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Smoke plumes rise following missile strikes in Tehran on March 1, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, killing Iran’s supreme leader and top military leaders, prompting authorities to retaliate with strikes on Israel and US bases across the Gulf.
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The Pentagon is seen from an airplane, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in Washington.
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President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.
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A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., Jan. 14, 2025.
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: The Energy Department made the rules public a month after NPR reported about their existence. The rules slash requirements for security and environmental protections.
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An editor who worked for YouTube creator MrBeast, whose legal name is James Donaldson, has been suspended by Kalshi after the platform says the editor traded on insider information.
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A 2011 file photo of the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense.
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Hegseth threatens to cancel Anthropic’s $200 million contract over ‘woke AI’ concerns
The ChatGPT website displays on a computer screen in Krakow, Poland, on February 17, 2026. Developed by OpenAI, this AI-powered chatbot uses large language models to assist users with text generation and problem-solving.
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How long until AI takes your job?
This view from the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shows Boeing’s Starliner docked to the International Space Station on July 3, 2024.
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NASA chief blasts Boeing, space agency for failed Starliner astronaut mission
Michael Pollan is the author of A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness.
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FA: Michael Pollan, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
An Amazon Prime delivery van sits parked near a Walmart store in California.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the Los Angeles Superior Court ahead of the social media trial tasked to determine whether social media giants deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children on Feb. 18, 2026. Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify Wednesday.
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Zuckerberg grilled about Meta’s strategy to target ‘teens’ and ‘tweens’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify Wednesday in a major lawsuit against social media companies that claims their products are defective and harmful to children.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial
A Flock Safety license plate reader is seen last year along a public road in Houston.
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Flock License Plate Readers
Singer Charlie Puth performs the national anthem ahead of this year’s Super Bowl on Feb. 8. One prediction market trader made thousands of dollars by listening to a rehearsal of the event and correctly guessing how long Puth’s rendition of the anthem would take.
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Micky Small is a screenwriter and is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI chatbots. She spent two months in an AI rabbit hole and is finding her way back out.
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ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
An example of Polymarket trades on military operations between Israel and Iran. Prosecutors in Israel have not identified which trades in particular are under investigation.
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On The Docket, a new independent project to expand access to the Supreme Court, is using AI to generate visual depictions of U.S. Supreme Court justices reading their decisions.
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An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices’ real words
What are the “good” jobs now?
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Coding jobs are no longer in demand. What’s taken their place?
Chloe Veltman evaluates Nike’s Project Amplify system on a steep incline at the LeBron James Innovation Center in Beaverton, Ore., on Jan. 14. She says that after “getting over the surprise” of initially wearing the Project Amplify shoes, “it kind of feels like my feet are being pushed more aggressively forward.”
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‘E-bike for your feet’: How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Garry Kasparov, left, takes a pawn in the opening minutes of a chess game against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in Philadelphia on Feb. 10, 1996. Feng-hsiung Hsu, right, the principal designer of Deep Blue, keys a move into the computer.
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When an IBM supercomputer beat a chess champion
A sign for the State Department stands outside the Harry S. Truman Federal Building in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2025.
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State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
The World Factbook’s website drew millions of views each year, according to the CIA. It’s seen here in an archived version from last month.
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