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On 16 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a five-day AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, the first time the annual forum is held in the Global South and by far its largest edition.
On 15 Feb 2026 a C-17 flew Valar Atomics’ minivan-sized Ward microreactor—without fuel—from March Air Reserve Base, California, to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, marking the U.S. military’s first live demonstration that a nuclear power unit can be shipped by air for instant field use.
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.
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