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China has enforced a policy requiring teachers and public sector employees to surrender their passports as part of President Xi Jinping's broader effort to control international travel and limit foreign influence on civil society.

Character.AI said it’s abandoning its efforts to build LLMs because it’s gotten “insanely expensive” to compete with the big guys.

Nov WTI crude oil (CLX24 ) Thursday closed down -2.02 (-2.90%), and Nov RBOB gasoline (RBX24 ) closed down -3.93 (-2.00%). Crude oil and gasoline prices Thursday fell sharply, with crude posting a 2-week low and gasoline posting a 1-week low. Crude prices tumbled Thursday after the Financial Times reported...

Nov WTI crude oil (CLX24 ) today is down -1.79 (-2.57%), and Nov RBOB gasoline (RBX24 ) is down -2.65 (-1.34%). Crude oil and gasoline prices today are moderately lower, with crude falling to a 2-week low and gasoline falling to a 1-week low. Crude prices tumbled today after the...

A group of economists has publicly urged chancellor Rachel Reeves to reverse her stance on public investment, and relax the Treasury rules that constrain it. They argue in a letter to the Financial Times that low investment is the root cause of Britain’s productivity stagnation, and that the government must…

Trip to Moscow to review economy delayed indefinitely after protests it would ‘normalise relations with aggressor’

In today’s newsletter: The party talked up its plans for the climate during this summer’s election – and now seems to be backing that up with real action

The annual award is aimed at younger journalists at the start of their careers

Britain and US face ‘an unprecedented array of threats’, warn Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns in unprecedented joint op-ed