- After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that a start-up providing AI to the U.S. military was a security risk, rivals including Elon Musk pledged to patriotically fill the gap.
- The billionaire Tesla CEO has called for accountability for figures named in the Epstein files — despite appearing in them himself.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” blocking all federal agencies and contractors from doing business with the company.
- The incident, which prompted the closure of airspace near Fort Hancock, Texas, occurred weeks after the use of a counter-drone laser by DHS personnel grounded flights at the El Paso airport.
- Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.
- Proposals before the FCC involve mirrors that could bathe entire cities in sunlight and, from SpaceX, a million satellites to serve as data centers.
- NASA is now looking at an April launch at the earliest for Artemis II, its first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years.