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[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The U.S. Department of War has conformed that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine will hold a press conference tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. EST.

[Cyndra AI @Cyndra_ai]

Most companies are using AI wrong.

They're using it like a calculator.
Ask a question. Get an answer. Close the tab.

That's not AI transformation.
That's just expensive autocomplete.

The companies quietly pulling ahead aren't using AI as a tool.
They're using AI as a workforce.

Agents that read your CRM.
Write your outreach.
Screen your candidates.
Reconcile your books.
And then do it again tomorrow.... without a salary, a sick day, or a resignation letter.

We call them AI employees.
And the ones deploying them now are building a cost structure that traditional teams simply can't compete with.

The question isn't whether AI is powerful enough yet.

It is.

The question is whether you're using it as a feature.... or as a team member.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The U.S. Capitol Police have released a statement:
The Members of Congress who attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner are safe and secure.

We are assisting our federal and local partners with anything they need.

[Cyndra AI @Cyndra_ai]

A $50B investment firm was about to hire a Research Director.

Cost: $500K–$1M/year.

They didn't.

Their problem: every research request took 5 days.

Market analysis. Due diligence. Deal flow. All bottlenecked by one analyst.

Markets don't wait 5 days.

Instead of hiring, they built an AI employee.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.6. Connected to Bloomberg and their full deal pipeline.

2 weeks to deploy.

Now the workflow is one message:

"Research XYZ. Cross-reference our portfolio. Flag acquisition potential."

Full brief back in 2 hours.

The results:

→ $500K–$1M saved (the hire they skipped)
→ 5 days → 2 hours per research cycle
→ 20 reports/week → 200+ reports/week
→ 10+ queries handled daily, around the clock

Their partner said it best:

"We were about to spend $1M on a hire. Instead we got an AI employee. Research went from five days to two hours."

This is what AI employees look like in practice.

Not a chatbot. A system that runs your ops.

[@ContendersOverEverything @ContendersOver]

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[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to U.S President Donald J. Trump, the leaders of Lebanon and Israel are set to speak tomorrow. The president made the announcement on his Truth Social app. This comes amidst the ongoing Israel-Lebanon negotiations centered around the disarmament of Lebanese Hezbollah and the end of the conflict in Southern Lebanon.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that beginning on Monday, April 13 at 10:00AM Eastern Time, in accordance with the proclamation issued by President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. Navy and other military forces will begin a blockade against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM additionally states that the blockade will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting to and from Non-Iranian ports via the Strait of Hormuz.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense has said that their air defenses are dealing with a new wave of missile and drone strikes from Iran.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. President Trump in a post moments ago on TruthSocial: “Big day in Iran. Many long sought after targets have been taken out and destroyed by our GREAT MILITARY, the finest and most lethal in the World. God bless you all! President DJT”

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to UKMTO, a cargo vessel was hit by an unknown projectile 11nm north of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel requested assistance and the crew are in the process of evacuating the vessel. Authorities are investigating following a fire on board, now under control, as a number of crew “remain unlocated.”

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Chances that normal shipping traffic returns to the Strait of Hormuz by the end of April has plummeted in the last 48 hours, down over 30% currently sitting at around 44%, following a number of strikes by Iran on cargo vessels and oil tankers near the Strait, as well as an attack overnight on two tankers off the coast of Iraq.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Top national security officials have told President Trump the military is ready for potential strikes on Iran as soon as Saturday, but the timeline for any action is likely to extend beyond this weekend, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News.

President Trump has not yet made a final decision about whether to strike, with conversations described as fluid and ongoing, as the White House weighs the risks of escalation and the political and military consequences of restraint towards Iran.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to TankerTrackers, Iran has reportedly released the Marshall Islands-flagged Greek-owned oil tanker, St. Nikolas, which forces under the Iranian Navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized in January 2024 under a “court order,” while the ship was carrying oil from Iraq to Turkey through the Gulf of Oman.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced Thursday that he had pardon Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born Canadian billionaire who is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Binance. Zhao resigned as CEO in November 2023 after pleading guilty to a money laundering charge in the United States, and was sentenced to four months in prison in April 2024, which he completed that same September.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Israel announced earlier today that the body of Pinta Nattapong, a 36-year-old Thai national who was kidnapped into the Gaza Strip on October 7th, was recovered yesterday from a tunnel in Southern Gaza’s Rafah, during a joint-operation by the Israel Defense Force and Shin Bet. Israeli intelligence believes that Nattapong was abducted alive by the Mujahideen Brigades and killed by them sometime in the first few months of the war, with the operation to recover his body being the result of "precise intelligence" obtained by the Shin Bet from its interrogations and other information collected by the Hostages Headquarters Unit and the Intelligence Directorate.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by Senior Israeli Officials and Israel’s Military Attaché to the United States, after deplaning at Joint Base Andrews near Washington D.C.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

A 6-Story Apartment Building in the Basta al-Fawqa Neighborhood of Central Beirut is said to have been targeted by several Israeli Airstrikes, causing the Building to Collapse and resulting in many Casualties; with Dozens of Residents said to be trapped beneath the Rubble.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

A Traditional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery operated by the U.S. Army consists of 6-9 Launchers, each equipped with 8 Interceptors totaling between 48 and 72 Missiles, a Fire Control and Communications (TFCC) Section which contains 2 Tactical Operations Centers (TOCs), and an AN/TPY-2 Ground-Based Radar; this is in addition to any Support Equipment that the Battery and its Personnel may need for continued Field Operations. Roughly 100-200 U.S. Soldiers will be required to operated the Battery, possibly less depending on the Integration of Israeli Forces.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Several Missiles fired by Israeli Aircraft have reportedly struck a Warehouse Complex near Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, which was likely being used for the Storage of Hezbollah Weapons and Munitions.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. President Joe Biden has declared the United Arab Emirates a Major Defense Partner of the United States, following a meeting earlier today at the White House with the President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan; with this being the First-Ever Visit by a UAE President to Washington.