UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Yes. This is important. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Very good news, and a signal to many UK universities that it is crucial to rebuild closer relationships with European partners.

Trade tiffs aside, EU membership is Iceland’s best defence, says foreign minister

The fate of Wall Street's staggering bets on artificial intelligence will rest squarely on Nvidia when the chipmaker reports results later today, with investors seeking signs that bubble worries are overblown reut.rs/48ntFMU

Global tech stocks rally after Nvidia earnings bolster AI bulls on.ft.com/4i7wqVT

“Nvidia Gives Strong Forecast, Countering Fears of AI Bubble” I very much disagree with this framing. People buying lots of Nvidia GPUs tells us nothing about the eventual ROI on those GPUs. In fact, a bubble effectively <requires> “too many” of these to be bought.

So per NVIDIA's earnings, it appears that NVIDIA has *agreed* to invest in Anthropic, but its investment in OpenAI is a "letter of intent with an opportunity to invest." Very strange!

OpenAI is the weak link in all this. Even if the bubble bursts NVIDIA will retrench, adapt and do fine. Altman is the sucker panning gold, it's Huang who is selling the shovels and booze

This means that NVIDIA has agreed to invest "up to" $10bn in Anthropic, but has not agreed to invest a single dollar in OpenAI. Good thing everybody wrote that NVIDIA had "invested $100bn" as if it happened

Nvidia reported a 62 per cent increase in quarterly revenue to $57bn, topping $50bn for the first time. The chipmaker is a bellwether for the AI sector so its solid earnings will assuage recent market fears that have wiped billions off tech stocks. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 on.ft.com/3K8Bb57

Denmark’s Social Democrats lose 100-year hold on Copenhagen

Kind of telling how the Danish Social Democrats are heading into the same electoral car crash as the UK Labour Party

UK Labour want everyone to know that their new asylum policies, inc stealing the valuables of asylum seekers, were inspired by the Danish Social Democrats. In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.

"Does Danish politics prove that the UK Labour Party needs to become more Green?"... not coming to a BBC report near you

The thing about trying to project UK politics onto Danish politics/society is that, the context is completely different. For starters, the election yesterday used PR, not FPTP. (And, to state obvious, Denmark is more than just Copenhagen. There were some surprising results across the country).

Projecting UK politics onto Danish politics without any engagement with electoral systems or local context has been an ongoing obsession of the architects of Starmer's migration and refugee policy for the last three years. Now they have to choose another orange with which to compare their apple.

It also ignores a key difference - Denmark has a very high trust society (both for institutions and with each other). The UK has low levels of trust in its institutions. That has a significant impact on how political debates manifest.

The Trump administration is firing and pushing out employees across the Justice Department and FBI, often with no explanation or warning, creating fear within the workforce over who might be terminated next, according to people with knowledge of the removals.

A split is emerging among some of the Trump administration’s top law-enforcement officials over their decision not to release any more material from the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Breaking news: A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday placed a new nationwide block on President Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship, two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court opened a path for the administration to begin enforcing the order.

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

This is how a white supremacist police state operates.

Watch every second of this video: what is happening in USA. Armed ICE agents tried to interrogate kids of color -- all of them U.S. citizens -- who were at baseball practice in NYC. ICE agents then harass coach but he knew his and the kids' constitutional rights. (h/t @jonfavs.bsky.social)

It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.

The problem isn't that Twitter drives a lot of traffic to sites - it literally never has - it's that it's still arguably the main forum for ELITE discussion and news sharing. And a lot of public opinion basically flows down from these elites. As long as they're on there, it will matter.

The extent to which Bluesky and Twitter are swamped by borderline deranged American culture war politics is deeply problematic in distorting the politics of other states with distinct constitutional orders. Germany, UK, Brazil or France might break down, but they'll do so in their own way

English language online discourse is dominated by Americans, and the presumption that you are discussing America, when you could be discussing any nation instead, just in a common language. Drives me up the wall.

my argument has been that Twitter is still a place where an astonishing number of politicians and journalists hang out, and unfortunately a lot of regular people too, and having the narrative there become nothing but a parade of far-right mania is visibly shifting those people towards the far right

A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s immigration raids in the Los Angeles region, calling some tactics unconstitutional.

Democrats should run ads just of Miller ranting. The screeching voice, the sneering face, even the awkward jerking of his body — it’s like a car alarm took human form. A Tesla alarm, I guess, given the Nazi stuff

President Trump threatened to impose a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, upending intensifying trade negotiations.

NEW: By targeting Brazil, President Trump has started to wield tariff threats as a way to meddle in another country’s political affairs, reigniting familiar questions about the legality of his actions to wage a seemingly limitless global trade war. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Trump says he will impose 30% tariffs on the EU and Mexico from August 1 https://on.ft.com/3GDHVpU

A 30% tariff on EU exports would hurt businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic. We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1. At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures. → europa.eu/!tPvKn8

Donald Trump announces 30% tariffs on goods from the EU and Mexico

Bad trade policy has a long history in the US. But no one does it worse than our Donald. It screws Americans and the rest of the world both and taken in conjunction with really bad foreign and domestic policies generally is just a real kick in the gut to the well being of pretty much everyone.

News Analysis: President Trump's assault on global trade has lost any semblance of structure. He has changed deadlines, blown up negotiations and tied his tariffs to complaints that have nothing to do with trade. It's preventing companies and countries from making plans.

With the major components of his economic agenda now enacted, President Trump has already left a lasting mark on the U.S. economy. The triumphs and turbulence that may soon arise will squarely belong to him. With @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u... @nytimes.com

Donald Trump has reinvented himself many times over, going from real estate developer to TV personality to world leader. Now his social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, is undergoing its own metamorphosis, becoming a major player in the crypto industry.

NEW: We go behind the scenes of Trump's conversion from crypto skeptic to champion. It was driven partly by a recognition that crypto could deliver big $ for his family & political groups. Still, his understanding of the industry remains shaky. He has left the policy details to industry advocates

President Trump has named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as the interim leader of NASA after a previous nomination fell through, rupturing the relationship between Elon Musk and the president.

Jahrelang befeuerte die MAGA-Bewegung wilde Gerüchte um Jeffrey Epstein und seine reichen Freunde. Jetzt erklärt die US-Regierung: alles Unsinn. Trumps Basis geht wütend auf die Barrikaden – gegen ihre Stars, allen voran den Präsidenten.

Reviewing the growing war within the Donald Trump administration over the status of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, MSNBC host Elise Jordan raised an eyebrow over the president's reluctance to talk about it.

If this Epstein controversy goes on much longer some Houthis are definitely getting bombed.

A new bombshell has entered Epstein Island

Deputy FBI Director Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid Epstein files fallout, CNN reports

BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. 🧵

One Trump administration official told Rolling Stone that they’ve been fielding messages from “really upset” right-wing influencers & allies of the White House. Asked if attempts to tamp down the backlash has worked, the official says, simply, “No.”

A user on X asks Grok if Musk has interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, and the chatbot bizarrely responds in the first person as if it's Musk.