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Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government

The dispute between Anthropic and the Department of Defense has escalated in recent days, with officials publicly trading barbs with the AI company on...

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

An AI assist? The author of the MMWR report, county health official Katherine Houser, noted that the beer-tent workers were hesitant to give details...

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space

Google and other browser makers require that all TLS certificates be published in public transparency logs, which are append-only distributed ledgers. Website owners can...

The Air Force’s new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it

“We’ve gotten all the capability that we can out of the Minuteman,” said Gen. Stephen “S.L.” Davis, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command....

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out of Africa, resulting in...

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple...

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

But this claim hinges entirely upon xAI proving that OpenAI poached its employees to steal its trade secrets. So, for xAI’s lawsuit to proceed,...

The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

There used to be countless companies making flagship Android phones, but a combination of factors has narrowed the field over time. Today, Samsung is...

Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a...

WBD says Paramount’s new, higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix’s

Paramount Skydance increased its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) from $30 per share to $31 per share, WBD said today. Amid a competing...

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