⚡️🤖 NEW - ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, Meta AI, and Grok sit down at a virtual table to play poker. The tension was palpable on PokerBattle.ai's servers as nine artificial intelligences competed for glory and virtual chips. While OpenAI o3 walked away with full pockets and the championship title, Meta's model ended up paying the price for a strategy that was suicidal, to say the least. Its LLAMA 4 model played the role of the whale, the wealthy player that everyone else dreams of fleecing. With misplaced aggression and a tendency to want to play every hand, Mark Zuckerberg's AI managed to squander its entire $100,000 in fictitious money. It wanted to impose its will through the force of its bets, forgetting that poker severely punishes statistical arrogance.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli PM Netanyahu: Many lies are being spread. Claims that I opposed returning hostages, that IDF soldiers kill babies for sport. This is antisemitic propaganda, and we are fighting it worldwide, including with over two billion shekels just transferred to the Foreign Ministry.

⚡️🛳️ NEW - Man dies on a Royal Caribbean cruise after being served 33 drinks, family accuses cruise staff of injecting him with a sedative. 35-year-old Michael Virgil was seen having a meltdown after getting off the elevator on the wrong floor. The family says just hours after leaving the port, Virgil was served excessive amounts of alcohol. When he went to look for his room, he got agitated when he couldn't find it and started chasing people. Crew members eventually had to intervene, allegedly using pepper spray and a sedative called Haloperidol, at the request of the ship's captain. He then suffered from a cardiopulmonary arrest. Virgil's family is seeking damages. "We are seeing an incredibly alarming number of serious injuries and fatalities on cruise ships of late," said attorney Kevin Haynes — FOX 11.

⚡️💸 NEW - Wikipedia earned $184 million in 2025 and spent $3.4 million on hosting.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - A U.S. veteran reached out to the sheriff’s office but could not confirm Tim Pool’s claims that his residence or business was allegedly shot at. The sheriff’s office said they had no knowledge of any shootings and found “no calls associated with Tim Pool” after searching his name. Tim Pool has warned that his show could end soon as he fears for the safety of himself and his family.

⚡️🇬🇧👨‍⚖️ NEW - UK judge sentences Joey Barton to six months in prison over offensive posts on X

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan to Use AI to Crack Down on Overseas Pirates of Manga and Anime The Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has allocated ¥100 million to develop this AI system. A domestic trial has been running since 2024, with the AI system detecting images and text from manga posted online.

⚡️🇺🇸🇸🇾 NEW - US soldiers stationed at the 'Al-Tanf' base in Syria celebrate the one-year anniversary of the fall of Bashar Assad's government.

⚡️🇨🇱 NEW - Tesla has released a new video of Chile’s first utility-scale Megapack project, a 225 MW/900 MWh battery. The Megapacks being used are from Tesla's new Shanghai Megafactory, which opened earlier this year. Project is located in the Atacama Desert.

⚡️📺 NEW - YouTube's CEO says the platform will proceed with expanded AI moderation tools despite recent backlash Neal Mohan added that AI will enable a "new class of creators" who previously lacked the skills or equipment He argued the tech will revive YouTube’s early era of enthusiastic amateurs.

⚡️⛏️ GM - A new workday begins for @FLASH, with lots of news to share.

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⚡️🇸🇾 NEW - Syrians in Damascus celebrate the first anniversary of the country’s liberation from the Assad regime.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Dr. Deborah Birx is demanding that pregnant women be vaccinated, titered, and given booster shots. She says that if pregnant women have never been vaccinated, then we need to vaccinate them all. Her comments come as the CDC vaccine panel votes to stop recommending the hepatitis B birth dose for all newborns.

⚡️🇦🇷 NEW - Argentina to allow banks to provide crypto services in 2026.

⚡️💬 NEW - Bitcoin for Corporations has released a new presentation urging industry leaders, public companies, investors, and service providers to take action. The group is calling on MSCI to withdraw its 50% digital-asset index exclusion rule.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, whose ministry oversees settlement expansion and displacement in the occupied West Bank. For Americans and many in former settler colonies, the noose is inseparable from the history of racial terror and lynching, making its public display an endorsement of extrajudicial killing and violent intimidation. Israeli military courts that try Palestinians convict more than 99% of defendants. Over half of the nearly 9,500 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel are held without charge or trial.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - CFTC announces new pilot program to use Bitcoin as collateral in derivatives markets

⚡️🇺🇸 ARCHIVE - A school employee got caught secretly mining bitcoin in a crawl space under a Massachusetts high school, using the school’s electricity. Police found coolers filled with computers and estimate they used about $17,500 in power before it was unplugged.

⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇺 NEW - Trump on EU fining Elon's X: "Europe has to be very careful. They're doing a lot of things. We want to keep Europe, Europe. Europe is going in some bad directions. It's very bad, very bad for the people. We don't want Europe to change so much."