Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is on a public-relations blitz to whitewash his own advocacy in the AI space amid growing backlash. Watching it unfold conjures up the famous Shaggy song, “It Wasn’t Me.” Much like the philandering character in the iconic hit, who was caught “red-handed creepin’ with the girl next door,” Amodei now expects […]
Bayer’s Monsanto unit stood before a Missouri judge on Monday and asked him to approve a $7.25 billion settlement of roughly 65,000 lawsuits claiming its Roundup weed killer causes cancer. Judge Timothy Boyer heard arguments from both sides in St. Louis and didn’t rule from the bench. But the settlement he’s weighing already looks different […]
The word “genocide” is thrown around by Israel-haters to conjure up Nazi imagery for credulous Western leftists. That’s the beginning and end of it. It’s a hoax. And whenever you point out the low civilian-to-combat ratio, or note there was never any famine, or mention that the population of Gaza has possibly grown since the […]
Washington is reorganizing for cyber conflict in real time. In June, a proposal to create a separate U.S. Cyber Force was defeated 14-13 in the Senate Armed Services Committee. Now the National Security Agency is preparing what news reports describe as one of its most significant internal reorganizations in a decade, with five mission centers […]