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Meta expands voice calls on WhatsApp to large businesses and explores AI-powered product recommendations for merchants' sites (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/meta-adds-busines…

Meta adds business voice calling to WhatsApp, explores AI-powered product reccomendations | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is adding more AI features to its business suite. The company on Tuesday announced it's introducing the ability for large businesses to reach

Wacken Festival 2025 Begins Amid Storm Warnings and Muddy Chaos
#MusicFestival
https://amidio.com/music/144/wacken-festival-2025-begins-a…

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/1/slovenia-becomes-first-eu-country-to-impose-arms-embargo-on-is…

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel
The Central European country has also recognised Palestinian statehood in 2024.

Quinn: McLaurin request business, not distraction https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45884983/quinn-mclaurin-trade-request-normal-business-not-distraction

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

Putin betont gute Beziehung zwischen Russland und China
Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin hat bei Gesprächen mit dem chinesischen Staatschef Xi Jinping die guten Beziehungen zwischen beiden Ländern hervorgehoben. "Unser enger Austausch spiegelt den strategischen Charakter der russisch-chinesischen Beziehungen wider, die sich derzeit auf einem noch nie da gewesenen Niveau befinden", sagte Putin bei dem Treffen mit Xi in der G…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Bisher offenbar 2.000 Soldaten aus Nordkorea getötet ++
Chinas Staatschef Xi und Kremlchef Putin sind in Peking zu Gesprächen zusammengekommen. In der Region Kiew ist bei einem russischen Luftangriff nach Behördenangaben mindestens ein Mensch getötet worden.

Trump tariffs would cost US employers $82.3B (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5381700-midsize-us-businesses-donald-trump-tariffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p101#a250702p101

SentinelOne researchers detail over 10 offensive cybersecurity patents filed by Shanghai Firetech, a company allegedly involved in Beijing's Silk Typhoon hacks (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/patents-silk-typhoon-company-beijing

Patents by Silk Typhoon-linked company shed light on Beijing’s offensive hacking capabilities
Researchers have discovered more than 10 patents for powerful offensive cybersecurity technologies filed by a prominent Chinese company allegedly involved in Beijing’s Silk Typhoon campaign.

Source: OpenAI raised $8.3B at a $300B valuation, months ahead of schedule, as part of plans to raise $40B this year; 5M business users pay for ChatGPT (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/dealbook/openai-ai-mega-funding-deal.html…

OpenAI Raises Another Funding Deal, From Dragoneer, Blackstone and More
The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.

Sources: Intel is considering ending marketing of its 18A process to new clients and writing off investments, focusing instead on 14A to compete with TSMC (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co