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Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emile Michael said Thursday that Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model “contaminates” the Pentagon’s supply chain because it incorporates “different policy preferences.””We cannot allow companies with different policy preferences that are built into their models, through their constitution and their soul and their policy preferences, to contaminate our supply chain so that our warfighters are getting ineffective weapons, ineffective body armor, ineffective body armor,” Michael said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “That’s where the supply chain risk designation comes from.” Anthropic is the first U.S. company to be publicly certified for supply chain risk, an unusual step historically…

Western intelligence officials say Russia is aiding Iran in the Ukraine war with advanced drone tactics to attack U.S. and Gulf targets in the Middle East. The Shahed drone, designed by Iran and mass-produced by Moscow for use in Ukraine, has had unexpected success in penetrating Gulf states’ air defenses. Russia’s intelligence sharing with Iran has previously been reported as general targeting assistance. Specific tactical advice would represent a new level of potentially lethal support. “What used to be more general assistance, such as the UAS (unmanned aerial vehicle) targeting strategy that Russia has adopted in Ukraine, is now becoming…

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Palantir As the clash between the artificial intelligence startup and the Department of Defense unfolds, the company is still using Anthropic’s Claude, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC on Thursday.”The Department of the Army has a plan to phase out Anthropic, but it is not being phased out at this time,” Karp told CNBC’s Seema Modi at Palantir’s AIPcon 9 in Maryland. “Our product is integrated with Anthropic and may be integrated with other large language models in the future.”As CNBC previously reported, the Pentagon formally designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk last week, but is still using the Claude…

When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At the time, the concept of AI agents was still largely experimental and error-prone. As AI technology has matured, so have Gumloop’s services. The company claims that teams at organizations like Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Samsara, Instacart, and Opendoor can now deploy reliable AI agents that autonomously handle complex, multi-step tasks without the need for engineers. Employees can share the agents they build with colleagues, creating a compounding effect that accelerates internal automation. “They get addicted and start building more and more…

Photo: Jaromir Chalabala/GettyBritish regulators are calling on social media giants to implement stricter protections for children on their platforms after lawmakers rejected a blanket ban on under-16s.Online safety group Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office announced Thursday that they have written to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, asking them to address a range of child safety issues, from introducing strict age verification measures to tackling child grooming on their platforms.The move comes after British MPs voted against a proposal to include a social media ban for under-16s in the Child Welfare Bill being debated earlier this month.The UK government…

37. We all know the age-old question celebrities are asked: Who is their celebrity crush? Well, it turns out Aniston is the answer for quite a few men in Hollywood. Riverdale’s two male leads, KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse, nursed unrequited love for her. Although Apa never saw an episode of Friends, he admitted to Cosmopolitan that he’s obsessed with Aniston, and Sprouse recalled co-starring with Aniston on the sitcom (he played Ross’ son Ben, along with his twin brother Dylan). “It was really, really hard to work with her because I loved her so much,” he told the New…

Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed has signed with Indian-owned Sunrisers Leeds in the English Cricket Hundred auction.listen to this article | 2 minutesinformationPublished March 12, 2026March 12, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationLeg-spinner Abrar Ahmed was sold to Sunrisers Leeds for £190,000 ($254,000) in The Hundred’s men’s auction despite concerns that the Indian-owned team would avoid signing the Pakistani cricketer.In February, media reports suggested that Manchester Super Giants, MI London, Southern Brave and Sunrisers Leeds would not consider signing Pakistani players for UK-based competitions amid tensions between neighbors India and Pakistan.Recommended stories list…

Amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, a ship is illuminated by flames from a burning ship after an Iranian explosives-laden boat appears to have attacked and set ablaze two fuel tankers in Iraqi waters, according to a port, maritime security and risk company.This screenshot was taken from a distributed video released on March 12, 2026.Iraq Port Media Office | ReutersOvernight, three more foreign ships were attacked in the Persian Gulf, authorities said, as attacks on ships passing through or near the strategic Strait of Hormuz intensified.The incident comes after three ships were damaged in Gulf waters on Wednesday, with Iran…

Hollywood is after the money. The 2026 awards season has been building up to Hollywood’s biggest night, aka the 98th Oscars, and that special night is finally upon us. The annual Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 15, and will be hosted by Conan O’Brien, honoring the year’s best achievements in filmmaking and acting. It’s no surprise, then, that many stars who have appeared in some of the most talked about films of the past 12 months will be appearing on the red carpet this weekend as nominees. The nominees…