Pentagon Seeks Stunning 243x Budget Surge For Drone Warfare Unit As Eurasian Wars Reshape Combat

Defunct US-Russia Arms Control Talks Should Have Started 'Yesterday': Kremlin There are two familiar trends related to the Ukraine war which have persisted. The White House is still reportedly trying to get creative regarding some kind of deal that would east tensions between Moscow and the West - including potential sanctions relief for the release of political prisoners - but at the same time the rhetoric between Russia and Europe has gotten increasingly dangerous. The Kremlin this week highlighted another big issue which serves as an ongoing source of broader tensions....

US Pauses Iran Bombing Campaign As Saudi-Houthi Red Sea Front Erupts Brent crude surged 27% over two weeks to settle at $96.78 a barrel on Friday, briefly breaching $100 this past week as traders priced in a higher war-risk premium into energy markets amid simultaneous chokepoint threats to the Strait of Hormuz and the southern Red Sea. Meanwhile, the US appeared to pause its 13-day campaign of daily overnight strikes against Iran. While there was no indication that the operational halt would extend into next week, the pause certainly reinforces...

Anthropic Bans Israeli Account Over Iran, Gulf Social Media Citizen Profiling Via The Cradle, An operation run by or on behalf of the Israeli-Singaporean commercial intelligence vendor S2T Unlocking Cyberspace used Claude models to map, classify, and profile social media users across Iran and the Persian Gulf, according to a threat intelligence report published by Anthropic on 11 September. (Photo credit: AP / Vahid Salemi) The platform recorded the locations of users, sorted them as supporters or opponents of their governments, and grouped populations into six demographic categories covering urban, clerical, military, youth,...