US' private investment in AI exceeded China's by more than 8x last year. Notably,following demonstration of ChatGPT's LLM,a surge of AI companies emerged swiftly,showcasing US' ability to rapidly scale up in IT,similar to China's ability in manufacturing.
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This is a direct denial from a regime official:

No missiles were fired into #Iran from outside its territory

There were drones but they were shot down.

A telling, early take on this from within Iran. Risk of immediate Iranian escalation from this event looks low.

Guess I didn't realize just how many juicy stories there are about 86-yr-old Fan Zeng (范曾, 1938), master of traditional Chinese calligraphy & painting. Recent news that he married a 36-yr-old woman - 50 years his junior - unleashed a flood of stories about him on social media.

This looks badass, but these Star Trek-style mission control centers at hedge funds aren’t for operations. They’re a marketing tool. It’s all for impressing LPs.

When the investment committee of the East Ballsville Teachers’ Retirement Fund visits the office, Prescott, the IR…

“Since Modi first won power a decade ago, the BJP has dominated Indian politics. The party won a majority in the lower house in 2019 and together with its allies controls more than half of India’s states, including Madhya Pradesh.” 1/10

One thing people rarely rarely do is stop and reconcile Chinese data. Let's look at official Chinese industrial data. As of 2022 Chinese industrial liabilities totaled 92 trillion RMB and had grown from 55 trillion in 2014. Here is where it gets interesting. In 2014, Chinese…

If you're looking for one symbol of Sweden's 200-year path through neutrality to NATO membership, there's no better place to look than Musko Naval Base, the underground naval facility carved out of a mountainside.

Let's take a look. (THREAD 🧵)

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Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India theguardian.com/environment/20…

'...As America doubles down on being the indispensable ally and security guarantor, China is doubling down on becoming the indispensable producer of last resort...'

.Damien Ma on thinking through the shifting global paradigm:

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Australia today released its National Defence Strategy:
-Termed India as 'top tier security partner'
-Will increase 'depth & complexity' of defence cooperation
-Will support India's 'key role' in the region

This image goes hard.

At one time this was a statue of a Roman goddess displayed in Corinth.

The Corinthians chose the Boniface option…cutting off her face, carving a cross into it.

𝕴𝔫 𝔥𝔬𝔠 𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔬 𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔰

Fun fact.

China and India have silently agreed not to use firearms along their border, because technically, with no firearms, a clash or a riot doesn't constiture an act of war.

Huge, someone finally ran the numbers....Geopolitical Risk and Decoupling: Evidence from U.S. Export Controls
As a result of these disruptions, affected suppliers have negative abnormal stock returns, wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization, experience a drop in bank…

Recent article from Lokniti-CSDS in The Hindu by Sanjay Kumar, Jyoti Mishra, Aditi Singh, Anagha V. Nair, Abhishek Sharma, and Subhayan Acharya. They delve into a study monitoring X handles of five spokespersons each from #BJP and #Congress , analyzing 798 #tweets till early April.

Pretty alarming assessment from someone who led the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence until last summer. 'Xi’s most critical choices reflect a march to war....All strategic war preparation indicators are brightly lit' warontherocks.com/2024/04/china-…

Woman taking a break and all the animals come to check on her.. 😊

This is the scariest guy on TikTok

1/ After being stuck in #Gaza for almost seven months under constant bombardment, my younger sister—who celebrated #Hamas ’s Oct 7th attacks at the time—just got to our family’s home in Egypt.When I asked her about the public sentiment in Gaza,she told me that everyone in the town

The Economist’s 5 stages of grief.
Prologue:

THIS IS BIG! India tests Nirbhay cruise missile — for the first time with an Indian propulsion system, the Manik turbofan engine, replacing the earlier Russian engine. Hard to overstate what a milestone this is for India’s missile program. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