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6 stories on the WORLD beat — reported from primary sources and ordered newest first.

[WORLD]JUL 28

Iran sharpens precision strike tempo across Gulf and Jordan

The governing metric in standoff missile warfare is circular error probable: the radius within which half of all shots land. Compressing it is the core engineering goal of any modern missil

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[WORLD]JUL 27

Chinese AI narrows the gap with U.S. frontier labs, putting open weight models back in focus

The benchmark gap between U.S. frontier labs and Chinese AI developers has operated as the industry's working assumption about where capability actually lives.

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[WORLD]JUL 27

Trump launches new tariff round targeting 60 trading partners, including EU, China, and U.K.

The mechanism behind import tariffs is straightforward: duties are assessed at the port of entry, paid by the importer, and pushed through the supply chain until they land in a margin or a

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[WORLD]JUL 27

Meta's latest AI talent move and Cramer's four market reads headline the Investing Club's Homestretch

The binding constraint in AI development at this point in the cycle is talent supply. The pool of machine learning researchers and engineers capable of building and iterating on [frontier models](/news/met

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[WORLD]JUL 26

Strait of Hormuz escalation puts Gulf energy supply under direct military pressure

The single passage through which Persian Gulf crude reaches open ocean is now the stated prize in a live military contest.

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[WORLD]JUL 26

US strikes Iran as Strait of Hormuz battle turns direct

The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the open-ocean shipping lanes beyond, has moved from background risk to [active military contest](/news/record-defence-inve…

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