Q: Maybe we could establish a Palestinian state in Uganda. That could be a solution to all these problems.

Netanyahu: Your proposal will be given serious consideration.

Zelensky told NPR that the Trump administration threatened to cut off intelligence-sharing unless Ukraine stopped striking Russian oil refineries.

Netanyahu:

If the opposition wins, they will establish a Palestinian state.

They will withdraw from Lebanon, from Gaza.

They will do nothing against Iran.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to maintain White House press access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico while their lawsuit proceeds.

However, the ruling does not guarantee access to the Oval Office or Air Force One.

Source: Axios

BIG: SpaceX has imposed a speed cap on Starlink terminals in motion, disrupting Ukrainian military operations overnight.

The restriction, applied to the military-grade StarShield package, cuts connectivity when terminals exceed 100 mph — effectively killing satellite links on fast-moving vehicles and drones.

Ukrainian defense forces say they received no prior warning, and "this led to the disruption of a number of missions."

The source calls the timing deliberate, stating "this action cannot be a coincidence and is linked to the current political situation."

The EU is seeking closer ties with Vietnam to secure critical minerals and reduce its dependence on China, according to internal EU documents.

Vietnam has large reserves of tungsten, rare earths and other minerals essential for defense industries.

Europe wants to diversify its supplies as it rearms, particularly after Chinese export restrictions disrupted European supply chains last year.

Source: Reuters

Russia launched its largest combined missile-and-drone attack on Ukraine overnight, firing 167 weapons — 39 ballistic missiles and 128 drones — primarily targeting energy infrastructure in Kyiv and Kharkiv ahead of the heating season.

Ballistic strikes hit Kyiv's Darnytska CHP-4 power plant and a 9-story apartment building, killing at least 3 and injuring 21–27, including a child.

At least 600,000 people lost electricity, with 26 power facilities and 4 oil-and-gas sites damaged.

Zelensky called the attack "deliberate and demonstrative in scale," a direct violation of Trump's energy ceasefire, and "an unprecedented show of disrespect toward the United States."

He noted Ukraine had not struck Russian energy infrastructure during the ceasefire period.

Warning systems failed for the second consecutive night — missiles were detected only in the terminal phase as they approached Kyiv.

NEW: Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps reports ~88 km² retaken in the Lyman direction under Operation Vivaldi, with DeepState confirming the liberation of Zelena Dolyna, Lypove, and Kolodiazi.

The gains are part of a multi-month counteroffensive that has rolled back a Russian salient north of Lyman, with total recaptured territory estimated at 125–250 km² depending on the source.

The operation has disrupted Russia’s northern approach toward the strategically critical Sloviansk-Kramatorsk area.

NEW: Britain ran a Falklands recapture exercise as Argentina ramps up pressure over the islands.

About 150 paratroopers from 2 PARA and 100 local reservists spent six days rehearsing the 1982 war playbook — landing at San Carlos, marching overnight to Goose Green, and storming objectives with Typhoon jet support.

They also trained against modern threats like drone attacks.

One officer said troops got to “walk in the footsteps of our forefathers.”

It comes as President Milei has turned up the heat, calling the islands “illegally occupied” at the UN and warning Argentina would “take matters into our own hands.”

Argentina has gone to an international tribunal to block a $2.2B British oil project near the islands.

PM Burnham said the UK would do “whatever it takes” to keep them British.

Defense officials say Argentina doesn’t have the military capability to attempt a takeover, but the British garrison — fighter jets, missiles, and infantry — stays ready.

Source: The Times

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar:

So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI.

"I believe so much in AI that it's going to cure cancer. So I'm showing you my chips are all in."

So there is kind of this mass psychosis, social delusion around it.

Elon Musk on AI:

Torturing a super intelligence is probably not a good idea. It might want to get revenge or something like that.

I don't think we need to treat it with kid gloves and stuff. It's certainly much more robust in terms of feeling and stuff than a human.

But I just think you probably don't want to put super intelligence in a situation where it felt mistreated.

Elon Musk on AI:

You don't exactly program it. You kind of grow it like a kid. So then it's like, what values are we teaching it?

At least to me, the most important thing is that it be a maximally truth-seeking AI.

Because if you make it believe things that are not true, especially if you give it two axiomatic principles that are fundamentally incompatible and say both of these are true, it's going to make the AI insane.

Because it's going to basically reach impossible conclusions if given logic that is inherently uncogent.

Elon Musk:

We do need to make sure that we can make the robots in the U.S. even if China were to cut us off.

Because last year, China prevented the export of magnets for use in electric motors, and that actually set back the Optimus program by like two or three months, because we had robots with no arms.

We were like, "A Farewell to Arms." I was trying to be an arms dealer, but not succeeding.

Elon Musk:

Lately, the music videos that AI is making are so good. They're unbelievably good.

I post a bunch of these on my X account. I'm like, holy smokes.

Some of them, I think, are maybe top 10, top 20 best music videos I've ever seen.

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Sri Lankan migrant worker Anojan Sivarasa, 27, who was convicted of blasphemy in September over a Facebook comment insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

Sivarasa deleted the comment and apologized but was arrested in July.

It remains unclear whether he will be released or face further legal proceedings.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:

Hey, Elon Musk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?

As your European customers, we are watching you.

Iran’s IRGC Navy said a container ship carrying more than 2,500 containers struck a naval mine while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz via an unauthorized route.

The ship caught fire and sank south of the strait on Wednesday morning.

SpaceX’s Starlink speed cap is now confirmed at 60-70 km/h on Ukrainian terminals, effectively killing connectivity for all medium-range kamikaze drones: FP-2, Darts, Hornet, RAM-2 and others.

Ukraine uses these drones to hit Russian air defenses, logistics, and infrastructure in Crimea and border regions.

The restriction also impacts Ukraine’s drone interceptors that rely on Starlink to shoot down Russian Shahed-type jets, meaning it weakens both offensive and defensive capabilities.

If the cutoff isn’t a short-term pressure tactic — like the intelligence-sharing suspension in spring 2025 — Ukraine will need to urgently find Starlink alternatives, potentially copying Russia’s use of relay stations and mesh modems, which would take significant time and money.