2026-04-25
3 分钟The Economist.
The White House said Steve Wyckoff and Jared Kushner,
two of Donald Trump's top envoys, would meet with Iranian officials in Islamabad on Saturday for talks.
Earlier, Iranian state media said Iran's foreign minister would travel to the Pakistani capital.
Mr Trump has insisted on maintaining a naval blockade of Iranian ports and shipping until Iran makes a deal.
America's Department of Justice dropped its criminal probe into Jerome Powell.
The decision removes a major obstacle for Kevin Walsh,
Donald Trump's pick, to succeed him as chair of the Federal Reserve.
A Republican senator had promised to hold up his nomination while the investigation was underway,
arguing it interfered with the central bank's independence.
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensified a day after Mr. Trump announced that a ceasefire between Israel
and Lebanon would be extended for three weeks.
Israel launched airstrikes in southern Lebanon after issuing evacuation warnings,
while Hezbollah said it fired rockets and drones at Israeli forces.
The militant group said the ceasefire was, quote, meaningless.
Google agreed to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic,
including an initial $10 billion in a huge funding deal for the AI Lab.
The deal values the company at about $350 billion and reflects the vast spending
needed to build and run advanced AI systems.
Google already supplies Anthropic with chips and cloud services, even as it develops its own competing models.