A new DoD contract signals that OpenAI’s mass surveillance red line was always negotiable OpenAI has signed a contract with the United States Department of Defence that directly implicates its AI systems in large-scale monitoring operations. The company, which had explicitly prohibited the use of its models for mass surveillance in its usage policies, has […]
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Tehran’s retaliatory strikes signal a new command calculus, not just retaliation The Supreme Leader is dead. Within hours of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, Iran launched coordinated missile and drone strikes against American military installations across Dubai, Qatar, Iraq, Bahrain, and Oman. Simultaneously, fresh retaliatory strikes hit Israeli territory. The sequencing was not incidental. Tehran acted
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Washington signals escalation against any coordinated trade response to its tariff regime Donald Trump issued a pointed warning this week: countries that attempt to “play games” with American trade policy will face significantly higher duties than those already imposed. The statement arrived as multiple trading partners were quietly exploring coordinated responses to Washington’s sweeping reciprocal
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With a 10-day deadline looming and a massive U.S. naval buildup in the Middle East, Iran has signalled a newfound willingness to negotiate on its nuclear program Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that Tehran is preparing a draft proposal for a third round of high-stakes negotiations set for this Thursday in Geneva. This diplomatic
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The Trump administration has finalised the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, effectively stripping the federal government of its primary legal mandate to regulate greenhouse gases President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced what they characterised as the “single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.” By rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, the scientific
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a significant disconnect between Washington’s rhetoric and the reality of the India-Russia partnership Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the State Duma (the lower house of Parliament) that, despite the recent announcement of a “historic” US-India trade deal, Moscow has received no official confirmation from New Delhi of a halt to energy imports. Addressing lawmakers,
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Just days after a “historic” breakthrough was announced, the White House has issued a revised factsheet that silently walks back key agricultural and financial claims On 11 February 2026, a wave of uncertainty hit the global markets as the White House released a corrected version of its fact sheet titled “The United States and India
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In a move that fundamentally shifts the security architecture of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, the Defence Ministers of India and Greece convened in New Delhi to operationalise a new era of co-production and maritime synergy Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias, concluded a high-stakes summit in New Delhi aimed
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In a decisive move to secure global leadership in embodied artificial intelligence, Beijing has operationalised robot pilot manufacturing Beijing officially launched its first humanoid robot pilot manufacturing and validation platform, marking a critical transition in the capital’s high-tech strategy. Developed by the Beijing Innovation Centre of Humanoid Robotics, the facility aims to solve the industry’s
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The second round of trilateral negotiations in Abu Dhabi has ended with a major prisoner swap, but failed to resolve the core territorial disputes High-level delegations from Russia, Ukraine, and the United States concluded a second round of peace talks in Abu Dhabi. While the meetings failed to produce a ceasefire or a roadmap to
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