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.
The A.I. firm had rejected military officials’ latest offer. Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. on Friday to give them unrestricted access to its model.“In a narrow set of cases, we believe A.I. can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values,” Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said in
The political class is worried about the historic drop. But the biggest change is among the youngest women, who are the least ready to have children.
There is good news buried behind the worries about population decline, some experts say.The U.S. birthrate, which is at a record low, has caused consternation among policymakers and politicians.
Philosophers have long wrestled with what to do about the onlookers and profiteers surrounding those who have done terrible things.
Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up.People walked past a missile system and banners of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in Tehran last year.
Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger maps Iran’s options for retaliation if the United States or Israel strikes.
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.
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.
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.
Our reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs examines the context of a moment in the State of the Union speech when President Trump turned to a favorite tactic on immigration.
After the downing of a Customs and Border Protection drone, the F.A.A. closed the airspace above Fort Hancock, Texas.A police officer walked with a police dog at El Paso International Airport, after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration lifted its temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso ea
A federal judge must decide whether she will approve the request. Prosecutors cited a pattern of intimidation against witnesses as a reason for dropping some of the charges in the sex-trafficking trial.Federal prosecutors have argued that the three brothers violently raped and sexually assaulted doz
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 move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.Paramount Pictures in Hollywood.
Paramount’s apparent victory over Netflix in securing Warner Bros. Discovery has led to concerns within the CNN newsroom.Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief executive, urged staff members not to “jump to conclusions” about Paramount’s offer for the network’s parent, Warner Bros. Discovery.
The agency still offers a Free File program that works with commercial tax software firms. Some companies also offer free tools for certain filers.
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 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,
Desktop Metal, a billion-dollar start-up, promised to revolutionize manufacturing. It went bankrupt, and now has much humbler ambitions as the 3-D printing industry takes a sober turn.Jonah Myerberg, co-founder and chief technology officer at Desktop Metal, with one of the company’s industrial 3-D m
For a long time, I was angry at my mom for not vaccinating me.
Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.
