Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company xAI is preparing to pay back $3 billion of high-yield (“junk”) bonds early, a move that typically signals a borrower believes it can refinance more cheaply, has fresh…
The U.S. Treasury Department is ending all use of Anthropic products—including its Claude AI platform—after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop working with the company. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced…
The Pentagon has begun asking major defense contractors—including Lockheed Martin and Boeing—to assess how dependent they are on Anthropic’s AI services, a step that signals the Defense Department is seriously weighing whether…
President Donald Trump says his administration has instructed major technology companies to build their own power plants to supply electricity for their fast-growing data center fleets, arguing the move is needed to…
Peace Corps announced a new initiative called Tech Corps designed to recruit, train, and deploy skilled Americans to support the adoption of artificial intelligence in host countries. The program is aimed specifically…
U.S. federal appeals court has sanctioned a lawyer for filing a legal brief riddled with AI-generated errors, warning that fabricated citations and “hallucinated” material in court filings remain a growing problem. A…
Physicist Nishant Sahdev argues that the speed of scientific discovery has become a strategic asset—and that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the “super-accelerator” that will decide which nations lead and which become…
Even if the United States is entering a productivity upswing—possibly accelerated by artificial intelligence—workers should not expect it to reverse a long-running decline in labor’s share of national income. The piece highlights…
South Korean conglomerate Samsung unveiled on Sunday a plan to invest $310 billion over the next five years mostly in technology powering artificial intelligence, aiming to meet growing demand driven by a…
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday he had appointed the world’s first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it “corruption-free.” Presenting his new cabinet…
