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Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-21 04:30:34

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, is trying to carve out a spot as the Good Guy in the AI space. Fresh off being the only major AI firm to throw its support behind an AI safety bill in California, the company grabbed a headline from Semafor thanks to its apparent refusal to allow its model to be used for surveillance tasks, which is pissing off the Trump administration. According to the report, law enforcement agencies have felt stifled by Anthropic’s usa

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Anthropic endorses California’s AI safety bill, SB 53

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-08 00:51:33

On Monday, Anthropic announced an official endorsement of SB 53, a California bill from state Senator Scott Wiener that would impose first-in-the-nation transparency requirements on the world’s largest AI model developers. Anthropic’s endorsement marks a rare and major win for SB 53, at a time when major tech groups like CTA and Chamber for Progress are lobbying against the bill. “While we believe that frontier AI safety is best addressed at the federal level instead of a patchwork of state reg

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Is Local AI the Unexpected Fix to the Obsolescence of Robot Vacuums?

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-08 14:00:25

During a presentation at IFA 2025, Deebot parent company Ecovacs (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Ecovacs, but Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip) said repeatedly that its new X11 OmniCyclone robot vacuum‘s AI smarts are all on-device. Or the bulk of them are, anyway. I returned to the booth later and spoke with a couple of the company’s representatives to try to figure out exactly how divorced from the cloud the Deebot X11 OmniCyclone tr

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This New Ecovacs Robot Vac Uses AI for Something Useful, but It Doesn’t Come Cheap

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-11 20:38:18

AI is in seemingly every new technology product at IFA 2025. Just look at the Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone, a new Matter-compatible robot vacuum that uses AI to automatically adjust its cleaning schedule to suit you. The cleaning bot also has more robotics packed into it, with a sticky-outy bit for better edge cleaning, and it can climb low transitions. And it’s available in the U.S. today for a collar-tugging $1,499.99 ($1,299.99 if you buy it in the next 10 days as of this writing). Ecovacs

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Why zero trust is never 'done' and is an ever-evolving process

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-26 04:15:25

Picture this scenario: Six months after celebrating their "zero trust transformation," a financial services firm gets hit with a devastating breach. Attackers waltzed through a supply chain vulnerability in a third-party API, bypassing all those carefully configured identity controls . The firm ticked every checkbox and met every requirement - yet here they are, scrambling to contain customer data exposure. But wasn’t zero trust supposed to protect them? The truth is zero trust isn’t a project

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Here’s Why Crypto Set the Market on Fire Yesterday

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-30 20:56:24

Cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed into new territory Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled that interest rate reductions could be imminent, pushing the Dow to its first 800-point plus gain this year. That ended the Dow’s longest streak without a new high since Dec. 4, 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data, and signaled a major surge of optimism at the prospect of some economic policy relief. Cryptos were major stars of that rally. Ethereum (ETH) climbed over 15% to reac

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Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-31 15:25:30

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small packages, have resulted in postal services across the world simply choosing not to ship to the United States until things get sorted out, according to Bloomberg. Central to th

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Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-14 06:05:16

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic has updated the usage policy for its Claude AI chatbot in response to growing concerns about safety. In addition to introducing stricter cybersecurity rules, Anthropic now specifies some of the most dangerous weapons that people should not develop usin

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Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

technologyreview.com Johanna M. Costigan 2025-11-15 15:00:00

Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-contested issue of the island’s sovereignty. After losing the first Sino-Japanese War in the late 1800s, the Qing dynasty forfeited Taiwan to Japanese imperial control. It was Japan’s “model colony” until 1945, when postwar negotiations resulted in its transfer to the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Party, known as the KMT. The insurgent CCP under Mao Zedong ultimately defeated the Natio

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-17 06:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft originally encouraged its employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak in 2020. This new flexible working arrangement then became an official “hybrid workplace” policy several months after the pandemic began, allowing managers to approve permanent remote work. Now that the pandemic has settled into endemicity, Microsoft wants employees to return to the of

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Google Play Store Bans Wallets That Don't Have Banking License

news.ycombinator.com The Rage 2025-11-19 10:47:24

Google Play Store has introduced a policy that requires any software wallet developer to obtain a license before publishing cryptocurrency wallet apps to the Google Play Store "to ensure a safe and compliant ecosystem for users." The policy targets 15 jurisdictions, including the European Union and the United States, laying out which regulations Google Play Store expects software wallet developers to comply with. This includes being a registered Money Service Business with FinCEN in the US, as

