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Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks

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Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cyberscurity agency

Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation’s central cybersecurity coordinator. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) didn’t have access to Mythos Preview, which Anthropic has touted as a powerful tool […]

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Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw

In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who’d lost his legs while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine’s candidates […]

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We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp’s new book, co-written with Nicholas Zamiska, is called “The Technological Republic.” After claiming “because we get asked a lot”, Palantir posted a 22-point summary of the book that reads like a corporate manifesto. […]

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AI backlash is coming for elections

Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies and executives is unrestrained – sometimes to the point of condoning violence. But look at the issues that most campaigns are focused […]

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Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer

Though Tim Cook is shedding his CEO title for the role of Apple’s executive chairman, it appears he’ll keep one of his most important duties: that of the company’s Trump whisperer. “As executive chairman, Cook will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world,” Apple writes in a press […]

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Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers

Though it’s very common for entertainment writers to describe some narrative elements of the films and shows that they’re covering, a Japanese court has determined that the practice can sometimes be tantamount to copyright infringement. Last Thursday, the Tokyo District Court ruled that 39-year-old Wataru Takeuchi was guilty of violating Japanese law that prohibits the […]

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The future of local TV news has taken a Trumpian turn

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Judge rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment in fight against ICE-tracking

Jorge L. Alonso, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois, said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps. Judge Alonso granted the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado, who runs the ICE Sightings – Chicagoland Facebook group, and Kreisau Group, the […]

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Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It’s dubbed the company a “RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY” full of “Leftwing nut jobs” and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic’s buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. […]

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