During its inaugural developer conference Thursday, Anthropic launched two new AI models that the startup claims are among the industry’s best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks. Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, part of Anthropic’s new family of models, Claude 4, can analyze large data sets, execute long-horizon … Read more
A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that bars the Trump administration from firing half the Department of Education’s workforce. The order from Judge Joun — a Biden appointee — also prohibits the Department … Read more
The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a rare deadlocked 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in the decision, recusing from the case early on, presumably given her ties to the Notre Dame Law School clinic that … Read more
A non-fatal shooting was reported outside CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia, Thursday morning, the Fairfax Police Department said. The incident happened around 4:00 a.m., a police spokesperson said. “The main gate is currently closed, employees should seek alternative routes,” a CIA spokesperson said. “Additional details will be made available as appropriate.” Fairfax police said officers … Read more
Boxer Georgia O’Connor has tragically died at the age of 25. O’Connor, who won gold for England at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games and was 3-0 as a professional, was diagnosed with cancer in October 2024. In her last Instagram post – two weeks before her death – O’Connor revealed she had married her partner … Read more
A small plane has crashed in a populated area of San Diego on Thursday morning, starting a fire and damaging at least 15 homes and multiple cars, fire officials said Thursday. Officials are working to to get everybody out of the neighborhood and they will be going home to home to find out if there … Read more
After weeks of internal GOP wrangling, the Republican-led House early Thursday passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” critical to advancing President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda. A smiling Speaker Mike Johnson announced the massive measure passed by a single vote — 215-214 — and was greeted with applause. He had struggled to get … Read more
A federal judge in Boston ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s deportations of eight men convicted of violent crimes to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated an earlier order by not giving them adequate due process, including a “meaningful opportunity to object” to their removals to a country other than their own. However, Judge Brian Murphy, of … Read more
Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the content that is on display. The company said that this new “screen security” setting is enabled by default on Windows 11. Signal said that this new feature is designed to protect users’ privacy from Microsoft’s … Read more
In an exclusive interview from federal prison, where he is currently serving a 15-year sentence for what prosecutors called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets, Jack Teixeira spoke out for the first time since his arrest more than two years ago — telling ABC News he doesn’t feel he betrayed … Read more
