Trump orders government to stop using Anthropic; America’s ambassador to Israel says staff may leave, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist |
| 0:04.2 | Hello, you're listening to the free edition of the world in brief from The Economist. |
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| 0:34.3 | This is the world in brief from The Economist. |
| 0:42.4 | Our top stories. Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropics products, |
| 0:50.6 | calling the AI Lab a, quote, radical left company, putting, quote, American lives at risk. |
| 0:58.1 | Pete Hegseth, the war secretary, demanded this week that Anthropic lift guardrails on its |
| 1:04.5 | clawed models and agree to the Pentagon's usage terms. Mr. Trump said the Pentagon and agencies, already using anthropics |
| 1:13.5 | models, would phase them out over six months. America's ambassador in Jerusalem told embassy |
| 1:20.8 | employees that they may leave Israel and, if they plan to do so, that they should depart on Friday. Donald Trump is considering |
| 1:30.3 | striking Iran. Israel would be a likely target for retaliation. Nuclear negotiations between |
| 1:37.7 | America and Iran concluded in Geneva on Thursday without a deal, but with plans for further talks next week. |
| 1:46.1 | Britain's Prime Minister pledged to, quote, keep on fighting after his Labour Party lost a parliamentary |
| 1:52.6 | by-election in a Manchester constituency it has long considered a safe seat. |
| 1:58.8 | The victorious Green Party ran a populist left-wing campaign targeting |
| 2:03.4 | young progressives, old Labour voters and Muslims. Sarkia Stama accused the Greens of deliberately |
| 2:10.5 | dividing people and warned against their, quote, extreme policies, such as legalizing drugs. NASA overhauled its program to put |
| 2:21.1 | man back on the moon. It had intended to send astronauts around the moon in March, followed by a |
| 2:27.6 | lunar landing in 2008, but on Thursday, the already delayed launch of Artemis II was postponed again because of technical difficulties. |
| 2:38.0 | America's space agency is now planning another intermediary mission before attempting to land on the moon. |
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