🧠🗯🐳 — 🇬🇧 Financial Times | OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor | White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft | January 29, 2025:

"OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

The San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of “distillation”, which it suspects to be from DeepSeek.

The technique is used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable ones, allowing them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost."

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🇺🇸💬🪟👀🎵 — B Bloomberg | Trump Says Microsoft Eyeing TikTok Bid With App’s Future Unclear | January 28, 2025:

"Microsoft Corp. is in talks on acquiring the US arm of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, President Donald Trump said Monday night, without elaborating.

“I would say yes,” Trump told to reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if Microsoft is in discussions to purchase the app. “A lot of interest in TikTok. There’s great interest in TikTok.”

Trump earlier Monday in Florida addressed a gathering of Republican lawmakers and had alluded to ongoing talks surrounding TikTok’s future.

“We’ll see what happens. We’re going to have a lot of people bidding on it, and if we can save all that voice and all the jobs, and China won’t be involved, we don’t want China involved, but we’ll see what happens,” he said in his speech, referring to the video-sharing app.

Trump is pressing ByteDance to sell a stake in its US TikTok arm, and warning that otherwise he would allow a US law to take effect banning the app in the US.

Trump initially favored banning TikTok on national security grounds but has since changed his view, in part because of the success of pro-Trump content on the app."

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🇺🇸🚀🤝🇵🇭 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇺🇸 🇵🇭 Why did the Americans move Typhon to the Philippines?

The Typhon missile system that caused a stir last year, now located in the Philippines, has been moved. Military officials in both Manila and Washington have not disclosed its new location.

▪️The move of Typhon is said to be dictated by the need to understand how quickly the missile system can be redeployed to a new firing position.

▪️For the US and even the Philippine military, which is planning to purchase Typhon, acquiring such data is a very important moment in the use of the missile system.

▪️Its current multi-trailer design makes the Typhon vulnerable to targeted fire during large-scale conflicts, making mobility and survivability critical factors for its operators.

As you can see, the Americans continue to fulfill the original goals of deploying the missile system in the Philippines. The main task of the military is to evaluate the performance of Typhon under certain climatic and geographical conditions in order to adopt this experience and, possibly, improve the system.

🔻It is unknown how many tests and tasks remain unfulfilled. However, it is possible that immediately after achieving all the goals, the US military leadership will decide to move Typhon to another location in the Asia-Pacific region. By the way, the Americans have already expressed interest in Japan as a potential location.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation for January 29, 2025

Russian troops used drones to attack enemy targets in Kiev, Odessa and Nikolaev regions. Ukrainian forces used drones to strike an industrial zone in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region.

In the Artemovsk direction, Russian troops are fighting in the area of ​​the Block-9 mine, as well as in the development of Chasy Yar.

In the Andreevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Dachnoye west of Kurakhovo. At the moment, about 30% of the village has been liberated by stormtroopers.

🔻A detailed analytical report on the events in the Special Military Operation zone is available on Rybar's closed channel @rybar_plus_bot

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇮🇱🇵🇸 Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone — chronicle of events for January 29, 2025

Palestinians are returning to their homes in the Gaza Strip . Large convoys are moving north along the Ar-Rashid and Salah ad-Din highways. More than half a million people have returned from the southern and central provinces to the northern areas of the enclave.

The Israelis continue Operation Iron Wall in Jenin and Tulkarm, as well as in smaller settlements in the autonomy. In Jenin, over 60 houses have been destroyed, clashes and arrests continue.

Local operations of Israeli troops are taking place on the border with Lebanon in several settlements. Israeli tanks and engineering equipment were operating in the area of ​​Mays al-Jabal, al-Adisa, Taybeh and Hula.

🔻 A detailed analytical report on events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone is available on Rybar's closed channel @rybar_plus_bot

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📉 BREAKING: Nvidia extends decline to -6% on the day, erasing -$200 billion of market cap since the market opened.

