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Putin Winning, Ukraine's Position Weakened, From Prolonged Iran War: Zelensky Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that a prolonged Iran war will be a net win for Moscow - and a significant setback for Kyiv. Speaking to Axios, he said bluntly: "I am sure Russia wants long war. They have benefits: The US is focusing on the Middle East and may decrease military help to Ukraine. Further he highlighted that "Sanctions are partially lifted" on Russian energy and so "I see only benefits for Russia from the war with Iran continuing." Ukrainian...

Iran Retaliates On US Bases In Five Countries Simultaneously As Tehran Bombed Iran launched retaliatory strikes targeting Israel and US assets across the Middle East, hitting sites in Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq - soon after the Trump-ordered 'Operation Epic Fury' started, which appears aimed at accomplishing regime change in Iran. Multiple explosions rocked Tehran, with additional blasts reported in several other locations nationwide, soon after which several countries across the region closed their airspace once it was bombs away, and as the cross-border attacks intensified. Israel is...

OpenAI Stops Providing AI Models To Cursor Amid Feud With Elon Musk Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times, OpenAI said Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding startup now owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. This continues a years-long public feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who was a cofounder and board member of OpenAI but left in 2018. SpaceX purchased Cursor for $60 billion in June. "We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology...