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      "title": "Trump establishes committee to investigate Lisa Cook",
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      "title": "Sources report conflicting Trump Account deposit totals",
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      "title": "White House says nearly 70 million Trump Accounts were created",
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      "date": "2026-09-29",
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      "title": "Reports say AMD and Nvidia lobby against China export restrictions",
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          "quote": "“Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) are lobbying US President Trump's administration to stop lawmakers from curbing exports to China, Politico reports citing sources; asking that lawmakers hold off on the China-related chip export restriction in the defence bill.”"
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      "title": "Anthropic makes high-risk grants available for Opus 5 and Sonnet 5",
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      "title": "Executive Order 14425 orders a review of mandatory beef country-of-origin labeling",
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          "quote": "The Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) shall, consistent with the Act, and all other applicable law: prioritize and expand investigations into potential violations of the Act by packers and other covered entities, with particular attention to unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practices; undue or unreasonable preferences or advantages; and practices that restrain commerce or manipulate prices."
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      "summary": "After Jensen Huang met officials in Washington and travelled to Beijing, Nvidia said the U.S. government\nhad assured it that H20 export licenses would be granted and that it hoped to start deliveries soon. It\nalso announced an RTX Pro GPU aimed at the China market.",
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      "summary": "Nvidia disclosed that on April 9 the government required a license for exports of H20 and any chip with\nits memory or interconnect bandwidth to China, Hong Kong, Macau and D:5 countries, and on April 14 said\nthe requirement would apply indefinitely. Nvidia expected up to about US$5.5 billion of first-quarter\ncharges for H20 inventory, purchase commitments and reserves.",
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