“A stable regional order cannot be built around Israeli military dominance alone; Washington will need to manage the Turkey-Israel rivalry and create space for a broader regional balance in the Eastern Mediterranean.”
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The risk is that foreign governments and companies will look elsewhere if they come to view American AI as unreliable. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said in January China is roughly six months behind the U.S. when it comes to frontier, or leading, AI. axios.com/2026/06/16/anthrop…
The scale of #Najib Razak’s offences in the 1MDB scandal surpasses anything Atilla the Hun ever did, says presiding judge Justice Sequerah.
Sequerah wrote that the financial scandal was described in the global press as “the largest episode of kleptocracy in the world”.
Shanghai Disney Resort celebrated its 10th anniversary in Shanghai on Monday, with Disney top executives, stakeholders and local celebrities attending the event, marking a decade of success and signaling ambitious plans ahead. china.org.cn/2026-06/16/cont…
Frontier AI knowledge, weights, and techniques spread via leaks, espionage, talent flows, open research, and distillation.
China markets itself as a steadier partner (with its own controls).
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Trump administration officials began weighing sanctions on #Anthropic weeks before they demanded the company take its latest and most advanced artificial intelligence model offline, after a dispute shattered the White House’s already-fragile trust in the company.
(WaPo)
Cybersecurity experts, tech executives and some venture capitalists expressed alarm at the government’s intervention, calling on the administration to reverse course in a letter published Sunday.
Anthropic has positioned itself as a champion for regulation, and it was supportive of some of the measures the Biden administration took to rein in the AI industry. Several former Biden officials now work for Anthropic.