Issue 2026-02-18
Stories
- Zelensky Rebukes U.S. Concession Pressure on Eve of Third Geneva Peace Round
- Iran Briefly Shuts Hormuz During Tri-Nation War-Game as Geneva Nuclear Talks Pause
- Peru’s Congress Topples Interim President Jose Jeri in 75-24 “Chifagate” Vote
- Pentagon Threatens to Blacklist Anthropic’s Claude AI Over Usage Guardrails
- YouTube’s AI Recommendation Glitch Sparks 320k-Report Global Outage, Resolved in Two Hours
- Ireland Opens GDPR Probe into X’s Grok Over AI Sexual Deepfakes
- Adani Group Unveils $100 B Renewable-Powered AI Data-Centre Push Through 2035
- Czechia Offers Reverse-Flow Lifeline to Slovakia After Druzhba Shutdown
- India AI Impact Summit 2026: Govt Targets $200 B AI Build-out, Orders 20,000 New GPUs
At a Glance
- On 14 Feb 2026 at the Munich Security Conference, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly complained that Washington ‘...
- On 17 Feb 2026 Iran, joined by Russian and Chinese warships, closed shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz for severa...
- On 17 Feb 2026, Peru’s unicameral Congress voted 75-24 to censure and thereby remove four-month-old interim president...
- On 17-18 Feb 2026 senior U.S. defense officials publicly warned they may label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” forci...
- On 17 Feb 2026, a fault in YouTube’s recommendation system blanked homepages worldwide around 7:45-8 pm ET, triggerin...
- On 17 Feb 2026, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission formally launched a large-scale GDPR investigation into X’s Grok...