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Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use

Anthropic on Thursday announced Claude Gov, its product designed specifically for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. The AI models have looser guardrails for government use and are trained to bet...

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Elon Musk steps away from the White House

Elon Musk’s official role within the United States government is coming to an end. The billionaire Tesla CEO announced his White House departure in an X post on Wednesday night, thanking President D...

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Senators probe whether RealPage pushed state AI law ban

Democratic senators are probing whether RealPage, a software company accused of colluding with landlords to raise rents, lobbied for a proposed ban on states regulating AI for the next decade. In a le...

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Eric Adams and crypto whales demand that New York stop regulating crypto licenses

At a "crypto summit" on Tuesday held by Eric Adams - the controversial mayor of New York City who recently escaped several federal corruption charges - crypto CEOs and investors made an open plea: ple...

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FTC v. Meta: The antitrust battle over WhatsApp and Instagram

The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about ...

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FTC v. Meta: The antitrust battle over WhatsApp and Instagram

The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about ...

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Trump signs the Take It Down Act into law

President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law, enacting a bill that will criminalize the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) — including AI deepfakes — and require s...

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FCC approves Verizon’s $20 billion merger after it commits to ‘ending’ DEI

Verizon’s $20 billion deal to acquire the fiber internet provider Frontier is officially happening. On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission signed off on the merger, which will allow Verizo...

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The State Department reportedly pressured African countries to adopt Elon Musk’s Starlink

After The Washington Post earlier this month revealed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had instructed the State Department to help Starlink expand in order to fend off Chinese technological influen...

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Thanks, Trump tariffs, now I gotta replace my phone battery

After five years, I was still happy with my phone, even though its battery had started the inevitable process of slowing to a stop. But Donald Trump's tariff nonsense pushed me to make a decision: buy...

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