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Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the 2025 World Economic Forum.Stefan Vermes | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAnthropic on Wednesday announced Claude Haiku 4.5, a compact artificial intelligence model available as a low-cost offering to all of its users. Anthropic says the model is fast and outperforms other large models that were considered state-of-the-art just a few months ago. For example, the Claude Haiku 4.5 is a better computer user than the Claude Sonnet 4, a mid-sized model the company launched in May. According to SWE-bench Verified, a test set that measures the software coding capabilities of AI systems,…

Kevin Federline says Britney Spears called ex Justin Timberlake the night before her weddingKevin Federline continues to share sides of himself. The former backup dancer claimed that ex-wife Britney Spears (with whom she shares sons Sean Preston Federline, 20, and Jayden James Federline, 19) called ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake the night before their wedding in September 2004. “The night before the wedding, we were in one of the Fairmont bungalows in Santa Monica,” Kevin recalled in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, published Oct. 14. I thought she was talking to her mom on the phone or something, and I thought maybe…

Chen Zhi, founder and CEO of Prince Group, was charged with overseeing a multinational “pig butchering” fraud operation.Provided by: U.S. Department of the TreasuryThe Justice Department seized approximately $15 billion worth of property. Bitcoin Prosecutors said Tuesday that the money was stored in a cryptocurrency wallet owned by a man who oversaw a massive Cambodia-based “pig butchering” fraud operation.The seizure is the largest forfeiture case ever pursued by the Department of Justice.On Tuesday, an indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Chen Zhi, an alleged pig butcher, with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.Ji, a…

Spotify on Wednesday upgraded its AI DJ feature available to premium subscribers, adding several new features, including the ability to send requests by typing instead of just voice commands. The feature supports requests in both English and Spanish, and Spotify’s Spanish DJ, DJ Livi, now accepts music requests. The AI ​​DJ feature was updated earlier this year, and instead of just playing songs that Spotify thinks you’ll like, it can now also accept voice requests. However, this feature was only available to English AI DJs until today. Due to the growing popularity of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini,…

President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Elon Musk on Friday, May 30, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, to mark the end of the Tesla CEO’s term as special government official overseeing U.S. Department of State Services. Tom Brenner Washington Post | Getty Imagesgeneral motors Tuesday’s announcement that its next quarterly results will include a $1.6 billion charge from electric vehicle investments is the latest in a series of troubling EV-related disclosures by major automakers.ford Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley said late last month that demand for all-electric vehicles was expected to be…

dubai Reuters — A lower Iranian court has sentenced two French nationals accused of spying for France and Israel to heavy prison terms, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday, a week after Paris and the Iranian government showed progress in talks for their release. Cecile Kohler and his partner Jacques Paris are the only French nationals detained in Iran, where they have been held since 2022. Renato Montellos, an 18-year-old French-German cyclist who was arrested this year, was released last week after a court acquitted him of espionage charges. Without naming the defendants, the court sentenced a French…

Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian are in the new season. The model and Keeping Up With the Kardashians star have hinted that their romance may be back on track, eight years after their engagement was called off. Blac Chyna (real name Angela White) took to Instagram on October 14th to share a series of photos of herself wearing a short white lace set and posing in a white Ferrari. But it was the caption that caught fans’ attention, with Chyna writing, “This love is forever @robkardashianofficial,” along with an infinite emoji. Meanwhile, Rob has largely stayed away from social media,…

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Tuesday that President Donald Trump could impose 100% tariffs on China on Nov. 1 or sooner, depending on Beijing’s next move in the rare earth dispute.”A lot depends on what the Chinese do,” Greer said in an interview with CNBC. “They are the ones who chose to do this massive escalation.”Last week, China announced sweeping restrictions on rare earth exports that, if implemented, could disrupt the U.S. defense, technology, semiconductor and auto industries.President Trump retaliated by threatening massive tariffs that would effectively halt trade between the world’s two largest economies. However, the…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be held at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27th to 29th, and the expo hall is filling up quickly. There are only three days left to reserve, so now is the time to reserve your exhibit table before a competitor takes over. This is your opportunity to showcase your innovation to investors, founders, media, and technology leaders who are actively looking for the next big idea, investment, and solution. The bustling Expo Hall is where all of Disrupt’s foot traffic comes from, and that’s exactly where you are. Register now by October 17th at…

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government will survive to see another day. After high-stakes policy speeches and Tuesday’s budget announcement, the Socialist Party (PS) said it would not join the effort to overthrow the government, handing a temporary lifeline tied to interests to the 39-year-old prime minister, who resigned days earlier and was reelected on Friday. In a speech to parliament, L’Ecornu promised to cancel French President Emmanuel Macron’s signature pension reform. This policy would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, and its abolition has been a totemic demand of the left. The prime minister said the cost…