• Expect Iranian regime to respond to US‑Israeli strikes as existential threats

    After U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a U.S. drone strike against Qasem Soleimani, head of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, was met with followed by an attack on two American bases in Iraq shortly thereafter.Expect none of that restraint by Iran’s leaders following the latest U.S. and Israeli military operation&n
  • Trump directs government to ‘immediately cease’ using Anthropic technology

    President Trump on Friday directed all federal agencies—including the Defense Department—to “immediately cease all use” of frontier AI firm Anthropic’s technology.Trump’s announcement followed a tense back-and-forth between Anthropic and the Pentagon, which widely uses the San Francisco company’s popular AI platform, Claude, in even classified networks but took issue with the company’s refusal to give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its models.

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