Early Monday, US-Israel airstrikes hit Tehran. Sharif University of Technology sustained damage, leading to gas outages in nearby areas. Iranian state media reported multiple explosions and the sound of fighter jets.

In the case of Sharif University, reports suggested that advanced computing systems and artificial intelligence infrastructure associated with defense technology research may have been the intended target.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has reportedly issued a threat aimed at the Stargate AI data center project planned for Abu Dhabi, a facility tied to OpenAI and described in coverage as a $30 billion effort.

The officials said the collaboration "almost certainly included technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology."

Reverse-engineering existing technology yielded “the Toyota Corolla of drones”—cheap, easy to manufacture and devastatingly effective.

U.S. and European officials confirm that Russia has started transferring an upgraded batch of Shahed-type drones to Iran — improvements Moscow engineered through extensive battlefield use in Ukraine.

The war in Iran has led to a delay in the federal trial in Boston of a Natick engineer who is accused of plotting to illegally export sensitive technology to an Iranian company, which manufactured components used in the country’s military drones.

Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simaei Saraf said parts of dozens of universities have been damaged since fighting began on February 28