What Changed the World
on February 21, 2025?

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Summary: Britain and France prepared a European reassurance force for Ukraine after any peace deal, Hamas returned 4 hostages' bodies to Israel including 2 children, and the IRS fired 6,700 probationary workers

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    Britain & France prepared to deploy European "reassurance force" to prevent future Russian attacks on Ukraine once peace achieved

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    Hamas returns 4 hostages' bodies to Israel per agreement, including 2 children abducted in Oct 7 2023 attack triggering war; Israel revolts & claims 1 body does not belong to known hostage; UN Sec Gen condemns Hamas' "parading of coffins"

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    Arc Institute, Stanford, & NVIDIA release largest AI biology model Evo 2 for free, trained on 9T genetic datapoints, capable of reading & designing genetic code for various organisms, marking breakthrough in biology research

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    Trump cuts access to legal services for unaccompanied migrant children

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    Under DOGE's pressure, IRS fires 6% (6.7K) of its workforce, targeting probationary employees (<1-2yrs)

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    Amid intensifying AI competition, OpenAI tops 400M+ weekly active users (+33% in last 3mo) & 2M enterprise users

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    Trump plans new 25% tariffs on auto, semiconductors, pharmaceutical imports by April

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    Trump supports Musk's idea to pass on 20% of government savings created by DOGE as dividend directly to citizens & 20% to pay down national debt

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    Amazon's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires creative rights for James Bond franchise for ~$1B; Amazon bought MGM for $8.5B in 2022

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