🗞️Peter Attia quits CBS News

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February 23rd, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Longevity expert and CBS News contributor, Peter Attia, has resigned from the network effective immediately amid backlash over the newly released Epstein files revealing Attia’s extensive communication with Jeffrey Epstein in the 2010s

• A federal judge has permanently blocked the Justice Department from releasing Volume II of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report detailing the investigation into President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

• Defense/War Secretary Hegseth has called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to come to the Pentagon for a meeting over whether the military can use Claude for “all lawful applications” including areas Anthropic currently refuses like mass surveillance and autonomous weapons…read more here

• On Sunday, an armed man in his early 20s was shot and killed by Secret Service agents after making an “unauthorized entry” into Mar‑a‑Lago, which is President Trump’s home in Florida…the man was carrying a shotgun and a fuel can or gas canister and allegedly raised the weapon into a firing position when confronted

• OpenAI announced multi-year "Frontier Alliances" with major consulting firms Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, and McKinsey & Company to accelerate enterprise adoption of its new Frontier platform for AI agents

• Anthropic accused three Chinese AI companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, of conducting attacks by using about 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting high-value data on advanced features like reasoning, coding, and tool use to train their own models

• FedEx has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking a full refund of all duties it paid under the now-invalidated emergency tariffs following the Supreme Court's ruling

• The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has dipped below 6%, hitting 5.99%, this is the lowest rates have been since 2022

• DOW down 1.66% / S&P down 1.04%

• France's Foreign Ministry has barred U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner from direct meetings with government ministers after he skipped a summons to address U.S. Embassy comments on the death of activist Quentin Deranque

• London Police arrested Peter Mandelson, who is the former British ambassador to the U.S., on suspicion of misconduct in public office tied to recently released Epstein files

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