[MilitantWire] The coordinated attacks across Mali on 25 April 2026 marked a major turning point in the country’s conflict. More importantly, they brought into the open what had long been suspected: the growing military cooperation between the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). While the two groups had previously been linked through local arrangements and suspected battlefield coordination, the scale, sophistication and synchronisation of the offensive demonstrated a close operational partnership.
The offensive ended with the FLA taking control of the city of Kidal and forcing the withdrawal of Malian forces and Russia’s Africa Corps, marking one of the movement’s most significant military victories in recent years. However, capturing Kidal from government forces may prove easier than governing it under the FLA–JNIM arrangement. The FLA’s political ambitions and JNIM’s jihadist agenda do not fully align, and both groups are likely to face substantial challenges in jointly administering the city while sustaining their partnership. In this context, the central question is no longer who can seize Kidal, but who will ultimately shape its future.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] AI giant Anthropic could be heading for one of the biggest stock market debuts in history, with at least one major investor reportedly teasing a mind-boggling $3 trillion valuation for the firm's upcoming initial public offering.
The eye-watering figure would put the maker of the top AI model Claude in the same league as some of the world's most valuable companies, and potentially eclipse the record set by SpaceX just two months ago.
According to the Financial Times, several Anthropic investors expect the company to target a valuation of at least $2 trillion when it launches its anticipated initial public offering in October.
One investor reportedly suggested that a $3 trillion figure could be 'conservative' given the company's rapid growth.
But what will it be worth once the AI bubble pops?
Anthropic and its advisors have not yet settled on a valuation, and early meetings with potential investors have reportedly taken place without discussing a specific figure.
That distinction matters because at $2 trillion, investors would be placing an extraordinary bet on the future of AI.
This would immediately catapult Anthropic - founded in 2021 by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei - into the rankings of the world's most valuable public companies.
A $2 trillion valuation would put the company roughly alongside giants such as Broadcom, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and SpaceX - while a $3 trillion valuation would put it right between Microsoft and Amazon.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
