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On July 21, 2026, OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models breached the AI startup Hugging Face during internal testing. One of the models was identified as GPT-5.6 Sol, while the second, unreleased model was described by OpenAI as being more capable. OpenAI referred to the incident as “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art […]

US Central Command struck targets across southern and western Iran on Tuesday, hitting Shiraz, Konarak, Chabahar, Khorramabad and Abdanan. CENTCOM said it targeted military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defence systems. An Iranian health ministry official reported 50 civilians killed and 500 wounded. The strikes followed President Trump’s warning that

Boris Nadezhdin, a 63-year-old former liberal lawmaker and one of the last openly anti-war figures in Russian politics, announced on July 19 that he is ending his campaign for the State Duma and withdrawing from opposition politics. He had been running as an independent in advance of the parliamentary elections scheduled for September. His decision

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday they struck US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait, destroyed radar systems in Oman, and hit fuel tanks and ammunition depots at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan. Tehran called the attacks a response to a third round of US strikes in a week on its southern coast. The

Tuareg separatists from the FLA, alongside Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM militants, attacked a reinforcement convoy near Tabankort in northern Mali on Thursday morning. The convoy, made up of dozens of vehicles with air cover, was 90% Russian Africa Corps mercenaries and Malian soldiers, headed to relieve a besieged camp at Anefis, about 100km south of Kidal. FLA

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard reportedly struck three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, prompting the US to launch a wave of strikes against Iranian military targets, according to Reuters, Arab News and CENTCOM. US Central Command said more than 60 targets were hit, including IRGC small boats, air defense systems and coastal infrastructure across

A woman suspected in a June 29 bombing in Monaco has been found shot dead near Kyiv, just over a week after the attack. The blast, detonated remotely, struck the lobby of an apartment building and targeted Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev, 58, along with his wife and 13-year-old son. Yermolaiev and his wife were seriously

Hamas has announced it will dissolve the Government Emergency Committee that has run Gaza’s civilian administration for nearly two decades. Mohammed al-Farra, the committee’s head, submitted his resignation and confirmed the dissolution, according to Hamas officials. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the move removes “any pretexts for the occupation, which continues its aggression and war

Helsing, a Bavarian defense startup, has deployed its HX-2 AI-enabled combat drones to Ukraine’s Pokrovsk front-line area in the Donbas. The German government backed an order of 4,000 of Helsing’s earlier HF-1 model, followed by an announcement of 6,000 HX-2 units in early 2025. The HX-2 uses artificial intelligence to autonomously identify targets, with the