On 25 February 2026, reports from The Economic Times and The Jerusalem Post stated that U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft had reportedly landed in Israel as tensions with Iran continue to rise and U.S. military assets are reinforced across the region. The development remains publicly unconfirmed by both Washington and Jerusalem, which makes the reporting particularly notable in the current diplomatic and military context. The reports emerged one day after Army Recognition published that 12 F-22s had departed RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom toward the Middle East under tanker support. Together, these reports point to a possible forward positioning of high-end U.S. airpower at a moment when deterrence signaling and contingency planning are becoming increasingly visible.

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Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

Instead of self-imposed guardrails constraining its development of AI models, Anthropic is adopting a nonbinding safety framework that it says can and will change.

In a blog post Tuesday outlining its new policy, Anthropic said shortcomings in its two-year-old Responsible Scaling Policy could hinder its ability to compete in a rapidly growing AI market.

The announcement is surprising, because Anthropic has described itself as the AI company with a “soul.” It also comes the same week that Anthropic is fighting a significant battle with the Pentagon over AI red lines.

It’s not clear that Anthropic’s change is related to its meeting Tuesday with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an ultimatum to roll back the company’s AI safeguards or risk losing a $200 million Pentagon contract. The Pentagon threatened to put Anthropic on what is effectively a government blacklist.

But the company said in its blog post that its previous safety policy was designed to build industry consensus around mitigating AI risks – guardrails that the industry blew through. Anthropic also noted its safety policy was out of step with Washington’s current anti-regulatory political climate.

Anthropic’s previous policy stipulated that it should pause training more powerful models if their capabilities outstripped the company’s ability to control them and ensure their safety — a measure that’s been removed in the new policy. Anthropic argued that responsible AI developers pausing growth while less careful actors plowed ahead could “result in a world that is less safe.”

As part of the new policy, Anthropic said it will separate its own safety plans from its recommendations for the AI industry.

Anthropic wrote that it had hoped its original safety principles “would encourage other AI companies to introduce similar policies. This is the idea of a ‘race to the top’ (the converse of a ‘race to the bottom’), in which different industry players are incentivized to improve, rather than weaken, their models’ safeguards and their overall safety posture.”

Kyiv wants to get a mention of EU accession in 2027 into any peace deal negotiated by Donald Trump.

Ukraine sees a narrow window to secure its future within the EU: between the Hungarian election this April and the French presidential vote in April 2027, according to officials in Brussels and Kyiv.

Kyiv wants to have a reference to EU membership in 2027 written into the peace deal being negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump, and it sees the interval between the two key European elections as the best time to join the bloc.

The EU is working on a plan that could give Ukraine partial membership next year. This would see Ukraine gaining an observer-like status during European Council summits and in European Parliament committees, while it completes the reforms needed for full membership privileges.

Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.

Lemmy libs for the 468849043 fell for it again award

Boosts can now optionally be shown in the profile on the webview, and lots of other smaller improvements.

I was thinking about it recently, and this is just a random thought I had it's not well developed, but I was Watching something on the uptick in separatist parties in the UK, and given the massive geographical range of the US I was wondering if separatist movements would be helpful.

This could be any separtist movement, from Chicano and African to Indigenous to Cascadian. I just feel like independence from the US is a lot more feasible in the short term rather than some form of revolution overtaking the whole country all at once. But like I said, it's an undeveloped thought (although I would prefer answers more than "i love balkanization" and "America is bad so yes." It's less a question of "is hurting america good" and more "is this the best way to do it?")

The amount of people who refuse to do research, look up anything at all or educate themselves will be the downfall of our society. I cannot understand why anyone still believes or spreads complete misinformation when most people have internet access. This recently was relevant with the outrage over a man with tourettes saying a racial slur, while the topic itself is nuanced; the one thing that isnt is how with tourettes its an involuntary tic caused by neurons misfiring. I also believed most people know what tourettes is, but thousands of people believe he must have secretly wanted to say, he said it because he said it before, is racist etc. Going as far as saying people like him shouldnt leave the house or get their tongue cut out. Yes of course you cant know something you just dont know; but this reactionary behaviour is just bad for everyone. Additionally a lot of people straight up refused to believe / change their mind when others told them how Tourettes works and why it isn’t voluntary whatsoever. If we dont work on education and teaching people that they do not know everything and that learning is a vital part of life that shouldn’t be rejected we will all succumb to stupidity and hatred.

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Patriarchy makes slaves of women. The “peculiar institution” of slavery was perfected by men in the enslavement of the women in their own population. In this video, I discuss the necessary conditions of slavery and how the history of the legal status and experiences of women align neatly with these conditions.

I think my camera is busted (or it's just my lack of photography prowess), they are looking pinkish in the photo, but it should be red

It is a Malpighia genus, but I don't know the exact species to be honest

Studies show it has around 1,000–4,500 mg, of vitamin C, per 100 grams of fresh fruit, which is around 50–100 times than that of orange or lemon

1. Log into reddit
2. Find a tankie
3. Tell them that actually Stalin eat pizza and fry
4. Tankie says stfu loser
5. Chin big now