The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty"

Belfast Burns After Sudanese Migrant's Street-Beheading Attempt Sparks Local Revolt Against Globalists The unrest ripping through Belfast should be seen as a predictable social reaction from a local population that believes it has been ignored and overruled by a global managerial class of unhinged politicians who have spent more than a decade enforcing nation-killing mass migration policies without public consent. The attempted beheading of a native-born citizen earlier this week, involving a third-world migrant, appears to have become the catalytic event that pushed long-simmering anger into the streets. Overnight coverage:  Belfast Is Burning...

Emails Show Senior DOJ Officials Questioned Biden-Era Memo To Probe School Board Threats Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Internal emails from the Biden-era Department of Justice (DOJ) show that senior officials objected to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s plan to use the FBI to investigate parents opposed to school policies. Critics at the time said the policy change, which was contained in a memo signed by Garland, was calculated to intimidate parents protesting policies such as mask mandates and curriculum. Many of those who protested the memo were themselves heavily...

Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race The biggest AI story to start the week is the Trump administration's decision to place export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing Dario Amodei's frontier AI lab to restrict foreign access. The move comes as Chinese open-source models have been rapidly closing the compute gap with U.S. labs. Anthropic's latest release appears to have widened that gap again, particularly in frontier reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity use cases. Export controls could have second-order effects on the global AI...