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Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company has reached a deal with the United States Department of Defense after its previous contractor Anthropic voiced ethical concerns about the military's use of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In a statement shared on X late on Friday, Altman said OpenAI made the deal after the Defense Department demonstrated its "deep respect for safety". Altman said the Pentagon ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
The U.S. and Israel on Saturday launched airstrikes on Iran's military and political leadership while calling for civilians to rise up against the clerical regime, triggering Iranian strikes against Israel and other American bases in the region. Iran's Supreme National Security Council said in a statement that its armed forces will give a "crushing response" to the U.S. and Israeli attacks. Multiple U.S. allies in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
International calls for mediation are growing as Pakistan and Afghanistan engage in cross-border fighting for a third day , in the most serious flare-up in violence between the neighbours in months that Pakistan says has brought them into "open war". The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged on Saturday for the countries to bring down the temperature and enter talks, warning the violence could ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
In response, some are offering a simple proof point: They need fewer workers to get the job done. The most recent example of a CEO cutting workers en masse while talking up AI's transformative power is Block cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey. On Thursday, he announced plans to The cheapest way for a CEO to boost a company's stock price — and to signal readiness to capitalize on the AI boom — is to conduct a ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined, join Huff Already a member? Former President Bill Clinton flatly insisted Friday there was nothing improper about his relationship with the sex predator and financier Jeffrey Epstein. "I ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday formally signed an agreement to be acquired by Paramount Skydance, the two companies announced, setting the stage for one of the most consequential media mergers in recent history. The deal was inked just a day after Netflix abruptly announced it was pulling out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets, effectively closing the curtains on a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Donald Trump Got Exactly What He Wanted Out of the U.S. Men's Hockey Team The drama has concluded its final act. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Sunday, Brady Tkachuk won an Olympic gold medal in Milan when the U.S. beat out Canada in the men's hockey final. On Tuesday, he was grinning and gripping in the Oval Office, feted by Donald Trump, ...
Source: slate.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
"Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success." NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket stage. The upheaval comes as NASA has struggled to fuel the massive Space Launch System rocket for the upcoming Artemis II lunar mission, and Isaacman ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
When global leaders gathered at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 , the emphasis was not on model size or computational power. The central message, reinforced by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was that AI must be transparent, inclusive, and accountable. The summit marked a visible shift in tone: from celebrating innovation velocity to demanding governance maturity. For enterprises, that shift is not ...
Source: customerthink.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer ChatGPT maker OpenAI has received $110 billion in funding from Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia, putting the technology company's pre-money valuation at $730 billion. Amazon is leading the trio of tech heavyweights in commitments, putting up $50 billion, followed by $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, said OpenAI co-founder and CEO ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Secretary Hegseth has accused Scouting America of losing their way since allowing girls and LGBTQ+ boys to join Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has said that Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, is agreeing to several "key reforms" in exchange for maintaining federal ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
As some of the biggest U.S. companies sue the Trump administration to obtain tariff refunds, one small company is already giving money back to consumers. Alexandra Fine, CEO of Dame Products, a sexual health and wellness company, said she is giving consumers automatic refunds for costs they incurred from import tariffs President Trump imposed last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Mamdani wooed the president with much property talk and showed the real 'art of the deal' might have been soft power via Photoshop In the hours after Zohran Mamdani met with Donald Trump for an undisclosed sit-down in the Oval Office on Thursday, a meme quickly circulated on X. It resembled the screengrab of a TikToker who doles out dubious financial advice, but instead had the mayor's picture front and center. On ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Columbia University student Elmina "Ellie" Aghayeva in university-owned housing Thursday morning, sparking hours of protests and political intervention followed by the Azerbaijani national's release hours later. The ICE agents "gained entry by ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The week of September 8, 2022. That was the last time in which FreddieMac , the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, had the average 30-year mortgage interest rate listed under 6%. Until this week. On Thursday, the average mortgage rate for a 30-year term, according to the corporation, dropped to 5.98%, its lowest level since it sat at 5.89% in the summer of 2022. And while mortgage interest rates , overall, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rubbishes claims of Chinese interference and accuses President Donald Trump of 'intending to steal' the midterms have reacted angrily to reports that a group of MAGA activists has been circulating a 17-page draft executive order laying out ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The U.S. military on Thursday used a laser to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It was subsequently revealed that the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said. The case of mistaken identity prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to close additional airspace around Fort Hancock, about 50 miles southeast of El Paso. The military is required to ...
