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Ukraine's Drone Warfare Devouring 4% Of Global Germanium Demand As China Chokes Supplies Our coverage of rare earths dates back to President Trump's first trade war, when we warned that "Rare Earths Are China's Most Potent Weapon In A Trade War." What followed was predictable. During the 2025 trade war, Beijing steadily tightened its control over exports of gallium, germanium, antimony, tungsten and a growing list of other critical industrial metals to the West and its allies. These restrictions represent another weapon in Beijing's economic-warfare toolkit, aimed squarely at the most...

"Democratizing AI": OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil New AI Chip As Sam Altman Pushes For Full Control Of Compute Stack OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI accelerator, as Sam Altman's chatbot maker pushes to control more of its data center chip stack and drive greater efficiency to lower inference costs. The new chip is described as an "Intelligence Processor" and was designed from scratch for large language model inference, the compute-intensive process of serving AI products such as ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. "While OpenAI is still measuring final performance,...

Trump Sends Saudi Nuclear Accord To Congress, With Israel Normalization Still Attached It's official - a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy has been submitted by the White House to Congress.  The landmark nuclear accord would mean that uranium enrichment would eventually take place on Saudi territory. However, President Trump has included a major bombshell condition: he has not backed off requiring Saudi normalization with Israel. Saudi state media sources "The president's position has not changed that the agreement will only move ‌forward if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords," an admin...