Technology companies are announcing mass layoffs linked to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). This spring, U.S. tech giant Oracle said goodbye to 30,000 employees, replacing some of them with AI that they themselves had helped train . Meta plans to cut around 8,000 jobs, around 10% of its workforce in an effort to offset the cost of its AI investments (as well as financial problems stemming from its failed bet on the metaverse).

There has been no independent confirmation of the claims. Neither Malian authorities nor Russia have officially reported the loss of a helicopter, and the published footage does not make it possible to reliably establish who the aircraft belonged to or the circumstances of the crash. The report of the downed helicopter came amid large-scale attacks on Malian army and pro-government positions.

On July 4, at the request of Russian authorities, Turkey sent Russian anti-war activist Ariadna Litvinova back to Moscow. Litvinova, 24, is wanted in her home country on criminal charges of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian armed forces, the human rights project Prison Lawyer reports . The plane carrying Litvinova landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, where she was detained .

The commercial court of the High Court of England and Wales refused to allow Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG to recover €579 million from insurers for damage to a gas pipeline during explosions in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, according to a decision published on July 6. The court found that the damage was directly or indirectly a consequence of Russia’s war against Ukraine and therefore fell under the policy exclusion from insurance coverage.

The UK has imposed sanctions against Russian structures and specialists whom London considers to be associated with the development of chemical weapons. The sanctions list included the NPO NC Signal, the State Research Institute of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and seven individuals. The restrictions apply to people and organizations involved in the development, production and study of Novichok and epibatidine, the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry reported .

Russian planes have dropped sonobuoys, which can be used to track submarines, near Britain's flagship aircraft carrier in the Arctic Circle. The Telegraph newspaper writes about this with reference to the country's Ministry of Defense. The incident, as follows from the newspaper report, occurred last week, on July 2. Several Tu-142 patrol aircraft (NATO codename Bear-F) dropped a large number of sonobuoys in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in the Norwegian Sea.

The chairman of the State Duma Committee for Family Protection, Nina Ostanina, filed a lawsuit against her colleague, deputy Ksenia Goryacheva. The capital court received a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity, the reason for it was the controversy of deputies about the criminalization of domestic violence. Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets write about this. The issue of criminalizing domestic violence was raised in the State Duma again last month.

The Court of Appeal in Moscow increased the prison term of Galina Bekhter, a 68-year-old resident of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, from 11 to 12.5 years, convicted in the case of “high treason.” According to SOTAvision, the meeting was held behind closed doors.

Security forces in Armenia came to search the home of Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the pro-Russian Prosperous Armenia party. This was reported by the press secretary of “Prosperous Armenia” Iveta Tonoyan and the pro-government Telegram channel “Baghramyan 26” . The searches were confirmed by the Investigative Committee of Armenia. As Tonoyan writes, National Security Service officers are now on duty at the entrance to Tsarukyan’s residence; they do not allow lawyers inside.

As a result of the raid on Crimea, one person was killed and two more were injured, said the “head” of the region, Sergei Aksyonov. He also said that infrastructure facilities were damaged due to the strikes, so power will be turned off on the peninsula. According to Krymenergo, a blackout occurred throughout Crimea on the morning of July 6.

For more than a year after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, companies belonging to German businessman Juri Sudheimer continued to supply Russia with lubricating oils used at defense industry plants, The Insider found in collaboration with the Lithuanian investigative outlet Siena .

In a prison in the city of Negombo in western Sri Lanka, 25 people were killed and about 100 more were injured during two days of clashes between prisoners, Reuters reports , citing the country's authorities. Among the dead were 6 prison employees. According to the authorities, clashes began on July 5 between convicts serving their sentences and defendants in pre-trial detention. On the first day, two prisoners died and 38 people were injured.

The Insider analyzed data from the Starboard Maritime Intelligence vessel tracking system, which confirms that Graceful passed through Danish waters on June 29 and stopped transmitting Automatic Identification System (AIS) coordinates that evening in the Skagerrak strait, located between northern Denmark and southern Norway. Graceful’s last available AIS point was recorded at 6:13 p.m. Moscow time on June 29.

On the night of July 6, the Russian military launched a massive missile attack on the Ukrainian capital. According to the latest data, 11 deaths are known, said the mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko. According to the mayor, one of them died in the hospital. 46 people were injured, 27 of them were hospitalized, including three children. Updated 10:30.

The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), 88-year-old Klaus Schwab, filed a statement with the Geneva police saying that a listening device had been found in his home. According to Bloomberg, the device was found in a home office during a routine security check. According to preliminary data, the device was installed within the last three years.