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On 24 Feb 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Anthropic it must drop its self-imposed bans on autonomous targeting and U.S. surveillance by 27 Feb or face contract cancellation, blacklisting, and possible seizure of its Claude AI under the Defense Production Act.
On 24 Feb 2026, Russia’s FSB formally launched a criminal probe into Pavel Durov, accusing the Telegram CEO of abetting terrorist activity and triggering throttling measures meant to push 100-million Russian users toward the state-run messenger Max.
On 24 Feb 2026 Anthropic revealed that three Chinese AI labs covertly sent ≈16 million prompts to Claude via 24 000 fake accounts to siphon its capabilities through large-scale model distillation, framing the act as IP theft and a national-security risk.
On 24 Feb 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hauled Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon, warning the $200 million Claude contract will be cancelled and the firm black-listed unless it drops safety guardrails that block mass U.S. surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
On 24 Feb 2026, Anthropic publicly disclosed that three Chinese labs covertly queried its Claude model through thousands of proxy accounts to siphon advanced reasoning and coding capabilities.
Just one day after declaring the crewed Artemis II moon-flyby ready for a 6 March liftoff, NASA uncovered a blocked helium line in the SLS upper stage on 21 Feb 2026, ordering the 98-m rocket rolled back to the VAB and pushing the mission to April at the earliest.
On 21 Feb 2026 NASA scrubbed the March 6 Artemis II launch window after a blocked helium line in the SLS upper stage required rolling the 98-m rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, pushing the first crewed lunar flight since 1972 into April at the earliest.
On 19 Feb 2026 researchers unveiled Spinosaurus mirabilis—found 500–1,000 km inland in Niger—whose towering scimitar-shaped head crest and wading-adapted anatomy challenge the idea that spinosaurs were open-water swimmers.
Astronomy outlets worldwide confirmed that the only total lunar eclipse of 2026 will occur on 3 March, briefly reddening the full ‘Worm Moon’ and offering just 20-60 minutes of totality depending on location.
A newly discovered helium-flow interruption in the SLS upper stage on 21 Feb 2026 compelled NASA to pull the Artemis II rocket off Pad 39B, wiping out the 6-11 March launch window.
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