Escalation: Iran, Russia, China To Hold Naval Drill In Flashpoint Strait Of Hormuz

Moscow Closes The Door: How Putin & Lavrov Hardened Russia's Line On Ukraine In Ten Days Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21), In mid-September, the Kremlin was signaling that negotiations could resume. Putin had said the trilateral talks with the United States and Ukraine would be unlikely before the State Duma elections, but that Russia would be ready to resume contacts after them. The elections ended on September 20. Within a week, both Putin and Lavrov had shifted from conditional openness to a set of positions that make a...

Iran is threatening that it will strike northern Israel if Tel Aviv moves forward with planned strikes in Beirut.  On Sunday, Israel called for residents of southern neighborhoods in Beirut to evacuate the city before the IDF started to bomb. The Iranian military responded by threatening to strike northern Israel if it attacked the Lebanese […]

Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race The biggest AI story to start the week is the Trump administration's decision to place export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing Dario Amodei's frontier AI lab to restrict foreign access. The move comes as Chinese open-source models have been rapidly closing the compute gap with U.S. labs. Anthropic's latest release appears to have widened that gap again, particularly in frontier reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity use cases. Export controls could have second-order effects on the global AI...