Source: c4isrnet.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) – When the Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents relating to the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein on Jan. 30, the sheer volume of the material was dizzying. It always seemed plausible that important elements of the release would take time to emerge as reporters and researchers dug into the massive trawl. This is exactly what has happened. Major news ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty-one percent of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians in the Middle East situation, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis. The five-percentage-point difference is not statistically significant, but it contrasts with a clear lead for the Israelis only a year ago (46% vs. 33%) and larger leads over the prior 24 years. From 2001 to 2025, Israelis consistently ...
Source: news.gallup.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Ancient hookups weren't as random as we thought. We now know that humans and Neanderthals interbred several times across thousands of years. Most people of non-African descent carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA as a testament to those ancient love affairs. But a new study adds a surprising pattern. It turns out those prehistoric hookups weren't as random as we thought. According to a provocative study published in ...
Source: zmescience.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Trump administration's unlawful policy turns 'refugees' American Dream into a dystopian nightmare', judge says A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration policy that allowed immigration authorities to arrest and detain certain refugees in Minnesota, ruling that the government relied on an incorrect interpretation of federal law and unlawfully targeted people who had already been admitted to the US. In an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
VIENNA (AP) — Iran has not allowed the United Nations nuclear agency access to its nuclear facilities bombed by Israel and the United States during a 12-day war in June, according to a confidential report by the watchdog circulated to member states and seen Friday by The Associated Press. The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed that it "cannot verify whether Iran has suspended all ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
US retailer's decision comes as RFK Jr and Maha movement increase pressure on food industry to drop dyes like red 40 The big-box US retailer Target announced on Friday that by 31 May it will only sell breakfast cereals made without certified synthetic food colors. The company is introducing the restriction amid increased pressure on the food industry from the Trump administration and the "Make America healthy ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The Bolivian Air Force Hercules C-130 aircraft was transporting new banknotes when it "landed and veered off the runway" before ending up in a nearby field, the defence minister says. A military plane has crashed on to a busy road in the city of El Alto, near Bolivia's capital La Paz, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least 30 others, officials have said. The Bolivian Air Force Hercules ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Federal judge denies injunction against $400M White House expansion project funded entirely by private donors A federal judge on Thursday denied a legal challenge to President Donald Trump 's White House ballroom project, clearing the way for construction on the estimated $400 million expansion to proceed. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the injunction sought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Google's new default model for generating images, Nano Banana 2 offers faster speeds, better text rendering, and higher resolutions than its predecessor. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Last year Google made a big splash in the world of AI-powered image creation with its Nano Banana model . Now the next generation has debuted. And it promises a host of ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US federal judge rules IRS violated federal law by disclosing thousands of taxpayers' confidential information to ICE A US federal district judge on Thursday ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated the Internal Revenue Code by inappropriately handing thousands of taxpayers' confidential information over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): [T]he ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The occasion will see Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune align, with some of the planets visible to the naked eye. Not one, not two, but six planets are due to line up in the night skies this weekend in a relatively rare planetary parade. The phenomenon will see Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune align, with some of the planets visible to the naked eye. This will mean a potential ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's government on Friday said it will allow Google to export detailed mapping data of the country to overseas servers under certain security requirements, responding to years of frustration by foreign travelers who found that Google Maps didn't work effectively in the country. After a review by government officials and private experts, authorities approved Google's request ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Madhu Gottumukkala is departing as the interim leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with current agency executive director for cybersecurity Nick Andersen stepping in as the agency's acting director. A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – the parent agency of CISA – confirmed the leadership changes to MeriTalk. "Madhu Gottumukkala has done a ...
Source: meritalk.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — In the moments after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop, surveillance video recorded Nurul Amin Shah Alam stepping gingerly through the empty parking lot in his county-issued jail booties. He pulls up his hood against the cold as he walks past a drive-thru window, then paces away into the night. Five nights later, the nearly blind refugee from Myanmar was ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The bronze Churchill statue in Parliament Square was defaced with "Zionist war criminal", "Stop the Genocide" and "Free Palestine". The statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in Westminster was defaced overnight with "Zionist war criminal" and other graffiti. A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage and remains in custody. A No 10 spokesman said: "It's ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's government said late Wednesday that the 10 passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the U.S. who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism. The announcement came hours after Cuba said its soldiers killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speed boat that had entered Cuban waters and opened fire on the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com