Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out Anthropic AI after the company resisted Pentagon demands for military use.

Pentagon briefers have told congressional staff that Iran had no plans to preemptively strike U.S. forces or bases in the region. The bombshell admission came at a private briefing on Sunday, CNN

President Donald Trump said Friday that he was banning federal agencies from using the services of AI company Anthropic.

Some U.S. military leaders are telling troops the Iran war is part of "God's divine plan," religious freedom advocates say.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late Friday that the company had signed a deal with the Pentagon for its AI tools to be used in the military's classified systems, but with seemingly similar guardrails rival Anthropic had also requested.

U.S. strikes on Iran began early Feb. 28. Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago and briefly stopped by a fundraiser as events unfolded.

By Andrea Shalal, Jeffrey Dastin and Ryan Patrick Jones WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he is directing the government to stop work with Anthropic, and the Pentagon said it would declare the startup a supply-chain risk,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his company has come to terms with the Defense Department for use of its models.

U.S. military officials released the names of four American soldiers killed in the war with Iran as the State Department sought additional flights to get more than 1,000 U.S. citizens out of the Middle East as the war expands to neighboring countries,