“BREAKING: President Trump just told me over the phone he has unilaterally cancelled Witkoff and Kushner’s trip to Pakistan to meet with the Iranians. "I've told my people a little while ago they were getting ready to leave, and I said, 'Nope, you're not making an 18 hour”

“Iranian media reported that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Islamabad after meeting Pakistani officials. He is expected to travel next to Oman and Russia. Iranian officials had earlier said Araghchi had no plan to meet US officials in Pakistan. https://iranintl.com/en/202604251877”

“Former Israeli military spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said on Friday the Strait of Hormuz remains closed because no order has been given by President Donald Trump to reopen it. "The only reason the Strait of Hormuz is closed is that President Trump hasn’t yet given CENTCOM the order to open it. Once the order is given, CENTCOM will get the job done," he posted on X.”

“MiMo V2.5 Pro leads its peer group on agentic tasks. The model scores 1578 on GDPval-AA, and places it in the top tier for real-world work tasks among recent releases”

“"DeepSeek said Pro pricing could fall sharply once Huawei Ascend 950 supernodes are ​deployed at scale in the second half of the year"”

“Scoop: Trump is sending his special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to participate in talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, two administration officials tell CNN. VP JD Vance is not currently planning to attend given Iran's Speaker of the”

“Talks in Islamabad will be bilateral. No US participation expected. Iranian officials to stay in Islamabad only a few hours - NYP”

“BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu has prostate cancer.”

“Air defenses in Tehran are firing at “hostile” targets -Iranian state outlet Mehr”

“GPT-5.5 +100% more expensive than GPT5.4 and +20% more expensive than Claude Opus 4.7! When exactly will token prices hit CPI?”

“The US has now assembled 3 carrier strike groups close to 20 warships hundreds of fighter jets and thousands of marines and other ground assault troops around Iran. All the capabilities are now ready for a range of military options.”

“GPT 5.5 underperforms Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench Pro. Couldn't find any reported SWE-Bench scores at all and an internal benchmark is reported instead. That footnote is trying really hard to bury the lede. GPT 5.5 isn't SOTA for coding.”

“Mojtaba Khamenei the leader of Iran was permanently maimed from the strike that killed former leader of Iran his father, he has undergone 3 surgeries and has bad burn wounds which have disfigured his face and may have an amputated leg-NYT”

“Heavy strategic airlift continues into the Middle East, via Germany, with 19 U.S. Air Force C-17A "Globemaster IIIs" visible on flight tracking from @flightradar24 at this time.”

“President Donald J. Trump has posted to his Truth Social account stating that he has ordered the U.S. Navy to "shoot and kill any boat" laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz without hesitation. He goes on to say that minesweepers are actively clearing the Strait right now and that he's ordered that activity to triple.”