The Horrifying Endgame in Ukraine

President Trump on Thursday again said he was delaying his plan to order major strikes on Iran’s power plants, claiming that negotiations with Iran were going well despite Tehran’s continued insistence that talks with the US aren’t even happening. “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing […]

Xi Urges Immediate Opening Of Hormuz Strait For First Time, In Call With Saudi Crown Prince China's President Xi Jinping on Monday demanded the uninterrupted passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in a phone call with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, state news agency Xinhua reports. He urged the normalization of shipping traffic after about 50 days of disruption which obviously and significantly impacts Chinese oil imports. "Normal navigation through the Strait of Hormuz should be maintained, this is in the shared interests of regional countries and...

"This Is Not Normal": China's DeepSeek Cuts New AI Model Fees, Again DeepSeek senior researcher Victor Chen announced on X that the company's newly released DeepSeek-V4-Pro model will be offered at a huge discount over the next week, a move that threatens to unleash an AI platform price war just as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are rolling out newer, more expensive models. "Second price drop in two days! On top of the base 75% off, stack an extra 90% discount for cache hits. That brings it down to just 0.003625 USD/0.025...