The majority of yesterday's rebound has now been erased.

DeepSeek appears to be just the tip of the iceberg for AI innovation.

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🇺🇸🆗🇺🇸🚀🤝🇮🇱 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Trump Lifts Biden's Pause On 2,000-Pound Bomb Shipments To Israel | January 27, 2025:

"President Trump has hailed that the Gaza ceasefire is holding, but simultaneously suggested that Israel should 'clean out' the Gaza Strip. It has become obvious that Hamas has not been defeated, and in fact there are signs showing the Islamist militant group is regrouping and resurging. 

Trump within the past days has released a hold on a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel previously paused by the Biden administration, according to Axios. This 'controversial' move of Biden had largely been but a PR ploy at a time when the prior Democratic administration was being overwhelmed with criticism over its Israel-Gaza policies.

The paused shipment, which is now resuming, includes 1,800 MK-84 bombs being stored in the United States. Trump vowed these "paid for" weapons are en route to Israel."

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🇺🇸💬🇮🇱🌏🛫🇸🇾 — 🇹🇷 Anadolu Agency | Trump intends to withdraw US troops from Syria: Israeli media | Trump’s intention to pull thousands of US troops from Syria 'will raise significant concerns in Tel Aviv,' Israel's official public broadcasting Kan reports | January 28, 2025:

US President Donald Trump intends to withdraw thousands of American troops from Syria, according to Israeli media on Tuesday.

Israel's official public broadcasting Kan reported that “senior White House officials conveyed a message to their Israeli counterparts indicating that President Trump intends to pull thousands of US troops from Syria.”

It added that “the withdrawal of American forces from Syria will raise significant concerns in Tel Aviv”.

According to a Pentagon announcement in December, the US has some 2,000 troops deployed in Syria.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who visited the occupied Mount Hermon in Syria on Tuesday, emphasizing Israel's intent to maintain a military presence there indefinitely following its occupation last month."

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🔴🤝⚠️🇷🇺 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Iran's IRGC Confirms Purchase Of Russian Advanced Sukhoi-35 Jets In First | January 27, 2025:

"The Islamic Republic appears to be gearing up for four years of the new Trump administration, as the US President carries a big stick but has also vowed to wind-down war hot spots around the world, particularly in Gaza and Ukraine.

Already, one big geopolitical result of US sanctions related to the Ukraine war has been to push Moscow and Tehran into a closer security relationship, which has seen Iranian suicide drones used with regularity on the Ukraine battlefield, and even reports of ballistic missile transfers (officially denied by Tehran).

But on Monday Reuters and other agencies have cited a senior Revolutionary Guards Commander (IRGC) to say Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🖌 AFU StratCom:

"🔱 Operational information as of 08:00 on January 30, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion

❗️ The main point of the summary:

🔵 In total, 158 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours.

🔥 Over the past day, the Defense Forces' aviation, missile troops, and artillery have struck ten areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, one air defense system, and two other important facilities of the Russian invaders.

🔵 In the Kharkiv direction, according to updated information, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.

🔵 Ten attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction over the past day. Defense forces repelled enemy assaults near Petropavlivka, Novoosynovo, Kolisnykovka, Zagryzove, and Lozova.

🔵 In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 26 times. He tried to advance near Novoyehorivka, Kopanky, Makeyevka, Novolubivka, Torske, Yampolivka, and Zelena Dolyna.

🔵 In the Siversky direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our defenders six times in the area of ​​the settlement of Verkhnyokamyanske.

🔵 In the Kramatorsk direction, ten clashes were recorded in the areas of Novomarkovo, Chasovy Yar, and Stupochy.

🔵 In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 15 attacks near the settlements of Krymske and Toretsk.

🔵 In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 72 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Vodyane Druge, Elizavetivka, Myrolyubivka, Lysivka, Vidrodzhennia, Zvirovo, Kotlyne, Udachne, Kotlyarivka, Andriivka, Dachne, and Ulakly.

