Germany announces more than €1.3 billion for Ukraine’s defence and energy

Germany announced more than €1.3 billion in defence and energy support on October 4, with its practical benefit dependent on equipment reaching Ukraine and becoming operational.

Original proportional funding diagram: approximately €1,000 million military and €350 million energy support; energy is about one quarter of the combined amounts. These are commitments, not verified deliveries. — Approximate announced amounts, October 4. The coloured areas share one scale: €1,000m military and €350m energy. They show the composition of support, not payment or delivery progress; the separate €8.5bn agreements figure is excluded.

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San Francisco / Weather · Two more days inland3 Oct

Inland Bay Area heat advisory now runs through Wednesday

The inland Bay Area heat advisory now runs until 10 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7; San Francisco’s still ends at 10 p.m. on Sunday, October 4, all in Pacific Daylight Time.

NWS map dated October 3: orange marks the inland Bay Area and Central Coast heat-advisory area from Sunday night through Wednesday night; San Francisco is outside that later-period shading. — NWS forecast issued 3 October 2026. Shading covers the later Monday–Wednesday advisory; San Francisco and added coastal areas have a separate Sunday advisory.

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Latvia · Provisional result4 Oct

Latvia’s provisional result gives United List 41 of 100 seats

Latvia’s provisional count gives United List 41 of parliament’s 100 seats, a clear lead that leaves the next governing coalition unresolved.

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A clear lead, short of a majority

Ten seats short of an outright majority

seats

United List41

Majority of all seats51

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Provisional October 4 allocation. Both views use a zero-to-100-seat scale. Fifty-one is a majority of the full chamber, not a prediction of a coalition or a claim about every voting rule.

Artificial intelligence

New tools, considered

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Open models · The cost of control3 Oct

Aleph Alpha opens Kolibri’s weights for self-hosted German and English AI

Aleph Alpha’s newly released Kolibri uses about 4.4% of its parameters for each token, but its eight-bit weights still occupy roughly 78 GB.

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Less computation still needs substantial memory

About 4.4% active for each token

billion parameters

Whole model78.1

Active per token3.46

080

Original comparison from developer specifications. The views have different units: parameter counts and approximate weight memory. Neither measures speed, electricity or total serving memory.

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