Blackstone's Private Credit Fund Joins Peers In Gating Investors After Surge In Redemptions

As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environmnet aka OPE. OPE is defined in joint publications (e.g., JP 3-05 Special Operations) as non-intelligence activities conducted prior to or in preparation for potential military operations to set conditions […]

The Biggest Problem With AI Today By Christopher Penn, of Almost Timely News What’s the biggest problem in AI today? Is it cost, with token budgets being blown out of the water by agentic AI? Is it sustainability, with AI consuming electricity and fresh water? Is it ethics, with tech companies cramming AI into everything? I think it’s deeper than that. Those are all symptoms of a much deeper-rooted problem: nobody’s making decisions. Or more correctly, we’ve abdicated far too much of our executive function to AI. We’ve surrendered our thinking.  Let’s dig...

Russia Planning Provocation Against Poland To Test NATO Resolve, US Reportedly Warned The Telegraph along with various Eastern European media outlets, including Polish national sources, are reporting that United States passed Warsaw a warning based on intelligence that Moscow is considering an armed provocation against Poland to "test NATO's resolve". Provocation scenarios are said to potentially include drone attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, or else testing airspace by simulating a large-scale air attack to try and force Poland to prematurely activate its air defenses. An official within President Karol...