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Trump admin discussed Houthi war in Signal chat with Atlantic editor accidentally added
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March 25, 2025
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- Trump admin discussed war on Signal with editor accidentally added
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1. Trump admin discussed Houthi war in Signal chat with Atlantic editor accidentally added
Top U.S. officials discussed plans to bomb Houthi targets in group chats.
“I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling,” recalled Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg.
Vice President Vance initially opposed the strikes in the messages.
Pete Hegseth, Scott Bessent, and Tulsi Gabbard, were among the other group members.
White House acknowledged the breach, but officials downplayed its significance.
“[N]obody was texting war plans,” Hegseth told the reporters on the incident.
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3. DeepSeek V3 open-weight AI model updated with slight performance improvements
DeepSeek V3-0324 has emerged as the 2nd non-thinking AI model after Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Aider’s polygot benchmark:
MIT licensed, vs. a custom license with the previous V3 version.
Improved the code executability, better quality long-form writing, and increased function calling accuracy.
The updated DeepSeek model is on par with OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and Alibaba’s Qwen-Max models
4. Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-VL-32B open-weight AI model released
Qwen2.5-VL-32B is delivering competitive visual understanding against GPT-4o, Gemma 3-27B, and Mistral Small 3.1-24B, per Alibaba:
