Counter-Narcotics Strategy - The administration is actively targeting narco-terrorists and designated terrorist organizations in the hemisphere [1] - The strategy involves striking narco boats and disrupting their operations [1][2] - The approach marks a shift from previous administrations' "rinse and repeat" approach, emphasizing deterrence [3] Drug Interdiction - Drug flow by sea has reportedly decreased by 91% [2] - The success in interdiction has led to a temporary pause due to the scarcity of boats to strike [2]

the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility. So, I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike. That was September 2nd.I watched that first strike live. Uh, as you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do. So, I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.So, I moved on to my n ...

A fourth Russia-related oil tanker in under a week has been attacked, the latest sign of a sharp uptick in strikes on Moscow-related shipping as the war in Ukraine nears its fifth year. Tuesday's incident involved a tiny oil and chemicals tanker that was sailing across the Black Sea from Russia to Georgia. It was carrying sunflower oil when it was reportedly hit by drones.The crew were unharmed in the attack. Earlier, two tankers sanctioned for carrying Russian oil were struck off Turkey's Black Sea coast w ...

Financial Impact - AI bots scraping Wikipedia are costing the organization a lot of money, impacting donor funds [1][2] Potential Solutions - Considering blocking AI crawler bots to enforce fair usage and encourage payment for access [2] - Exploring the use of Cloudflare or similar solutions to manage AI bot traffic [2] - The organization is in discussions with potential enterprise product customers, including Google [2] Legal Considerations - Suing or taking legal action against entities scraping Wikipedia data has been discussed but not yet pursued [1]

Geopolitical Strategy & Negotiation Dynamics - Russia's potential negotiation efforts are viewed as a tactic to alleviate pressure from the US and Europe, with past efforts proving successful [1] - Putin's public displays of anger and emotional reactions regarding Ukrainian casualties are perceived as aimed at a Ukrainian audience, potentially undermining genuine negotiation prospects [2][3] - Russia's perspective suggests a denial of a free and independent future for western Ukraine, indicating a desire for complete control over the country [4] - Russia might view a ceasefire as a transition to political warfare in western Ukraine, rather than a genuine cessation of hostilities [5] - The US administration is perceived as potentially too receptive to Russian demands, possibly at the expense of Ukrainian and European interests [6] - Concerns exist that negotiations might pressure Ukraine excessively, jeopardizing its existence as an independent state [7] US Involvement & Perspectives - The US administration reportedly sees signs of Russia's willingness to negotiate [6] - Steve Wyckoff's close relationship with Vladimir Putin raises concerns about his objectivity and understanding of the conflict's complexities [12] - There are concerns that Wyckoff lacks the expertise to discern Russian bluffs and lies, potentially leading to misinterpretations of Russia's true intentions [13] - Wyckoff is perceived by some as an unreliable negotiator who is too open to Russian positions and lacks a full understanding of the conflict's history and Russian imperial ambitions [14]

The basic point with train him three and you've moved quickly to bring it to the real world is cost, performance, efficiency over the prior generation, but also over NVIDIA GPUs over Google to use is I think what people are trying to understand is that Rampart I was talking about when real world customers use it beyond this anchor customer of anthropic, which relies on it currently. Yeah, well look we're quite excited about them and and training three particular is as you mentioned, excited to get it in the ...

28% of all student debt is owned by this like this avocado toast generation. They don't have assets. So on average, they have 15% of the assets that someone over 55 will have.So they have all of this debt, no equity, no way out. And 35% is the number that owns that's in terms of all the auto debt they own too to your point of car payments. So as the gear head that you are, auto auto loans have been pretty clean, right.there haven't been a lot of uh delinquencies or default prime auto loans. I think that's t ...

What do you think of this. We've spent a lot of time talking about this. When you were in the job at the S.E. C. and the many warnings that you made about this potentially risky asset.And we're witnessing a reckoning in the marketplace right now, what do you think is behind it. Look, I think it's a risk asset. And and the American public and the worldwide public has been fascinated with cryptocurrencies.But it's a highly speculative, volatile asset. And putting aside Bitcoin for a minute, all the thousands ...

I'm starting with Warner Brothers. This guy. Okay, w bd their shares have been up nearly 2%, so it's feeling the second round of bids right from Netflix.Paramount Skydance's Comcast that includes a mostly cash offer from Netflix. Paramount's offer reportedly includes debt financing from Apollo. Sources are saying Middle East funds also contributing to that.But you had bankers from Paramount, you know Netflix, they were all busy over Thanksgiving. You know, the long weekend sources saying an auction could wr ...

I mean, look, Amazon, we know, is the largest cloud provider with almost 50% share. And when it comes to the GPUs, everyone so far, except for Google, it has relied on an area, you know, for training. And what Amazon is doing is really copying that Google playbook where they want to use their own chips.It's just that they haven't had that kind of success that Google has had web use and they're trying to speed things up because in the end, all these hyperscalers don't want to spend, you know, 20 to 25% of th ...