Friday 10 April 2026 In April 2026 the American artificial intelligence company Anthropic took the unusual step of announcing that its most advanced model, widely reported as “Claude Mythos”, would not be released to the public. The decision was not born of commercial caution nor of technical immaturity, but of something more profound — a recognition that the frontier of machine intelligence had crossed from usefulness into potential systemic danger. This moment deserves care

Friday 10 April 2026 The Strait of Hormuz has long been the narrow valve through which a substantial portion of the world’s energy supply must pass. In 2026, amidst the convulsions of the Iran war, it has become something more ominous still: not merely a chokepoint of geography but a laboratory for the evolution of economic coercion. Iran’s recent efforts to charge shipowners for transit — and, more strikingly, to demand payment in cryptocurrency or alternative non-Western ch

Friday 10 April 2026 Serbia’s announcement that she intends to deepen cooperation with Israel's Elbit Systems in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles marks a subtle yet consequential shift in the military-industrial landscape of the Western Balkans. It is a development that sits at the intersection of regional insecurity, globalised defence supply chains and the accelerating centrality of drones in contemporary warfare — nowhere more evident than in Ukraine. At first gl

Thursday 9 April 2026 The war in Ukraine has from its earliest days carried echoes of older European conflicts in which foreign fighters were drawn into campaigns not their own. Yet in the case of the Russian Federation’s invasion the recruitment and deployment of foreign soldiers has acquired a particular significance — not merely as a supplement to depleted manpower, but as a reflection of the political, economic and moral condition of Russia’s war effort. From the outset R

Thursday 9 April 2026 The great promise of large language models lies in their apparent universality. They speak Ukrainian, French, Arabic, Mandarin and dozens of other tongues with fluency that would have astonished even the most optimistic computational linguists of a generation ago. They translate, summarise and converse across linguistic boundaries with remarkable ease. Yet beneath this multilingual surface there remains a structural asymmetry—one that is seldom acknowled