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Hundreds of agencies tap Atherton surveillance system for feds; Fails own rules

news.ycombinator.com Arden Margulis 2025-12-14 11:11:29

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Flock license plate reader in Ladera on Nov. 9, 2023. License plate readers have been cropping up all over the Peninsula. Photo by Angela Swartz. As concern grows around federal immigration enforcement in the Trump era, the town of Atherton is sharing sensitive surveillance data with police departments that do not conform with California law and Atherton’s own policies. The town has around 50 cameras from Atlanta-based surveillance company Flock Sa

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What to expect from Debian/Trixie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:27:38

Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025. I was the driving force at several of my customers to be well prepared for the upcoming stable release (my efforts for trixie started in August 2024). On the one hand, to make sure packages we care about are available and actually make it into the release. On the other hand, to ensure there are no severe issues that make it into the release and to get proper and working upgrades. So far eve

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Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-12-30 04:07:29

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Ensuring AI reflects “objective truth,” slashing onerous regulations, disseminating US AI tools around the world, and fast-tracking AI infrastructure: this is all part of President Donald Trump’s vision for AI policy. The White House unveiled its “AI Action Plan” Wednesday ahead o

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Wheel World is the feel-good game of the summer

theverge.com Lewis Gordon 2025-12-30 21:00:00

Momentum is what Wheel World does best. It is the feeling of reaching a downhill section of road, a pristine Sega-blue sea stretching out in the far distance, and letting gravity, the weight of your bicycle, and slope do all the work. Release the right trigger, the button used to peddle, and simply careen down the gently curving asphalt. It’s as if you’re flying — the wind in your hair and shirt fluttering on your back, coasting to wherever the road takes you. Wheel World is an undeniably feel-

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What to Expect from Debian/Trixie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:27:38

Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025. I was the driving force at several of my customers to be well prepared for the upcoming stable release (my efforts for trixie started in August 2024). On the one hand, to make sure packages we care about are available and actually make it into the release. On the other hand, to ensure there are no severe issues that make it into the release and to get proper and working upgrades. So far eve

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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

news.ycombinator.com Italo Vignoli 2026-01-05 23:22:45

Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our services and products. As the protection of your personal data is an important concern for us, please click on the "More information" link to access our Privacy Policy page - which will open in a separate browser tab - where we explain what information we collect during your visit to our website, how it is processed, and whether or how it may be used. Once you have carefully read our Privacy Policy page, close the browser tab to return

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Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-21 21:07:11

When OpenAI was having its ChatGPT moment in 2022, Joe Scheidler, co-founder and CEO of Helios, was tackling a different kind of challenge: Helping build the White House’s newly authorized cybersecurity office and navigating the complexities of public-private coordination on cyber policies. His current co-founder, Joseph Farsakh, was also at the State Department, working on Yemen Houthi peace negotiations. The two overlapped in national security discussions and started trading notes on how larg

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YouTube ‘clarifies’ its plan to demonetize spammy AI slop

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-25 11:42:25

YouTube is trying to soothe concerns about an incoming update to its monetization policies following backlash from online creators. An announcement that YouTube would be updating restrictions around “inauthentic” content under the YouTube Partner Program guidelines was interpreted by some to mean the platform was planning to demonetize a wider variety of videos, including those using AI-generated content, clips, and reactions. Now, YouTube is seeking to clarify the situation. “YouTube has alway

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TSA Will Reportedly Let You Keep Your Shoes on at Security Checks

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-29 06:10:40

In an age of seemingly endless bad news, there appears to be one positive development to report: you won’t have to take your shoes off at airports anymore. The New York Times reports that the Transportation Security Administration has nixed the rule that requires passengers to remove their shoes while heading through security. The development was first announced by Gate Access, a newsletter that is written by a former TSA officer. The Times says a “source familiar with the matter who spoke on c

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TSA May Soon Let You Keep Your Shoes On During Security Screening

