation
Culture20 May 26
Iran's Clerical Class Frames Population Growth as Civilizational Mission
Americas20 May 26
Iran Courts Brazil's Press in Search of a Southern Narrative Counterweight
Obituaries20 May 26
India's Political Violence Threshold: TMC MP Saayoni Ghosh and the Rs 1 Crore Bounty
Culture20 May 26
The IAEA's Diplomatic Tightrope: How Nuclear Inspections Become Political Theater

Culture20 May 26
IAEA Chief's West Asia Visit Spotlights Nuclear Monitoring in Shadow of Stalled Diplomacy

Long Reads20 May 26
Hyperliquid's Moment: When a Crypto Outlier Becomes Wall Street's Favorite Misfit
Long Reads20 May 26
The Hormuz Pivot: How Asia's Energy Security Reset Is Reshaping the Global Order
MENA20 May 26
Hezbollah Claims Missile Strike Wounds Israeli Armored Commander in Southern Lebanon

Science20 May 26
Hezbollah Publishes Imagery of Iron Dome Strike; Analysts Caution on Verification
Tech20 May 26
Hezbollah Releases FPV Drone Footage Targeting Second Iron Dome Launcher in Northern Israel
Long Reads20 May 26
Hezbollah Drone Strike Tests the Limits of Israel's Northern Front Ceasefire Architecture
Science20 May 26
Hezbollah Announces Multiple Operations Against Israeli Military Positions Near Lebanon Border

Culture20 May 26
Hasbro Cancels D&D Action-Adventure Project in Latest Portfolio Rethink
Opinion20 May 26
The Second Coming of Smart Glasses: Google's Wearable AI Gambit and the Question of Whether Anything Has Changed
Opinion20 May 26
Google's Smart Glasses Return Is Less Second Act Than Confession
Tech20 May 26
Google Bets Again on Smart Glasses a Decade After Google's Glass Flop
Letters20 May 26
Google's Multimodal AI Push Raises Questions About Platform Power and Token Economics
Long Reads20 May 26
Google's I/O Reckoning: Smart Glasses, AI Agents, and the Cost of Running to Stand Still
Tech20 May 26
Google's I/O Moment: The AI Industry's Quiet Pivot to Agents
Opinion20 May 26
Google's I/O Moment Isn't About Catching OpenAI — It's About Outlasting Everyone Else

Culture20 May 26
Google's Gemini Omni Moment: What the 'Any-to-Any' AI Reveal Tells Us About the Enterprise AI Race
Long Reads20 May 26
Goldman Sachs and the SpaceX IPO: What the Street's Largest Underwriter Tells Us About the Future of Commercial Space
Long Reads20 May 26
The Global Sumud Flotilla Standoff: Israel, the Courts, and the Politics of Maritime Blockade
Opinion20 May 26
The GitHub Breach Is a Reckoning for Everyone Who Treated 'Private' as a Safe Word
MENA20 May 26
Gaza Strikes Intensify as Evacuation Orders Expand and Eid Preparations Collapse
Opinion20 May 26
GameStop's eBay Play Looks Like a Squeeze Play Wearing a Friendly Mask

Culture20 May 26
French Film Industry Reacts to Blacklisting Threat Over Bollore Letter

Long Reads20 May 26
The Flotilla Detentions That France Cannot Ignore
Long Reads20 May 26
The Flotilla Detainees and the Fracture Line: Ben Gvir, Rome, and the Price of Israel's Coalition Politics
The Weekly20 May 26
Fiber-Optic Hezbollah Drones Deep in Israeli Territory Signal Shifting Drone-Warfare Calculus
Long Reads20 May 26
The Fiber-Optic Drone That Changed the Calculus on Lebanon's Northern Border

