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Anthropic Customers Creeped Out by Its Newest Models
Earlier this year, Anthropic started rolling out its latest Mythos AI model to a select number of organizations as part of a deliberately slow and careful launch. The goal was to give them a fighting chance to address any cybersecurity lapses in their code. Anthropic warned that Mythos was powerful enough to blast holes in…
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Sony takes final bow as a standalone TV maker with new Bravia sets
Sony Group Corp. unveiled two high-end televisions, likely the Japanese company’s last premium sets before its storied home theater business merges with TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd. next year. The Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II start at $3,600 and $1,600, respectively, and are being offered in a wide range of sizes, according to a…
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The real lesson of the E. Jean Carroll investigation is Trump’s weakness
Had you time-traveled back to 2023, and started telling people that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would soon be trying to imprison a woman who had accused him of rape, most would likely have dismissed it as a paranoid #resistance fantasy. Yet now, it appears to be reality. Reporting in both CNN and the New…
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DOJ subpoenas Reddit in effort to unmask Trump critics
The Justice Department is intensifying efforts to identify anonymous social media users who have criticized government deportation policies, issuing grand jury subpoenas to Reddit and X demanding names, addresses, and banking information. The US Attorney’s Office for Washington under Jeanine Pirro has subpoenaed the platforms as part of criminal investigations targeting at least two anonymous…
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Netflix Production Workers Ratify Contract With Animation Guild
Feature animation production workers at Netflix have ratified their first contract with The Animation Guild(IATSE Local 839), marking the latest step in the union’s efforts to organize animation production workers in Hollywood. 89% of workers in the bargaining unit voted on the contract, with the 89% in favor. TAG began organizing workers at the studio…
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Words of War
Decades ago, it was a truism that the 24/7 news cycle exercised a malign influence on policy making. It kept senior leaders fixated on a flickering television screen when their time would have been better spent weighing evidence, debating alternatives, and considering opposing views. All true. But today we contend with 24/7 commentary, which is…
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Chilean American stolen as a baby reunites with his mom and gets a second chance at family
MIAMI — Kyle Adler’s discovery that he was stolen from his Chilean mother as a baby came as a shock, sparking an identity crisis that lasted years and led to a reunion with his biological mother earlier this year. “It’s been so eye-opening to see who my people are,” Adler said. “I feel the love, I feel…
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New DHS chief faceplants as he tries to ‘win currency with the emperor’: analyst
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was brought into the fold to try and take the heat off the Trump administration and its “scandal-soaked predecessor, Kristi Noem” — but that hasn’t exactly panned out, an analyst reported on Thursday. The Bulwark‘s Andrew Egger wrote that Mullin appears to have followed in Noem’s footsteps, and he might…
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New ’60 Minutes’ EP Nick Bilton Shares First Staff Memo: ‘This Is the Best Job in Journalism’
Nick Bilton, the tech journalist and filmmaker who was appointed Thursday by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski as the new executive producer of “60 Minutes,” called the position the “best job in journalism” in his introductory memo to staff. “Walking into this building and putting my name on this job is…
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House Democrats to Introduce Bill to Block Trump’s Triumphal Arch Amid Backlash Over ‘Vanity’ Projects
President Donald Trump holds a model of the planned arch at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. —Jim Lo Scalzo––Getty Images House Democrats are set to introduce legislation aimed at blocking the construction of President Donald Trump’s planned 250-ft triumphal arch nearby Arlington National Cemetery. “Trump’s vanity project would waste taxpayer…