Day: March 6, 2026

In close coordination with CENTCOM, this plan will restore confidence in maritime trade, help stabilize international commerce, and support American and allied businesses operating in the Middle East during the conflict with Iran, News.Az reports, citing DFC.

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This announcement marks a key milestone toward the rapid implementation of President Trump’s directive to utilize DFC’s innovative financial toolkit to safeguard the continued flow of trade.

“I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary Bessent for their support and approval of DFC’s plan to restore confidence in maritime trade and stabilize international markets. Working alongside CENTCOM, DFC coverage will offer a level of security no other policy can provide. We are confident that our reinsurance plan will get oil, gasoline, LNG, jet fuel, and fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz and flowing again to the world,” said DFC CEO Ben Black.”

Maritime Reinsurance details: 

• DFC reinsurance facility will insure losses up to approximately $20 billion on a rolling basis. 
• This revolving insurance offering will apply only to vessels that meet the criteria. 
• Insurance will focus on Hull & Machinery and Cargo to start. 
• DFC has identified best-in-class, preferred American insurance partners. 
• DFC and Treasury are coordinating closely with CENTCOM on next steps in the implementation of this plan.

DFC will continue to provide additional information as it becomes available. Businesses and financial institutions seeking access to DFC’s Maritime Reinsurance product should contact DFC directly at maritime@dfc.gov.

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The announcements from two of the three leading cloud infrastructure vendors follow the Defense Department’s official designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

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“We understand that the Determination does not preclude us from working with Anthropic on non-defense related projects, and their products remain available through our platforms, like Google Cloud,” a Google spokesperson said Friday.

Amazon, the leader in public cloud, followed on Friday, saying it will continue offering Anthropic’s AI technology to its cloud customers, excluding work involving the DOD.

Anthropic’s Claude models are available through Google Cloud via the Vertex AI platform. The search giant is also a significant financial backer of Anthropic and, in January 2025, agreed to an additional $1 billion investment, adding to its previous $2 billion stake.

Anthropic uses Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure to train its models, and recently expanded the partnership by gaining access to up to 1 million of Google’s custom tensor processing units (TPUs).

After Anthropic refused to agree to the DOD’s requested terms of use last week, President Donald Trump instructed federal agencies to stop using the company’s technology, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said its work with Anthropic would wind down over six months. CNBC has confirmed that Anthropic models were used by the U.S. in its latest attack on Iran.

Some defense technology companies have told employees to stop using Anthropic’s Claude models and to switch to alternatives, including from rival OpenAI.
Microsoft was the first major partner to say it will keep working with Anthropic after the Pentagon’s actions.

“Our lawyers have studied the designation and have concluded that Anthropic products, including Claude, can remain available to our customers — other than the Department of War,” Microsoft said late Thursday.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Thursday that his company has “no choice” but to challenge the supply chain risk designation in court.

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The US embassy in Baghdad has said earlier on Friday that Iran-aligned militia groups may seek to target hotels frequented by foreigners in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, according to a post on X, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

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Germany pulls further troops out of Middle East  reut.rs/4lf0H6H  reut.rs/4lf0H6H

— Reuters (@Reuters) Mar 6, 2026

BREAKING:

U.S./Israeli airstrikes are pounding an Iranian intelligence (Ettelaat) base in the city of Saqqez in western Iran.
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) Mar 6, 2026