Africa20 May 26
Falana Petitions African Commission Over Rising Xenophobia in South Africa
Europe20 May 26
Europe's Diminishing Footprint in the Russia-Ukraine Diplomatic Arena
Africa20 May 26
Ebola Returns to Africa: 600 Cases, an Experimental Treatment, and the Architecture of a Response
Long Reads20 May 26
The Dual IPO Reckoning: SpaceX and OpenAI Bet the House on Public Markets
Obituaries20 May 26
Drone saturation and the age question: how Ukraine's mobilization calculus is shifting
Africa20 May 26
DR Congo's World Cup gamble: football, Ebola, and the politics of contagion
Long Reads20 May 26
The Diplomacy of Memory: Putin, Peng Pai, and the Russia-China Partnership on Display in Beijing
Long Reads20 May 26
The Diplomacy of Coercion: What Trump's 'Final Stages' Claim Tells Us About the US-Iran Nuclear Talks
Obituaries20 May 26
The Death of Deepika: Dowry Violence and the Limits of Indian Law
Culture20 May 26
De Gaulle's Shadow Looms Over Cannes 2026
The Weekly20 May 26
Day 82: Markets rally as Senate moves to limit Trump's Iran war authority
MENA20 May 26
Chinese Tankers Break Through Strait of Hormuz Standoff as US-Iran Talks Signal De-escalation
Long Reads20 May 26
Chinese Oil Tankers Are Running the Blockade — and Trump's Team Is Pretending Not to Notice
Long Reads20 May 26
Chinese Tankers Clear the Strait of Hormuz — What the Passage Tells Us About the Limits of Coercion
Markets20 May 26
Chinese Supertankers Slip Through Hormuz as Investors Price in Reopening
Asia20 May 26
China Makes Russia Visa-Free Entry Permanent Amid Western Sanctions Pressure

Culture20 May 26
Cannes Faces the Epidemic: Rami Malek and the Burden of Memory at the World's Premier Film Festival
Long Reads20 May 26
The Burning Village: Inside Israel's Southern Lebanon Bombardment

Sport20 May 26
Jalen Brunson's 38-Point Night Propels Knicks to Historic Conference Finals Comeback
Long Reads20 May 26
Britain's Sanctions Reversal and the Hormuz Crisis: How Two Energy Emergencies Collided
Long Reads20 May 26
The Bond Vigilantes Return: How America's Fiscal Reckoning Arrived on Wall Street

Science20 May 26
Bitcoin's Quiet Resilience: Why This Bear Market Is Defying the Usual Collapse Pattern

Obituaries20 May 26
Bhopal Court Limits Options in Twisha Sharma Case as State Signals Federal Probe
Culture20 May 26
Bezos Defends Amazon's $40 Million Melania Film as 'Good Business' — and Why That Framing Tells You Everything
Tech20 May 26
Ben Gvir video of kneeling Gaza flotilla detainees draws European condemnation
Long Reads20 May 26
Ben-Gvir at Ashdod: The Politics of Humiliation and the Gaza Flotilla Crackdown
The Weekly20 May 26
Beijing's Balancing Act: Xi Hosts Putin as China Cements a Partnership the West Cannot Quite Define

Long Reads20 May 26
The Beijing Axis: Xi Plays Both Sides as the Multipolar Order Takes Shape

Obituaries20 May 26
Barney Frank, Architect of Financial Reform and Pioneer of LGBTQ+ Congressional Representation, Dies at 86
Oceania20 May 26
The Swimmer Who Stole Australian Fashion Week

Oceania20 May 26
The Swimmer Who Stole the Runway: How Celebrity Absorbed Fashion
Arts20 May 26
The Art of Distraction: How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI Anxiety
MENA20 May 26
Iran's New Diplomatic Architecture Takes Shape as Araghchi Marks First Major Commemoration
Long Reads20 May 26
The Apartment and the Frontline: How Ukraine's Housing Crisis Mirrors Its Governance One
Long Reads20 May 26
The Talent Trap: How America's H-1B Crackdown Undermines Its Own Financial Future

Sport20 May 26
Alcaraz Withdraws From Wimbledon, Casting Shadow Over Grass-Court Season
Culture20 May 26
The Quiet Hand: How AI Is Quietly Taking Over Cultural and Emotional Labor
Opinion20 May 26
AI's Singapore Paradox: OpenAI Expands While Meta Cuts — Same City, Two Different Industries

Opinion20 May 26
The AI Horse Race Now Has a Betting Window. That's the Real Story.
Long Reads20 May 26
The 17% Problem: Why Trump's 'Final Stages' Iran Deal May Be Further Than It Looks
Long Reads20 May 26
The 14-Point Gambit: Inside the US-Iran Nuclear Talks and Pakistan's Quiet Diplomacy

Asia20 May 26
Xi Positions China at the Axis of the New Multipolar Moment

Long Reads20 May 26
Putin's Beijing Visit and the Architecture of the Russia-China Strategic Partnership
Long Reads20 May 26
The Leverage Point: How China Weaponizes Rare Earths — and Why the West's Diversification Push Keeps Stalling

Long Reads20 May 26
Trump's NATO Gambit: The Alliance, the Ballroom, and the Architecture of American Retreat

Letters20 May 26
Trump Executive Orders Signal Deregulatory Pivot on Fintech, AI Energy Costs

