Paresh Dave

Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic The White House is preparing an executive order targeting the AI startup, even as its earlier actions against the company face a major test in court.

Several experts in government contracts and the Constitution believe the administration’s war on Anthropic continues a pattern of abusing the law to punish perceived political enemies, including colleges, media giants, and law firms (like WilmerHale, Anthropic's rep).

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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

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Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

Court filings: Anthropic has spent $10 bln on training and inference. Its generated $5 bln in all-time revenue.

Now billions of dollars in revenue for just this year is at stake and customers/prospects are already asking for new terms or backing out.

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OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.

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Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.

As promised, Anthropic is taking the Pentagon to court. from @peard33.bsky.social

Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app policies until at least September 2032 and mandates he praise them (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Amazon cloud unit's data centers in UAE, Bahrain damaged in drone strikes Amazon said on Monday some of ​its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes in the Middle East ‌conflict, disrupting cloud services and making a recovery "pro...

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America’s Ranks of Immigrant Truckers Find a Roadblock: English Tests Over the past year, more than 10,700 truckers failed an English test disqualifying them from driving.

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'Safe' BPA substitutes tied to fertility damage, fetal harm, and generational effects, review finds Chemicals that replace the controversial plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) may disrupt fertility, fetal development, and reproductive health.

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OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

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Palestine protester charged with trespass after disrupting Google event in Dublin Man shouted ‘shame on Google’ as he ran on to stage at 3Arena in reference to company’s systems being used by Israeli military

Gaza protestor apparently interrupted speech by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at a company conference in Dublin this week

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Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump's Tariffs Are Illegal In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds.

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. www.wired.com/story/suprem...

Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.

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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

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Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

@laurengoode.bsky.social on the other Meta trial underway right now

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That's the big question and why the professor I quote at the end of the story suggests a different approach. The small fine isn't likely enough to get a company to be frank. So what might they be more willing to be frank about?

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has.

The results suggest that companies may be dodging the AI question. Or it’s a sign that workers need not yet fear anything more than the traditional drivers of layoffs.

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A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial Juries will soon hear arguments in a case against Meta and Google that could reshape social media protections for kids.

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Waymo Hits a Rough Patch In Washington, DC The company’s robotaxi service is supposed to launch in the US capital this year. But while service rollouts have been relatively smooth in other cities, DC’s rules have made things tricky.

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Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX and xAI merge, Nvidia and OpenAI's funding relationship and U.S. TikTok's rough start Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

Hear/watch my thoughts on @marketplace.org about the importance of Starship; OpenAI fundraising challenges; and the new reality for TikTok

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More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.

“I stand to benefit from other people’s suffering, which I find abhorrent and I refuse to be a quiet participant in that system,” added a second Google staffer, who went by Alex.

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Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.

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How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s flagship devices are packed with impressive features, but Apple is dominating the Chinese smartphone market again—for now.

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‘She Has a Presence’: The ‘Melania’ Superfans Who Turned Up for Opening Weekend WIRED attended two documentary screening parties—one on each coast—for the First Lady’s film. What a time.

The answers....

WIRED asked "Melania" viewers what they love about the First Lady, what they make of her recent foray into endorsing AI in schools, and the Trumps' views on immigration.

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Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.

As Trump’s mass deportation program unfolds, immigration policy and enforcement is shifting fast.

That’s why we’re launching Tracker, a limited-series newsletter navigating what’s happening and what’s next. Sign up for free: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

T. Kumar, Rights Activist Who Was Shaped by Time in Prison, Dies at 76

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The extraordinary story of a soccer coach, a kidnapping and a Saudi job that didn’t exist Adrian Heath was duped into thinking he was on the verge of a new job – only to be held at knifepoint in Morocco. Turns out he's not alone

Crazy www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...

Proposed 2026 Amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Published December 2025 This document contains unofficial text of proposed amendments to the sentencing guidelines provided only for the convenience of the user in the preparation of public comment.   The Commission is seeki...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission is seeking public comment on its proposal to amend the Sentencing Guidelines in light of the new TAKE IT DOWN Act, which makes it a crime to publish or threaten to publish real or deepfake NCII. Comment period ends Feb. 10. More info here: www.ussc.gov/guidelines/a...

No Phone, No Social Safety Net: Welcome to the ‘Offline Club’ Across Europe’s largest cities, people are gathering for semi-silent, offline hangouts, in search of an experience that isn’t mediated through their smartphones.

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