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 11:42:05

One of the most annoying parts of the airport security routine -- taking off your shoes -- might soon come to an end for flyers. The US Transportation Security Administration is quietly testing a new policy that allows passengers to keep their shoes on during standard security screening, The Wall Street Journal reports. The change hasn't been formally announced by the agency, but was first reported by Gate Access, a travel newsletter written by a former TSA officer. The TSA did not immediately

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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Eric Jang 2026-01-31 02:31:17

Generalizing to what you want may be easier than optimizing directly for what you want. We might even ask for "consciousness". This blog post outlines a key engineering principle I’ve come to believe strongly in for building general AI systems with deep learning. This principle guides my present-day research tastes and day-to-day design choices in building large-scale, general-purpose ML systems. Discoveries around Neural Scaling Laws, unsupervised pretraining on Internet-scale datasets, and o

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OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

news.ycombinator.com Aileen Mendez 2026-02-02 05:24:00

Breaking News – July 3, 2025 Today, the House passed the Senate’s version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), marking a significant overhaul to federal tax policy. The signing reflects a major pivot in legislative priorities toward domestic production and pro-business tax policy. The new law restores 100% bonus depreciation, reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D, terminates dozens of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean energy programs, and permanently extends individual ta

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Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-16 02:15:31

What can a comet tell us about the Universe? Vomit Comet Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet — possibly the largest ever discovered — and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is 85 miles in diameter, far bigger than the six-mile asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs, according to a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. But thankfully, it's pretty far away — in the vicinity of Nept

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-02-16 21:59:19

Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss. Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and

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New Firefox Add-On Policies

news.ycombinator.com Scott Devaney 2026-02-26 05:59:38

We’ve updated Add-on policies for addons.mozilla.org (AMO). Here’s a summary of the changes and their impact on AMO’s publishing process. Our main objective was to simplify and clarify Add-on policies for the developer community. The following policy updates will take effect on 4 August, 2025. “Closed group” prohibition lifted Closed group extensions are typically intended for internal or private use among a relatively small group of users. In the past AMO did not allow closed group extensions

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Etsy Is Clamping Down on 3D Printed Products. Here's How It Could Affect You

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-01 14:30:00

It feels like everyone needs a side hustle these days. If your hobby can help make you some extra income, it seems like a no-brainer to at least try and do it. 3D printing, laser engraving and using vinyl cutters like the famous Cricut machine all give you a chance to make something beautiful, unique and sellable. Etsy has been the storefront of choice for almost 20 years, and despite other options being available, it still boasts 8.13 million active sellers in 2025, according to a recent Contim

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Q-learning is not yet scalable

news.ycombinator.com Seohong Park 2026-03-13 20:56:54

Does RL scale? Over the past few years, we've seen that next-token prediction scales, denoising diffusion scales, contrastive learning scales, and so on, all the way to the point where we can train models with billions of parameters with a scalable objective that can eat up as much data as we can throw at it. Then, what about reinforcement learning (RL)? Does RL also scale like all the other objectives? Apparently, it does. In 2016, RL achieved superhuman-level performance in games like Go and C

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How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-12 05:59:54

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Very small language models (SLMs) can outperform leading large language models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks, according to a new study by Shanghai AI Laboratory. The authors show that with the right tools and test-time scaling techniques, an SLM with 1 billion parameters can outperform a 405B LLM on complicated math benchmarks. The ability to deploy SLMs in complex reasoni

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Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America

Anthropic endorses California’s AI safety bill, SB 53

Is Local AI the Unexpected Fix to the Obsolescence of Robot Vacuums?

This New Ecovacs Robot Vac Uses AI for Something Useful, but It Doesn’t Come Cheap

Why zero trust is never 'done' and is an ever-evolving process

Here’s Why Crypto Set the Market on Fire Yesterday

Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

Google Play Store Bans Wallets That Don't Have Banking License

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What to expect from Debian/Trixie

Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything

Wheel World is the feel-good game of the summer

What to Expect from Debian/Trixie

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

YouTube ‘clarifies’ its plan to demonetize spammy AI slop

TSA Will Reportedly Let You Keep Your Shoes on at Security Checks

TSA May Soon Let You Keep Your Shoes On During Security Screening

Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

New Firefox Add-On Policies

Etsy Is Clamping Down on 3D Printed Products. Here's How It Could Affect You

Q-learning is not yet scalable

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

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