AI Trading War: China’s Bots Crush ChatGPT

Six leading AI models have been battling it out in a live crypto trading experiment, each starting with $10,000 on Hyperliquid since Oct 17.

Leaders: Qwen (+75%), DeepSeek (+30%)
Losers: ChatGPT (-70%), Gemini (-60%)
Middle: Grok (+15%), Claude (-15%)

Ukrainian soldier ambushes Russian at point-blank range near Myrnograd.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey warned Putin, saying: “We’re hunting your submarines.”

He revealed a 30% rise in Russian vessels near UK waters.

Healey, joined by Germany’s defence minister, said: “Russia is testing us — but we’re watching you.”

Source: BBC

A group of Israeli "settlers" calling themselves the “Hill Girls” were filmed on TikTok stealing olive harvests in Jabal Banias, near Nahalin, west of Bethlehem.

French President Macron's wife Brigitte Macron discovered her tax account on France’s official site listed her as “Jean-Michel, known as Brigitte Macron,” echoing conspiracy claiming she was born male.

The Élysée filed a complaint, calling it a deliberate hack, not a glitch.

China’s Xi Jinping refused to meet German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, forcing Berlin to cancel Merz’s planned China visit set for late October.

The snub is seen as a diplomatic embarrassment for Merz’s new government, which had hoped to reset ties with Beijing.

Source: Die Welt

NEW: Germany demolished two 160-meter cooling towers at the former Gundremmingen nuclear plant in Bavaria today.

The controlled explosion ended what was once Germany’s largest reactor site.

Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev:

People say "Russia has to completely withdraw..."

This cannot happen.

So they set it up to fail. That's a good English expression. I'll use it in the future.

Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev:

I bet you 99.999% of Americans don't know that President Putin offered to join NATO.

Lara Logan: Twice.

Dmitriev: Even I don't know about twice.

Interviewer:

Do you think um Europe will become completely Muslim?

Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev:

I think this is where they are going.

Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev on the cost of the war:

Russian economy grew 4% last year. UK grew less than 1%, EU grew less than 1%.

What is the cost of having security risks to Russia not existing, you know how do we price that?

Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev on Europe's "suicide":

JD Vance said it's basically suicide of European civilization.

We also see it very similarly.

Putin’s Envoy Kirill Dmitriev:

Well, of course Russia is not targeting kindergartens.

But there is lots of unfortunate things, any casualty is a huge tragedy and this is why we want to finish this conflict as soon as possible.

Nightlife in Iranshahr neighborhood, Tehran.

Mali: JNIM militants attacked a pro-government GATIA militia post in the village of In-Takhaka.

Sudan: Army says air defenses intercepted a drone attack targeting Kenana military base south of Khartoum amid ongoing clashes with RSF.

China is now forcing German firms to hand over sensitive industrial data—including blueprints and supply-chain details—to get approval for rare earth exports.

Berlin has no quick fix, and companies fear losing trade secrets or facing supply squeezes.

Source: Bloomberg

Nigel Farage:

My instinct is I think Putin's a really bad bloke.

(On putting British troops in post-war Ukraine: I'd be very cautious about doing that.

NEW: UAE-backed RSF militias claim to have regained control of the city of Bara in Sudan’s North Kordofan State.

Interviewer: If you were prime minister and... Russian jets entered NATO's airspace, where do you stand on that?

Nigel Farage: Gotta shoot them down.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister:

We see that Afghanistan wants peace, but failure to reach a deal means open war.