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‘Not slowing down’: One week on, U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continue
Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on March 7, 2026. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images) Atta Kenare | Afp | Getty Images U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran continued on Saturday, one week after they launched their joint campaign to rid Tehran […]
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Palantir rallies 15% for the week as Iran war boosts prospects, muting Anthropic concern
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Palantir was an outlier in a tough week for the stock market, as the provider of software and services to the U.S. government saw its stock rally 15% following the U.S. […]
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FDA vaccine head will step down in April after string of controversial decisions
The logo for the Food and Drug Administration is seen ahead of a news conference at the Health and Human Services Headquarters in Washington, DC on April 22, 2025. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty Images A key U.S. Food and Drug Administration official who oversees vaccines and biotech treatments will step down from the […]
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Trump urges Congress to ‘fix’ college football money mess
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a round table on collegiate sports in the White House in Washington, D.C., March 6, 2026. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump on Friday urged Congress to “fix” what he described as an untenable financial situation in college sports because of the relatively new system of payments to […]
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Trump says defense CEOs agree to quadruple production of ‘Exquisite Class’ weaponry
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Dec. 2, 2025. Brian Snyder | Reuters President Donald Trump met Friday afternoon with CEOs of major defense industry companies at the White House as the war against Iran ended its first […]
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Robinhood’s venture fund, which gives investors access to private companies, tanks 11% on first day
Key Points The fund, which is trades under the ticker RVI, offers exposure to notable private companies such as financial services firm Revolut and software company Databricks. However, the launch comes during a tough time for public markets. Source
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Amazon says Anthropic’s Claude still OK for AWS customers to use outside defense work
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon said Friday it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to its cloud customers, excluding work […]
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AI’s got a gender gap: Women are more skeptical
The logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024. Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images The artificial intelligence craze faces a significant gender gap, with more men showing enthusiasm about the technology, […]
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Vast wraps $500 million funding round as company vies for NASA space station contract
Vast Space missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that isn’t stopping the company from going all in on stage two. CEO Max Haot told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan this week that the company is betting on its “leapfrog strategy” and planning to build and launch a […]
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Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google said it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work, a day after Microsoft issued a similar statement to […]
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