EU Prepares For 'Potential' Talks With Putin As US Slowly Reduces Troops On Continent

"Just The Beginning": Japan Buys Billions In Nvidia Rubin Chips To Power Humanoid Robots Japan plans to acquire 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips as part of a $2.4 billion, government-backed push to develop domestic humanoid robotics models and reduce its dependence on foreign AI. This major effort comes as physical AI comes after data center buildouts, with global shipments of humanoid robots expected to surge next year. Bloomberg reports that the newly formed Noetra Corp. will oversee the project and build an estimated 140-megawatt data center, scheduled to begin operating in about...

French Navy Boards 5th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Vessel Off Europe Since September French President Emmanuel Macron has announced yet another highly provocative naval seizure of a Russian so-called shadow fleet vessel.  "On Tuesday, the French navy boarded the oil tanker Deliver as it was passing off the coast of Sicily in breach of maritime law," Macron wrote in a post on X, revealing the prior interdiction that took place earlier in the week. Illustrative, via French Navy Reports say it flew a Cameroonian flag and was sailing from Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk,...

NATO Chief Challenged On The "Defensive" Alliance's History Of Offensive Regime Change After his Oval Office visit today, an affair dominated by foreign reporters speaking truth to power by clamoring for more global military spending, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had to defend his alliance’s often-touted moral assertion: that NATO is defensive in nature. Asked by ZeroHedge whether NATO’s good deeds in Libya and Iraq qualified as defensive, Rutte had this to say: NATO chief Mark Rutte often refers to his alliance as “defensive.” I asked whether Hillary Clinton’s regime war in Libya...