🔵 In the Novopavlivske direction, the invaders carried out six attacks on Ukrainian army positions near the settlements of Kostiantynopol, Rozlyv, Rozdolne, and Novoocheretuvate.

🔵 The enemy did not conduct any assault or offensive operations in the Hulyaipil, Orikhiv, and Prydniprov directions.

🔵 In the operational zone in Kursk, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled eight enemy attacks over the past day."

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🇷🇺⚠️⚠️❌🗺 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"⚡️ 37 ENEMY UAVS WERE SHOT, 39 DRONES FAILED TO REACH THEIR TARGETS (LOCATIONALLY LOST)

On the night of January 30, 2025 (from 19:00 on January 29), the enemy attacked with the 81st attack UAV of the “Shahed” type and simulator drones of various types from the directions: Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — Russian Federation.

The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces of Ukraine.

💥 As of 09:00, it has been confirmed that 37 Shahed attack UAVs and drones of other types have been shot down in Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Odessa regions.

39 enemy drones-simulators were lost in location (without negative consequences).

The Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa and Poltava regions were affected by the enemy attack. Industrial enterprises, private and apartment buildings, and vehicles were hit. An enemy strike UAV flew into a high-rise building in Sumy. Unfortunately, there are casualties, special services are eliminating the consequences, and assistance is being provided to the victims."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"⚡️ Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of January 30, 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.

▫️ Units of the North group of forces in the Kharkov direction The formations of the motorized infantry and airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the area of ​​the settlement of Volchansk in the Kharkiv region.

The enemy lost up to 50 servicemen, an armored personnel carrier, three vehicles and a field artillery gun.

▫️ Units of the West group of forces have improved their tactical position. Manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the AFU, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Peschanoye, Zaghryzovo, Zagoruykovka, Kutkovka, Putnikovo and Kurilovka in the Kharkiv region.

The enemy's losses amounted to more than 320 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 10 cars, eight field artillery guns, three of which were produced by NATO countries. An ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️ Units of the "Southern" group of troops have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of two mechanized, airmobile brigades of the AFU and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Dronovka, Verkhnekamenskoye and Chasov Yar of the DPR.

The AFU lost up to 175 servicemen, two vehicles and a field artillery gun. An ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️ Units of the Center group of forces continued active offensive actions. The manpower and equipment of three mechanized, motorized infantry, airmobile brigades of the AFU and a National Guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, Nelepovka, Novopavlovka, Shcherbinovka and Andreyevka of the DPR.

The enemy lost up to 550 troops, two armored combat vehicles, six cars and two field artillery pieces.

▫️ Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. Formations of two mechanized brigades of the AFU, a marine brigade and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Novosyolka, Razliv, Volnoye Pole of the DPR and Novodarovka of the Zaporizhia region.

The AFU lost up to 125 servicemen and three vehicles. Five field artillery pieces were destroyed, including one produced by NATO countries.

▫️ Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade of the AFU and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Antonovka, Tokarevka in the Kherson region and Kamenskoye in the Zaporizhia region.

The enemy lost up to 55 servicemen and two vehicles.

▫️ Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups inflicted damage on military-industrial complex facilities of Ukraine, military airfield infrastructure, production workshops and storage facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in 142 districts.

▫️ Air defense systems shot down two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, four US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets, and 61 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️ Since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,861 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,892 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,510 multiple launch rocket systems, 21,058 field artillery pieces and mortars, and 30,904 special military vehicles have been destroyed."

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"⚡️ Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region (as of January 30, 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to defeat the formations of the AFU in the Kursk region.

▫️ Units of the North group of forces in the course of offensive operations defeated formations of a tank, heavy mechanized, four mechanized, two airborne assault brigades, and a marine brigade and three brigades of territorial defense of the AFU in the areas of the settlements of Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guevo, 1st Knyazhiy, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolaevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Two enemy counterattacks were repelled.
 
