Full report: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2025/

The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.

Hamas still holds 58 hostages, about a third of them believed to be alive.

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Heads up Brisbane- This Friday from 8am, all 6 lanes of the Story Bridge will be shut down for a planned protest. Cyclists, scooters & walkers want a lane of their own & are making their point in peak hour. [Olympia Kwitowski]

The European Commission welcomes the adoption of the 17th EU sanctions package against Russia, signaling continued support for Ukraine amidst its war. The key elements and objectives of this package include:

1. Anti-Circumvention Measures: Targeting Russia's "shadow fleet" by listing an additional 189 oil tankers, bringing the total to 342. These vessels are subject to port access bans and service prohibitions, significantly hampering Russia's ability to export oil outside the price cap regime (reducing deliveries by 76% since listings began). The package also adds 31 new companies supporting Russia's military-industrial complex or sanctions evasion.
2. Additional Listings: Adding 75 new individuals and entities undermining Ukraine's territorial integrity, primarily from the Russian military and defense sectors. New listing criteria are being used. This extends previous efforts to target those enabling Russia's war effort.
3. Trade Measures: Expanding restrictions on dual-use and advanced technology exports aimed at cutting off key technologies for military use, including specific chemical precursors (like chlorates) linked to Russian missile propellants and high-precision CNC machine tool components.
4. Sakhalin Exemption: Extending the exemption from the oil price cap for the Sakhalin-2 project's crude oil shipments to Japan until June 2026, based on energy security concerns.

The Commission emphasizes that these sanctions are working, pointing to:

• Russia selling resources cheaply and buying necessities expensively.
• Significant economic strain: high inflation (above 10%), soaring deficits, interest rates at 21%, and depletion of the National Wealth Fund.
• A near 80% drop in oil and gas revenues compared to pre-war levels (falling from €100 billion in 2022 to €22 billion in 2024).
• Reduced trade with the EU (Russia losing over 60% of its pre-war trade).

The Commission highlights the need for continued vigilance against sanctions circumvention, working with G7 partners and third countries through coordinated lists (Common High Priority Sanctioned Goods and Economically Critical Sanctioned Goods) and ongoing outreach efforts.

• DHL presents the "Extended Range Electric Vehicle" (EREV) developed with Scania for the first time at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig

• Key insights after approximately 22,000 kilometers driven: The vehicle provides the necessary operational flexibility and energy reserve, operates 90% of the time in electric mode, and enables stable operations

• Savings of nearly 16 metric tons of CO2e during the testing period

• DHL CEO Tobias Meyer: 'We need pragmatic solutions like the EREV and quick political decisions to enable such bridging technologies. We want to decarbonize the transport sector now and regulation should not hinder but support us to do so.'

Devstral is an agentic LLM for software engineering tasks built under a collaboration between Mistral AI and All Hands AI 🙌. Devstral excels at using tools to explore codebases, editing multiple files and power software engineering agents. The model achieves remarkable performance on SWE-bench which positionates it as the #1 open source model on this benchmark.

It is finetuned from Mistral-Small-3.1, therefore it has a long context window of up to 128k tokens. As a coding agent, Devstral is text-only and before fine-tuning from Mistral-Small-3.1 the vision encoder was removed.

Learn more about Devstral in our blog post. Key Features:

Agentic coding: Devstral is designed to excel at agentic coding tasks, making it a great choice for software engineering agents.

lightweight: with its compact size of just 24 billion parameters, Devstral is light enough to run on a single RTX 4090 or a Mac with 32GB RAM, making it an appropriate model for local deployment and on-device use.

Apache 2.0 License: Open license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Context Window: A 128k context window.

Tokenizer: Utilizes a Tekken tokenizer with a 131k vocabulary size.

Learn more about Devstral in our blog post.

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral

Gemma 3n includes the following key features:

Audio input: Process sound data for speech recognition, translation, and audio data analysis.

Visual and text input: Multimodal capabilities let you handle vision, sound, and text to help you understand and analyze the world around you.

PLE caching: Per-Layer Embedding (PLE) parameters contained in these models can be cached to fast, local storage to reduce model memory run costs. Learn more

MatFormer architecture: Matryoshka Transformer architecture allows for selective activation of the models parameters per request to reduce compute cost and response times. Learn more

Conditional parameter loading: Bypass loading of vision and audio parameters in the model to reduce the total number of loaded parameters and save memory resources. Learn more

Wide language support: Wide linguistic capabilities, trained in over 140 languages. 32K token context: Substantial input context for analyzing data and handling processing tasks.