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OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisition to date.

 

Burger King must face a lawsuit claiming it misleads customers with advertisements that make its Whopper sandwich and other products appear larger than they are.

 

“Key on the agenda is what kind of opportunities there are, and how to coordinate Russia’s and Chinese actions to use these four years to undo the US hegemony,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. The two men will want to “help Trump to destroy American supremacy and arrive at a multipolar world order where Russia and China can thrive.”

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Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered an embarrassing setback when he fell short of a majority in an initial vote in the lower house of parliament, potentially delaying his swearing-in as head of government due to take place later on Tuesday.

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A group has occupied an academic building at the University of Washington, demanding the school sever ties with Boeing as the war in Gaza continues, according to the university and a spokesperson for the group.

https://archive.ph/y2KQP

 

NEW YORK (AP) — A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency.

 

Average salaries differ widely across Europe. The cost of living does too. So, which countries offer the highest pay? And how do salaries compare when adjusted for purchasing power standards?

Germany (€4,250) offers the highest average salary among the EU’s four largest economies, followed by France (€3,555). Both Italy (€2,729) and Spain (€2,716) were below the EU average by more than €400.

 

Romanian PM Marcel Ciolacu stepped down after Crin Antonescu failed to reach the presidential election runoff, further fracturing the ruling coalition amid political turmoil.

 

The Trump administration has approached far-flung countries to aid its mass deportation effort, asking nations like Angola and Equatorial Guinea to accept migrants who are not their citizens, according to internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News.

https://archive.ph/l3gUZ

 

Autism researchers and advocates in the United States are pushing back against the creation of an autism database that is meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study.

https://archive.ph/R4kmB

 

Iran’s defence ministry has revealed a new solid-fuel ballistic missile that it claims has a range of at least 1,200 kilometres.

 

The European Commission has estimated Europe needs to invest $2.0-2.3 trillion in grids by 2050.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This quote from the article is interesting

Daniel Zeichner, the farming and fisheries minister, said that EU countries were “clearly pushing very hard” for greater access to UK waters.

His remarks came after the EU demanded that Britain cave to its demands on fishing in return for a new deal on defence cooperation.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My motive is to analyse our adversaries. I am European, and I am a fervent believer in a united Europe, and anybody who is trying to break us apart is my enemy.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hotznplotzn wrote:

"What are you doing here?"

I'm trying to analyse our adversaries. Dugin says China must be dismantled aswell as he believes they are a grave geopolitical threat to Russia.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

But we have to deal with them. They are a superpower, a rival to the USA. I'm not saying we should believe what they say, but analyse why they are saying it. We cannot just ignore them as Europeans.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Yep, so what's their motive in publishing this?

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In 'The Foundation Of Geopolitcs' by Aleksandr Dugin, he says

The People's Republic of China, which represents an extreme geopolitical danger as an ideological enemy to the independent Russian Federation, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The Ukraine war has forged a relationship between russia and china that the USA wants an end to.

Just trying to understand what's going on and Europe's geopolitical maneuvers.

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I've read on a few websites specializing in geopolitics that the trump administration is attempting something called a 'reverse nixon', to try and drive russia and china apart. Is this a factor in the EU trying to form a closer relationship with china?

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

strip them down to the last bolt, and reverse engineer them

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Software is like encryption. you can't trust it if it's not auditable.

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