Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The White House is telling Congress that the Iran war has ended, even though U.S. armed forces are still in the region.

The message effectively skirts the May 1st legal deadline to gain approval from Congress to continue the war.

That deadline was already set to pass without action from Republican lawmakers who

are deferring to the president. Trump told reporters today he's not getting along with Iran's

leadership. It's a very disjointed leadership. And with that being said, they all want to make a deal,

but they're all messed up. Trump made it clear in the letter that the war may be far from over.

Major tech companies, including Amazon and Nvidia, are set to expand their classified

military work.

As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the Trump administration announced new deals to tap leading Silicon

Valley firms for battlefield operations.

Pentagon officials say Microsoft, Amazon, Google,

Open AI, and other companies will soon make the U.S. military an AI-first fighting force.

The Pentagon's new deals mean cutting-edge AI tools will be used to generate target lists for

military strikes and to analyze data before deploying lethal weapons. The deals come as

Anthropic refuses to let the

Defense Department use its technology for things like mass surveillance and autonomous drones.

Anthropics pushback has led to litigation and President Trump ordering the federal government

to cut ties with the company. Trump officials are hoping the new deals with Silicon Valley's

biggest players will lead to a compromise

from Anthropic, which did not return a request for comment. Bobby Allen and PR News.

Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company behind the U.S. government blamed by U.S. government

officials for fueling the deadly U.S. opioid crisis shut down today. The maker of OxyContin

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