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 deal came hours after President Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an OpenAI rival.Sam Altman of OpenAI, which reached an agreement with the Department of Defense on A.I. on classified systems on Friday.
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.
The former president sat for hours of questioning by members of both parties, in an appearance that Democrats signaled they would use as a precedent to force President Trump to do the same.Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, with other Republican
Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, was placed on paid leave after F.B.I. agents raided his home and district office this week.Alberto Carvalho has led the Los Angeles district since 2022.
President Trump said he had not made a final decision about whether to order military action 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.
The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.Neil Sedaka at home in California last summer, when he was playing a residency at a lounge called Vitello’s.
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.
During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.President Trump greeted diners at a fast-food restaurant in Corpus Christi on Friday. In the days after a State of the Union address, preside
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
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.
Elmina Aghayeva has 114,000 followers on Instagram and has seemingly never posted about politics, unlike other Columbia University students detained by immigration officers.Federal immigration officials detained Columbia University student Elmina Aghayeva at a university-owned building on Thursday.
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.
Prime Minister Mark Carney visits India, Australia and Japan seeking deals to strengthen his country’s links to Indo-Pacific powers and break Canada’s dependence on the United States.Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, arriving in Mumbai, India, on Friday.
In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, outside federal court in Seattle in 2024 at his sentencing for violating an anti-money-laundering law.
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.
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.
