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Netflix boss makes stunning prediction after Warner Bros. deal crumbles: 'Hope I'm wrong"
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (283+ words) Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos made a stunning prediction after the company dropped its bid to acquire Warner Bros. in a new interview with Bloomberg on Sunday. Netflix and Paramount Skydance, a media conglomerate run by the Trump-supporting Ellison family, were…...
'Needless display of brute punishment': WSJ editorial rips into Trump's war with AI firm
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (185+ words) The Wall Street Journal editorial board sharply condemned President Donald Trump on Friday for ordering the federal government to blackball Anthropic, an artificial intelligence firm that had refused to relax its safety rules to let the Defense Department deploy automated…...
Firestorm as Trump's wild 'crashout' reveals Pentagon's 'mass surveillance' plot
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (284+ words) The outburst triggered an immediate reaction from elected officials and analysts on social media. "Anthropic objected in part to the Department of Defense using its AI technology to engage in domestic mass surveillance," wrote Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). "Do you…...
Ex-Trump White House official in disbelief after Pentagon's ‘psychotic’ move
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (273+ words) A former Trump administration AI policy adviser is blasting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over what he calls a "psychotic power grab" amid an escalating dispute between the Pentagon and artificial intelligence firm Anthropic. The clash intensified after President Donald Trump…...
Trump rages 'nutjob' AI firm will be blackballed after 'dangerous mistake"
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (164+ words) President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to proclaim that artificial intelligence company Anthropic will no longer be allowed to do business with the federal government. Anthropic, which runs the Claude model, has been in conflict…...
Lawmakers say their 'heads are exploding' after Trump admin laser takes down its own drone
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (351+ words) The US military has used a laser to shoot down a drone flying around the US-Mexico border owned by Customs and Border Protection. The Federal Aviation Administration closed airspace around Fort Hancock, with the military needing to formally notify the…...
Pentagon stand-off with tech firm reaches key moment as admin considers 'nuclear option"
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (385+ words) The Pentagon has found itself at odds with a technology firm refusing to give way to demands from Donald Trump's administration. Pentagon heads made it clear to Anthropic, the artificial intelligence tech firm, that it would need the company to…...
Pete Hegseth put on notice his efforts to bend AI firm to his commands will backfire
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (193+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has tried to strongarm Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence firm, to suspend its own rules about restricting military use of its technology " but it's bound to blow up in his face, wrote The Washington Post editorial…...
We have invented a threat so lethal this Trump stooge should not be allowed near it
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (820+ words) Which is more important to you? Allowing Pete Hegseth to use artificial intelligence (AI) however he wants, OR preventing AI from doing mass surveillance of Americans and creating lethal weapons without human oversight? That's the stark choice posed by the…...
Alarm as 'unknown' company with deep Trump links in running for $25B government deal
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (311+ words) An 'unknown' nuclear industry company with ties to Trump donors " that has never completed a nuclear energy project " has been under consideration for a $25 billion contract in a trade deal orchestrated between President Donald Trump and Japan, Politico reported Monday....