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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Thursday subtly criticized rival Anthropic Inc., saying he thinks it’s “bad for society” when companies start abandoning their commitment to democratic processes because “some people don’t like the people in charge right now.””Government is considered more powerful than private business,” Altman said at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media and Telecom conference.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized Altman’s ties to the Trump administration in a memo to employees on Friday, the Information reported. Amodei wrote that while Altman “praises Trump like a dictator,” Antropic doesn’t “praise Trump like a dictator.”The Pentagon has been at loggerheads with Anthropic in…

Congressman Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas) gives a television news interview at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesHouse Republican leaders on Thursday called on Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzalez to withdraw his bid for re-election after he admitted to having an affair with a staffer.The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday that it is investigating Gonzalez’s relationship with aide Regina Santos-Aviles, who committed suicide in September. Later Wednesday, Gonzalez appeared on a conservative radio show and admitted for the first time that he had had an affair, saying it was a “misjudgment.”After…

The bill was filed after an anonymous Polymarket user made more than $500,000 by taking the position that the U.S. would attack Iran hours before it did.listen to this article | 4 minutesinformationPublished March 5, 2026March 5, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationTwo Democratic U.S. senators are planning to introduce a bill that would ban members of Congress, the president, and the vice president from contracting for trading events on prediction market platforms such as Calci and Polymarket.According to CNBC, which first reported the story, Sens. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon,…

Hong Kong/Beijing — In quick succession, US President Donald Trump has removed two of Beijing’s closest allies: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The former was abducted from Caracas in an extraordinary overnight raid by US special forces and is currently shackled in a New York detention center. The latter was killed in a daring daylight bombing of central Tehran during a joint US-Israeli mission. In the aftermath, China reacted angrily, accusing the United States of detaining and killing leaders of sovereign nations and of apparently attempting regime change while expressing friendship with Iran. But Beijing…

England fell seven runs short in a frenetic chase of 254 in the T20 World Cup semi-final against India, but Jacob Bethell’s incredible 105 off 48 balls was not enough to qualify for Sunday’s final against New Zealand.Bethel’s 45-ball hundred took Harry Brook’s side to the pinnacle of a remarkable victory, as India posted a massive 253-7 at the toss, making England conceding over 250 runs for the first time in a T20 international. Bethel forged a fine 77-run partnership with Will Jacks (20 off 35) for the fifth wicket, but by the time the latter departed England needed to…

With the rise of agent coding, the working life of software engineers has become incredibly complex. A single engineer may oversee dozens of coding agents at once, initiating and directing various processes as needed. There was so much to keep track of, and the attention spans of human engineers quickly became resource limiting. Cursor on Thursday released a new tool aimed at curbing that confusion. This new system, called Automation, gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by new additions to the codebase, Slack messages, or simple timers. As Cursor explains, this is a…

Smoke rises after the attack on Tehran on March 4, 2026. Atta Kenare | AFP | Getty Images What you need to know todayChina on Thursday set its GDP growth target for 2026 at 4.5% to 5%, according to a copy of a government work report obtained by CNBC. This is the lowest goal ever recorded dating back to the early 1990s. Defense spending is expected to rise 7%, the slowest growth since 2021, as Beijing grapples with persistent deflationary pressures and trade tensions with the United States, but analysts believe the official figures are an underestimate.A vote to force…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 3, 2026.Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersCloud and software stocks were a rare bright spot amid Thursday’s market decline.of WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD) rose 2.7%, marking the best day since April 24, when exchange-traded funds rose 4.7%. The main cloud stocks that rose on Thursday jumped 8.4%. Octa and Wix.comand its stock price rose about 7%. Mongo DB and in tap. sale pointan identity security technology provider for cloud companies, rose 6.5%. Z scaler It rose 1.5%. hubspot and paycom softwaretop holding amount WCLDrose 4.5% and 1.5%, respectively.Okta’s…

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from her post and appointing Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, to replace her.Noem’s firing from the Department of Homeland Security comes in the wake of a wave of criticism of the former South Dakota governor’s management of the agency and her heavy-handed response to President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, which led to the killing of two Americans by federal agents in Minnesota in January.She is the first Cabinet secretary to be fired during President Trump’s second term, but in contrast to his first term, the turnover in…

The US-Israel war with Iran continues to escalate, with the US government pledging to send more troops and military assets to the Middle East and Tehran expanding retaliatory attacks across the region.But on Thursday, senior officials under President Donald Trump shifted their focus to another military front: Latin America.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listSince taking office for his second term, President Trump has laid out plans to project American dominance throughout the Western Hemisphere. His control efforts coincide with military operations against alleged criminal networks across the region.At the first U.S. Counter-Cartels Conference on Thursday, speakers including National…