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1. Russia's economy has defied the skeptics. Cracks are getting harder to hide

2. OpenAI talent exodus raises 'huge red flag' ahead of IPO

3. U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran 'that have never been seen'; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

4. Beijing is said to move to clarify tax rules stoking confusion among China's ultra-wealthy

5. Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser’s AI warning: The revolution is real, but so is the bubble risk

6. Extreme heat spurs earliest-ever Champagne harvest, putting its famous taste to the test

7. Nvidia discloses $21 billion stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter

8. How a niche copper trade became a real-time gauge of Trump’s next tariff move

9. Regulators and banks step up scrutiny of prediction markets

10. Berkshire Hathaway boosts Alphabet to a top three holding, ups Delta and housing bets

11. Lamborghini unveils Revuelto SV, its most powerful production car ever

12. Meta to open source its most powerful AI model as it takes swipe at OpenAI, Anthropic

13. China built robots that can do backflips – but can they make money?

14. Trump family-backed crypto firm World Liberty gets conditional bank charter approval

15. ‘Absolutely unacceptable’: Japan PM Takaichi condemns Putin’s visit to disputed Kuril Islands

16. AI’s infrastructure boom is getting more leveraged — and harder to track

17. Group including Jeff Bezos buys minority stake in Liverpool FC, with option to become controlling owner

18. Court rules companies can't import Gilead medications from overseas in blow to AFP health programs

19. NATO aircraft shoot down drone over Latvia, which blames 'Russian electromagnetic warfare'

20. Nintendo shares pop 7% after 'Pokémon Pokopia' sales top 5 million