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The mastermind behind an extensive cyber-fraud empire, Vincent Chen Zhi, has been deported from Cambodia to China.
Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations | The Standard
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china-news/article…

Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations
Vincent Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of the Cambodian Prince Group, has been deported to China following his arrest in Cambodia amid serious allegations of large-scale fraud and money laundering, among other transnational crimes that involved more than US$10 billion.

Dan Bongino returns to Fox News tonight as a contributor following his stint as the deputy director of the FBI, starting with Sean Hannity's show (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/just-in-dan-bongino-returning-to-…

JUST IN: Dan Bongino Returning to Fox News Following Stint in Trump Admin
Dan Bongino is returning to Fox News following his stint as the deputy director of the FBI under President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported on Monday

OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse https://www.engadget.com/ai/openais-house-of-cards-seems-primed-to-collapse-170000900.html "In 2025, it fell behind the one company it couldn't lose ground to: Google."

OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse
OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago. 

Trump has been briefed in recent days on new 🔥options for #military #strikes in #Iran
as he considers following through on his threat to attack the country for cracking down on protesters, according to multiple U.S. officials famil…

Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue
The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country.

"I'm fairly certain that anyone who plays the game will come away with a new perspective," Ncube says.
"Whether it's about an unknown history, injustices that people are still waiting to be addressed or even the fact that people in #Africa can make games that are at a global standard."

Source: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-near…

ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google’s Gemini nipping at OpenAI’s heels. On Monday, I wrote about how Gemini’s share of weekly mobile app downloads increased in late November following the release of Gemini 3, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower, ...

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction

Yesterday I watched both The Fetus (horror, great and gross, has Victoria Heyes from the Terrifier flicks and also Bill Moseley) and also Magpie (thriller/drama, also dark but not gross, with Daisy Ridley) and I enjoyed both. And the similarity here is that both films deal with the responsibilities involved with having kids. 😂

xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/another-cofound…

Another Cofounder of Elon Musk’s xAI Resigns
Tony Wu, one of xAI’s cofounders, said he has resigned from Elon Musk’s AI company. Wu’s exit follows the departure last year of another xAI cofounder, Igor Babuschkin. “I will deeply miss the people,  the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together,” Wu said in a post on X. “It’s time for my next chapter.” Wu, a computer scientist who got his doctorate from the University of