Residents in Gaza told an Israeli paper that Israel escalated its aggression inside the enclave after the conflict broke out between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
Category: 17 June 2025
FRANCE VOWS TO DEFEND ISRAEL, STARMER MOVES ADDITIONAL JETS TO REGION, MERZ SAYS IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUKE
Top European powers came out in support of Israel after Tel Aviv carried out strikes across Iran under the auspices of preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
UN ATOMIC AGENCY CONDEMNS ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON NUKE FACILITIES, WARNS OF CONTAMINATION
Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s atomic agency, said in a statement that nuclear facilities “must never be attacked” in response to the IDF’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities that has put the Middle East on the brink of a wide regional war.
PICK A SIDE: COUNTRIES COME OUT IN SUPPORT/OR OPPOSED TO ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON IRAN
Israel’s decision last week to carry out a preemptive strike on Iran drew responses from countries around the world.
CAN’T BEAT THE HOUTHIS: CENTCOM HEAD SAYS HE GAVE TRUMP MILITARY OPTIONS FOR IRAN
The U.S. military was unable to defeat the Houthis in Yemen in its wide-reaching conflict that ended last month, but the head of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) told the House Armed Services Committee last week that he has presented U.S. President Donald Trump with a “wide range” of military options should a major war with Iran break out.
TRUMP CAUGHT USING NUKE TALKS AS A RUSE BEFORE ISRAEL’S STRIKE ON IRAN
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he held a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran, which was described in the Israeli media as “heated.”
KEY AI BENCHMARKING SERVICE ACCUSED OF BIAS
LMArena, a standard platform ranking the performance of large language model AIs (LLMs), gives preference to models made by giant tech companies, according to a study preprinted on arXiv and not yet peer-reviewed.
RESEARCHERS RELEASE THE KRAKENCODER
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City have unveiled the Krakencoder, a new AI that weaves together a variety of brain images taken by different devices. The result is a deeper, more integrated view of how a brain affects behavior, thoughts, and how it recovers from injuries.
LEADING AI MODELS “COLLAPSE” UNDER HARD PROBLEMS, STUDY SAYS
When struggling with highly complex problems, “reasoning” AIs from DeepSeek and OpenAI suffer “complete accuracy collapse,” according to a new study released by Apple.
META’S ZUCKERBERG HAND-PICKS AGI SUPERGROUP
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally recruiting a team of as many as 50 specialists to speed the company’s progress toward creating artificial general intelligence (AGI), a supercharged synthetic intelligence that can outperform humans across a wide range of tasks.









