Germany, France, UK See Opportunity To Revive Putin Talks Without Washington

Is It Time For Von Der Leyen To Go? Via Remix News, Amidst continued fears regarding Putin attacking beyond Ukraine and economic uncertainty caused by the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Brussels is reportedly beginning to grumble, i.e., look for someone to blame and remove. Now, according to a report by Finnish public service media Yle, cited by Világgazdaság, voices are growing to remove the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Several European leaders, as well as NATO officials, have long warned that Moscow may potentially attack NATO states, which...

President Trump on Tuesday backtracked on his demand for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz to pay the US a 20% fee, saying instead that he wants “trade and investment deals” from the Gulf Arab states. “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement […]

Meta Restricts Engineers' Use of Claude Code And Codex Over Model 'Distillation' Concerns Meta Platforms has instructed engineers in its Applied AI division to limit or restrict their use of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex coding and agent tools, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. The policy, driven by concerns over inadvertent model distillation, aims to prevent outputs from rival AI systems from contaminating Meta's own training data and model development processes for its Llama family of models (which, quite frankly, could only help). The move reflects the...