Global for Thursday, February 26, 2026

• Anthropic ‘cannot in good conscience accede’ to Pentagon’s demands, CEO says
• Last-ditch effort in Geneva to avert war between US, Iran wraps with ‘significant progress,’ Omani official says
• SOCOM on the hunt for ‘acoustic rainbow’ tech for silencing drones
• US military assembles largest force of warships, aircraft in Middle East in decades
• Army orders $186 million in Switchblade kamikaze drones, tank killers
• What to know about Defense Protection Act and the Pentagon’s Anthropic ultimatum
• Ukraine says Russia launched a major aerial attack before Kyiv’s talks with US
• US soldiers earn French medal for 2023 Iraq rescue
• Once-reluctant Germany goes big on one-way attack drones
• Israel delivers first autonomous submarine to Germany
• Leonardo to set up aerostructures joint venture by mid-year