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Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2021. RICCARDO MILANI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
First lady Melania Trump arrives, accompanied by a robot, to attend the "Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit," with other first spouses, at the White House, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Laura Marquez-Garrett (center), a plaintiffs' attorney for the Social Media Victims Law Center, gathers with family members of victims as they react to news that the jury has found Meta and Google liable in the social media addiction trial, outside the Los Angeles Superior Court on March 25, 2026. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman’s mental health issues
ICE is among the government agencies that buy commercial data about Americans in bulk. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cellphone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. Patrick Sison/AP hide caption
A recording of Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's deposition is played for the jurors on March 4 in Santa Fe, N.M. Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican/AP hide caption
A sign for the French company TotalEnergies is displayed at headquarters March 21, 2025, in La Defense business district outside of Paris. Thomas Padilla/AP hide caption
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It's called 'private credit' — and it could lead to big trouble on Wall Street
Cryptically-worded billboards, such as this one in San Francisco's Mission District, have been springing up all over the city in the past year or two. They are intended to be understood only by a small audience. Chloe Veltman/NPR hide caption
Do you understand this billboard? If not, that's the whole point
Prosecutors in Arizona filed criminal charges on Monday against Kalshi, an online prediction market site. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company's AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The fighters at the Interactive Combat League are more than nine feet tall, wear suits of steel and shoot exploding projectiles toward each other. Timothy Chen Allen hide caption
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Cyber Warfare tactics increasingly used in Iran conflict
Left: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference at the U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Fla., on March 5. Right: Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic at the Vivatech technology start-ups and innovation fair in Paris in 2024. Eva Marie Uzcategui and Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are named as defendants in a new lawsuit over the Trump administration's immigration policy to suppress free speech. Anna Moneymaker, Janos Kummer and Heather Diehl/Getty Images hide caption
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hollywood A-lister Ben Affleck says his company InterPositive's AI tools "take out all the logistical, difficult, technical stuff that often gets in the way" of the filmmaking process.
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Polymarket's Shayne Coplan (left) and Kalshi's Tarek Mansour are two 20-something billionaires who run the biggest prediction market sites. They have had a long-running rivalry. hide caption
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. Patrick Sison/AP hide caption