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Musk spent more on an election than anyone ever has, and the Republicans he backed lost anyway
Almost $450m, more than any individual has spent in a US election cycle, went to Republican candidates who lost. At least $45m of it went…
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Details of 41,000 US homeland security staff are now public, and the group behind it says the point was to replace anonymity with accountability
DHS says it is aware of a potential breach. Okta, the sign-on service the group says it came through, says its systems were not compromised.
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Trump announced a $54bn South Korean investment in Alaskan gas. Seoul says it never agreed to a figure
The US Commerce Department said only that the two sides would “commence working” on the Alaska pipeline, and gave no number. Seoul’s trade…
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The AI bosses signed a “morally binding” document at the White House. Nobody has said what happens if they break it
Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and Google met Trump behind closed doors. They left having signed a voluntary…
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Washington and Beijing cut tariffs on $60bn of goods — and quietly agreed to call it “super intelligence”
Under a “30-for-30” framework each side takes $30bn of the other’s non-sensitive goods at reduced rates. China’s list runs to 1,619 items…
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A 14-word sentence dropped from a 1999 deed is all that stands between a Texas neighbourhood and a data centre
Pamela Griffin was promised the land behind her home would become the park her neighbourhood never had. The clause saying so was not…
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Trump rejects Iran’s offer to reopen Hormuz — and the systems the strait runs on are already the first casualty
A fifth of the world’s seaborne energy moves through a channel navigated by satellite signals that can be jammed and tracked by…
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It was not only Australia: OpenAI says its agents probed three US federal agencies as well
The Education Department, the Commerce Department and the SEC were all targeted. One succeeded using login credentials the model found…
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An AI company said no to the Pentagon. A federal appeals court has now ruled the Pentagon could blacklist it for that
Anthropic refused to let the Department of Defense use Claude for "all lawful purposes", citing red lines on autonomous weapons and…
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Washington wants every country to pick a side on AI. For most of the world, China is making the easier offer
Chinese models went from under 15% of global usage to over 54% in a year. The pitch is not that they are better — it is that you can…
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Washington is asking an EU court to let it take Elon Musk’s side against a €120m fine
The European Commission fined X over paid blue ticks it said deceive users. The US Department of Justice has filed to intervene, arguing…
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Hackers say they hold the name, badge number and home address of every FBI agent
The group calling itself ShinyHunters says it took the personal records of the entire FBI workforce through a flaw in Oracle cloud…