Category: AI
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Britain’s £200 Million Bet on Peace in Ukraine: Deterrence, Diplomacy, and the Making of a Multinational Force
Britain’s £200 Million Bet on a Future Peace in Ukraine How London Is Preparing to Lead a Post‑Ceasefire Force – and What It Really Signals The United Kingdom’s decision to allocate £200 million from its core defence budget to prepare troops for a possible deployment to Ukraine is more than a narrow budgeting move. It…
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X turns Grok’s abusive deepfakes into a “premium” feature – and forces a global reckoning over AI accountability
X’s decision to restrict Grok’s image editing to paying users is less a safety fix than a flashpoint in a growing global backlash against AI-fuelled image-based abuse. Regulators and governments across multiple continents are now testing how far they can go to hold a Musk-owned platform to account and, in the process, expose deep gaps…
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Damn Vulnerable AI Bank (DVAIB): Inside the New Training Ground for AI Security in Finance
Damn Vulnerable AI Bank (DVAIB) is an intentionally insecure AI-powered banking environment designed as a hands‑on lab for attacking and defending AI systems in financial scenarios. It gives security teams, red‑teamers, and developers a realistic sandbox to practice prompt injection, AI supply‑chain attacks, data poisoning, and broader AI‑driven fraud techniques—before those attacks hit real banks.…
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Designing the Ideal AI Research Laptop Setup in 2026
An effective AI research laptop in 2026 is essentially a compact, thermally‑managed GPU workstation: a recent high‑core‑count CPU, 32–64 GB RAM, a modern NVIDIA RTX dGPU with at least 12 GB VRAM, fast NVMe SSD (1–2 TB), and robust cooling, ideally in a chassis that still travels well. In practice, that means choosing something close…
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At -12 Net Approval, Trump’s Second Term Begins With No Honeymoon and a Divided Response to the Venezuela Raid
Trump enters his second term with historically weak public support and a sharply divided reaction to his boldest foreign‑policy move so far: the U.S. raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. With a net approval of -12 points and almost identical splits on the raid itself, his “honeymoon period” is closer to a political grind…
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The Great AI PC Collapse: Why Dell’s Honesty Exposed the Gap Between Hype and Reality
Dell’s public retreat from “AI PC” marketing at CES 2026 marks a rare moment of honesty in an industry that has spent two years insisting artificial intelligence would single‑handedly restart the PC upgrade cycle. Instead, one of the sector’s most important players is now acknowledging what consumers have quietly signaled all along: people are not…
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Europe’s Peacekeeping Gamble: How France’s 6,000 Troops Could Anchor Ukraine’s Post‑War Security
France’s decision to prepare the deployment of 6,000 troops to Ukraine after a peace agreement marks one of the boldest European security moves of the post–Cold War era, signalling a deliberate attempt to anchor Ukraine’s future with primarily European – not American – ground forces. The initiative, built around a broader Coalition of the Willing…
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From Desperation to Justice: How Ukraine’s $18 Million Court Win Exposed the Dark Corners of Wartime Arms Deals
Ukraine’s $18 Million Legal Victory: How a Broken Ammunition Deal Exposed the Risks of Wartime Arms Procurement When Ukraine wired more than €17 million to a small gun shop in Arizona in late 2022, it was acting under extreme pressure. Russian forces were battering Ukrainian cities, artillery duels dominated the front, and Kyiv was racing…
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Death Toll Obscured: Inside the Deadly Crackdown on Iran’s Nationwide Revolt Against Ayatollah Khamenei
Iran is witnessing its largest and deadliest wave of anti-government unrest in years, with activists reporting dozens to potentially hundreds killed as protesters directly challenge the authority of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Conflicting casualty figures, sweeping internet shutdowns, and official denials have obscured the true scale of the bloodshed even as the protests spread…
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The Drone Arithmetic of Attrition: How Ukraine Turned Unmanned Warfare Against Russia’s Manpower Advantage
Ukraine’s top military commander says December 2025 marked an inflection point in the war: Ukraine’s drones killed or seriously wounded roughly as many Russian soldiers as Russia managed to mobilize into the fight that month. In a conflict already defined by unmanned systems, this milestone crystallizes a new reality — the frontline arithmetic of attrition…