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• Faye Bradley was born and raised in Hong Kong with a Chinese mom.
• When she first started seeing "Chinamaxxing" on social media, she felt a surprising sense of pride.
• Even though these habits are trending now, they've been part

• Ukraine released footage on Thursday of a helicopter crew destroying multiple Russian drones.
• It's an extended look at how Ukraine is deploying chopper-mounted machine guns to fight Shaheds.
• The clips show the chopper crew using thermal cameras and an M134

• OpenAI and Google employees are signing a petition opposing military AI use.
• They oppose using AI for mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.
• The petition comes as the

• Jack Dorsey's approach to layoffs at Block struck a different tone than other tech sector cuts.
• Block announced it will lay off roughly 40% of its employees, citing "intelligent tools."
• Dorsey offered a base of 20 weeks of severance pay and struck a sympathetic tone.

The CEO

• Anthropic is negotiating with the Defense Department over the terms of use for its frontier model.
• CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement that it will not budge on two red lines.
• Several hours after Amodei's statement, an official slammed him on X, calling the CEO a "liar."

Anthropic's CEO is prepared to walk away from its contract with the

• Three Democratic lawmakers say the US military shot down a Border Protection Drone on Thursday.
• They said it was a "high-risk" counter-drone system, which often refers to anti-drone lasers.
• The FAA expanded an airspace closure in the area, but said commercial

• Paramount-Skydance outbid Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery
• Here's what business and political leaders are saying about the impact of the deal.
• "Welcome to Hollywood kid," one $4 billion wealth manager said of WBD CEO David Zaslav.

Paramount-Skydance has emerged as the winner in a multi-round battle for the future of Warner

• Zohran Mamdani went to the Oval Office on Thursday with fake newspapers that got Trump beaming.
• Mamdani also successfully pitched a housing plan to Trump.
• The photo op — and the concessions Mamdani secured — have social media buzzing.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani knows how the game is played, and the internet can't get enough

• Sam Altman says OpenAI is looking for people with good taste to work on AGI.
• And that includes people with non-tech backgrounds, Altman said.
• He said the best research teams are built on "taste and a real feel for

For anyone who has been following the soap opera unfolding between Netflix and Paramount Skydance over the past few months in their financial brinksmanship to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, the saga may be nearing its end. Today, WBD said its board of directors have determined that the latest offer from Paramount Skydance amounted to the better proposal. The media outfit gave Netflix four

Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI.

It's the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's desire to renegotiate all AI labs' current