The company had clashed with the military over how officials wanted to use its cutting-edge A.I. model. The order could vastly complicate intelligence analysis and defense work.“In a narrow set of cases, we believe A.I. can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values,” Dario Amodei, the chief e
The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.The Pentagon has said that a private contractor cannot decide how its tools will be lawfully used for national security.
Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.The Pentagon underestimated how strongly Anthropic felt, current and former defense officials said.
Philosophers have long wrestled with what to do about the onlookers and profiteers surrounding those who have done terrible things.
Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, was placed on leave on Friday after F.B.I. agents raided his home and district office this week.Alberto Carvalho has led the Los Angeles district since 2022.
The president expressed his negative view of the status of nuclear talks as he weighed military strikes against Iran.President Trump addressing reporters before leaving the White House for a trip to Texas on Friday.
The carrier has had mechanical problems throughout its eight-month deployment, but officials now say it is ready for battle. Take a look inside the ship.
The unrest underlines the intensity of domestic discontent, even as Tehran’s government grapples with the threat of U.S. strikes. Here’s what to know.An image taken from social media on Monday shows students gathering for an anti-government rally at the women-only Al Zahra University in Tehran.
A request made to President Trump about the war in Sudan is at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at an investment forum in Washington in November.
He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.Neil Sedaka performing onstage in London in 1977. He intersected in his career with a remarkably diverse array of musicians.
Any Lucia López Belloza was deported by mistake. A judge ordered her return by Friday. When the Trump administration sent a plane, she decided not to get on.A photo provided by Any Lucia López Belloza’s lawyer of her at her high school graduation.
The disabled man had been released from jail when federal officers showed up and drove him to a coffee shop. His family searched for him for days.U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents took a man with a visual impairment to a coffee shop in Buffalo and left him.
The newly indicted people join nine others, including Don Lemon, in facing charges in connection to a protest of President Trump’s immigration crackdown during a worship service.Demonstrators were arrested after disrupting a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., in January.
Federal agents do not have any special privileges on campuses. To arrest a student at Columbia University this week, they used a tactic of questionable legality.Barricades in front of the main entrance of Columbia University where protesters gathered on Thursday.
After a lifetime of settling for shame, secrecy and death onscreen, I had my doubts about “Heated Rivalry.” Then it seduced me, too.
For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people’s stories. Now, in “The Golden Boy,” she’s finally telling one of her own.“Life does have a way of rearranging your plans,” says Patricia Finn, in her Vancouver home,
Not long ago, Mr. Zaslav was widely criticized for his management of Warner Bros. Discovery. He overcame the doubters, cementing a blockbuster sale to Paramount.The deal will make David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, an even richer man.
If Paramount can close its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Larry and David Ellison will influence nearly every corner of news, entertainment and tech.Larry and David Ellison are poised to own a portfolio of companies that would put them in the orbit of superpowers like Disney.
The endorsement from the former vice president, her most significant since leaving office, comes as Ms. Crockett is facing a competitive Democratic primary contest against James Talarico.Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas at a campaign event last week in Houston.
From a Durham-area House race to three statehouse races, North Carolina liberals are signaling that their tolerance for Democratic stalwarts may be coming to an end.Chandler Roberts, 4, watched his grandfather, Nathan Roberts, fill out his ballot at an early voting site in Charlotte, N.C., amid a fl
Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.The lawyer Ben Crump, second from left, walking with Henrietta Lacks’s grandsons Ron Lacks, left, and Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, an
After a month with little visible progress, the sheriff in Pima County, Ariz., is sending some deputies back to their regular units.Nancy Guthrie’s house has become a magnet for the curious as the investigation has dragged on.
The justice participated remotely in a closed-door session of a legal conference, a reminder of the heightened threats facing jurists in recent years.Justice Clarence Thomas speaking in Washington in September. His planned in-person appearance at an event this week changed after a security threat, h
For 60 years, Charles FitzGerald has helped make the East Village an emblem of New York City’s counterculture.Charles FitzGerald in his apartment on St. Marks Place, where he has lived for more than half a century.
