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The French bond market: ver-r-ry scary (if you're the kind of person who reads our paper...) Nice, on-brandly irreverent @alphaville.ft.com take here by @tobyn.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/1c7ba446-b...

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Bond investors 💔 OATs

Sacré bleu

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 8h

"The initiative, known as FirstDate, opened under a pilot scheme this month for public sector employees aged 21-35 and uses a Nobel Economics Prize-winning matchmaking algorithm. An additional tool suggests date activities and allows users... to rate their experience in a survey."

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 8h

“Russia is boiling western democracies like a frog — turning on the heat step by step, and testing our responses,” Estonia’s Defence Minister @tsahkna.bsky.social tells the Fat’a @richardmilne.ft.com as.ft.com/r/1f86a76d-8...

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Russia behind arson attack on defence company, says Estonia

Estonian foreign minister Margus Tsahkna says Moscow is ‘boiling western democracies like a frog’

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 29/09/2026

"Though Trump treats Congress like a Duma, sufficient handfuls of Republicans have joined Democrats to block some of his wishes. Foremost of these is a bill to impose draconian ID requirements on voters." @edwardluce.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/6ecabbec-9...

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A Republican midterm defeat will not be an earthquake

Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress but divided government is unlikely to derail Trump’s agenda

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 28/09/2026

Another Mariupol? Ukraine is sounding the alarm over Oleshky, a city where it says Russia is holding the civilian population "hostage": "'People are dying almost every day from malnutrition, lack of essential medical care, heart attacks and Russian shelling'." as.ft.com/r/f2f6486c-1...

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Ukraine airlifts aid to Russian-occupied city

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Oleshky, where access to food is scarce

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026

Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...

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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe

Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 26/09/2026

An article so Guardian it risks reaching what physicists call "muesli-cruncher criticality"

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 25/09/2026

The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic: "TypeSafe’s pitch is that LLMs, designed for interacting with human beings, are ill-suited for the sort of programmatic, repetitive and high-volume tasks many global businesses are trying to automate using AI." as.ft.com/r/5ea80370-3...

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The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic

Start-up TypeSafe AI’s ‘Jev’ model promises faster, more efficient AI for developers

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 24/09/2026

How Israel has turned archaeology into a weapon: Report by @jamesshotter.bsky.social on "the biggest antiquities-related land grab since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967" as.ft.com/r/79f8f6c4-b...

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How Israel has turned archaeology into a weapon

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is seizing Palestinian land under the pretext of preserving ancient West Bank sites

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 24/09/2026

UK and Germany among economies most exposed to China, new modelling shows: "Researchers generally found that democracies were more vulnerable to Chinese influence than autocracies." @pmdfoster.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/1d516ac7-5...

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UK and Germany among economies most exposed to China, new modelling shows

Study finds Europe’s efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese investment, trade and other links have produced only ‘modest’ results

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 23/09/2026

Seriously... shouldn't this be investigated? Swiss authorities are trying to extradite Betancourt. "The prosecutors’ move to [Betancourt's] NABEP has left the SFO without three of its top anti-bribery lawyers just as one of the beleaguered agency’s most significant cases is moving to a jury trial.

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 23/09/2026

Yowza! Talk about a revolving door... "Three of Britain’s top corruption prosecutors started working for Alejandro Betancourt, the Venezuelan billionaire who recently signed a major oil deal with Donald Trump." as.ft.com/r/63d4da3b-2...

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Top UK graft prosecutors joined Trump’s Venezuela oil baron during Swiss probe

Alejandro Betancourt was previously wanted by authorities in Switzerland as part of a money-laundering investigation

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sounds like a great idea for everyone

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 22/09/2026

"I can think of no example of a US president losing interest in their job with two-and-a-half years still to run. This includes Trump in his first term and Joe Biden’s progressively more lacklustre single term." @edwardluce.bsky.social

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Trump is checking out of his presidency

With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Kuibyshev oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region is on fire following a drone attack. The refinery has a design capacity of around 7 million tonnes of oil per year. Explosions were also reported in Tolyatti.

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 21/09/2026

Britain, 2060: The green and pleasant land has been replanted entirely with chickpeas and lentils, and dhal-roti is the national dish (doesn't sound bad, actually?) as.ft.com/r/61471b4d-3...

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Dry British summers raise hopes of homegrown chickpeas

Scientists explore new crops that could make the UK’s food supplies more resilient against climate change and trade wars

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 19/09/2026

“No one wants to be the fund manager who jumps out of stocks for fear of a robot apocalypse that, honestly, could be the figment of AI engineers’ imaginations, only to land in bonds that get chewed up by fiscal incontinence that we know to be real.” as.ft.com/r/ca7aec8f-9... @katie0martin.ft.com

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How should investors position for the robot apocalypse?

The end of human existence might be bad for financial markets

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 18/09/2026

White hat or black hat? Same difference at this point, I say. 😂 OpenAI breached by researchers using Anthropic models @criddle.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/db179927-6...

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OpenAI breached by researchers using Anthropic models

Security company hacked into AI lab using tools from its rival

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 17/09/2026

Why do adult Londoners ride their bikes down busy sidewalks, like 9-year-olds?

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/09/2026

"Anthropic’s forthcoming filing raises a novel question. How do you draft risk factor language to address the possibility that your product destroys human civilisation? This isn’t a rhetorical question." @alphaville.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3a86cf53-1...

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Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors

What to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/09/2026

Today's Janan Ganesh is 💯 as.ft.com/r/fcc14c9d-b...

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is why, child. This is why.

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/09/2026

Wow! Big international justice/ accountability news: "Telenor has been charged by Norwegian authorities with complicity in crimes against humanity and breaching sanctions in Myanmar after it handed sensitive customer data to the military junta following the 2021 coup." as.ft.com/r/6e77d70b-d...

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Telenor charged with aiding crimes against humanity in Myanmar

Norwegian authorities say telecoms group handed sensitive customer data to military junta in wake of 2021 coup

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/09/2026

Yikes... killer graphic in this story about crypto-billionaire Ben Delo, the source of one of Reform UK's twin mega-donations as.ft.com/r/e6b89b0a-5... @nikasgari.bsky.social

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 15/09/2026

Foreign investors prefer US stocks to Treasuries as debt worries grow as.ft.com/r/d7d6b2a0-d...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026

Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 14/09/2026

Warsh and Trump on collision course as investors expect Fed to raise rates: "Trump on Sunday reiterated his position that the US should have 'the lowest interest rate in the world'." as.ft.com/r/262cffc2-1...

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Warsh and Trump on collision course as investors expect Fed to raise rates

Central bank chair under pressure to back warnings on inflation with action despite risking president’s ire

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