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Israeli cyber startup Rein Security raised a $25M Series A to help companies control their AI agents. Its revenue has grown eightfold since January.

President Trump says Washington is discussing denuclearization with Beijing and Moscow, ahead of a Xi-Trump meeting at next month's APEC summit in Shenzhen.

A country can have an enormous economy and a poor population - total GDP can't tell the two apart, which is why analysts divide it by the number of people. This lesson covers what GDP per capita reveals about typical living standards, why the real and PPP-adjusted versions are the only ones worth comparing across borders, the rough bands that separate advanced from developing economies, and the two things the average still hides: unequal distribution and population growth eating into the headline.

Zenzap (Israeli-founded) emerged from stealth with $44M total funding, including a $33M Series A co-led by Bessemer and Lightspeed, for AI agents inside team chats.

GDP = C + I + G + (X − M) is the formula behind almost every GDP headline you'll read - the expenditure approach, the most widely reported way to calculate output. A breakdown of the four spending components: consumption, by far the largest at roughly 68% of U.S. GDP; business investment in equipment, structures, and inventory at about 17%; government spending on both consumption and investment; and net exports, which runs negative for most developed economies with a trade deficit.

Pluto Security (Israel) emerged from stealth with $42M ($8.5M seed led by TLV Partners and a $34M Series A led by Jump Capital) to secure AI tools that employees build.

The expenditure approach isn't the only way to arrive at GDP - the income approach gets to the same number from the other side of the transaction, adding up every factor income businesses pay out: wages, profits, interest, and rent. It rests on a simple accounting identity - what the economy produces must equal what it pays to produce it - and, unlike the spending breakdown, it surfaces who actually captures the gains from growth.

What actually happens between clicking 'buy' and owning a share? A short walkthrough of the five stages every stock order travels through - order creation, your broker's best-execution duty, routing across exchanges and market makers, the matching engine, and T+1 settlement at the clearinghouse - that demystifies the hidden machinery behind a 'one-click' trade.

Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE, a San Francisco AI cybersecurity startup.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh declined to signal an October fed rate hike after hot PPI data, and traders cut the odds of a move this month to about 15% from over 25%.

Prime Intellect acquired Moondream, a Seattle vision-AI startup founded by AWS veterans.

Why do stock prices swing so wildly from one day to the next? A short breakdown of the four forces behind market volatility - the emotional engine of fear and greed, the order-book mechanics that translate sentiment into price moves, the amplifying role of algorithmic and high-frequency trading, and how the VIX measures the market's mood in real time.