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The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to deploy more than 1,000 combat troops to the Middle East,

though America has apparently not made the decision to put boots on the

ground in Iran. According to Wall Street Journal, the forces are from a rapid response brigade

within the Army's 82nd airborne division and can deploy within a day. Israel, meanwhile, said it would

occupy a swath of southern Lebanon. Iran said it would

let non-hostile vessels pass through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iranian authorities,

according to reports of a letter sent to the International Maritime Organization. Earlier the regime named

Mohamed Baga Zalgada, a retired commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as head of

Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Arm will start selling its own chips for the first time.

Until now, the chip designer licensed blueprints to companies that produce chips, such as

NVIDIA and Google, and took a cut from the sale.

Arm said the chip, named AGI CPU, would be used to power data centers more. META and OpenAI will be among its customers.

A jury in New Mexico ruled that META violated the state's consumer protection rules by misleading users about child safety on its social media platforms and ordered it to pay

$375 million in civil penalties. Meta said it would appeal against the ruling.

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