⚡️🤡🇫🇷 NEW - French President Emmanuel Macron — back in his sunglasses — welcomes Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said of Oman to the Élysée Palace.

⚡️🤖 WATCH - Anthropic CEO: Open Source AI is getting dangerous Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source AI is moving down a “very dangerous path.” His warns that once powerful models are released openly, companies lose the ability to monitor misuse, revoke access, or update safety guardrails.

⚡️👀 ICYMI - Google introduces new captcha entirely bypassable using stock images

⚡️💸 NEW - The net worth of CZ, the founder of Binance, is now greater than that of Bill Gates.

⚡️📊 NEW - According to River, each bear market has been less severe in terms of price declines than the previous one.

⚡️💬 NEW - Billionaire Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO and known for predicting several financial bubbles, believes that Bitcoin will disappear “with a whimper”... Since 2013, more than 400 articles and publications have declared Bitcoin “dead.”

⚡️🤖 NEW - Discord has started rolling out Incode for age verification. The system requires users to submit a government-issued ID and a selfie to confirm their age. According to Discord, Incode processes biometric data locally on the user’s device using on-device AI and does not permanently store that biometric data on its servers. Even so, the process requires users to share sensitive personal information with a third-party company.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Have a good evening, all you unemployed folks; good night, all you workers

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Democrat Rep. Scott Wiener nearly starts to cry after he continues to be publicly humiliated and rejected by his own constituents for his support for Israel. Wiener is told straight to his face that he does not belong there. “There are innocent children being killed in Palestine.”

⚡️🇻🇪 NEW - More drone footage shows devastation across Venezuela caused by the earthquakes last week.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - A city in Oregon was forced to permanently remove its Flock cameras after an audit found that federal agencies had access to the system. The audit revealed that two federal agencies could access the data, including the ability to search the broader network of license plate records for up to six months. Flock cameras are used as a mass surveillance tool under the guise of public safety.

⚡️🚨 NEW - A Microsoft Critical Environment Technician in Italy resigned because “Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry.” He sent this in a mass email to thousands of colleagues protesting the company's ties to Israeli military surveillance, according to The Canary. The worker, identified only by a pseudonym, framed the move as part of the worker-led No Azure for Apartheid campaign. The protest rests on a documented controversy. An investigation reported that Israel's Unit 8200 stored intercepted Palestinian phone calls on customized Azure infrastructure, and Microsoft, after first saying it found no evidence of civilian harm, later cut the unit's access to some Azure storage and AI services. Microsoft has faced repeated internal revolts, firings, and event disruptions over its Israeli defense work, and the campaign now spans multiple countries, keeping pressure on how hyperscalers handle military and intelligence customers.

⚡️🎂 NEW - Elon Musk, the world's "richest" person turns 55 years old today.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Reza Pahlavi admits to collaborating with Israel in order to provoke the Iran War “The attack on Iran was the result of my visit to Israel two years ago”

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - All tram service suspended in Leipzig, Germany due to the high temperatures, thei rails are melting.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: Trump is the leader of a country with 380 million citizens, and he has to look after them as well. Gas prices doubled—from about $2.50 a gallon to $5—and he also has midterm elections. I also have an interest in seeing him win those midterm elections, so that he remains strong and continues standing alongside the State of Israel.

⚡️📊 NEW - A report claims that 96% of crypto projects are built on a mirage. A report published by QUASA offers an extremely critical assessment of the crypto industry. According to its authors, 96% of projects valued at over $1 billion have virtually no organic traffic, no real users, and little or no revenue. The report also claims that 95% of blockchains are actually highly centralized, that 98% of trading volumes are artificially inflated by wash trading, and that many valuations are based more on speculation than on actual adoption. The authors believe that listing fees charged by major centralized platforms and certain market practices have contributed to the failure of thousands of legitimate projects. However, these conclusions are QUASA’s own and are disputed by some in the industry, who point out that networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have millions of users, billions of dollars in locked value, and significant on-chain activity.

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: I'm putting an end to the idea of a Palestinian state by strengthening our presence—with the approval of the Americans, the Prime Minister, and Cabinet decisions. We've established 103 communities, 160 farms, legalized about one million dunams of land, all with legal authority. That's what drives people crazy—not the other things. I'm investing billions, building roads, advancing land registration, and changing the reality on the ground.

⚡️🎰 NEW - Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly developing a new prediction market app that could compete with platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. - The app, currently known as Arena, would let users predict outcomes of sports, elections, and major news events. - It is expected to launch with a points system instead of real money. Meta is considering real-money betting later Arena is expected to be a standalone app separate from Facebook and Instagram, although Meta could use both platforms to attract users. Note: fuck the gambling

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: I believe that, with the new circumstances that have emerged, the security of the Persian Gulf and the security of the region must be reconsidered by all the countries of the region. We must reach a new framework that includes all the countries of the region and excludes the presence or interference of any country from outside the region.