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"If the exponential [progress] continues — which is not certain, but now has a decade-long track record supporting it — then it cannot possibly be more than a few years before AI is better than humans at essentially everything," he writes.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/anthropic-ai-dario-amodei-humanity #AI #Anthropic
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
> The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations on how the military uses its models, a senior administration official told Axios.
> Why it matters: The Pentagon is pushing four leading AI labs to let the military use their tools for "all lawful purposes," even in the most sensitive areas of weapons development, intelligence collection, and battlefield operations. Anthropic has not agreed to those terms, and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-contract-maduro #Anthropic #AI #Pentagon #Axios #military #spying #surveillance #privacy
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
> US President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases.
> The so-called 2009 "endangerment finding" concluded that a range of greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. It's become the legal bedrock of federal efforts to rein in emissions, especially in vehicles.
> The White House called the reversal the "largest deregulation in American history", saying it would make cars cheaper, bringing down costs for automakers by $2,400 per vehicle.
> Environmental groups say the move is by far the most significant rollback on climate change yet attempted and are set to challenge it in the courts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zdd7yl4vo #DonaldTrump #MAGA #deregulation #greenhousegases #climatechange #globalwarming #EPA
An archive copy, just in case: https://archive.is/KV0Ws
> Apple has been warned by the Federal Trade Commission not to stifle conservative content on its Apple News platform, as tensions rise between the smartphone maker and the Trump administration.
> In a letter to chief executive Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center which claimed that Apple has promoted “leftist outlets” in its news feed.
> Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr, a fellow Trump appointee and vocal critic of Big Tech, applauded Ferguson’s move on Wednesday, saying that “Apple has no right to suppress conservative viewpoints in violation of the FTC Act”.
> The public rebukes for Apple from top US enforcers came the day after President Donald Trump shared coverage of the MRC report on Truth Social.
“Any act or practice by Apple News to suppress or promote news articles based on the perceived ideological or political viewpoint of the article or publication . . . may violate” US laws that prevent businesses from misleading consumers, Ferguson said.
> Ferguson, who Trump appointed to lead the US competition and consumer protection watchdog, said that Apple should carry out a “comprehensive review” of its terms of service and take corrective action if its content curation is not in line with them.
> Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The letter marks an escalation in public tensions between Apple and members of the Trump administration in recent days.
> Trump has attacked Big Tech companies over claims they have suppressed conservative voices and has targeted Apple over its heavy reliance on manufacturing in China and India.
> But the president has generally refrained from criticism of Apple since Cook moved to mend fences with the administration in August.
> Tech bosses have been at pains not to provoke the president since he returned to office. But Cook last week posted a selfie with Bad Bunny, the star of the Super Bowl halftime show, which was sponsored by Apple Music and had drawn criticism from Trump.
Canada will build a wall.
A great wall. A great big wall. A big beautiful wall.
It will be called The Great White North Firewall.
It will keep both the MAGAt and CCP nasties out. /s
US envoy to Warsaw cuts ties with Polish parliament speaker because of remarks about Trump
> The US ambassador in Warsaw cut off contact with Poland's parliament speaker on Thursday, accusing him of insulting Donald Trump after he criticised the president's policies and declined to support his Nobel Peace Prize ambitions.
https://www.anews.com.tr/americas/2026/02/05/us-envoy-to-warsaw-cuts-ties-with-polish-parliament-speaker-because-of-remarks-about-trump #Poland #DonaldTrump #NobelPeacePrize
#Canada - Ottawa says it won’t allow Chinese EVs to be used for spying on Canadians
> The federal government will take steps to ensure that imported Chinese electrical vehicles cannot be used to spy on Canadians, a parliamentary committee heard Thursday.
> Testifying before the procedures and House affairs committee, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Ottawa will put safeguards in place to make sure that Chinese EVs do not have “the capability to transmit information” back home.
> He was responding to questions from Bloc Québécois MP Christine Normandin, who raised c> >oncerns that Chinese EVs could become “little spies on the road that could record our calls and take pictures of where we are going.”
> During last month’s official mission to Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an initial trade agreement that slashed tariffs on electric vehicles in exchange for Beijing lowering tariffs on Canadian canola and other products.
#EV #EVs #China #NationalSecurity #Cybersecurity #Spying #ElectricVehicles #TradePolicy #ForeignInterference #Huawei #CSIS #MarkCarney #DougFord #Anandasangaree #giftlink