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Russia continues systematically recruiting foreign fighters for war, Ukraine says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/russia-continues-systematically-recruiting-foreign.html

This article makes a strong case that the attacks on US PA systems from a few weeks back were conducted by a group with the approval of the Turkish government, if not the Turkish government itself.
Cyber-jihad from Turkey: Erdogan-protected al-Qaeda faction hacked US, Canadian airports

Cyber-jihad from Turkey: Erdogan-protected al-Qaeda faction hacked US, Canadian airports - Nordic Monitor
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists; three photojournalists were hurt by less-lethal munitions (Minnesota SPJ)
https://www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/mnspj-condemns-st-paul-police-attacks-on-journa…

Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/96fe9898-a3a4-4a33-be1d-da06bdb6cb2b

Eight more newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, sue OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they violated copyright by using their content to train AI models (Pat Maio/Daily News)
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/11/26/8-mor

8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers including the L.A. Daily News and San Diego Union-Tribune seek more than $10 billion in damages.

Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0aea27d8-89a8-4f33-8bfa-2441a16f2b4d

Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0849f8fe-2674-4eae-a134-587340829a58
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France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e596612a-9ed1-446c-9ad4-2eef20fc5ac5

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, in which Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/967b0d78-62df-4eea-a441-8ce3a5d03564

Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/84308936-e277-4ae0-b384-502d60375456