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- What Trump Must Do To End The Iran War—And The Mullahs’ Evil Regime
Negotiating with Iran is a fool’s game since it has never kept inconvenient promises.
- Some U.S. Conservatives Are Shifting In Favor Of Ukraine
Recent polling data and measures by political commentators and elected officials suggest support for Ukraine is beginning to shift among some U.S. conservatives.
- Could a UN-backed plan to reopen Hormuz break the deadlock?
In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.
- Manchester City Freezes Rodri Real Madrid Talks For Barcelona To Enter Race
Manchester City has frozen talks with Real Madrid regarding Rodri's potential transfer because it believes FC Barcelona will enter the race for his signature.
- The radical idea behind Barnes & Noble’s surprising comeback
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
Technology
- US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
- Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also: Cyborg diving suits for cockroaches, why sleepy sperm whales blow bubbles, Betelgeuse's companion star.
- Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
- An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s a nascent industry, and such robots…
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