Pavel Durov has reportedly walked away from a $300 million deal that would have integrated Elon Musk’s Grok AI into the platform. The primary point of contention was data privacy; Telegram refused to allow a third-party AI system to access private user messages. Instead of relying on corporate AI models, Telegram is doubling down on "Cocoon," its own decentralized AI infrastructure. By utilizing autonomous calculations, Cocoon aims to process AI requests without exposing user data to external entities, marking a significant shift toward privacy-centric, decentralized technology.

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JUST IN: Over $1,000,000,000 liquidated from the crypto market in the last 4 hours.

Bitcoin: Fell under $76,000
ETH: Fell under $2,300
Solana: Fell under $100

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JUST IN: Crypto market records 10th largest single-day liquidation event in history.

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📝 🌍 Africa today has 3 areas at war, western Sahel, East (Horn and Sudan) and the Great Lakes | Clément Molin

🔴Most of the country is at war or the war is at the heart of the state situation
🟠War on the periphery of the state or not central to it but still politically and militarily predominent (also frozen conflict)
🟡Not really at war, but has limited local insurgency/terrorism or is part of a neighbouring conflict
🟢Country +/- in peace

1- Sahel : Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are facing a general war against JNIM and IS, which control large areas in all 3 of them. This war is spreading to Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria (more and more fightings there at the border, which is why they are in orange and not yellow).

A war is also ongoing between Morroco and Polisario Front along the sand wall. A cold war is happening with Algeria (that's the reason for the yellow), Algeria, a very militarised regime with internal disputes (Kabylie...). Around Lake Chad, a war is ongoing between ISWAP and Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroun.

2- Eastern Africa and Horn of Africa : war in Sudan, in South Sudan, in CAR, in Ethiopia and Somalia. Eritrea is highly involved and a highly militarised regime, Kenya is often under Al Shababs attacks in the east. Chad an Libya are also touched. Libya is still at war (without recent fightings), as well as Chad with the northern part of the country (+ISWAP). I also added Egypt for Sinaï, but the fightings are not happening often.

3- Central Africa : War in Eastern DRC, with Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi involved (fightings not directly there but they are largely involved, so yellow). Tanzania and Mozambique are also fighting terrorism especially in northern Mozambique.

-> 3 areas of ongoing wars, one is mainly around terrorism, the two others are more complicated, a mix of ressources, rebellions, power, foreign policy...
-> Terrorism is spreading in western Africa. Untouched countries are now seeing war at their door.
-> Austral Africa and some isolated states remain safe, far from war zone or barely, if not never touched
-> Wars are happening around the most populated regions of Africa (Nigeria, Guinean Gulf, Ethiopia, DRC...), a lot of population movement is happening.
-> Libya remains the main door to Europe (with Algeria, Morroco and Egypt behing very closed states)
-> Sahel is burning and east Africa is collapsing

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🇮🇹 Turin, Italy (Jan. 31) — Antifa and far-left extremists mobilized to start fires and carry out mass violence to prevent the arrests and eviction of Antifa militants illegally occupying a building they turned into an "antifa social center."

📎 Andy Ngo

🇮🇹 Turin, Italy (Jan. 31) — Thousands of far-left extremists and Antifa gathered to violently riot and attack police for evicting extremists illegally occupying a building they turned into an "antifa social center."

📎 Andy Ngo