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WorkHow Rachel Reeves' tears spooked financial markets The weekly session in which the British prime minister is questioned by lawmakers in Parliament can be an ordeal for the government leader. But on Wednesday the spotlight ended up on Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves because it became evident that she was crying as she sat beside Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The tears came as Starmer sought to fend off attacks that his year-old government was losing its authority and that he was about to fire Reeves to regain the initiative. That spooked the U.K. markets. The tears were said to be a personal matter, and after Starmer later said he'd hold onto Reeves, the markets calmed down. WorkWorkWork
WorkMeet the CEO Turning Chicken Farmers Into Rock Stars - Inc (No paywall) There's just no denying that Big Poultry is really, really big. The biggest poultry companies in the U.S. - Tyson Foods, Pilgrims Pride, Perdue Farms, and Sanderson Farms - control roughly 60 percent of the market. It takes a bold entrepreneurial spirit to look at this industry and think, We can do something here to change this. But that's exactly what Farmer Focus is setting out to do, working with family-owned farms to allow them to retain higher margins while providing chicken to stores like Sams Club and Safeway at competitive rates. WorkWorkWork
WorkTrump's Megabill and the New Art of G.O.P. Capitulation - The New Yorker (No paywall) What's in a name? Donald Trump, for whom appearances are everything, thinks its just about the only thing that matters. He called the single major piece of legislation associated with his second term the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a hokey bit of branding that his supporters on Capitol Hill promptly turned into the official name of the measure. There are signs that he does not know much about what's in the $4.5 trillion megabill - during a last-minute lobbying session on Wednesday at the White House, Trump reportedly had to be reminded by a Republican member of Congress that the measure did in fact make major cuts to Medicaid despite Trump's promises not to touch it. But the substance is never the point with Trump; the optics are. WorkWorkCan AI and drones replace soldiers and jets? - WSJ (No paywall) When Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia last month and damaged strategic bombers once considered untouchable, it sent shock waves through military circles. Operation Spiders Web was more than a display of technological ingenuity; it challenged longstanding assumptions about modern warfare. An outgunned but nimble force using off-the-shelf drones disrupted a far larger adversary. Speed, asymmetry and creativity outmatched legacy systems. WorkWhat is BRICS and why does it matter? BRICS leaders meet in Brazil this weekend to advance plans to challenge Western dominance. As more nations join the economic bloc, how will BRICS reshape power, trade and influence in a rapidly shifting world?
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WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkKurdish fighters in northern Iraq to hand over weapons in first step toward disarmament A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, says its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons next week a ceremony in Iraq's Kurdish region. Around 40 fighters are set to surrender their weapons. This marks the first concrete step toward disarmament after decades of conflict. The PKK announced in May it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades of hostilities. Group leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999, called for disarmament earlier this year. WorkDon't let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality - MIT Technology Review (No paywall) Google's recent unveiling of what it calls a new class of agentic experiences feels like a turning point. At its I/O 2025 event in May, for example, the company showed off a digital assistant that didn't just answer questions; it helped work on a bicycle repair by finding a matching user manual, locating a YouTube tutorial, and even calling a local store to ask about a part, all with minimal human nudging. Such capabilities could soon extend far outside the Google ecosystem. The company has introduced an open standard called Agent-to-Agent, or A2A, which aims to let agents from different companies talk to each other and work together. 
WorkJeff Bezos 2.0: new wife, newish job, old vision - The Economist (No paywall) JEFF BEZOS lives by a simple precept: limit the number of things you would wish you had done differently when you are 80. He calls it, with habitual nerdiness, the regret-minimisation framework. In 1994 it led him to forsake cushy work at a hedge fund to start Amazon. It is behind the big bets, from the Prime subscription service to AWS cloud computing, that have made the company into a technology titan valued at $2.3trn - and himself into one of the world's richest people. It also explains why six years ago Mr Bezos left his first wife of 25 years for a former TV presenter, Lauren Sanchez. And why he blew, on some estimates, $50m to rent out Venice for three days for their opulent nuptials starting on June 26th - the predictable antiplutocrat pushback be damned. WorkWorkEthiopia finishes the Nile dam that will increase its electricity output Ethiopia's prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the dam as a potential threat to its water supply. Egypt relies almost entirely on the Nile for agriculture and its population of over 100 million. Ethiopia disputes these concerns and plans to officially inaugurate the dam soon. On Thursday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia's growth would not come at the expense of Egypt and Sudan. The dam, on the Blue Nile near the Sudan border, already generates power and ultimately is expected to double Ethiopia's electricity output. Work 
WorkWorkWorkWhat It Would Take to Make Buses Free - Curbed (No paywall) The price of a subway ride in New York City might go up to $3 by the end of this year. But a bus ride? If Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, is able to accomplish one of the cornerstones of his campaign, that could drop to zero. It's something New York has already tried at a small scale, in part thanks to Mamdani himself, who spearheaded an effort to include a fare-free bus pilot in the state budget in 2023. Work WorkIs mental health 'awareness' backfiring? It's mental health awareness week, again. But the latest data shows that mental health stigma is increasing, not decreasing. What's going on there? And has mental health awareness gone 'too far'? WorkWorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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