⚡️🚨 NEW - An Israeli official told Channel 12 that Houthi control of Bab-el-Mandeb is more dangerous than the current Hormuz situation, and the reason is simple geometry. The eastern shipping channel past Perim Island is only about 3 km wide. Ships will pass within visual range of Houthi positions. Israeli official: They will be able to fire at whatever they want with anti-tank missiles. They will be able to see the ships with their own eyes. That's the difference. At Hormuz, Iran needs radar, surveillance systems, and anti-ship missiles to threaten traffic. At Bab-el-Mandeb, a fighter with a basic ATGM on Perim Island can hit a tanker he can physically see. No sophisticated targeting required. The official said this gives the Houthis "enormous power." hters on the island.

⚡️🇾🇪 WATCH - The Houthis are literally taking over the Red Sea in flip-flops

⚡️🤡🇺🇸 NEW - Q: On the checks, we have $40 trillion in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote? TRUMP: I'm doing it as a reward for people having to put up for five years and four years of a horrible situation caused by Biden Q: You also offered tariff refund checks-- TRUMP: Not you. Not you Q: And that didn't happen TRUMP: Not you. You're the worst

⚡️🇺🇸‼️ NEW - Kash Patel wanted FBI staff to run an influence campaign on X by replying to Epstein tweets with bureau stats. He then asked his spokesman to reply to IfindRetards' post, saying it had gotten 277k responses. His spokesman corrected him: it had 277k views and just 400 replies. He also warned that engaging "would look bad on you."

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⚡️🤖 NEW - Anthropic envisions a future in which some developers and call center employees will have to leave their jobs… to become electricians or nurses. In an analysis focusing on the economic consequences of AI, Anthropic examines several scenarios ranging from relatively moderate adoption to much more drastic automation. In its most extreme scenarios, the company estimates that knowledge workers could face significant automation and widespread job displacement. Anthropic emphasizes that completely changing careers takes time and that a massive transition could leave many people temporarily unemployed. This is therefore a scenario being studied, not a prediction that all knowledge-based jobs will disappear.

⚡️‼️ NEW - Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude. Their customers' sensitive data now is in Anthropic's hands. One user, who is tied to China's military, asked Kimi whether a person tracked across hundreds of CCTV cameras in Chengdu was behaving abnormally. DeepSeek passed along live credentials for a Russian government database, shared by an IT operator handling data from a Defense Ministry-linked agency. The two Chinese labs relayed customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts and saved the exchanges to train their own models. Moonshot forwarded almost 300,000 customer requests in a single ten-day stretch. DeepSeek flagged users running its models inside coding tools like Claude Code and OpenCode, then routed some of them to Opus.

⚡️🚨 BIG - Yemen's Houthis seized Perim (Mayyun) Island and completed control of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. Reuters separately reports they've reached Dhubab, the coastal city directly on the strait. The Houthis now control nearly the entire Yemeni Red Sea coast. This is arguably the most strategically significant territorial gain in the entire Yemen war. Perim sits in the middle of the 29 km-wide strait and physically splits it into two shipping channels. Holding the island plus the adjacent coastline means the Houthis can threaten passing ships with artillery and short-range weapons — not just longer-range missiles and drones from further inland. The strategic nightmare is now real. Iran already controls pressure on Hormuz. Saudi Arabia has been routing more oil west through the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu to bypass Hormuz. The Houthis have now closed off that workaround at the exit point. Both of the Middle East's critical shipping chokepoints are under Iranian-axis pressure simultaneously. There is no easy third route. Roughly 10% of global seaborne trade normally passes through Bab-el-Mandeb. Brent crude is above $107. Source: AFP, Reuters

⚡️🚨 BIG - Satellite imagery shows a massive smoke plume (~100 km long) and sustained thermal hotspots along Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline corridor southeast of Medina. NASA fire data shows heat signatures above 70 MW lasting hours across multiple points — well beyond a normal flare. Some analysts claim 6–8 impact points and possible rupture. No official confirmation from Saudi Aramco or any wire service yet. But this pipeline is critical. It's Saudi Arabia's main Hormuz bypass, running at ~7 million bpd capacity and carrying roughly 5 million bpd of exportable crude to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. If confirmed, a strike here would threaten the backup route Saudi Arabia has been relying on since Hormuz was constrained. The pipeline was already hit once in April — an Iranian drone strike that knocked out 700,000 bpd for four days. This time, with Houthis having just seized Mokha and threatening the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the other end of the Red Sea route, a confirmed pipeline hit would mean both of Saudi Arabia's main export pathways are under simultaneous pressure. Oil was already above $105 before these reports surfaced.

⚡️🇺🇸 WTF - Trump: So Please raise your right hand: I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States Crowd: I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States… Trump: I'm going to try and cheat like hell like they do.

⚡️🤡🇺🇸 NEW - RFK Jr: "President Trump has ended nine wars ... I am so grateful to God for giving our country a leader like this"

⚡️🤡🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: You know what happens if you don’t vote: you go to hell. I don’t want that to happen, so please go and vote.

⚡️⛏️ NEW - Bitcoin developer @Luke Dashjr proposes temporarily withholding the block reward from miners to discourage those who are only in it for the money. He points out that miners currently have to wait 100 blocks before they can spend newly created BTC. Among the ideas being discussed are extending this period to 4,375 blocks—about one month—or a much more extreme measure of temporarily reducing the block reward to zero for one month. Miners would then receive only transaction fees. The goal would be to discourage a large amount of computing power whose operators are motivated solely by profitability and who, according to Dashjr, would contribute to a problematic centralization of mining.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump on Hormuz: "We control Trump strait"

⚡️🚨📈 NEW - Diesel soars to highest price in history

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⚡️‼️ BIG - OpenAI might have stolen another mathematician's work, as he suspects one of OpenAI's flagship proofs was helped along by his own unpublished work. This one published the email exchange. Last month OpenAI said its Astra model had settled a question in group theory that had been open for 27 years. The proof's key step came from work Andreas Thom published with Gábor Kun. For months before the announcement, Thom had been working through that same mathematics with ChatGPT. So he emailed OpenAI researchers Mark Sellke and Sébastien Bubeck with two questions: had those conversations entered the training data, and were they available to the model while it worked on the problem? Sellke's complete reply, Thom says, was "Regarding your conversations with ChatGPT: that did not happen." Weeks later, in the separate Navier-Stokes dispute, OpenAI said no specific user data was accessed, but could not rule out that de-identified data from customers' use of its products had improved its models. Thom got no such caveat.

⚡️🚀 NEW - Brent Crude Oil surges 5% to $108, highest level since May.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Hillary Clinton on Israel: I love Israel and I hate Netanyahu’s government and his policies. I love America and I hate Trump’s government and policies. […] If Israelis want to vote for that again, then I think the United States has to take a very tough position. I think we could work with a new government.

⚡️🚀🇺🇸 NEW - US 30-year bond yield rises to 5.35%, highest level since June 2007.