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NunoSempere
7d ago
Some headlines I'm reading:
Geopolitics
Oil retreats after hitting four-year high @ $126 a barrel on concern of US-Iran war escalation | Reuters
Europe
Middle East
Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say
Iran
Commercial flights from Tehran’s main airport resume amid cautious normalcy US-Israel war on Iran News Al Jazeera
Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran's Nuclear Program
Iran 'to end Strait of Hormuz blockade' if Trump accepts major nuclear weapons concession
US official says Iran war truce 'terminated' hostilities for war powers deadline | Reuters
Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed Imam Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei Declares Plan to Establish 'New Legal Rules' in Strait of Hormuz
Asia
Once on the back foot, Myanmar's military now looks set to resume offensive in bloody civil war
China Hosts Pakistan-Afghanistan Talks in Urumqi to Ease Border
Africa
Darfur: Two decades on, a new generation of children faces 'horrific violence' | UN News
Nigeria: Amnesty Raises Alarm Over Alleged Deaths of 150 Fulani Detainees in Kwara Camp
Mali army bases hit in large-scale attacks claimed by al Qaeda-linked militants | Reuters
Biorisks
Antibiotic Resistance Might Get a Boost from Droughts
A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons - The New York Times
9k+ measles cases in South Darfur — vaccinations intensify across Sudan
Since the disappearance of H2N2 from the human population in 1968, global H2 immunity has been decreasing (review article)
Fast and accurate TB test that doesn't need phlegm
Artificial Intelligence
Deploying AI Capabilities for Defensive Cybersecurity
Pentagon AI chief confirms DoD's expanded use of Google Gemini
Google Moves Forward With Pentagon AI Deal Despite Employee Pushback - CNET
Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
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Climate and Nature
Carbon pollution is making food less nutritious, limiting uptake of minerals, perhaps leading to e.g. iron or zinc deficiencies.
NunoSempere
12d ago
Some headlines I'm reading:
Geopolitics
Pakistan prepares for Iran-U.S. talks but Tehran's participation unclear
Russia and North Korea connect road bridge ahead of summer opening
Over 181,000 drones, EW systems and other equipment delivered to front via yeBaly in 2026 – Fedorov
China bans dual-use items exports to 7 European entities over Taiwan arms sales
United States
Under sustained pressure from the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum has doubled down on a “kingpin” approach—military operations, high-profile arrests and extraditions—to decapitate cartel leadership. Her government has extradited nearly 100 suspected cartel members to the US since 2025. Cartels have fragmented and retaliated.
US memo on distillation
Rest of the Americas
Bukele Enforces Life Sentences for 12-Year-Olds in El Salvador Amidst Controversial Security Policies
Europe
Russia could be ready for NATO conflict year after Ukraine, Dutch warn
Middle East
Hezbollah says ceasefire 'meaningless' as fighting continues in south | Reuters
Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists killed in 24 hours before Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, IDF reveals
Israel, Lebanon to Hold Second Round of Talks in Washington on Thursday
Sudan's Al-Burhan welcomes defection of RSF commander to army – Middle East Monitor
Iran
Iran Fires on 3 Ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Complicating Efforts to Resume US-Iran Talks | Military.com
Witkoff and Kushner headed to Pakistan for Iran talks, White House says | Reuters
Iran launches drone strikes on US military vessels after cargo ship seized near Hormuz
Iran War: US Boards Supertanker Carrying Oil From Iran in the Indian Ocean - Bloomberg
India/Pakistan
Injection culture, syringe reuse, weak enforcement fuelling HIV outbreaks in Pakistan
Africa
Donors pledge 1.5 bn euros as Sudan marks three years of war
Africa: Almost Half of African Countries Battling Measles Outbreaks
Boko Haram threatens to kill 400 women and children if Nigeria refuses £2.7m ransom
Biorisks
Bangladesh measles outbreak kills 194 children
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own
Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT) / Project Maven. Transitioning to a formal system of record.
Death by A.I - New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
ChatGPT Images 2.0
I gave an AI persistent memory, self-learning, and earned autonomy
Scaling Codex to Enterprises Worldwide
Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Discord group says it accessed Claude Mythos by guessing location
Newsom signs executive order requiring AI companies to have safety, privacy guardrails. Order seems pretty meek though.
Amazon will invest $25B in Anthropic, Google $40B
xAI cursor deal
Last week we discovered something unusual: a single person had mass-registered 900+ accounts on our platform using automated email services, then orchestrated them into a distributed AI swarm all running on free-tier credits across 11 platforms
SONY AI | Project Ace, for the first time AI/robotics is competitive against pro table tennis players.
AI hallucinations found in high-profile Wall Street law firm filing
Anthropic told a federal court it can't control its own model once deployed
Google/Sundar Pichai claim: 75% of code at Google is AI-generated
China PLA Navy base report: governing AI use via 'negative list' red lines
Meta deploys employee activity tracking to train AI agents (MCI)
Two thirds of organizations have suffered from a cybersecurity incident related to the deployment of AI agents during the last year, says report
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
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Economy
Cursor has given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60B
Meta 10% layoffs
SpaceX Cursor deal
Personally I moved to Paraguay.
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