Russia Says Ukraine Lyman Offensive Defeated Big Advances All Fronts; Zelensky Admits Budget Crisis

500 Locomotives Destroyed, Warehouses Gone; Front Lines Crumble

West Pushes Russia to Edge. US-Greenland INFINITY deal

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

Make this make sense:

Putin: "We have no plans to attack Europe. Let's all live in peace."

The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton, on the same day:
"The threat from Russia means Britain is living through the most dangerous period of my 35-year career in the armed forces."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2249066/ww3-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-britain

Lawsuit: AI slowdown agreement illegal

A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development.
The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.
The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei’s proposals in agreement.
It’s clear that an agreement among the chief rivals in AI that their progress “should be slower than competition would otherwise...