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Banks Balk at Pricing OpenAI: SoftBank's $6 Billion Margin Loan Stalls

TOKYO, June 10 -- The most aggressive financier of the artificial intelligence boom asked the world's banks a simple question: how much will you lend against the most valuable startup ever created? Th... Read More


Aaron Ford Wins Nevada's Democratic Nod and Makes November a Verdict on Lombardo's Trump Embrace

LAS VEGAS, June 10 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford won the Democratic nomination for governor on Tuesday, taking 60 percent of the vote in election-night returns, and within hours of the polls c... Read More


Hollywood's Directors Sign a Quick, Quiet Deal While the Town's Biggest Merger Looms

LOS ANGELES, June 10 -- The negotiation that shut Hollywood down for half of 2023 took months of brinkmanship and two strikes to resolve. Its successor took twenty-nine days and ended with a press rel... Read More


Lenovo Falls Nearly 10% as the Memory Crunch Comes for the Price of the PC

HONG KONG, June 10 -- The world's largest PC maker lost roughly a tenth of its market value in a single session on Wednesday, and the reason fits in a slot the width of a finger: the chips that rememb... Read More


Hungary Tables the Anti-Graft Law Meant to Unlock the Billions Orban Froze

BUDAPEST, June 10 -- For sixteen years the money sat at the center of the fight, billions in European funds frozen in Brussels while Viktor Orban built the state that gave the European Union reason to... Read More


Trump's Pick Limps Into a South Carolina Runoff as Mace Crashes to Fifth

New Delhi, June 10 -- The endorsement that was supposed to settle the race settled almost nothing. Donald Trump picked Pamela Evette for governor of South Carolina, campaigned for her in the reddest s... Read More


Farage Will Headline the CPAC Britain He Swore to Avoid, and Truss Gets Her Stage

LONDON, June 10 -- When the American right's traveling conference announced its British franchise in March, with Liz Truss as its face, Nigel Farage's party had two words for it: well clear. That is w... Read More


Badenoch Would Scrap Britain's Equality Duty and Triple Stop-and-Search

LONDON, June 10 -- The argument Kemi Badenoch brought to the Institute for Government on Tuesday was that Britain's institutions have been frightened into failure, that the fear of being called racist... Read More


US strike sets tanker with 24 Indian crew ablaze, and Delhi thanks only Oman

NEW DELHI, June 10 -- The distress call wasted no words. "We have fire on board and vessel is sinking," the crew of the MT Marivex transmitted from the Gulf of Oman on Monday. "US Navy attack, the mis... Read More


A Six-Meter Raft at Scarborough Shoal Pulls Manila and Beijing Back to the Brink

MANILA, June 10 -- The object that has two governments exchanging diplomatic papers measures six meters by six, carries what looks like an antenna, and appeared to have people aboard. In most of the w... Read More