What Comes Next for the Middle East

WSJ What’s News

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Oct. 13. After a momentous day in the Middle East, world leaders are looking ahead to the next phase of the cease-fire deal for Israel and Hamas. WSJ national security reporter Robbie Gramer discusses what’s to come from peace negotiations. Plus, three economists win the Nobel Prize for their work explaining how innovation drives economic growth. And all that investment in artificial intelligence is juicing the economy—is it also making workers more productive? We hear from WSJ reporter Justin Lahart on what the evidence shows. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,
0:04.0	Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.
0:10.0	There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain. By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.
0:25.7	Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.
0:28.4	Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully cultivate talent.
0:36.5	What's in store for the Middle East after Israel and Hamas swap prisoners and hostages?
0:41.3	Plus, three economists win the Nobel Prize for work on how innovation drives economic growth.
0:47.3	And is all that investment in artificial intelligence paying off?
0:51.3	What AI is really doing is through this massive amount of investment, that investment
0:57.4	itself is boosting gross domestic product, but that's not the promise.
1:02.2	Ultimately, you want to see AI boosts growth by boosting productivity, by making workers get
1:09.9	more done.
1:10.6	It's Monday, October 13th. I'm Alex
1:13.2	O'Sulliffe for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines
1:18.2	and business stories that move the world today. It was a momentous day in the Middle East as the first stage of the peace plan between Israel and Hamas went into effect.
1:35.3	The 20 remaining living hostages from Gaza had emotional reunions with their loved ones in Israel.
1:43.8	And Israel released the nearly 2,000 Palestinians it had agreed to free under the terms of the deal.
1:49.8	Large crowds greeted them as their buses arrived in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
1:58.0	In an address to Israel's legislature, President Trump vowed to extend his peacemaking to the wider Middle East.
2:04.0	This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
2:08.7	Trump then flew to Sharma al-Shake, Egypt, to meet with leaders from the Middle East and Europe
2:13.3	involved in efforts to end the war and plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip.
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