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United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk” on Friday, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and leaving many companies scrambling to understand whether they can keep using one of the industry’s most popular AI models.“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth wrote in a social media post.The designation comes after weeks of tense negotiations between the Pentagon and Anthropic over how the US military could use the startup’s AI models. In a blog post this…

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Friday that his company has agreed to terms with the Department of Defense on use of its artificial intelligence models, shortly after President Donald Trump said the government won’t work with AI rival Anthropic. “Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network,” Altman wrote in a post on X. “In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed…

What it means to be a dyke has zigged and zagged a lot since the days of The L Word, and thank goodness it has. In a new monograph, photographer Emily Lipson collects images of 50 different people, shot over five years, who identify as members of the dyke community—among them Evie Saunders, Ama Elsesser, and Louisa Jacobson. The result is a joyful and naturalistic celebration of the term’s many meanings and manifestations.This week, Vogue spoke to Lipson about queer longing, self-recognition, drawing inspiration from ballet. Read that conversation—and see exclusive images from her book, aptly titled Dykes—below.Vogue: How did…

Chainsaw Man fans have been eating well for a minute now with its weekly manga chapters continuing to be short, sweet, and impactful; Mappa’s Reze Arc film being good kino you can watch at home before that other anime award-nominated film; and season two now in production. But you can’t consume one piece of media forever and call it a good diet, which is why I’ve been recommending new material to diversify folks’ palates with something similar to Tatsuki Fujimoto’s vibe. Today, however, I’m not gonna recommend not one, but two manga folks should read: Dorohedoro and Dai Dark. Not because…

Kalyn KahlerFeb 26, 2026, 04:55 PM ETCloseKalyn Kahler is a senior NFL writer at ESPN. Kalyn reports on a range of NFL topics. She reported about the influence of coaching agents on NFL hiring and found out what current and former Cowboys players really think about the tour groups of fans that roam about The Star every day. Before joining ESPN in July of 2024, Kalyn wrote for The Athletic, Defector, Bleacher Report and Sports Illustrated. She began her career at Sports Illustrated as NFL columnist Peter King’s assistant. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she was a…

In a newly released deposition filed in Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI, the tech executive attacked OpenAI’s safety record, claiming that his company, xAI, better prioritizes safety. He went so far as to say that “Nobody has committed suicide because of Grok, but apparently they have because of ChatGPT.” The comment came up in a line of questioning about a public letter Musk signed in March 2023. In it, he called on AI labs to pause development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, OpenAI’s flagship model at the time, for at least six months. The letter, which was signed…

After suggesting a version of AMD’s FSR 4 could be ported to the PS5 Pro last year, it looks like Sony is finally rolling out an update with the upscaling tech in March. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS4, PS5 and PS5 Pro, shared via a blog post that the PS5 Pro will be updated with a new version of the company’s PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) upscaling tech next month, and Resident Evil Requiem is one of the first games to use it.PSSR is “an AI library that analyzes game images pixel by pixel as it upscales…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pierre-Luc Dubois had two goals and an assist to lift the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday night.All three of Washington’s goals came in the second period, with Jakob Chychrun adding his 22nd of the season. Braeden Bowman and Tomas Hertl scored in the third for the Golden Knights.AdvertisementThe Capitals pulled within two points of the New York Islanders for third place in the Metropolitan Division and within two of Boston for the Eastern Conference’s second wild card. Washington is 2-0 since the Olympic break and has won six of…

The Federal Communications Commission has given the go ahead for two of the US’ biggest cable providers, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, to merge. Charter announced its intention to acquire Cox for $34.5 billion in May 2025, with specific plans to inherit Cox’s managed IT, commercial fiber and cloud businesses, while folding the company’s residential cable service into a subsidiary.“By approving this deal, the FCC ensures big wins for Americans,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement. “This deal means that jobs are coming back to America that had been shipped overseas. It means that modern, high-speed networks will…

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Block, listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, June 4, 2021.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe tech industry has spent the last couple years debating whether artificial intelligence will actually eliminate jobs at scale or simply be used as an excuse for companies to engage in mass layoffs. Block just firmly planted its flag. Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of the Square parent, announced Thursday that his company is cutting about 40% of its workforce, reducing head count from over 10,000 to just under 6,000. And he was explicit about the…