Prof(ret.) Dr Rune Linding 

Grateful to 🇪🇪@Tsahkna and colleagues from the Nordic-Baltic countries for their unwavering solidarity with Ukraine. 🇩🇰@larsloekke 🇫🇮@elinavaltonen 🇮🇸@thorgkatrin 🇱🇻@Braze_Baiba 🇱🇹@BudrysKestutis 🇳🇴@EspenBarthEide 🇸🇪@MariaStenergard The message from Kuressaare is unequivocal: increase pressure on Russia, tighten sanctions — including against the shadow fleet — provide legally binding security guarantees, and ensure accountability for the crime of aggression. Ukraine’s irreversible path to the EU and NATO is essential for Europe’s security, strength, and geopolitical future. Deeply appreciative of the Nordic-Baltic countries’ principled leadership and steadfast support. Russia must be forced to end its aggression. Accountability is inevitable. Ukraine will prevail — and so will a comprehensive and lasting peace.

A cutting-edge large language model outperformed human doctors in common clinical reasoning tasks including emergency room decisions, identifying likely diagnoses, and choosing next steps in management, according to a new Science study that used real emergency department data. The authors of the study are clear that their results do not mean AI systems are ready to practice medicine on their own, or that doctors can be removed from the diagnostic process. The results do, however, raise urgent questions about the future evaluation and implementation of AI tools in clinical care. 📄: scim.ag/3OXYUqZ #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4ejjgWb

Time published a piece. Google’s AI position came from a long series of early bets by Sundar Pichai on DeepMind, TPUs, cloud infrastructure, and AI products, not from a last-minute reaction to ChatGPT. Google’s biggest strength in AI is its full-stack control of research, chips, cloud, products, and distribution across billions of users. "Critics once underestimated CEO Sundar Pichai. Now, critics wonder if he’s made Google too powerful" Google just secured absolute architectural control over the AI landscape by merging its custom physical silicon manufacturing directly with a single unified research laboratory. Competitors pay steep financial premiums for external chips while Google seamlessly executes complex neural calculations on its proprietary Tensor Processing Units. Building internal hardware allows engineers to aggressively scale pretraining, the critical phase where models ingest massive datasets, without facing crushing financial overhead. --- time .com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/saudi-aramco/

Congressman Chris Smith says it bluntly: Xi Jinping and the CCP are getting away with crimes against humanity through organ harvesting. And making billions doing it. “Xi Jinping is literally getting away with murdering young people to steal their organs.” “He should be at the Hague for crimes against humanity for doing that.” “What they’ve done… is cruelty on steroids.” “The people deserve better in China than a dictatorship that exploits them every day of the week.” @Heritage

“China’s ascent from a generics-focused supplier to a biopharmaceutical superpower was neither accidental nor the product of market forces alone. It resulted from a deliberate, state-orchestrated strategy that combined regulatory overhaul, institutional coordination, and the mobilization of national resources on a scale few other countries can match.” From @YanzhongHuang cirsd.org/horizon-articl…

MAY 8, 11:30 AM ET – Ukraine is a valuable net contributor to Allied security and should be integrated into NATO's force-planning, logistics, and procurement systems — particularly when it comes to defense tech. Register now to be a part of the conversation. cepa.rsvpify.com/cepascspaiexpo…

Xi Jinping at a major science meeting in Shanghai: "Basic research is the source of the entire scientific system and the central mechanism for all technological problems. We must strengthen basic research with greater intensity and more concrete measures, enhance our capacity for original innovation, and further solidify the foundation for building a science and technology great power." 基础研究是整个科学体系的源头，是所有技术问题的总机关。要以更大力度、更实举措加强基础研究，提升我国原始创新能力，进一步打牢科技强国建设根基。

The HR/VP @kajakallas is attending the Nordic-Baltic (NB8) Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kuressaare, Estonia. Watch HR/VP Kaja Kallas press remarks following today's meeting: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, Zaluzhnyi: The old world order didn't enter turbulence. It no longer exists Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, Venezuela and now the Middle East all show the same thing: rules exist on paper, but there is no force to enforce them. 1/

RFK Jr's influence is clearly waning The new CDC director and Surgeon General are both non anti vaccine wellness quacks but qualified professionals. And he's furious about that. Good.

Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, Zaluzhnyi: By 2021, the escalation had already reached the point where diplomacy could no longer stop the war. The only thing left was rapid mobilization and real preparation for war. The diplomatic window had already closed. 1/

Craig Venter always kept me on my toes. From the earliest days of @23andMe till conversations last month, he was full of excitement about the potential of understanding the human genome and the ways it would benefit society. What a legacy. 🧬🧬 nytimes.com/2026/04/30/sci…

Cardiologist: Information overload takes a toll on the heart #Estonia news.err.ee/1610011132/car…

Finnish Defence Forces are building permanent combat positions in Kymenlaakso region on Finland's southern coast during May. Positions will be built, among other places, in Virolahti and in the archipelago of Kirkonmaa in Kotka, says Commander Veli Pihlaja.

Vladimir Putin has undermined U.S. efforts against Iran: Pentagon official justthenews.com/world/middle-e…

🧵U.S. military posture in Europe, including in Germany, not only strengthens deterrence against additional Kremlin aggression but also facilitates the projection of American military power into the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Africa. The primary victim of a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany would be American national security interests, and the primary beneficiary would be Vladimir Putin.

NEW!! Ex-Pentagon analyst on why Russia and Iran’s military axis is more than a marriage of convenience From drone shipments to strategic integration, Matthew Tavares warns that the growing alliance between Moscow and Tehran is reshaping the battlefield in Ukraine and beyond 👇

“In 2016, [@SundarPichai] had declared Google would be an “AI-first company,” and began cultivating a series of projects—custom chips, Cloud, YouTube, and deep AI research—that seemed to have nothing to do with Google’s core search product. All of these bets have paid off, and then some.” — @TIME in their new #TIME100Companies cover story on Alphabet and AI → time.com/collection/tim… 📷: Daniel Dorsa

BREAKING: Israel is preparing to announce the failure of Iran negotiations, with the US giving Israel immediate authorization to strike Iran's energy facilities after the announcement, per Channel 12.