News around Ukraine
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DeepMind’s Hassabis Predicts AGI Within a Decade, Warns of ‘Non-Zero’ Catastrophic Risk
In a sweeping conversation at the Axios AI+ Summit, Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis offered a concrete timeline for the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), predicting that human-level cognitive systems are likely “5 to 10 years away.” Speaking with Axios co-founder Mike Allen just over a year after receiving a knighthood and…
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Friedman: New US Strategy Scraps Cold War Architecture
The United States’ newly released National Security Strategy represents a definitive break from eight decades of foreign policy tradition, signaling a shift that prioritizes the Western Hemisphere and declares the post-World War II security architecture obsolete, according to a leading geopolitical analyst. In a recent analysis for Geopolitical Futures, chairman and founder George Friedman argued that…
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Former Meta AI Chief warns scaling LLMs won’t lead to human-level intelligence
Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist and a Turing Award laureate, has issued a stark warning to the technology industry and investors banking on the imminent arrival of human-level artificial intelligence: current methods are insufficient to get us there. Speaking on the Big Technology Podcast with host Alex Kantrowitz, LeCun dismantled the prevailing narrative…
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‘Godfather of AI’ Says Systems Likely to Outsmart Humans in 20 Years
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” issued a stark warning regarding the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence during a wide-ranging interview on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer. Hinton, who left Google last year to speak freely about the dangers of the technology he helped pioneer, predicted that AI…
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Bolton Sees Trump’s Influence Waning After 2025 Setbacks
In a stark assessment of the current political landscape, former National Security Adviser John Bolton stated that President Donald Trump is now on a “downhill slope” regarding his political influence, suggesting that the President’s ability to intimidate his own party has fractured following the 2025 elections. Speaking in an interview with The Economist released this week, Mr.…
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China Ramps Up Military Pressure on Japan as Taiwan Standoff Deepens
Diplomatic relations between Japan and China appear to have reached their lowest point in over a decade, characterized by furious rhetoric, economic retaliation, and dangerous military encounters. The escalation follows controversial remarks by Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, regarding the potential for Japanese involvement in a Taiwan conflict. The diplomatic standoff began last month…
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New US Security Strategy Risks Transatlantic Rupture as Ukraine Talks Stall
A new U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) released by the Trump administration has triggered alarm across European capitals, threatening to fracture the transatlantic alliance just as diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine appear to be collapsing. In a departure from decades of American foreign policy, the document de-prioritizes Russia as a primary threat…
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Fukuyama: Trump Has ‘Switched Sides’ in Global Battle for Democracy
In a candid interview with FRANCE 24, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama offered a stark assessment of the current state of global politics, labeling the return of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency as “the most surprising and the most disappointing thing that’s happened” since the publication of his seminal work. Fukuyama, a senior fellow at Stanford…
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Report: Europe Must Prepare to Defend Itself ‘With Less America’
As the United States signals a profound strategic pivot away from its traditional role as the primary security anchor for the continent, European leaders are facing a stark reality: higher defense budgets alone may not be enough to secure their borders. A comprehensive new report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),…
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Ukraine Escalates Energy War, Turning Black Sea Into ‘No-go zone’ For Russian Oil
In a significant escalation of the energy war, Ukrainian forces have expanded their targeting of Russian export infrastructure, utilizing naval drones to strike a key loading facility at the port of Novorossiysk and pursuing vessels associated with Russia’s clandestine “shadow fleet.” According to an analysis released this week by geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan on his…