Overview
- Japan’s foreign ministry raised Israel’s risk level nationwide to Level 3, advising against travel and warning that conditions could deteriorate rapidly.
- Guidance to Japanese nationals in the region urges avoiding U.S. military facilities and taking steps to secure personal safety.
- President Trump ordered all U.S. federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology and stated the government would no longer do business with the company.
- Reporting describes a dispute in which Anthropic, developer of the Claude model, resisted Defense Department requests to remove safeguards for broader lawful military use.
- Iranian officials said after Geneva talks that a technical session is set for March 2 with a follow‑up high‑level meeting within a week, indicating diplomacy continues.