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Here Here's your midday brief for Friday, February 27th.

I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal.

We exclusively report that OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is working on a deal with the Pentagon.

Altman said that could mean its tools would be used in classified settings and in a way that kept the same safety guardrails that have

caused a standoff between the government and Anthropic, OpenAI's rival. Anthropic doesn't want its

AI used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. And in other news about OpenAI,

it's secured $110 billion in new funding.

The deal values the company at $730 billion before the investment. Amazon, SoftBank, and

Nvidia, all committed billions of dollars to OpenAI. The ChatGPT developer is expected to go

public later this year. NewsCorp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.

Trump Media, President Trump's media company, says it's in talks to spin-off businesses,

including the social media platform, Truth Social.

Trump Media recently merged with the fusion energy company T-AE Technologies.

TAE is one of the most prominent companies in the commercial nuclear fusion field.

And U.S. intelligence estimates and experts outside the government say that Iran faces

major technical hurdles to building missiles capable of striking the U.S. mainland.

The assessment raises questions about the Trump administration's

rationale for urgent military action against Iran. Trump administration officials haven't said

if they'll declassify intelligence suggesting that Iran is accelerating the development of an

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