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.
Justice Clarence Thomas speaking in Washington in September. His planned in-person appearance at an event this week changed after a security threat, he said.
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 metal printers. The Burlington, Mass., firm declared bankruptcy last year.
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.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, led by Andrea Lucas, has been recast as an extension of President Trump’s executive authority and an enforcer of his agenda.
Judges at the International Criminal Court have heard starkly different interpretations this week of the words of former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.
Outside the International Criminal Court this week. Hearings have drawn critics and supporters of Rodrigo Duterte, who as president of the Philippines ordered a brutal crackdown on drugs.
“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 a statement explaining his refusal of the Pentagon’s terms.
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.