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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late on Friday that his company has reached an agreement allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI models in the department’s classified network. This follows a high-profile standoff between the department — also known under the Trump administration as the Department of War — and OpenAI’s rival Anthropic. The Pentagon pushed AI companies, including Anthropic, to allow their models be used “all lawful purposes,” while Anthropic sought to draw a red line around mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. In a lengthy statement released Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Anthropic was exercising its right to free speech when it said no to the Pentagon’s terms of use for its frontier model, Claude.”We exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government. Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world, and we are patriots in everything we have done here,” Amodei said in an interview with CBS News that aired on Saturday morning.”We have stood up for the values of this country,” he said.In a blog post on Thursday, Amodei said the company could not “in…

For Black people living with Tourette syndrome, the British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards incident earlier this week where a vocal tic manifested as a racial slur while two Black stars of the movie “Sinners” were onstage has left them with complicated feelings.“It’s been pretty difficult because I feel like there’s such a clash between both sides,” said Chloe Winston, 24, who experiences coprolalia, the same verbal tic as John Davidson, the BAFTA nominee and Tourette syndrome advocate who yelled the slur. “A tic is not intentional, but it still causes harm. And I think that does require accountability.”Davidson’s…

Emma Operacz was enjoying her summer. She was a semester away from graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in psychology. She had a thriving social life, two jobs that kept her busy, and was the life of every party.Then, in June 2024, Operacz noticed symptoms of what she thought was a urinary tract infection as she attended an old friend’s college graduation in Milwaukee. She took an over-the-counter medication and tried to ignore the annoyance in her otherwise stellar weekend.A week later, she was still having symptoms. Prescribed antibiotics didn’t help. Operacz began to feel pain in her…

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Saddy Abaunza Delgado has sold luxury real estate in South Florida for over three decades, typically to doctors or family business owners ready to spend as much as $8 million on a home in the Miami area.Almost overnight, that’s changed. Her phones are ringing with billionaires — titans of tech and finance — looking to drop nine figures on waterfront properties.”I got a flurry of requests and inquiries,” Delgado, who has landed two billionaire clients recently, told Business Insider. “I had a lot of Zoom calls with people coming in January after the holidays.”While the Florida migration among everyday people…

Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer who rose to prominence by lambasting traditional medicine and accusing pharmaceutical companies of corruption, bore little resemblance to her online persona Wednesday when she appeared before the Senate.In measured comments before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to discuss her nomination for surgeon general, Means sidestepped questions on vaccines, birth control and pesticides — subjects she has often depicted as dangerous to human health — at times visibly frustrating lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.“Do you believe that there is evidence that the flu vaccine prevents serious disease or that it…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Social media is filled with influencers rating electrolyte supplements or even telling followers how to make their own. But experts say many of the claims about the health benefits of these drinks need to be taken with a grain of salt.Electrolytes are electrically charged substances that help regulate chemical reactions in the body. In the context of hydration, they balance fluid levels inside and outside of cells, said Julia Zumpano, a registered dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic.We lose some electrolytes through sweat, primarily sodium chloride — which is what is in table salt. Drinking too much…

In the months before Block CEO Jack Dorsey laid off 40% of staff on Thursday, workers were embracing AI tools in what one called an almost “celebratory” way.Dorsey and other company leaders had made no secret of their interest in AI, but the company was profitable, and some workers couldn’t imagine the technology fully replacing humans at scale any time soon, they told Business Insider.Still, there were pockets of unease. Block, the parent company of financial tech firms including Cash App and Square, had executed a series of smaller performance-based cuts in previous months. At least one employee said he’d…

The Department of Defense is moving to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk, a significant escalation by the government that could threaten how the AI startup does business with other US-based companies.In an X post on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that he would be directing his department to label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security.””Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth said in the post.The move, which amounts to a blacklisting of a US-based company, came shortly after President Donald Trump…