Trump Announces Blockade of Strait of Hormuz

OpenAI Rewrites 'Sloppy' Pentagon AI Deal After Backlash Over Surveillance Risks OpenAI - which millions of users trust with everything from legal documents to tax returns - is revising its newly signed contract with the US Department of War, just days after it was announced that they would replace Anthropic for use in government systems because the rushed rollout "looked opportunistic and sloppy."  Hours after negotiations collapsed between the Pentagon and rival startup Anthropic on Friday, the San Francisco-based company agreed to supply its AI models for use in classified military operations. The...

Cement, Drugs, And Oil - How The Iran Conflict Could Disrupt Global Supply Chains Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The conflict in Iran could have consequences for international trade that extend beyond oil and gas. It has been less than a week since the start of the U.S.–Israeli operations in Iran, and oil tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz—a key global chokepoint for energy shipments—has come to a screeching halt. Approximately 200 oil tankers have been stranded in the Gulf, according to data from Lloyd’s List...

US Central Command on Sunday confirmed that three US troops have been killed and several more have been wounded since the US and Israel launched the war against Iran on Saturday morning, as Iranian missiles and drones have struck US bases in the region in retaliation. “As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. […]