$35,600,000,000. That's how much went to startups you've probably never heard of.
Drones that find their own targets. Autonomous systems working together as one.
A missile leaving the wing of an Apache. And a compact electronic warfare unit that fits in the bed of a pickup truck.
A few years ago, this would have looked like science fiction. Today, these are production-ready systems that are changing the rules of the game.
And nowhere is this clearer than in Ukraine 🇺🇦
🔹 In 2023, Ukraine produced fewer than 150,000 drones. In 2024, it was over a million, and last year about 4 million. The plan for 2026 is 7 million.
🔹 According to official data, Ukrainian forces struck nearly 820,000 targets with drones in 2025, and according to Zelenskyy, around 80% of strikes on the battlefield now come from drones.
🔹 Artillery used to cause over 80% of casualties on both sides. Now the share of drones is even higher, and their range often exceeds that of artillery.
The main trend: the winner isn't the one with more hardware, but the one with smarter software, faster iteration, and better data.
Ukraine has proven it in practice.
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: the plush octopus challenge 🐙
Same brief for both models: build an interactive WebGPU octopus from scratch, with soft-body physics, floppy tentacles, realistic squish, and full browser interaction.
💰 Opus: $15.21 💰 Sol: $18.03
GPT-6 ASTRA IS HERE — AND AI JUST ENTERED A DIFFERENT ERA
OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Astra — a model the company calls the smartest and most capable AI in its history.
And this isn’t simply about getting better answers.
Astra is designed to independently handle complex tasks on a computer.
💻 It can:
• work with browsers and applications
• complete multi-step tasks
• write and debug code
• conduct research
• create documents, spreadsheets and presentations
• handle professional workflows
• adapt when requirements change
Now for the numbers 👇
🧠 98% — FrontierMath Tier 4
One of the most challenging mathematical benchmarks for AI.
⚡️99.9% — ARC-AGI-3
A result highlighting a major leap in the model’s ability to solve novel problems.
🔐 100% — ExploitBench
Astra became the first OpenAI model to reach a critical level of cybersecurity capability under the company’s evaluation system.
But here’s what’s even more interesting.
OpenAI says Astra can handle long chains of actions without constant human supervision.
So AI is gradually moving from:
“Write this for me.”
to:
“Here’s my goal. Do whatever is necessary to get it done.”
And that could be the biggest change of all.
Because once AI can not only answer questions, but also operate computers, use software and execute real-world workflows, the question is no longer just how intelligent AI will become.
The bigger question is:
How many jobs will still look the same in the future? 👀
OpenAI is already describing this moment as a step toward the AGI era.
It looks like we’re only beginning to understand what that really means.
#GPT6 #Astra #AI #OpenAI #ArtificialIntelligence
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Crazy footage shows a Russian missile EXPLODING straight into the Northern Bridge in Kyiv
The bridge is the main route tying hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern suburbs to the city center.
Russia is promising to rain down even more fire on the capital, making it clear this was just one shot of a massive escalation.
Writer: Bri
Imagine waking up in October 2009 and seeing $1 = 1,309 BTC
Back then, Bitcoin had no exchange price.
The first "rate" was calculated by New Liberty Standard: they took the cost of electricity a computer burns while mining and divided it by the number of coins produced. In other words, a bitcoin was worth exactly what it cost to mine.
What happened next: • 2010: 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first real-world purchase
• 2011: ~$10-15 per 1 BTC (second photo, BitcoinMarket exchange)
• Today: tens of thousands of dollars per coin
In 17 years, the price has grown millions of times over. One dollar in 2009 got you more than a thousand bitcoins, which today would be worth tens of millions of dollars.
The wildest part? Almost nobody believed it was worth anything.
Some of us remember this. Some of us still can't forgive ourselves.
#Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto
SHOCK IN FRANCE: PROTESTERS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE STOCK EXCHANGE IN PARIS
The French are back on the streets — this time, the protests have reached the Paris Stock Exchange.
But the most unexpected part: high school students are among the protesters. They’re demanding better learning conditions and complaining about teacher shortages and overcrowded classrooms.
They haven’t noticed fuel prices yet.
💥For the first time in more than four years, Yemen’s Houthis have launched ballistic missiles at a Saudi Aramco facility in Riyadh, with a massive column of smoke and fire rising from the site this morning.
🇮🇷Iran is preparing for a new US bombing campaign that could be even larger in scale than the previous one.
‼️Meanwhile, a senior Iranian official warned that any new US attack — whether air or ground, limited or otherwise — will now be considered a full-scale war and will be met with the “harshest” possible force.
🪖Nearly 10,000 US service members, including 2,000 Marines, are heading to the Middle East aboard a third US aircraft carrier and an amphibious assault group.
🛢The risk of oil prices rising again on Monday remains. Only Trump could potentially calm the situation with his statements.
Bitcoin is being heavily shorted right now. Funding rates just dropped to their most negative level since May.
🪙 BTC failed to hold above $85K again. Capital inflows into the market have slowed.
🇺🇸 Trump and top national security officials held a secret meeting at Camp David on Friday to discuss next steps in the war with Iran and Yemen, according to Axios.
‼️ This highly unusual meeting was not announced by the White House. The last meeting of this kind was in June 2025, just days before Israel attacked Iran.
📈 US Treasury yields have fully reversed and erased the entire drop caused by weaker-than-expected labor market data. The dollar is rising, and that is weighing on crypto.