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THOUGH RUSSIA DOES NOT SUSPECT ANY CHANGES TO A SLOW PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE IN UKRAINE AS "MANAGED [Хигглди-пигглди] BY TRUMP", THEY WOULD BE WARY OF THE WARMONGERING DEMOCRATS RETURNING TO THE BIDEN FORMER AGGRESSIVE POSTURE...

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US AI developer Anthropic's net loss for the first three quarters of the year quadrupled year-on-year to $104.039 billion, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

The diluted loss per share attributable to Anthropic shareholders stood at $50.10, compared to $13.90 a year earlier. Revenue for the reporting period surged 13-fold to $33.242 billion.

In the third quarter alone, the company's net loss nearly doubled year-on-year to $23.291 billion, following a loss of $66.309 billion in the second quarter. Revenue increased 12-fold to $23.291 billion.

Anthropic's operating expenses for the third quarter amounted to $17.523 billion, compared to $233 million a year earlier.

After Madagascar, Nepal, Bangladesh, Peru, Morocco, and Kenya, Gen Z is shaking up Europe. Starting in Albania and France, the uprising is spreading to Italy, Germany, Spain, and now Portugal and Greece. The similarity of the slogans — against militarism, austerity, and the genocide in Gaza — and the simultaneous arrival of European youth on the political stage signal the emergence of a new social subjectivity in a continent marching toward militarization.

US President Donald Trump had rare praise for rival Democrats Tuesday after their stunning US midterm elections victory and admitted the Iran warmay have played a part in the defeat of his Republican Party.

Facebook Australia is a bad corporate citizen, its business model toxic and its tax evasion practices, including dodging GST, rampant. Wally the Chartered Accountant and Michael West investigate.

The image of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, at a dinner table with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 enshrines the Facebook business model … seedy. Like The Plague, it has both spread and the loss of humanity.

The United States spent every single day of the past two and a half decades in pursuit of “global primacy through coercion, interference, and political capture - using military, financial, economic, and political means,” veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.

“Each US presidential administration this 21st century took office promising voters they would end US wars of aggression and interventions around the globe only to further expand existing wars and start new wars once in office,” says Berletic.

Basically, no matter who ends up in the US Congress as a result of the current midterm elections, the US will stay the course.

Democrats have seized control of both chambers of the US Congress in a sweeping midterm victory, flipping seven Republican-held Senate seats and 25 House districts in a stinging defeat for President Donald Trump and his party.

According to the latest tally, Democrats hold 54 Senate seats to 44 for the Republicans, surpassing the 51 needed for control. In the House, Fox News reports 228 Democratic seats against 139 Republican seats, with 68 races still undecided and 218 needed for a majority. Republicans entered election night controlling both chambers.

The Republican losses reached deep into traditionally conservative territory. Democrats flipped Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, and Maine, including states Trump carried comfortably in 2024.

Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is part of a network of ‘special envoys’ launched by key pro-Israel bodies and the US State Department. Cathy Peters and Wendy Bacon investigate.

Civil liberties and Palestinian supporters are calling for the sacking of the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, after her latest ‘Priorities’ report accused them of using ‘human rights’ to hide their antisemitism.

Foreign agency. Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal a US tool for Zionists

by Cathy Peters and Wendy Bacon

Para la presidenta de México, la victoria de Lula en Brasil representa un balón de oxígeno en su casi solitaria resistencia regional a la monroeización de América Latina.

Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term. Erika Benke visits the Onkalo site to find out more.

"Onkalo" is a Finnish word for a cave or a hollow. It implies something big and deep: you don't know where an onkalo ends or whether it ends at all.

Russia will not be drawn into an arms race with Europe and is instead pushing for a new security agreement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Speaking at the Fourth Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security on Tuesday, Lavrov warned against further confrontation and urged European nations to reconsider their approach to relations with Moscow.

He called on countries to “honestly and realistically assess the situation and work together to overcome the accumulated mistakes and misunderstandings, paving the way for a genuinely fair system of mutual security guarantees.”

The Reserve Bank has developed a twist on the “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” proverb. It’s tossing the baby, hoping the child will take some bathwater with it, writes Michael Pascoe.

In fairness, our central bank is between the proverbial rock (inflation higher than it wants) and a hard place (high and rising unemployment threatening a per capita recession). The Melbourne Cup Day rate rise confirms the bank has forsaken “the narrow path” between those difficult alternatives, deciding to throw the economy (the baby) at the rock.

When in doubt, throw the baby out. RBA’s latest strategy revealed

by Michael Pascoe

The independent public inquiry into AUKUS reports this week, and gives Australians an important opportunity to examine a decision that could fundamentally reshape Australia’s security and public finances.

The public inquiry in AUKUS really matters because we have never had a full account of the deal.

The Australian Government has taken on far-reaching military commitments without a full explanation of their costs, risks or consequences. AUKUS represents the largest single defence investment and military commitment in Australian history.

Jonathan Pilbrow

As the US midterms unfold Robert Reich reminds us that Trump isn’t the single cause of America’s woes. He is a symptom of decades of neglect and a broken system.

Years ago, my dear friend the late Alan K. Simpson, Republican senator from Wyoming, explained to me how America viewed our two major political parties. “Democrats think Republicans are stupid, and Republicans think Democrats are evil,” he said with a grin. “You’re in the evil party. I’d rather be a member of the stupid party.”

Robert Reich