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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican leaders across the U.S. are encouraging chapters of the conservative political group Turning Point USA in all public high schools in the wake last year’s assassination of co-founder Charlie Kirk, an effort they describe as countering the oppression of conservative voices in education.The group’s endorsement by Republican governors — at least eight so far — has stirred debate about free speech in America’s schools, with critics arguing many of the same conservative leaders have sought to silence others with measures to restrict what teachers can say on sex education, LGBTQ+ issues and other topics.Adding to…
Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the startup behind Claude at as much as $800 billion in recent weeks, more than double its current valuation, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Loading audio narration… Buzzy startups frequently field preemptive offers from investors only to rebuff them.Still, the valuations VCs are floating indicate the feverish demand that has overtaken Silicon Valley for a stake in Anthropic as the company prepares for a possible IPO later this year.A spokesperson for Anthropic declined to comment.Anthropic closed a funding round in February led by GIC and Coatue that valued the…
Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders who also serves as Head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company had briefed the Trump administration about its new Mythos model. The model, announced last week, is so dangerous that it’s not being released to the public, largely due to its alleged powerful cybersecurity capabilities. In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Clark explained why the company was still engaged with the U.S. government while simultaneously suing them. This March, Anthropic filed a lawsuit against Trump’s Department of Defense (DOD) after the agency labeled the…
Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr. Murat Günel, chair of Yale Medical School’s Department of Neurosurgery, has signed on as a scientific adviser after two years of discussions. His goal is to surgically place the first sensor for a future interface — one that will eventually combine lab-grown neurons with electronics — into a patient’s brain. Science, founded in 2021, completed a $230 million Series C fundraising round last month that valued the company at $1.5…
Micro RGB is being positioned as the next big thing in TV technology. Its main selling point is its enhanced color, which is a step above even the best OLED, QLED, and Mini LED sets. Samsung was one of the first brands to release a Micro RGB TV last year with its giant 115-inch MR95F. That massive display cost an equally massive $30,000. And now, the brand is ready to bring Micro RGB to the masses with a much more affordable model: the R95H.The R95H is available for a starting price of $3,200, with sizes ranging from 65 to 85…
Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different web pages without having to type them in again. The feature ties into Google’s integration of its Gemini AI into Chrome, which arrived alongside a slate of new competitors in the browser ecosystem from companies like OpenAI (Atlas), Perplexity (Comet), and The Browser Company (Dia), among others. Gemini already allows users to ask questions about a web page, summarize its…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist pleaded guilty to sexual abuse charges Tuesday after an appeals court reversed his conviction earlier this year.James Heaps was originally sentenced in 2023 to 11 years in prison after being convicted of five counts of sexual battery and penetration involving two patients he saw while affiliated with the university. It was overturned by an appeals court in February, which ruled that Heaps was denied a fair trial because the judge did not share with his attorneys a note from the jury’s foreman sharing concerns about a juror’s English…
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Hampshire College, which includes award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, announced on Tuesday that it was closing later this year. The school’s Board of Trustees voted to close after the fall semester over what its president and the board described as “increasingly complex” financial pressure. In a statement put out by the board and its president, Jennifer Chrisler, the school said efforts to increase enrollment, refinance existing debt and bring in new revenue from land sales had fallen short.“The rationale behind this painful vote reflects several realities. The College no longer has the resources…
Mark Zuckerberg has a new perspective on the AI race — literally. Loading audio narration… The Meta CEO now has a desk among the company’s AI researchers that gives him a front-row seat to the company’s overhaul of its AI efforts. He’s also coding again.”Mark has actually moved his desk and is seated in the AI lab with Alex Wang and Nat Friedman, and he’s coding all day long,” Meta President Dina Powell McCormick said during an appearance at Semafor’s World Economy Summit in Washington, D.C.McCormick joked that, “On the one hand, they are sort of like, ‘Oh great, more…
The first StrictlyVC of the year will be coming to San Francisco before you know it! There are still a few tickets available to join us and our stacked speaker lineup April 30, at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center. On top of the mixing and mingling with the community StrictlyVC is known for, this upcoming event in the heart of SF will be of particular note for AI innovators and founders looking for the latest insights into obtaining funding. Who’s taking the stage You can get a ticket right now, but for those who haven’t been to a StrictlyVC event in the…