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Thalamic brain rhythms can now distinguish dreaming from deep sleep — a measurable marker for consciousness itself. Published in Nature, this makes the hard problem feel slightly less impossible.

Anthropic and OpenAI are now funding rival Super PACs spending millions to shape the midterms. The AI proxy war has officially moved from products to primaries.

Oil tankers are killing their lights and navigation systems to sneak past Iran with military escorts. The details read like a thriller, but it's real and it affects global energy prices.

Turkey built a billion-dollar medical tourism empire by obsessively optimizing one procedure — specialized motors, ML algorithms, and an innovation loop most industries would envy.

The U.S. killed ~200 people striking drug boats off South America. Epidemiologists say drug supply hasn't budged. Economics 101 meets military policy, and economics wins.