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AI Wars: Anthropic, Iran, and Claude

Missiles, typically used by the US navy along with other allied militaries have been attributed by multiple investigative media reports to American forces. Additionally, possible use of AI in the strike has come under intense scrutiny in the fallout of the ongoing war. The Wall Street Journal and Axios both began to report that Claude was used by the DOD in choosing targets for the initial strike in Iran. This was done despite the use of Anthropic’s technology being banned just hours before by the Secretary of Defense for refusal to comply with his newly set out orders

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How Trump’s NVIDIA deal backfired and strengthened China’s AI ambitions.

This summer, the Trump administration struck a deal with NVIDIA, allowing the company to sell its H20 chips to China, so long as the government receives 15% of that revenue. On paper, this might just look like another of Trump’s many business deals. In reality however, this deal quickly turned into a high-stakes moment in the US-China AI race.

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The Consequences of The AWS Outage: In Conversation with Dr. Jamie Woodcock

The recent AWS outage affected services ranging from education platforms to cryptocurrency exchanges, exposing the extent of global reliance on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. According to Dr. Jamie Woodcock, the incident underscores a widespread lack of public understanding about the systems underpinning the internet. He suggests it should renew consideration of stronger regulation and public accountability within digital infrastructure.

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