Long Reads20 May 26
Trump's Double Play: Boeing Deals and Borderline Jokes as Foreign Policy Grammar
Tech20 May 26
Trump's AI Oversight Order Tests the Border Between Innovation and National Security

Long Reads20 May 26
Thomas Massie's Kentucky Defeat and the Anti-Establishment Coalition That Survived Him
Asia20 May 26
Putin and Xi Sign Deepening Relations Statement as Energy Partnership Takes Center Stage

Opinion20 May 26
OpenAI's IPO Isn't a Milestone — It's a Confession
Defense20 May 26
NATO Weighs Hormuz Deployment as US Blockade Stalls and Market Odds Signal Prolonged Disruption

Long Reads20 May 26
NATO's Strategic Pause: Europe and the American Footprint

Long Reads20 May 26
Missing After a Photo: Inside the Hebron Land Cleared Days Before a U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Took Hold
Culture20 May 26
Miami's Science Museum Is Betting on Soccer Nerds — and It Might Be Right
Culture20 May 26
Carriage Riders and the Supreme Leader's Population Message: Inside Iran's Demographic Politics
Business20 May 26
EU-US Trade Pact Crosses the Line as Trump Sets New Tariff Deadline
Long Reads20 May 26
Energy Sovereignty in a Time of War: How India's LPG Crisis Exposes the Fault Lines of a Reordering World

Long Reads20 May 26
The Quiet Emergency: How a Rare Ebola Strain Is Testing Global Health's Slow Machinery

Science20 May 26
Crypto Markets Reel as Rising Inflation and Treasury Yields Test Risk Appetite

Asia20 May 26
China, US Find Tariff Ground — But Diplomatic Friction Remains a Fixed Constant
Oceania20 May 26
China's U-17s End 22-Year Absences and Knock Out Australia to Reach Asian Final
Letters20 May 26
The China-Russia Axis Rewrites the Rules of Global Trade
Long Reads20 May 26
The Magnet Problem: How China's Rare Earth Control Is quietly Deciding the AI Race
Culture20 May 26
Inside Cambodia's Unfolding Crackdown: What the Silence Tells Us
Obituaries20 May 26
Student Suicide at Bengaluru Academy Exposes Brutal Culture of Indian Entrance Coaching
Long Reads20 May 26
The Beijing–Moscow Axis Quietly Redraws the Map of Global Order
Culture20 May 26
Atomic Science Moves to Guard Syria's Heritage

Markets20 May 26
AIPAC-Backed Challenger Ed Gallrein Claims Victory Over Representative Thomas Massie in Kentucky Primary

Opinion20 May 26
The Gospel of Artificial General Intelligence Is Now a IPO Prospectus

Long Reads20 May 26
Chinese Oil Tankers Pass Through Strait of Hormuz: What the Headlines Miss

Opinion20 May 26
The AI-Crypto Pipeline: Why NVIDIA's Earnings Signal More Than a Chip Cycle

MENA20 May 26
ADNOC Chief Sounds Alarm on Hormuz as UAE Positions Itself at the Pivot Point of U.S.-Gulf Architecture

Obituaries20 May 26
Worker Dies Days After Venezuela Gas Facility Explosion

Long Reads20 May 26
The Deal Machine Runs Both Tracks: Trump's Tariff Diplomacy Now Has a Financial Wing

MENA20 May 26
Trump-Netanyahu Call Exposes Sharpening Fault Line Over Iran Nuclear Approach
Americas20 May 26
Trump Ratchets Up Cuba Rhetoric as Havana Navigates Economic Strains
Letters20 May 26
Thomas Massie Defeats AI-Fueled Opponent in Kentucky Senate Primary, Jokes About Finding Rivals Abroad

Investigations20 May 26
Samsung's 48,000-Strong Strike Tests South Korea's Largest Employer
Tech20 May 26
OpenAI Claims Proof of 80-Year Math Problem — and This Time Experts Are Not Pushing Back
Sport20 May 26
North Korean Women's Football Team Makes Historic Run to Asian Champions League Final in South Korea
Opinion20 May 26
What Thomas Massie's defeat tells us about money, AI, and the Republican Party's future
Sport20 May 26
Brunson and the Knicks Complete Historic 22-Point Comeback to Steal Game 1 From the Cavaliers

Long Reads20 May 26
The British Sanctions Flip: How Energy Anxiety is Rewriting the Russia Playbook
Long Reads20 May 26
How an AI-Labeled Challenger Defeated the Last Libertarian Republican in Congress
Long Reads20 May 26