The Defense Department has been feuding with Anthropic over military uses of its artificial intelligence tools. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and access to some of the most advanced AI on the planet.

Pakistan's defense minister said that his country ran out of "patience" and considers that there is now an "open war" with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an Afghan cross-border attack.

In more than seven hours behind closed doors, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answered questions from the House Oversight Committee as it investigates Jeffrey Epstein.

Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to honor his long civil rights legacy begin in Chicago. Events will also take place in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, where he was born and began his activism.

Warner Bros. says Paramount's sweetened bid to buy the whole company is "superior" to an $83 billion deal it struck with Netflix for just its streaming services, studios, and intellectual property.

A US District Judge denied a preservation group's effort to put a pause on construction

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

Hours after the student was taken into custody in her campus apartment, she was released, after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed concerns about the arrest to President Trump.

Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it's not just big tech aligning the two parties.

After the U.S. withdrew from the World Health Organization, it wasn't clear they would participate in this WHO-led meeting to determine the recipe for the next flu vaccine.

In her acceptance speech, Hannah Spencer said she was “no different from every single person in this constituency”.

The ex-secretary of state called for President Trump to be questioned under oath about his past association with the sex offender.

Documents in the Epstein files reveal how Maxwell nurtured the connection between the two men after Clinton left the White House.

The new review brings together the strongest evidence to date on collagen supplementation, say experts.

The Twitter co-founder says he believes the majority of firms will make similar changes "within the next year."

While some parts of the country have had a very wet winter and significant flooding, others have actually been drier than normal as Ben Rich explains.

Accounts pretending to have conditions like Down's Syndrome have amassed thousands of followers

Cuba has accused those on board of planning "an infiltration with terrorist aims” and firing first.

Netflix's decision to back down from the bidding war clears the path for Paramount to win the takeover battle.

Records and emails will be reviewed to determine whether the convicted sex offender used military bases when visiting the UK.

Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination

The Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make Beijing look bad is back with another theory: Washington’s actions against cryptocurrency crooks are just attempts to dominate the global financial system.…

AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War

Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech can’t be trusted not to harm American civilians and warfighters.…

One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000 people – because new "intelligence tools" the company is implementing “can do more and do it better.”…

Grants for critical, unappreciated projects

Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).…

Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platform

Fujitsu’s 144-core Monaka CPU will be built using 3D-chip stacking tech from Broadcom, the merchant silicon slinger revealed on Thursday.…

When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate

ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.…

Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases

The bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure they’re being friendly enough - as if working in fast food weren’t hard enough already.…

Just less than before, according to the ORCA test

exclusive Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become better at math, even top performer Gemini 3 Flash would receive a C if assessed with a letter grade.…

Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful

As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…

Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens

Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities are being created than are being fixed, and that high-velocity development with AI is making comprehensive security unattainable.…

"Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings.

It's also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.

“Temu sound wall” not enough to quell fury over xAI’s power plant.

Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.

Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.

An OTA update will be pushed out in a few weeks; owners can also go to a dealership.

That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

The ability to resell Steam items for real value is key to the state's case.

For some reason, NASA chose not to publicly release its Mars orbiter objectives.

Trump administration’s reduced vaccine schedule “throws science out the window.”