Iran Suspends Talks with US, Russian War 'Unaffordable,' More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Monica Ricks. Oil is surging this hour as traders react to an Iranian report that the country will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. over Israel's escalation over the weekend in Lebanon. Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall has been following this story for us from Washington and says the sides are still pretty far apart, despite both sides also confirming they've made progress this weekend.
Over the weekend, we saw Israel launch the largest incursion in Lebanon in nearly two decades. But the IDF says that that is in response to Hezbollah launching nearly 300 projectiles towards Israel. So the escalation continues. We'll see how this ultimately progresses here, because keep in mind, the U.S. maintains Israel's front against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group is a totally separate front, that these are separate negotiations. But for now, it seems like it has put the talks on standby.
Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall reporting there. Iran has mentioned from the start that any ceasefire talks would have to include Lebanon. Brent crude right now is up 6%, by the way, at about $97 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate is up closer to 7% at $94 a barrel. Senior government officials are warning Russia's President Vladimir Putin that spending on its war in Ukraine is on an unaffordable path. It's the most serious sign of internal division in Moscow since the start of its full-scale invasion in Ukraine four years ago. According to documents reviewed by Bloomberg, Russia's finance ministry and central bank have both advised the Kremlin that the current level of projected defense expenditure risks the government's budget deficit widening dangerously.
They've suggested cuts, but Russia's defense ministry argues that that could badly damage the economy since so many businesses rely on military-related contracts. Anthropic has now filed confidentially for public listing as it races longtime rival OpenAI to make a Wall Street debut as soon as this fall. Bloomberg Tech's Ed Ludlow has more.
It is the Monday after the Thursday, Friday that they just closed an absolute monster private round, $65 billion at a $965 billion post-money valuation. Timing is everything in this game, of course.
Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow, rival OpenAI, is said to be preparing its own confidential filing for an IPO in the coming weeks. Meantime, Florida is now suing OpenAI over alleged safety failings of its AI chatbot ChatGPT. The state's attorney general claims OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could harm users, including minors. We check the markets for you all day long here at Bloomberg. And right now, the Dow is down about four tenths percent. The Nasdaq's up two tenths percent. The S&P is pretty flat. The 10-year Treasury yields at 4.5 percent. The two-year yields at 4 percent. Shares of NVIDIA are up 4.6 percent this hour as the AI chipmaker dives back into the PC market with a new chip called the RTX Spark Superchip.
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