U.S. President Donald Trump gave an interview last week where he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and himself war heroes after their coordinated attacks on Iran in June.
Category: 26 August 2025
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COMPANIES GRAPPLE WITH “THE AI PARADOX”
Business services firm McKinsey & Co. calls it “the generative AI paradox:” eight in 10 of its client companies say they have deployed AI in their operations, but the same proportion—aside from tech companies providing the equipment—say they have seen no bottom-line impact.
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KYIV TALKS TRUMP’S LANGUAGE, SAYS IT’LL USE EUROPEAN MONEY TO BUY $100B OF AMERICAN WEAPONS IN RETURN FOR SECURITY GUARANTEES
Ukraine informed the Trump administration that it will use European money to buy $100 million in American-made weapons in return for security guarantees if there is ever a peace deal with Russia, according to a report last week.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE ITEMS OUTSELL CONSUMER PRODUCTS AT FOXCONN
In this year’s second quarter, Foxconn—the world’s largest electronics assembler—made more items for building cloud and AI infrastructure than consumer electronics.
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DEEPSEEK IS UNABLE TO TRAIN ITS NEXT MODEL ON CHINESE CHIPS
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer that stunned the world in January with its world-class large language model made on the cheap, has been forced to delay the release of its R2 reasoning AI.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AS WE WARNED IN 2021, AI SURVEILLANCE EVERYWHERE
Google, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Deepseek. The names may be different, but the object is the same: to embed AI into every moment and activity of your life, whether you want it, or even fully realize it’s there.
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TAIWAN TRIES TO BOOST DEFENSE SPENDING AMID BELIEVED THREAT FROM CHINA
Taiwan announced last week that it will try to increase military spending by 22.9 percent—or 3.3 percent of its GDP—to enable it to stand up against any aggression by China.
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NO END IN SIGHT: TRUMP THREATENS NEW SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA OVER UKRAINE WAR
Another week, another Donald Trump “this or that.”
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PUTIN LAYS OUT THREE CONDITIONS FOR PEACE
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for peace include three key points: No NATO for Ukraine, no Western troops in Ukraine, Kyiv must part with the Donbas, Russian sources told Reuters.
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UNDERSEA DESALINATION PLANT MAKES THE PACIFIC OCEAN DRINKABLE
Desalination plants—systems that purify seawater to make it potable for things that live on land—tend to look like oil refineries, with sprawling acres of plumbing mazes and stands of towering storage tanks.