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NPR speaks with Maria Curi, an AI tech policy reporter at Axios, about the showdown between Anthropic and the Department of Defense.

The Defense Department has been feuding with Anthropic over military uses of its artificial intelligence tools. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and access to some of the most advanced AI on the planet.

Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it's not just big tech aligning the two parties.

The Energy Department made the rules public a month after NPR reported about their existence. The rules slash requirements for security and environmental protections.

Scientists have created an AI version of a monkey brain that recognizes images without requiring the massive computing power of existing AI systems.

With prediction markets booming, so have concerns about insider trading. Now, Kalshi has disclosed its first public actions against accounts suspected of trading on confidential information.

The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between Anthropic and the Trump administration is putting its government work at risk.

Recent breakthroughs have accelerated worries that AI may soon replace humans in the workforce on a massive scale. Two experts talk through how and whether that could happen.

Memory chips (aka RAM) are in short supply, globally. Why and what does that mean for consumers ...

NASA's Jared Isaacman slammed Boeing for failures with its Starliner spacecraft, which was deemed unsafe to return its crew of two astronauts from the International Space Station ...