Warren accuses Trump, Hegseth of trying 'extort' Anthropic into removing AI guardrails
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday accused President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of attempting to...
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Hegseth says Pentagon designating Anthropic as supply chain risk after Trump bans AI firm
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk shortly after President...
House Democrat: 'Good for Anthropic' in rejecting Pentagon demands
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) praised the AI company Anthropic for rejecting the Pentagon’s demands on how its technology is...
Trump orders federal agencies to 'immediately cease' using Anthropic technology
President Trump on Friday directed federal agencies to “immediately cease” using Anthropic technology amid an escalating...
Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon dispute
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday that he agrees with Anthropic’s red lines in its increasingly contentious negotiations...
Burgum: Sanders data center moratorium would be like waving 'surrender flag' to China
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) proposal for a national moratorium on d...
Kalshi accuses MrBeast video editor of insider trading
An editor for the popular YouTube creator MrBeast has been fined and suspended by prediction market platform Kalshi over...
Apple rolls out age verification tool
Apple is rolling out an age verification tool in the U.S. and abroad to ensure users are at least 18. App developers in...
Discord pushes back global age verification rollout amid criticism, promises transparency
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification policy...
Animal shelter inundated with calls over fake AI dog photo
Dozens of dogs are waiting at San Jose Animal Care & Services shelter for forever homes, but a sad-looking dog named Lum...
DHS tech buildout sparks backlash from Democrats
The Trump administration's deployment of a wide range of technologies to support its sweeping deportation push and respo...
Substack, Polymarket announce partnership: 'Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets'
Publishing platform Substack and prediction market Polymarket announced a new partnership on Wednesday. The new partners...
Trump says he'll ask DOD to release files on 'UFOs,' 'alien and extraterrestrial life'
President Trump on Thursday said he will direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to release its files about...
Amazon surpasses Walmart as world's top company in sales
Amazon dethroned Walmart as the world's top company based on their respective sales in 2025 after 13 years of the Benton...
Engineers charged with stealing Google secrets, sending data to Iran
Three former engineers were charged Thursday with stealing trade secrets from Google and other tech companies and sendin...
West Virginia alleges Apple failed to detect, report child sexual abuse material
West Virginia in a new lawsuit is accusing Apple of knowingly permitting its iCloud platform to be used to store and dis...
Mark Zuckerberg quizzed on kids' Instagram use in social media trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta C...
Sanders pushes California wealth tax: 'Enough is enough'
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday joined a rally in Los Angeles to push for California's controversial wealth tax,...