The US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday that it would not give in to pressure from the Pentagon to allow unrestricted military use of its technology for fear that it could be used for mass surveillance or in fully-autonomous weapons. What did Anthropic say?
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's threat to cut AI group Anthropic from government supply chains, or possibly compel it to prioritize government orders, raises several serious questions. It's the latest example of Washington's strong-arm tactics in the corporate sector, while it also shows how control over AI models is becoming a new battleground.
Germany launched a major artificial intelligence (AI) project this month to cut its reliance on US providers of high-performance computing and data processing — a move seen as helping Europe to control its own AI future.
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.
A report by a NASA review panel says a error in pointing software caused the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft's solar panels to face away from the sun. Lockheed Martin hide caption toggle caption Lockheed Martin On February 26, 2025, a NASA probe called Lunar Trailblazer lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Dilated pupils, high on camera and often alone. On TikTok, more and more young people are publicly filming their drug use. The videos reach millions, often under a single hashtag: #Pingtok. The trend reflects a new visibility of drug use on social media.
Days after France's lawmakers voted on a social media ban for children under the age of 15, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed to protect Spain's children "from the digital Wild West." Hours of scrolling over harmful content is rewiring young brains and causing anxiety and other health hazards, experts say, compelling European governments to act.
TikTok's "addictive design" is in breach of European Union law, according to preliminary findings published by the European Commission on Friday. It said addictive features included infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and TikTok's own "highly personalized" content recommendation system.
Samsung's grip on the smartphone crown lasted so long that it seemed unbreakable. The South Korean tech giant achieved 14 unbroken years as the world's top shipper by volume. That pattern, however, was finally broken as Apple reclaimed the number‑one spot last year.
After a U.S.-led investor group took over the social media platform's U.S. operations earlier this year, some users claimed political topics were quashed. New research contradicts their claims.
A screenshot of the Moltbook communities page. Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Screenshot by NPR Can computer programs have faith? Can they conspire against the humans that created them? Or feel melancholy? On a social media platform built just for artificial intelligence bots, some of them are acting like it.
President Trump, center, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, right, listen as U.S. Sen Ted Cruz, R-Tex. speaks during a signing ceremony for an executive order on AI at the White House on Dec. 11, 2025.