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For the first time, a commercial large-language model—Anthropic’s Claude—was run on a classified network during the 3 Jan 2026 Delta Force raid in Caracas that seized former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, triggering an immediate Pentagon review of its $200 million AI contract with the company.
New Delhi will convene the AI Impact Summit on 16-20 Feb 2026, bringing top global tech CEOs and heads of state to India and reframing the international AI agenda around deployment and inclusive growth.
At 5:15 a.m. ET on 13 Feb 2026, SpaceX launched NASA’s four-person Crew-12 to the ISS and, for the first time in Florida, landed the Falcon 9 first stage at the brand-new Landing Zone-40 beside its SLC-40 launch pad.
Between 11–12 Feb 2026 Roskomnadzor deleted WhatsApp’s domains from Russia’s parallel DNS and ordered a nationwide block of the service, while throttling Telegram, in the first mass use of the 2019 “sovereign internet” powers.
Starting 10 Feb 2026, Russia’s Roskomnadzor activated network-level slowdowns on Telegram across the country and vowed to tighten them until the platform obeys Russian data-and-content rules.
On 12 Feb 2026, Europe’s Ariane 6 flew in its new four-booster “64” configuration for the first time, doubling its lift capacity and deploying 32 Amazon Leo broadband satellites to low-Earth orbit.
On 12 Feb 2026, Moscow removed WhatsApp from Roskomnadzor’s domain registry, cutting service for about 100 million Russian users and telling them to migrate to the government-backed Max app.
Starting 10 Feb 2026, regulator Roskomnadzor began deliberately slowing Telegram nationwide and a Moscow court levied new fines, marking the first formal step toward an outright block since the 2018 failure.
On 12 Feb 2026, the Ariane 6 flew in its new four-booster '64' configuration for the first time, doubling its payload capacity and successfully orbiting Amazon’s 32 Leo broadband satellites from Kourou.
Between 11–12 Feb 2026 the Defense Department activated a siloed version of ChatGPT for its 3 million-user GenAI.mil network and, a day later, its CTO told tech firms the Pentagon now wants similar frontier models cleared for classified domains.
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