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POLITICSSep 15Germany’s embattled leader Merz cancels New York trip amid mounting domestic pressureChancellor Friedrich Merz will instead stay in Germany to deal with fallout of elections in which his party is expected to fare badly.Politico Europe
MILITARYSep 15Drone crashes near military airfield in Germany — mediaA drone crashed near the Wunstorf military airfield near Hanover, prompting police to launch a large-scale search operation in the area of the military facility after parts of the drone were discovered.Ukrinform [en]
MILITARYSep 15Drone wreckage discovered just one kilometer from Wunstorf military airfield near Hanover, GermanyWreckage from a crashed drone has been found near Hanover, Germany, German broadcaster NDR reported.Meduza [en]
SCI & TECHSep 15DeepSeek AI engineer slams Anthropic, OpenAI over ‘pacing’ calls, invokes Nazi GermanyA DeepSeek engineer has issued a stark warning about the potential concentration of advanced artificial intelligence and resources in proprietary US developers Anthropic and OpenAI, intensifying a growing debate in China over calls by US industry leaders to “pace” AI development amid safety concerns. The comments preceded an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on September 24, where AI safety may emerge as a key point of dialogue as the two countries race...South China Morning Post
MILITARYSep 15Germany’s secretive ‘Sonderstab Ukraine’ fast-tracks weapons deals for Kyiv in as little as two weeks, FT reportsA small, standalone unit inside Germany’s Defense Ministry known as the “Sonderstab Ukraine” can arrange weapons deals for Kyiv in just two weeks — a fraction of the time other departments take when bogged down by the bureaucracy of domestic procurement, the Financial Times reports.Meduza [en]
WORLDSep 15Germany news: Police find arms depot near highwayPolice have found a stash of rifles, pistols and other firearms near a road in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Pistorius is off to Washington for talks with his US counterpart.DW News [en]
POLITICSSep 1554% of those polled in eastern Germany call arms deliveries to Ukraine excessiveIn western Germany, 39% of those polled called arms deliveries to Kyiv excessive, compared with 54% of respondents in the east, according to an ARD-Deutschlandtrend poll, whose results were published by the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.Meduza [en]