Moscow is open to dialogue with the new US administration but no contact has been established yet, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has stated.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, Ryabkov said that a phone call between the two countries’ presidents is not being planned while there is no agreement or understanding on the matter. All contacts are currently being carried out at the embassy level, he noted.
Forrest says no reason world can’t stop burning fossil fuels by 2040, hints at hydrogen breakthrough
British ships spent several days tracking down a suspected Russian stealth submarine before concluding the suspicious sonar signature may have actually belonged to a farting whale, a Royal Navy source has told The Sun.
So says Bernstein. Did DeepSeek really “build OpenAI for $5M? There are actually two model families in discussion. The first family is DeepSeek-V3, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model which, through a number of optimizations and clever techniques can provide similar or better performance vs other large foundational models but requires a small fraction of the
Westpac with the note. The Westpac Card Tracker Index* has come off a volatile Christmas-New Year period, retracing 4.5pts over the last two weeks to 137.8. The latest Index read is now slightly below the Dec month average (noting that all figures are adjusted for regular seasonal fluctuations). Underlying momentum has remained steady but unspectacular through the
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MB has a love-hate relationship with The Australian’s Judith Sloan. The hate is usually about gas. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks it’s passing strange – more than passing strange – that Australia is about to become an importer of liquefied natural gas as well as an exporter. …How did this bizarre
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The FT with the story. Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent and rise gradually, said four people familiar with the proposal. The 2.5 per cent levy would move higher by the same amount each month, the people familiar with it
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You can’t retain government on a commitment to retaining government, which is all Albo the backroom bovver boy has ever offered. A majority of voters for the first time expect the Coalition to win the next federal election, with Anthony Albanese sliding to the lowest approval levels since becoming Prime Minister amid a fall in support for
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Had an idle chat in the car the other day about my perfect cafe. I surprised myself with the number of ideas I immediately had for such a thing. Almost as if I’d been thinking about it for years.
In no particular order then, in JB’s cafe…
The data flow in Australia this week centres on Wednesday’s vitally important Q4 24 CPI release. This inflation print will make or break the case for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to deliver an interest rate cut at its next meeting on 18 February. CBA estimates that the policy-relevant trimmed-mean CPI rose by 0.5%
Ferrous markets are rallying into LNY. The underpinnings remain weak. Flat is OK. Long is not. Is tariff front running done? I’m a buyer of puts on strength into May seasonal weakness.
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