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WSJ Minute Briefing

Trump Signals Restart of Ukraine Weapons Shipments

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

3.6631 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Meta announces another top AI researcher has joined its ranks from Apple. And Amazon Prime Day kicks off, as the tech giant tries to bring in more shoppers and Prime members. Luke Vargas hosts.  Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2

Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, July 8th.

0:35.4

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.5

President Trump has said he'll resume sending defensive weapons to Ukraine to help it withstand

0:44.1

Russian attacks after months of trying to draw Moscow into negotiations on ending the war.

0:49.8

The announcement comes less than a week after it was disclosed that the Pentagon was withholding a shipment

0:54.6

of arms earmarked for Ukraine, a surprise to the U.S. State Department and members of Congress as well as

1:00.6

Kiev. The last major U.S. arms package for Ukraine was on December 30th during the Biden administration.

1:08.5

Meta Platforms is continuing its recruitment push by hiring another top Apple AI

1:13.9

researcher as Mark Zuckerberg fuels an arms race for AI talent. We're reporting that Roaming Pang is

1:20.9

joining Meta's new Superintelligence AI division and is set to receive a pay package in the

1:26.9

tens of millions of dollars. Zuckerberg is

1:29.7

making a string of expensive hires to staff up the new meta unit, offering huge pay packages

1:35.7

to attract talent as it seeks to regain momentum in the AI space. And Amazon Prime Day is kicking

1:43.0

off today, though this year the event will stretch over four

1:46.4

days instead of two as the retailer aims to lure in more shoppers and new prime members. The sale is

1:53.0

expected to bring in a record $12.9 billion in the U.S., according to market research firm e-marketer,

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