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  • NASA is pushing back its plans for a Moon landing

    NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it's delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, was originally going to attempt to land on the Moon but will now be a test flight instead. NASA also says it's "increasing its cadence of

  • Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

    Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step further and announced that he was now designating the AI company as a "supply-chain risk". The decision could immediately impact numerous major tech companies that

  • OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction markets

    The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.

  • Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

    "We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

  • Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger

    Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that will fold WBD's studio, linear channels, streaming service, and gaming segment into Paramount. Though WBD initially signed onto an $83 billion agreement to merge part of Warner Bros. with

  • Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI

    On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to "STRONG-ARM" the Pentagon and directing federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE" use of its products. At issue is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal of an updated agreement with the US military agreeing to "any lawful use" of

  • Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because of Grok’

    In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

  • The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset

    Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts, and have stopped getting a response. This week, thanks to a reader tip, we think we've found the original phone the T1 is based on. A long time ago, back

  • Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake?

    Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

  • CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year

    The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by ABC, less than a year after Madhu Gottumukkala took charge of the agency as deputy director and acting director in May 2025. CISA's executive assistant director for cybersecurity, Nick