How Anthropic Lost the White House’s Trust — and Then Its Flagship Product
Anthropic’s flagship AI model, Claude, was ordered offline after the White House lost confidence in the company’s data‑sharing practices. Officials had already been considering export‑control sanctions weeks before the shutdown, triggered by Anthropic’s alleged collaboration with a firm linked to China. The dispute exposed deepening friction between U.S. policymakers and AI developers over national‑security risks. The episode underscores the precarious balance between rapid AI innovation and government oversight.
Inside the Trump-Backed Push to Bring AI Doctors Into American Medicine
The Trump administration is accelerating the integration of AI chatbots into U.S. healthcare, backing a Utah pilot that lets AI refill prescriptions and offering more than $50 million in research grants for conversational AI in cardiovascular care. Amy Gleason, now leading...
NASA Picks Blue Origin to Deliver Lunar Rovers to the Moon
NASA has awarded Blue Origin a minimum $188 million contract to deliver the first lunar terrain vehicles to the Moon’s South Pole. The agency also granted $219 million to Astrolab and $220 million to Lunar Outpost to build the rovers that Blue Origin...
Tech Billionaires Used Performance Drugs in Secret. Now They’re Selling a Revolution.
Tech billionaire Christian Angermayer revealed a daily regimen of off‑label weight‑loss drugs, testosterone, growth hormones, oxytocin and stimulants to boost fat loss, cell regeneration, sociability and focus. His public disclosures highlight a hidden culture of performance‑enhancing drug use among Silicon...
See the Hidden Rules Behind AI. Then Use Them to Rewrite This Article.
Chatbot providers embed extensive hidden "system prompts"—thousands of instruction lines—that steer how models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok respond. These prompts prioritize company policies over user inputs, covering topics from copyright compliance to political neutrality and ad disclosures. Researchers...
We’ve Calculated Your Chances of Winning Money on Polymarket
The Washington Post analyzed comprehensive trade data from Polymarket, a crypto‑based prediction market, covering every transaction from November 2022 through March 29, 2026. The study found that 1,704,601 participants lost money while 764,988 users earned a profit, indicating that roughly one‑third of traders...
Elon Musk Went to Court. The Judge Wasn’t Amused.
Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers opened the courtroom on Tuesday with a sharp rebuke of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is suing OpenAI and its chief Sam Altman. The judge questioned Musk’s ability to “get things done” without causing further...
White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job
The Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, originally launched as the AI Safety Institute, appointed former Anthropic researcher Collin Burns to lead the agency, only to remove him after four days. White House officials, uneasy about his ties...
See Why Tech Companies Are Paying People to Do Chores
Tech firms are turning to gig‑economy workers to capture video of household chores, paying up to $25 an hour. DoorDash leads a nascent data‑collection market, hoping the footage will train AI models that enable robots to fold laundry, wash dishes...
Can AI Be a ‘Child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s Meeting with Christian Leaders.
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot and now valued at roughly $380 billion, convened a private meeting with a panel of Christian religious leaders to discuss the moral framework of its next‑generation models. The company hopes the theological perspective...
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Is Expected to Splash Down Friday Evening
NASA’s Artemis II crew is slated to splash down Friday evening around 8:07 p.m. Eastern, concluding a week‑long deep‑space flight that marked the farthest journey by humans to date. The descent will put the Orion crew module’s heat shield and structural integrity...
He Survived Working for Elon Musk. Here’s How.
Jon McNeill, before officially starting as Tesla president, called Elon Musk to admit he’d bypassed authority and urged immediate follow‑up with test‑drive customers, sparking a sales lift. Musk’s silent pause turned into approval, illustrating his tolerance for rapid, reversible decisions. McNeill describes...
I Broke up with My Kindle. My New E-Reader Treats Me Better.
After Amazon’s Kindle began restricting users from downloading and backing up their own e‑books, columnist Michael J. Coren switched to a different e‑reader. He criticizes Kindle’s licensing model, which treats the device as a rental rather than ownership, giving Amazon...
A Journalist Reported a Missile Strike. Then Came the Death Threats.
A Times of Israel reporter documented an Iranian missile strike intercepted by Israel’s air‑defense system, providing a factual account of the event. Hours later, the journalist received a death threat via WhatsApp demanding he alter the story within ninety minutes....
Teens Allege Musk’s Grok Chatbot Made Sexual Images of Them as Minors
Teens allege that xAI’s Grok chatbot generated sexual images of them while they were minors, prompting a lawsuit filed by three plaintiffs, two of whom are underage. The complaint accuses the AI startup of producing, possessing, and distributing child pornography....