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

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

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The past two weeks have been defined by a clash between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the two battle over the military’s use of AI.  Anthropic refuses to allow its AI models to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or for fully autonomous weapons that conduct strikes without human input. At the same time, Secretary Hegseth has argued the Department of Defense shouldn’t be limited by the rules of a vendor, arguing any “lawful use” of the technology should be permitted. On Thursday, Amodei publicly signaled that Anthropic isn’t backing down – despite threats that his company could be designated as a supply chain risk as a result. But with the news cycle moving fast, it’s worth revisiting exactly what’s at stake in the fight. At its core, this fight is about who controls powerful AI systems — the companies that build them, or the government that wants to deploy them. What is Anthropic worried about? As we said above, Anthropic doesn’t want its AI models to be used …

Pentagon Anthropic feud has sales and AI warfare at stake as Friday deadline looms

Pentagon Anthropic feud has sales and AI warfare at stake as Friday deadline looms

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK, Feb 27 : A feud between the Pentagon and top artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is set to come to a head by 5:01 p.m. (2201 GMT) on Friday over concerns about how the military could use AI at war. The dispute, barreling toward a deadline set by the Pentagon for resolution, is widely seen as a referendum on how powerful AI could be deployed by the military and how its risks are managed. The Pentagon wants any lawful use to be allowed and has threatened Anthropic’s business if the startup does not scrap additional guardrails. “It’s a shot across the bow about the future of artificial intelligence and its use on the battlefield,” Chris Miller, the former acting secretary of defense, told Reuters. He added that the outcome will “be an acid test for those companies that claim to want to use AI humanely.” The months-long dispute has divided some industry leaders, military officials and lawmakers over whether AI should be wielded without constraints when its creator Anthropic said the technology was not …

Cristiano Ronaldo buys 25 percent stake in Spanish second-tier club Almeria | Football News

Cristiano Ronaldo buys 25 percent stake in Spanish second-tier club Almeria | Football News

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Almeria, relegated from La Liga in 2023-24, had been under the control of Saudi owners for more than six years. Listen to this article | 2 mins info Published On 26 Feb 202626 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Cristiano Ronaldo has bought a stake in Spanish second-division football club Almeria, according to a consulting firm representing the Portuguese athlete. Brunswick Group said in a statement on Thursday that Ronaldo bought a 25 percent share of the club that has a Saudi Arabian owner. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Ronaldo, 41, moved to Saudi Arabia to play for Al-Nassr at the end of 2022. “It has been a longtime ambition of mine to contribute to football, beyond the pitch. UD Almeria is a Spanish club with strong foundations and clear potential for growth,” Ronaldo said in the statement. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner, who spent ⁠nine years at Real Madrid and is the club’s all-time top goalscorer, bought the stake in Almeria through his …

Mobile Gaming Firm Scopely Buys Majority Stake in ‘Pixel Flow!’ Studio

Mobile Gaming Firm Scopely Buys Majority Stake in ‘Pixel Flow!’ Studio

Published by Daniella Wilson

Mobile gaming giant Scopely has struck a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Loom, the Istanbul-based development studio behind Pixel Flow!, a mobile puzzle game that launched in late 2025 and has already been played by more than 10 million people globally. Founded by CEO Kübra Gündoğan and chief technology officer Emre Çelik last year, the company’s game became the only casual game released in the last 12 months to break into the monthly top-20 grossing charts in the U.S., according to Scopely. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is understood that the deal features a multi-year, performance-based structure that values the business in excess of $1 billion. The Pixel Flow! team closed a seed financing round last year that included such investors as Arcadia Gaming Partners. “Pixel Flow! is only a few months into its journey, yet it’s already reached millions of players and climbed the top-grossing charts at remarkable speed,” said Tim O’Brien, chief revenue officer and board member at Scopely. “The combination of creativity, willingness to …

