I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, "Why would you ruin your career?" I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice."

Quote from one of the mathematicians claiming to have found this before OpenAI. He is claiming that he discovered a partial solution using a mix of several different AI models, but OpenAI got wind of this and threw a ton of processing power at it to beat him to the punch, essentially.

I wonder if America's "allies" have it in them to just keep taking this shit for another two years

From Reuters:

Russian exporters are moving grain via Latvia, an EU and NATO member, to other markets, analysts and traders have said.

I don't think this is broadly true? Or at least not most of it. But the idea is that this will function as more of a toll than a tariff.

A shootout is occurring in Kyiv between members of the SBU and GUR, reportedly after the SBU attemped to arrest intelligence officers of GUR.
The fighting is taking place at a high-rise building at 10 Yuriya Shums'koho Street in the Berezniaky District.

Long term, yeah. This whole conflict has made it very clear that the US can't really fight wars on the other side of the world anymore, and they've wasted a lot trying to make this one work regardless. If there was a future where some Republican war hawk attacked China and kicked off WWIII, that's probably gone now.

You're right I misread the article, thought Hegseth didn't count for some reason

The unique circumstances around Trump's popularity have enabled him and his people to do some genuinely unprecedented damage to the basic functioning of the US government

US Secretary of the Army, Daniel Driscoll, resigns. He had been there since April, when Hegseth fired the previous guy. This is the highest ranked civilian position in the US military, no word on a replacement yet.

Angry red rectangle strikes again: NASA wildfire satellite has picked up a fire at the US Prince Hassan base in Jordan

I'm like 10 hours in and damn, they might have made a good star wars game for the first time in like 20 years

The recent announcement is meaningless

For reality yes, but not for the markets!

Almost a month I think, bit of a random move. Guess they got that Venezuelan oil and decided to fuck around.

Iran’s ⁠Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp says a US ⁠attack on Larak ⁠island on Sunday killed and wounded ‌several Iranian fighters and civilians, and promised to respond ⁠and punish those responsible, according to Iran’s ⁠state broadcaster IRIB.