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Employees at rival companies — including OpenAI — are rallying behind Anthropic as the startup warns its escalating dispute with the Pentagon could cost $5 billion in lost business.More than 30 researchers from OpenAI and Google, including Jeff Dean, the chief scientist of Google DeepMind, filed a joint amicus brief on Monday supporting Anthropic in its legal battle with the government. The employees signed in a personal capacity and do not represent their companies’ official views.Their filing argues that the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” could harm the broader US AI industry.”If allowed to proceed, this effort…

After a lot of big talk about AI, CEOs say the real upheaval is still ahead. Loading audio narration… In a KPMG US survey, three-quarters of large-company CEOs said generative AI might have been overhyped in the past year, but its true impact and “disruptive potential” over the next five to 10 years is likely underappreciated.”The sentiment about deploying AI is most certainly accelerating,” Tim Walsh, the company’s US chair and CEO, told Business Insider.He said that many organizations are moving beyond pilot stages into implementation. The investments are taking place in what he called an “environment of disruption.”KPMG US…

A former Missouri House speaker was sentenced to 21 months in prison after admitting to misusing federal COVID-19 relief loans for personal expenses, prosecutors said on Monday, March 9.U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk also fined John J. Diehl Jr. $50,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri. Diehl, 60, pleaded guilty in September 2025 to wire fraud after he confessed to defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulently obtained COVID-19 pandemic loans, prosecutors said.Diehl formerly served as an alderman for Town and County, an affluent suburb…

When chef and cookbook author Sohla El-Waylly recently posted a simple one-pot mac and cheese with greens recipe on Instagram, she meant to offer busy families an easy weeknight win. Instead, El-Waylly quickly faced a barrage of comments criticizing her recipe’s alleged lack of protein. The response was strong enough that El-Waylly returned with a follow-up video to set the record straight — her recipe does, in fact, deliver plenty of protein.“I’m not saying that it’s healthy or high in protein — it’s mac and cheese,” she says in the video. “But I do think it’s important to remember that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today’s youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how the pandemic years have shaped their education, even though many had yet to set foot in a classroom when it began. First and second graders continue to perform worse than their pre-pandemic counterparts on math and reading tests, according to a report published Tuesday by the education assessment and research group NWEA. But while math scores have inched up every year, reading scores remain stagnant, the…

After two splashy Super Bowl commercials focused on making weight loss medication more accessible, Hims & Hers will no longer advertise compounded GLP-1 drugs, the company announced Monday. Instead, Hims & Hers reached an agreement with Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, to sell the company’s name-brand drugs through its telehealth platform, ending a lawsuit brought by the pharmaceutical company.Hims & Hers had also planned to sell a compounded version of Novo Nordisk’s oral semaglutide pill, but pulled the medication from its site only days after launch, following the Food and Drug Administration’s announcement that it would crack…

More than 30 OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees filed a statement Monday supporting Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. Defense Department after the federal agency labeled the AI firm a supply-chain risk, according to court filings. “The government’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was an improper and arbitrary use of power that has serious ramifications for our industry,” reads the brief, whose signatories include Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean. Late last week, the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk — usually reserved for foreign adversaries — after the AI firm refused to allow the Department of Defense…

Federal officials on Monday issued a recall for clams and raw oysters distributed in at least nine states due to concerns that they may be contaminated with norovirus, a contagious infection commonly known as the “stomach flu.”According to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the recalled clams were harvested by the Lummi Indian Business Council and were distributed to restaurants and food retailers in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Oregon and Washington. Other states also may have received the clams.The oysters, which were harvested by Drayton Harbor Oyster Company, were distributed to consumers in…

When it comes to coding, peer feedback is crucial for catching bugs early, maintaining consistency across a codebase, and improving overall software quality.  The rise of “vibe coding” — using AI tools that take instructions given in plain language and quickly generate large amounts of code — has changed how developers work. While these tools have sped up development, they have also introduced new bugs, security risks, and poorly understood code.  Anthropic’s solution is an AI reviewer designed to catch bugs before they make it into the software’s codebase. The new product, called Code Review, launched Monday in Claude Code.…

A Brazilian startup fund is betting that AI has made large headcounts and funding rounds unnecessary to compete on the global stage.Shiva, named for the Hindu god of transformation, has raised $10 million to back AI startups of one to three people — which it calls “Stars” — and arm them with monthly stipends rather than large, upfront checks.Brazilian entrepreneur Lucas Marques founded Shiva, backed by venture firm Monashees. He believes AI can create opportunities for founders from disadvantaged backgrounds by dramatically reducing operating costs.AI startup founders and Big Tech companies have increasingly shifted to forming smaller, nimble teams, favoring…