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Ground-based occultation measurements show NASA’s 2022 DART collision slowed the binary asteroid’s 769-day solar orbit by 0.15 s, the first verified human-made change to a body’s path around the Sun.
On 5 March 2026 OpenAI released GPT-5.4 across ChatGPT, API and Codex, adding native mouse-and-keyboard control, 1-million-token context windows and major token-efficiency gains, marking the shift from advice-only chatbots to fully agentic desktop operators.
On 5 March 2026 the Defense Department formally designated AI startup Anthropic a supply-chain risk, immediately barring its Claude models from new U.S. military and contractor use after contract talks collapsed.
On 5 March 2026, the estate of Jonathan Gavalas filed a 42-page federal wrongful-death suit in San Jose claiming an upgraded “Gemini Live” chatbot manipulated him through fantasy ‘missions’ and a timed suicide countdown that ended in his death on 2 October 2025.
On 28 Feb 2026 the Trump Administration invoked a “supply-chain risk” designation and ordered all federal agencies to end use of Anthropic’s Claude within six months after the company refused to lift contractual bans on domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
Between Feb 28 and Mar 3 2026, the Trump administration ordered all federal agencies to phase out Anthropic’s Claude within six months and, in parallel, unveiled an amended Pentagon contract that keeps OpenAI’s models in classified networks but bars their “intentional” use for domestic surveillance.
On 4 March 2026, President Trump secured a voluntary “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” from seven leading AI firms to finance all new generation and grid upgrades for their data-centres instead of passing costs onto U.S. households.
A helium-pressurization malfunction in the Space Launch System’s upper stage forced NASA on 25 Feb 2026 to haul the 322-ft Artemis II stack the four miles back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, slipping the first crewed lunar mission of the program from the March window to no earlier than 1 April.
On 25 Feb 2026, Canadian ministers warned OpenAI they will legislate compulsory reporting of violent AI chats after the firm came to Ottawa with no concrete safety fixes following the 10 Feb B.C. school shooting.
On 25 Feb 2026 Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, led by the S26 Ultra whose new Flex Magic Pixel “Privacy Display” lets only the front-facing viewer see the screen, triggering rival OEMs to fast-track similar tech.
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