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"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road.  On ...

While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.

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The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.

Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand.

The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward. off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.

Many of hyperscalers have already made public commitments in to cover electricity cost increases.

The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products.

Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies—including bans on new construction.

Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google.

OpenAI introduced ads to ChatGPT earlier this month

The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners' data.

Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says.

The HR tech startup, which currently operates in Brazil, has raised a $17.25 million Series A.