Iran-US: "Saturday deadline" is today; ceasefire declared over. US gave Iran 24 hours to publicly state Hormuz is open, toll-free, and that it won't fire on ships, warning of "harsh consequences". Trump says Iran asked to keep talking and he agreed "but the cease fire is OVER". Iran flatly denies requesting talks. Don’t worry, everything will be sunshine and roses by Sunday night.
Friday Treasury sanctions round appears to have gutted the MOU's no-new-sanctions clause. It’s all so tiresome…
Trump: "1,000 missiles are locked and loaded"; left standing orders to "obliterate" Iran if assassinated. The US probably doesn’t have 1000 missiles to its name in the region… On the other hand, by giving a standing order to obliterate Iran in the case of his assassination he’s practically begging his jew masters to off him.
Editor’s note: Russia continues to poast gains against the diminutive coke-snorting jew, but no particular happening rises to the level of a noteworthy headline.
Apple sued OpenAI for trade-secret theft, naming its chief hardware officer and an engineer; filings allege a kept laptop, an auth bug into Apple's file storage, and coaching on which secrets to study. The buried number: 400+ former Apple employees now at OpenAI, teeing up a California non-compete-vs-trade-secret collision.
OpenAI's new "5.6-Sol" model reportedly deleted users' files mid-task. Meanwhile China reportedly supplies 20 of the top 50 most-used AI models, with token usage 85% above US models.
China banned helium exports effective immediately, as Qatar's Ras Laffan outage - a third of global supply - deepens. Definitely not good news for semiconductor manufacturing given the squeeze that AI has already put on that industry.
Editor’s note: rumors of Mitch McConnell‘s death continue to swirl, and I continue to wonder how they’d be able to tell.
Looksmaxxing streamer Clavicular reveals he used to follow random strangers around all day and log their movements as a method to become more neurotypical. Sounds like an overly complicated way of saying “I am a surveillance agent”.
Government releases UFO images. Come on glowies, if you’re gonna do a reveal spend some Hollywood-tier money and produce something that looks authentic.
No obvious good news stories found yet today, but I will keep my eyes open. In the meantime, enjoy your day regardless of the madness that goes on around us.
