China Produces "Baby Shahed" Kamikaze Drones For $500

DoW Finalizes Deal With Top AI Firms For National Security Work The Department of War has finalized agreements with OpenAI, Google, SpaceX/xAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Reflection AI to deploy AI tools in "classified settings." This means these tools will operate within secure government networks where sensitive or secret national security information is handled, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic's Claude had previously been one of the few AI tools available on Palantir's Maven platform. However, after the DoW labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, the department pushed to broaden...

President Trump on Saturday claimed that Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, had “called” the US and said it wasn’t seeking conflict, suggesting that the ceasefire reached between the two sides in May 2025 was still in effect despite the escalating war in Yemen. “The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to […]

"It's Getting Worse": HSBC Warns Commodities Face Squeeze As Chokepoint Chaos Spreads The key takeaway heading into the weekend is that maritime chokepoint chaos has spread from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, while fighting across the Black Sea has intensified between Russia and Ukraine. The widening disruptions have prompted several institutional desks this week to warn that a potential squeeze on physical commodity markets could send prices from energy to agricultural goods higher. "The Middle East conflict has escalated, putting a substantial squeeze back into commodity markets,"...