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Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Trump said Thursday that Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution will not be livestreamed, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Pentagon says the two are aligned and the execution still goes ahead.
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Ukraine said on Wednesday that SpaceX restricted "military-grade" Starlink services, hampering drone strike missions and air defenses. Musk said the same day that SpaceX controls Starlink and the US government controls Starshield, though the two often share satellite technology.
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Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon for new Iran strike options before the November 3 midterms, reversing his plan to wait until after the vote. Backers of a strike concede it would not cut gas prices before the election, Cryptopolitan reported.
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US Air Force bombers have left RAF Fairford for their home bases after six arrests in a British terror inquiry, over a threat Trump says is linked to Iran. The move protects the aircraft, but Britain keeps the base and an Iran-linked proxy threat that its own officials say was already active.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, could make the $965 billion Claude maker the first frontier AI lab to list. For teams building on Claude, a listing would put the finances and legal exposure of a core supplier in front of public investors.
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Trump planned a Sunday dinner with Anthropic CEO Amodei, their first private meeting, as disclosures of breaches by advanced AI models widen. So far the breach reports are short on technical detail, so defenders can mostly read them as background to a months-long feud over AI safety.
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The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran says two strikes on February 28 killed at least 178 civilians, including as many as 123 children aged 6 to 13, and US officials declined to take part in the inquiry.
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The F-35 Joint Program Office says it is trying to recover unserviceable parts from a shipment that went wrong. The account placing those parts in Hong Kong comes from Politico's three anonymous sources.
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Mohsen Rezaei said the seven-point list went through Qatar and that Tehran is waiting on Trump. Three of the items are public and four are not.
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CNN reports that a Special Operations Command analyst asked a chatbot about a Chinese ship's manifest, then used AI again to write the finding up, and officials caught the error only after aircraft were airborne.
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The SPICE 1000 has flown from Israeli F-15s and F-16s since 2017. Putting it on the F-35I means several months of joint work with Lockheed Martin in the United States before any other operator can field it.
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The Bundeswehr's cyber command puts a prototype in the second quarter of 2027 and full deployment in 2028, which means the integration work Palantir sells inside its product is now Germany's own job for the next two years.
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American strikes on five Revolutionary Guard tankers and Tehran's plan to stop unpermitted vessels have turned a current-quarter fuel line into a routing and compliance question, with Brent's seven-week high of $97 the part most plans already price.
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The rule keyed on an attribute Anthropic could not check at request time, so denying everyone became the only compliant state. That is how export policy ends up in your dependency graph next to the database.
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Business Insider asked eight tech workers where they would go. The answers in the material we have come down to whether the work fits their skills, whether the funding model worries them, and whether the company's stated values hold up, and each one aims retention risk at a smaller band of roles than headline pay implies.
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Commerce's AI Standards Center said on May 5 it had access to three frontier models before launch, and the post came down days later at White House request, which is a fair measure of what these voluntary deals are secured by.
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A classified assessment handed to Pete Hegseth before Operation Epic Fury measured American readiness in interceptors rather than resolve, and the campaign it warned about ran about 38 days against a stock described as good for fourteen.
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ICIT's Parham Eftekhari says CISA is rehiring under acting leadership while keeping vulnerability management running, and that states keep writing AI law regardless of Executive Order 14365. Two of his five items already bind.
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The IRON solicitation asks industry for agents that outrun human analysts without an inference bill that grows with the attack volume. The Army also wants them not to become targets themselves.
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