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• 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 2 red lines.
• The Defense Department is prepared to use levers that could force Anthropic to cooperate.

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

Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters say the streamer is "declining to match" the new bid made by Paramount:

The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we've always

• Netflix said on Thursday that it won't pay more for Warner Bros.
• In a statement, the company said that the "deal is no longer financially attractive."
• The decision was announced shortly after WBD's board said Paramount's latest

Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off your device using its own cloud-based computer and browser, allowing it to handle a variety of jobs ranging from scheduling appointments to generating study plans while you do something else.

Block is the latest business to announce layoffs, with the operator of payment platforms Square and Cash App opting to cut jobs in favor of using more AI tools. The financial tech company, helmed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is slashing its current staff of 10,000 to "just under 6,000." CNBC highlighted a letter Block sent to shareholders announcing the decision to nearly halve its workforce

• Brittany Nemandoust started Chocbox, a chocolate kit company, when the pandemic put her out of work.
• Sales fluctuated, and she nearly shut down the business, but a viral TikTok changed everything.
• She capitalized on the viral moment and implemented strategies to build a lasting business.

For years, Brittany

• Mickey Barreto booked a one-night stay at the New Yorker Hotel in 2018 for $200.57.
• He stayed and paid no rent for five years thanks to a local housing law.
• Police arrested him in 2024. In February 2026, he pled guilty and will spend six months in jail.

A man who lived in the iconic New Yorker Hotel for half a decade without paying a

Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly half" and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,000 people to less than 6,000, Dorsey says in a post on X. And the reason why? AI.

"We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit

Lenovo's next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld gaming PC with two different display sizes, as WindowsLatest reports. Leaked images of the device show it attached to both a keyboard and controllers, with a hinge in the middle of the POLED display, allowing it to unfold from 7.7 inches

RedOctane Games, a relaunched version of one of the studios behind the very first Guitar Hero, has shared a first trailer for its new music game, Stage Tour. The original RedOctane was shut down by Activision in 2010, and only recently reformed under Embracer Freemode to create a new music game franchise in August 2025.

Stage Tour is playable solo or with other players in a band, according to