Memory-Holed? Western Digital Dumps Billion Sandisk Stock Stake

Memory-Holed? Western Digital Dumps $3 Billion Sandisk Stock Stake

Published by Jenni Sidey

Almost exactly a year after the spinoff officially closed on Feb. 24 last year, Western Digital is seeking to raise $3.09 billion from the sale of its remaining equity stake in Sandisk. While WDC has risen dramatically, SNDK has been on quite a tear since the spin-off… Chief Financial Officer Kris Sennesael said on Western Digital’s quarterly earnings call Jan. 29. that the company planned to sell its remaining 7.5 million Sandisk shares before the one-year anniversary of the separation. And so, according to a statement Sandisk launched the sale on behalf of its former parent in a statement Tuesday that didn’t disclose how many shares it would sell. According to the statement, Western Digital is expected to exchange the SanDisk shares for debt held by affiliates of JPMorgan and Bank of America. For now, WDC is flat in the after-hours trade but SNDK is down around 8%, extending the losses during the day… Amid a global shortage of flash memory, that has sent DRAM prices soaring since September, demand for Sandisk’s products, which are used …

Free speech at stake in Quran-burning case, NSS warns

Free speech at stake in Quran-burning case, NSS warns

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Extremists could be handed the “power to determine the limits of lawful expression” if a man who burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate has a conviction reinstated, the National Secular Society has warned. The High Court will on Tuesday hear an appeal from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to overturn a decision to quash the conviction of Hamit Coskun, who was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence in June. In February Coskun, a Turkish asylum seeker of Armenian and Kurdish heritage, burned a Quran outside the Turkish Consulate in London while shouting “Islam is religion of terrorism”. He said his demonstration was a protest against policies which are turning Turkey into a “base for radical Islamists”. He was then attacked by two men, one armed with a knife. The NSS, which is co-funding Coskun’s defence, said the law “should never be used to enforce religious orthodoxy”. Burning a book can amount to “legitimate political protest” Coskun was originally found guilty of an offence under Section 5 of the Public Order Act …

Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake

Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake

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Today, Meta went to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation on its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The state claims that Meta violated New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act by implementing design features and algorithms that created dangerous conditions for users. Now, more than two years after the case was filed, opening arguments have begun in Santa Fe. It’s a big week for Meta in court: A landmark social media trial kicks off in California today as well, the nation’s first legal test of social media addiction. That case is part of a “JCCP,” or judicial council coordinated proceedings, that brings together many civil suits that focus on similar issues. The plaintiffs in that case allege that social media companies designed their products in a negligent manner and caused various harms to minors using their apps. Snap, TikTok, and Google were named as defendants alongside Meta; Snap and TikTok have already settled. The fact that Meta has not means that some of the company’s top executives …

Politics Home Article | Survival Of ‘Your Party’ At Stake As Leadership Voting Opens

Politics Home Article | Survival Of ‘Your Party’ At Stake As Leadership Voting Opens

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4 min read1 hr A source close to Jeremy Corbyn has said ‘Your Party’ will not survive unless his supporters win power within it, as voting opens today for members to elect the party’s leadership. Members of the new party being founded by Corbyn, Independent Alliance MPs Ayoub Khan and Shockat Adam, and Zarah Sultana voted narrowly for a ‘collective leadership’ over a ‘single leader’ model during its founding conference in November. With MPs barred from leading the party, which has been deeply divided since it began, Your Party will instead be led formally by a 16-member committee, including a chair and deputy chair who must be lay members. But the contest has become a proxy for the battle between Corbyn and Sultana, who have clashed ever since the latter quit the Labour Party and joined the project last year. Two slates are battling it out: ‘The Many’, associated with the former Labour leader, and ‘Grassroots Left’, linked to Sultana. If successful, Grassroots Left intend to elect a ‘parliamentary convenor’, expected …

What is at stake in Thailand’s elections, as three parties vie for power?

What is at stake in Thailand’s elections, as three parties vie for power?

Published by Sam Flores

Vote counting is underway in Thailand’s early general election, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics. The battle for support from 53 million registered voters came against a backdrop of slow economic growth and heightened nationalist sentiment. Analysis by Bill Hayton, associate fellow in the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatam House. Keywords for this article Source link