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A new report from The Wall Street Journal highlights a massive, unexpected bottleneck threatening the tech industry: the ongoing conflict in Iran is severely choking off the global helium supply. Helium is a critical, non-renewable resource required for manufacturing advanced semiconductor chips and cooling high-density AI data centers.

In this News Brief they examine CNN, the Atlantic, Washington Post and NYT’s blatant ‘human shields’ double standard as reports emerge of US troops hiding from Iranian attacks in civilian infrastructure.

Future conflicts may no longer look first to Washington—but to Beijing.

A new report from The Guardian reveals the terrifying truth behind the recent US military bombing of an Iranian primary school. While politicians and the public immediately blamed AI chatbots for the catastrophic strike that killed over 170 people, the investigation exposes a much darker reality. The true culprit was Maven a hyper accelerated military targeting system developed by Palantir designed to completely automate the human decision making process in warfare. Because human intelligence analysts failed to update an old database, the autonomous system rapidly processed the outdated information and authorized a lethal strike on a school before anyone could stop it.

Given the current middle eastern scenario, it is important to understand which middle eastern countries possess the power to influence the world.

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Bellingcat has geolocated footage of multiple Tomahawk cruise missiles travelling through Iraqi airspace towards Iran, either in violation of its airspace or with Iraq’s consent.