Netanyahu Pressing Trump Daily to Escalate War Against Iran

Beijing Threatens To Cancel Trump-Xi Summit If US Approves New Arms Sales To Taiwan Chinese President Xi Jinping used today's 18th BRICS Summit to push for a greater diplomatic role in Gulf affairs. The move appears to be transforming the bloc's economic weight into geopolitical influence, really positioning it as a counterweight to US foreign policy. Beijing's leverage also rests on its control over rare-earth and other critical-material supply chains, as it maintains a "quasi-monopolistic" grip on the industry that will persist through the end of the decade. Keeping that leverage...

Judge Rules Trump Admin Illegally Retaliated Against Anthropic Over AI Red Lines Via Decrypt.co, In brief Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on its First Amendment, due process and Administrative Procedure Act claims in a 59-page order. The government conceded Anthropic has no backdoor access to deployed models and is no riskier than any other AI system. Anthropic lost on one count, its claim that Trump's directive to federal agencies exceeded presidential power. A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration illegally punished Anthropic for publicly refusing to let the military use its Claude LLM...

Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that Iran must agree to meaningful reductions in its uranium enrichment capabilities. The statement appears to be a shift in policy, as Washington has demanded that Tehran completely eliminate its enrichment program.  “If you don’t want a nuclear weapon, then why do you need 60% enriched fuel? […]