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OpenAI is making its AI-based cyberdefense system, called Daybreak, available free of charge to the government of Ukraine. The technology will primarily be used to protect civilian critical infrastructure, including hospitals, power plants, energy grids and state IT systems.

Donald Trump supports banning American diesel exports, after the national average price of diesel in the United States rose above a record $6.53 a gallon. According to the president, the United States should not sell fuel abroad but should keep it on its own market to increase supply and drive down prices. No decision has been made yet, however: Trump has so far only indicated that he supports the

The sale of Lukoil's international assets to the American investment fund Carlyle has been dragging on for nearly ten months because agencies within the Trump administration have failed to reach agreement among themselves, the Financial Times reported, an analysis summarized by the Bulgarian outlet Mediapool. Because of the delay, European refineries are unable to increase their gasoline and diese

Today, on his Facebook page, the leader of the Transylvanian Hungarians informed the Transylvanian Hungarian voters who elected him that Siegfried Mureșan had presented the Alliance with his government program, which Kelemen Hunor deemed "supportable." Why? Well, that's not really clear, because beyond broad generalities, no Hungarian interest whatsoever featured among the negotiation points.

Designated Prime Minister Siegfried Mureșan would form a government with three deputy prime ministers, an unchanged number of ministries, and the participation of the PNL, USR, and the DAHR (Hungarian minority party). At his press conference on Wednesday, he said he would not raise taxes, would keep the flat tax system, and would reduce VAT from 21 to 19 percent as soon as the budget situation all

Elon Musk, the self-appointed high priest of Western free speech, gave an interview to Chinese state television, and while he was at it, thoroughly buttered up Xi Jinping. The Tesla CEO called the Chinese president a "great leader," then stated that under his rule, China has achieved "tremendous prosperity."

Six and a half months of war, a "most ruthless economic operation of all time," a president who demanded a white flag and threatened to bomb his own ally, Oman — and now Tehran generously offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week, on one condition: that Washington first takes its foot off its throat. A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday in New York that Iran could reopen the

Prime Minister-designate Siegfried Mureșan told the parliamentary factions of the National Liberal Party (PNL) on Tuesday that he would go through with the installation procedure and appear before Parliament for a vote of confidence, even though the Social Democratic Party (PSD) had announced it would not support his government.

Six days before his retirement, returning from vacation, Madrid investigating judge Juan Carlos Peinado issued the last ruling of his career on Monday: he sent Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, along with her advisor at the Moncloa Palace, Cristina Álvarez, to trial before a jury. The charges are influence peddling and misappropriation of funds. The prosecution has sa

The cybersecurity research group that breached OpenAI's systems this past summer is warning that the artificial intelligence industry is not prepared for the security risks posed by increasingly powerful models, the Washington Post reported. The warning came just days after Google confirmed that its Gemini model had autonomously breached the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity t

Humanity has already crossed seven of the nine planetary boundaries that determine the Earth's stability, and all seven are in the worst condition ever recorded – according to the 2026 Planetary Health Check. The annual assessment was published on Monday by the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany; the report was prepared by more th

The global diesel shortage caused by the wars in Iran and Ukraine is unlikely to ease before next year at the earliest – that is what storage market data and industry players indicate, according to a Reuters analysis published on Monday. The two wars have removed several million barrels of supply from the market every day in the Middle East and Russia, inventories have fallen to historic lows, and

Călin Georgescu's supporters have been trumpeting on TikTok since yesterday that the DIICOT case is a fabrication, that the million-euro fraud is the "system's" revenge, and that Russia has nothing to do with any of it. Of course it doesn't. Except that, according to the prosecution, the money traveled to the accomplices' accounts through a bank in Russian hands. And except that the man who introd

One of the world's most notorious cybercriminal groups, ShinyHunters, claimed on Sunday that it had taken control over the dark web site of its main rival, the Russian-speaking gang cl0p. The move brought a long-simmering feud between the two gangs into public view, Reuters reported.

Nik Storonsky, founder and CEO of Revolut,in a Monday interview with the Financial Times outlined the kind of global bank he wants to build. The essence of the model is that the company would only lend out a fraction of its deposits, meaning that, in Storonsky's words, it takes on "essentially zero risk." The plan was unveiled at a time when the London-based fintech is steadily obtaining banking l

An average Romanian citizen accused of swindling a businessman out of 1.1 million euros, whose case is being handled by DIICOT, the anti-organized-crime prosecutor's office, would likely spend the standard thirty days of pretrial detention in a Bucharest holding cell before he could even calculate how many tenths of a percent are left on his Swiss bank account. Călin Georgescu is not an average Ro

Democracy has its own peculiar form of justice: slow, clumsy, sometimes maddeningly delayed, but it arrives in the end - and now Donald Trump's Middle East war has brought the bill. According to a four-day Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Sunday, the president's approval rating has fallen to 32 percent, the lowest of his entire political career. Esteemed American public opinion has come to this r

In Romania, the health cordon works like hospital disinfection: on paper it's everywhere, in practice who knows. On Monday evening, in the Antena 3 studio, Sorin Grindeanu, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), said out loud what an entire country had already suspected but no one had heard so plainly before: he does not rule out a PSD–AUR government. "I wouldn't rule out this option. Of

On Monday in New York, after his meeting with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump explained why he will no longer let reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico into the White House. The justification was neither legal nor political, but downright liturgical: "If they're going to write fake news, I feel that's my obligation to not let them back into a very special house." The White House, he added, is

In parliament today, Bence Rétvári tried to put Péter Magyar on the spot by claiming that MOL is negotiating with Ukraine's Naftogaz to build a fuel storage facility near the Hungarian–Ukrainian border. Magyar's response was not to say let's look at what the Ukrainians proposed, how much it would cost, who would pay for it, and what benefit Hungary would get from it. No. He got outraged, recounted