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In February, the Trump administration designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and blacklisted the artificial intelligence firm from federal contracting after it refused to loosen restrictions on the use of its models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Nearly a year later, however, it is still unclear whether the Pentagon has found an…

No job is secure from the advent of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth. In a lengthy post detailing how the Dutch government plans to improve efficiency, it announced that it would get rid of 25,000 full time jobs over the span of a few years as part of cost-cutting measures. As part of that effort, the…

Anthropic is building the same kind of cross-product ecosystem that helped make tech companies like Amazon and Uber enormously sticky, and its S-1 suggests the strategy is working. More than half of customers spending at least $100,000 annually now use both the Claude platform and a first-party app like Claude Code or Cowork, up from…

Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees, according to reports from Business Insider and Bloomberg. The move marks Microsoft’s latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce for AI.

If you’ve wished you could play games on your car’s large display rather than on your phone while waiting for your kids to finish practice at whatever sport they’re into, you’ll be happy to know that you can. If you’ve got an Android phone and Android Auto in your car, then you’re set to go,…

Say what you will about Roku in light of its impending takeover by Fox, but its products are a model of simplicity. There’s nothing cryptic about its hardware or software controls, and for the most part, Roku has resisted the temptation to jam its OS full of unnecessary visual flair or recommendations. You can be…

After weeks of leaked S-1s, Anthropic finally filed for an initial public offering on Monday, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched public debuts in modern U.S. history. 

Over the past decade, head-to-head brain games like QuizUp rocketed in popularity, reaching at one point millions of users. After that, battle royale games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds had their moment in the spotlight. Lately, growth of mobile games has slowed down amid a barrage of AI content across platforms. Now, the India-based gaming…

Apple isn’t waiting for its “Pro and Tell” event to unveil new hardware. On Monday morning, the company announced the 2026 iPad mini. The new tablet has 8.5-inch OLED display, which Apple will allow customers to spec with its nano-texture coating. On paper, the new panel is a substantial upgrade. According to Apple, it’s capable…

Car rental giant Turo will start advertising which Teslas on its marketplace are outfitted with the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) — or FSD, a collaboration that could boost further adoption of the driving software.