Three storylines define the day: a first-ever three-way summit between Trump, Putin and Xi, a global cloud outage that reached Czech offices, and a spy scandal reshaping the chip rivalry between Washington and Beijing.

World

  • Trump plans to meet Putin and Xi together next week in China, the White House says, in what would be the first-ever trilateral summit among the leaders of the world's three largest nuclear-armed powers (more).
  • The agenda includes nuclear arms reductions and the war in Iran (more).
  • It remains unclear whether the talks will produce binding commitments or simply open a new diplomatic channel (more).

Czechia

  • Microsoft restored full service Friday after a day-long outage disrupted users worldwide, including in the Czech Republic (more).
  • The company says the failure was not caused by a cyberattack or by artificial intelligence (more).
  • The disruption showed how a single technical fault at one US company can interrupt households, businesses and government offices on different continents at once; Microsoft has not said what caused it (more).

Analysis

  • A new report says Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally rewrote a CIA assessment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's alleged ties to a Chinese intelligence asset, sharpening its language before it was passed on (more).
  • No charges have been filed against Huang or Nvidia, which calls the relationship business only and has opened its own board inquiry (more).
  • India pointed to the episode as more reason to build its own chip industry, while Washington and Beijing discussed a hotline to manage AI-related crises the same week (more).