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Anthropic has made good on its promise to challenge it in court after the Pentagon late last week identified it as a supply chain risk. After weeks of conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems, Claude’s creator filed two complaints against the department on Monday in California and Washington, D.C. Anthropic had two firm lines. They didn’t want their technology to be used for mass surveillance of Americans, and they didn’t believe they were ready to develop fully autonomous weapons that didn’t require humans to determine targets…

Anthropic has made good on its promise to challenge it in court after the Pentagon late last week identified it as a supply chain risk. After weeks of conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems, Claude’s creator filed two complaints against the department on Monday in California and Washington, D.C. Anthropic had two firm lines. They didn’t want their technology to be used for mass surveillance of Americans, and they didn’t believe they were ready to develop fully autonomous weapons that didn’t require humans to determine targets…

A driver refuels a vehicle at a Wawa gas station on Monday, March 2, 2026 in Media, Pennsylvania, United States.Matthew Hatcher | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe threat of stagflation looms over the U.S. economy and financial markets again as oil prices soar to $100 a barrel, effectively paralyzing the job market.Stimulus measures such as interest rate cuts and government spending only worsen inflation, making high inflation and low growth a dual threat. If prices remain high, they could put a damper on not only the labor market but also consumer spending, which drives more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy.”I…

The US war against Iran has caused the largest oil supply disruption in history, more than double the previous record set during the Middle East crisis of the 1950s, according to an analysis by consulting firm Rapidan Energy. Around 20% of global oil supplies have been disrupted for nine days as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a standstill. As a result, crude oil prices soared to more than $100 per barrel. The biggest disruption before the current war was during the Suez crisis in 1956, when Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the energy…

This illustrated photo taken on March 5, 2026 in Krakow, Poland, shows a MarineTraffic map showing current shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz displayed on a laptop screen and the MarineTraffic logo displayed on a mobile phone screen. Jakub Porzycki | Null Photo | Getty ImagesOil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz “need to exercise extreme caution,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson warned on Monday. Spokesman Esmail Baghaei also defended Iran’s attacks on Gulf states, telling CNBC’s Dan Murphy that targeting U.S.-owned “military bases and assets” in the region is “legal under international law.”With the Strait of Hormuz effectively…

listen to this article | 5 minutesinformationLeading US Democratic senators have called for an investigation into the strike against a girls’ school in southern Iran, saying the Pentagon must “provide clear answers” over the attack that killed at least 170 people.In a joint statement late Sunday, the six lawmakers said they were “horrified” by the Feb. 28 bombing of an elementary school in Minab at the start of the U.S.-Israeli offensive against Iran.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe top Democratic senators on the National Security Committee said, “The killing of school children is horrific and cannot be tolerated…

Emma Raducanu feels she has a “long way to go” to compete against the world’s best players after being dominated by Amanda Anisimova with a 52-minute drubbing in Indian Wells.The British number one and 2021 US Open champion scored 21 points to her opponent’s 53 in the match, but hit just two winners as she lost 6-1, 6-1 in the third round in California. Raducanu lost her service game to two-time Grand Slam runner-up Anisimova in the first game of the tournament, and was unable to take the match back until she was down 3-0 in the second set. Use…

German robotics startup Neura Robotics has partnered with semiconductor giant Qualcomm to build next-generation robots and physical AI. The deal marks the latest partnership between a robotics startup and a larger hardware and software company in the emerging physical AI industry. Although Monday’s announcement did not mention specific products, the companies aim to work together to build the robot’s “brain and nervous system” to accelerate the adoption of humanoid and general-purpose robots in the real world, both in home and industrial environments. Specifically, Neura will use Qualcomm’s Dragonwing Robotics IQ10 processor as the robot’s reference design. The IQ10 series was…

The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, with 92,000 jobs lost in February. The unemployment rate for women remained flat at 4.1% in the first two months of this year, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, the spike in unemployment among Hispanic or Latina women and black women has been significant, with their unemployment rates rising to 5% and 7.1%, experts say. Significant wage disparities for women, particularly women of color, also contribute to the widening gap between high-income earners and low- and middle-income earners in the so-called “K-shaped”…

File photo: Microsoft Commercial Operations CEO Judson Althoff appears during an interview in San Francisco, January 27, 2017.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesmicrosoft The company is adding artificial intelligence to its Office productivity suite and charging 65% more for upgraded products as it seeks to drive enterprise users to its Copilot AI add-on.Microsoft 365 E7, the new top-tier bundle for enterprise employees, will cost $99 per user per month ($60 for an E5 subscription) after future increases. E7 includes Copilot for $30, Entra identity tool for $12, and Agent 365, a new product for managing enterprise AI agents…