▫️ Strikes by operational-tactical, army aviation and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Viktorovka, Guevo, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolaghi, Zhuravka and Obody in the Sumy region.
 
▫️ AFU losses in 24 hours More than 240 servicemen were killed, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, 14 cars, four artillery pieces, nine mortars, two electronic warfare stations, as well as three UAV control points and two ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
▫️ In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 56,140 servicemen, 325 tanks, 241 infantry fighting vehicles, 185 armored personnel carriers, 1,653 armored combat vehicles, 1,707 vehicles, 396 artillery pieces, 44 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including 13 HIMARS and six MLRS made in the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile system launchers, eight transport and loading vehicles, 105 electronic warfare stations, 14 counter-battery radars, four air defense radars, 32 units of engineering and other equipment, including 13 engineering obstacle clearing vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing unit, as well as nine armored repair and recovery vehicles and a command and staff vehicle.

The operation to destroy the AFU formations continues."

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🇺🇦⚠️⚠️❌🇷🇺 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Ukrainian Attacks On Territory Of Russia On January 29, 2025 (Map Update)

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⚡️🗯👔🇺🇦👤 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"❗️ Over the past six months, monthly sanitary and irreparable losses of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have consistently amounted to about 50 thousand people and above (January 2025: 51,960 people, December 2024: 48,470 people, November 2024: 60,805 people, etc.).

At the same time, the number of recruits in the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, even taking into account the “activation” of the TCC throughout Ukraine, has barely reached 30 thousand people per month for about six months, who are sent to the line of combat contact without appropriate training, which leads to a reduction in the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to official data, about 100 thousand Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily abandoned their military units and went on the run.

The changes to the legislation prepared by the Kyiv regime under pressure from Western countries to reduce the age of mobilization from 25 to 18 years are the only way for Zelensky to delay the cascading collapse of the front in Donbass for a few more months."

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🇺🇸⚡️✝️ — 🏴 Alt-Market.us | Do We Need A Final Crusade To Save The Western World? | January 28, 2025:

"During the past week I’ve been watching the frenzy over Donald Trump’s cabinet confirmations, specifically because the fabric of his cabinet will give us insight into how the next four years of his presidency will play out. One hearing that I found very interesting was Pete Hegseth’s. The level of hostility on display by Democrats entered the realm of slander.

Hegseth was barely confirmed as the Secretary of Defense with Vice President JD Vance making the tie breaking vote. The political left (and some Neo-Cons) seems to HATE this man in a special way, and initially I had difficulty understanding the real reason why.

Hegseth’s opposition to trans membership in the armed forces is surely one reason, but Trump is removing such mentally unstable people from the military regardless. His opposition to women in combat roles might piss off some feminists but the majority of American war fighters agree with him and every concrete study done on mixed gender combat units has shown terrible results.

Then, I watched a debate between progressive commentators vs Michael Knowles and Dave Rubin which illuminated the situation. The conversation was strangely focused on leftist accusations against Hegseth’s supposedly nefarious tattoo and how it relates to the Christian crusades.

The fury over Hegseth, in my view, gives us a peak behind the curtain at what the establishment truly fears, and their fear is triggered by unabashed Christianity. But not just that – It’s Hegseth’s veneration of old Christianity and a time when Christians controlled much of the known world. People like Hegseth are usually obstructed from entering government because they are standard bearers of a philosophy which terrifies globalists.

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The first crusade was far more than just a geopolitical effort by governments to take back lands that were stolen; it was a massive spiritual correction. It was an endeavor which inspired great unity of purpose among common people. In fact, it was the common people, not the monarchies, that made the first crusade possible. If this kind of event were to happen again it would have to be grounded in similar high minded purpose and populism.

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There is a deep desire in our society for a return to principles; a need for purity of purpose. I see it daily. People are lost and they need a compass. The question is, who will give it to them? The Luciferian globalists? The woke cultists? The Islamic horde? Or us?"

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