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On today's podcast:

(1) Europe is nearing the end of summer with a low natural gas buffer, threatening to intensify a global fight for supply.

(2) As Britain’s borrowing costs rise and hostilities flare between the US and Iran, the sums for Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey’s debut budget are getting trickier by the day.

(3) European officials vowed to boost Ukraine and penalize Russia as tensions flared following Germany’s accusation that Moscow tried to sabotage a local airport.

(4) Broadcom predicted a boom in artificial intelligence chip sales over the next two years, helping renew optimism that it can challenge Nvidia Corp.’s dominance in the lucrative market.

(5) Driverless taxis have been operating in US cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles for a while now, but the higgledy-piggledy, rainy streets of London present a far greater challenge.

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