Operation Epic Fury They got him. Early Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, in a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” a missile found Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his own compound in Tehran — reportedly while he was at his desk, carrying out the duties of a man who believed himself untouchable. Within hours, Iranian state TV confirmed what...
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- Anthropic’s Claude reports widespread outageby Ram Iyer on March 2, 2026 at 1:31 pm
Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing the […]
- Polymarket saw $529M traded on bets tied to bombing of Iranby Anthony Ha on March 1, 2026 at 7:05 pm
Six newly-created accounts made a profit of $1 million by correctly betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28.
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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to […]
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