Europe shuts its doors to the war, Trump talks exit, and Anthropic’s own tooling gets turned inside out.
“Get Your Own Oil”
Trump told European allies to find their own energy, said the war could end “in two or three weeks,” and plans to address the nation today. But the signal is contradictory: the Pentagon deployed a third carrier group and is preparing ground operations, while a WSJ report reveals the White House is willing to end the war without reopening the Strait of Hormuz — the conflict’s most economically devastating dimension. Meanwhile the UAE is pushing in the opposite direction, volunteering forces to pry the strait open by military means.
Europe’s answer has been remarkably unified in refusal. France blocked Israeli weapons transfers through its airspace. Italy denied US aircraft base access. Poland refused to send Patriot launchers. Spain already closed its airspace and bases last week. China and Pakistan proposed a five-part ceasefire framework — positioning themselves as the adults in the room.
A man holds a goldfish bowl at
his damaged home in Tehran. The war’s second month begins with no clear
endgame.
The Source Map That Ate Claude Code
Anthropic shipped source maps in their npm package. The entire Claude Code codebase — 132K lines of TypeScript, 1,897 files — was extracted within hours. The community found an “undercover mode” for hiding AI authorship, anti-distillation fake tools, a frustration-detection regex, an unreleased Tamagotchi pet system, and a full autonomous agent framework called KAIROS. Within a day, someone had rebuilt a working executable from the maps, and a community patch fixed three prompt-caching bugs that were draining tokens — a problem Anthropic had separately acknowledged as their “top priority.”
Ukraine’s Baltic Gambit Pays Off
Ukrainian drone strikes on the oil ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga cut Russian crude flows from 18 tankers per week to 6 — costing Moscow over $1 billion in weekly revenue. Storm Shadow missiles hit the Kremniy El semiconductor plant for at least the seventh time, targeting irreplaceable lithographic equipment. Russian advances have halved compared to a year ago, while Ukraine has liberated ~400 km² in the south — its most significant territorial gains since the 2023 counteroffensive.
Fire at the Ust-Luga oil port
after Ukrainian drone strikes on Baltic Sea export infrastructure.
Also today: Leaked calls expose Hungary’s FM relaying EU positions to Lavrov — EU restricts Hungary’s intelligence access. India begins counting 1.4 billion people. An 11-year-old was killed manning a checkpoint in Tehran. Axios hit by supply chain attack via compromised npm credentials. AI discovers RCE zero-days in both Vim and Emacs.
Markets
| Value | Δ | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 | — | +2.9% |
| Gold | — | +3.8% |
| Oil | — | −2.0% |
| EUR/USD | 1.0843 | — |
| USD/NOK | 10.82 | — |
| VIX | 25.3 | — |
| BTC | $68,886 | +2.5% |
Gold surges on safe-haven demand. Oil dips on the China-Pakistan peace proposal despite Hormuz turmoil. Defense holds; energy sells off on ceasefire hopes.
Aerial view of a Rohingya
refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Russian Su-34 bomber with Khibiny
electronic warfare pods. Russian milbloggers reported another Su-34 loss
on March 31.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
and Hungarian counterpart Szijjártó. Leaked calls reveal Szijjártó
relaying confidential EU positions to Moscow.
Comparison showing an
original photo and AI-edited version with added skull cap and beard,
used in BJP campaign material targeting Muslims.
A shelf of clear storage
boxes covered in colored dot stickers showing usage frequency over
years. Mundane consumables dominate; expensive specialized tools barely
get touched.
AdamW vs Muon: wall clock time of
optimizer step across LLaMa model sizes, benchmarked on B300.
3D printed models created by a blind
developer using an AI-assisted design workflow — text-to-3D generation
verified by feeding screenshots to ChatGPT.