La décision de l’administration Trump d’interdire aux ressortissants étrangers l’accès au dernier modèle d’Anthropic marque un accélérateur de la bataille géopolitique de l’IA. L’intelligence artificielle n’est pas un simple actif économique. Le roi est nu. Les États-Unis assument désormais ouvertement l’IA comme un instrument stratégique relevant de la sécurité nationale. Une arme de domination à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains. Ceux qui, en Europe, continuent de s’opposer à la préférence européenne ou à l’autonomie stratégique dans le domaine technologique au nom d’une vision naïve du marché doivent regarder la réalité en face. Et ne nous racontons pas d’histoires : démocrates ou républicains, les successeurs de Donald Trump ne reviendront pas sur ce type de décision. Le contrôle sur les modèles est une accélération de la pratique de Biden de restrictions des exportations sur les chips. L’Europe ne peut pas se contenter d’être un marché ouvert dépendant des technologies conçues, financées et contrôlées ailleurs. Elle doit investir davantage, soutenir ses innovateurs et se donner les moyens de maîtriser les technologies qui détermineront la puissance au XXIe siècle. Nous ne pouvons pas faire l’impasse sur ce débat.

American credibility has deteriorated to the point where the president can announce a diplomatic agreement and the near-universal reaction is "let's wait for confirmation from Tasnim"

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

Orban exiting the Russian embassy in Budapest before his planned move to the US. Having looted Hungary to the bone, it's time to double down on service to Putin, but from the safety of the US.

Delegates of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum arriving at the opening ceremony as the St Petersburg port (10 miles away) burns in the background, following a wave of Ukrainian strikes. Video posted by Ksenia Sobchak t.me/bloodysx/55969

”[Putinin Venäjällä] kuuliaisuudesta ei saa enää palkintoa. Putinin vallan alkuvuosien ”yhteiskuntasopimuksessa” venäläiset vaihtoivat poliittiset oikeudet talouskasvuun ja vaurastumiseen, mutta ne ajat ovat enää muisto.” hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-20…

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

Belgia keskeyttää ydinvoiman alasajon energiakriisin vuoksi. Valtio ja Engie ottamassa haltuunsa kaksi jäljellä olevaa voimalaa, jotka oli tarkoitus ajaa alas 2035.

SCOOP! Internal Pentagon email details options to punish NATO allies who the US believes failed to support it in Iran war operations. Will post a link to my story later but US official says the options include:     * Suspending Spain from NATO alliance.     * Reassessing US diplomatic support for European "imperial possessions," to include Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands near Argentina     * Suspending "difficult" countries from important or prestigious positions at NATO     * No option to close U.S. bases in the email     * No option for withdrawing U.S. from the alliance in the email

Finland and Ukraine in talks to start drone production in Finland, following the Danish model. hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011…

Treat allies like shit or threaten war with them and then get mad when they stop wanting to buy American. Crybully diplomacy leads to exactly where it ought to.

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

I am deeply concerned about developments in the Palestinian territories. In my phone call with Prime Minister @netanyahu, I made it clear: There must be no de facto annexation of the West Bank.

The Vatican is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Why would Russians shut down Telegram? I think it’s to push through unpopular decisions. Possibly ending the war in one format or another. Or, on the contrary – escalating it. In that case, it would mean even broader mobilization. That would mean people from Moscow and St. Petersburg being sent to the front – and bodies returning to Moscow and St. Petersburg. In other words, he will no longer be able to avoid mobilization in the major cities he previously tried to bypass. Another scenario is that, not knowing how society will react, they are preparing for one or another outcome of the war. Through their propaganda, they have stirred up a radicalized segment of society. This share is quite significant – I think around 20–25 percent. In my view, these people are definitely not ready to end the war. There is also a segment of society that would react negatively to escalation. In my view, these are the two main scenarios, though of course there may be other motivations. And soon we will see which scenario Putin has chosen. From a conversation with journalists (4/5).