Issue 2026-02-17
Stories
- US Deploys Anthropic’s Claude AI in Raid Seizing Nicolás Maduro
- Israel Green-lights First West Bank ‘State Land’ Registration Since 1967
- UK Moves to Fold AI Chatbots into Online Safety Act and Weigh Under-16 Social-Media Ban
- Hollywood Confronts ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 After Viral Cruise-Pitt Deepfake
- PM Modi Opens India AI Impact Summit & Expo 2026, Launching Global ‘AI for Bharat’ Showcase
- Hungary & Slovakia Invoke Adria Pipeline After Jan-27 Druzhba Strike
- Warner Bros. Board Weighs Paramount’s Sweetened $108 B Counter-Bid, Threatening Netflix Deal
- Hapag-Lloyd Inks $4.2 B Takeover of ZIM with FIMI ‘New ZIM’ Carve-Out
At a Glance
- Media reports on 14 Feb 2026 revealed that U.S. special-operations forces used the commercial large-language model “C...
- On 15 Feb 2026 Israel’s cabinet authorized restarting dormant land-titling procedures to re-register swathes of West...
- On 16 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government will amend the Crime & Policing Bill to place all AI...
- On 13 Feb 2026 ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, and within 24 hours the Motion Picture Association formally demanded...
- On 16 Feb 2026 India formally kicked off a five-day, 70,000 m² summit-cum-expo in New Delhi that gathers 60-plus nati...
- On 16 Feb 2026, Budapest and Bratislava formally asked Zagreb to reroute Russian crude through Croatia’s Adria pipeli...