1. Are border crossings really at an all-time high? Maybe not.
2. Some detail on who pays whom in OpenAi and Apple (Bloomberg). Not everything in the article is clear to me, but it seems at first no one is paying anybody? Eventually there may be revenue-sharing agreements.
3. What is it like to work in an Ethiopian factory?
4. How to cut an onion (NYT).
5. Harrison C. White, RIP (NYT).
6. My 2018 Bloomberg column on Macron. And complex thread on French politics. And Zenmour as train wreck?
7. Any chance of a nascent bank run in Russia? Some exaggerators say a ruble collapse is coming.
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