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President Trump says the U.S. government will stop using anthropics products.
“It comes after the AI lab insisted that they not be used for mass surveillance or to create”
autonomous weapon systems. Trump posted that, quote, "the left wing nut jobs at anthropic have made a disastrous mistake trying to strongarm the Department of War and an estateman defense secretary Pete Hexeth said he had declared anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security which means that all military contractors are barred from working with the company after
its contract is phased out." President Trump is holding a rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, amid a contested Senate Republican primary, featuring in combat John Cornan attorney general Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt, all three are highlighting their ties to Trump, but Trump hasn't endorsed anybody in the race saying he supports all of them.
Trump is highlighting his energy and economic policies during the rally.
Or witnessing a historic American energy boom like we've never seen in this port is right
at the center of the action. He says Venezuela and oil would be refined in Texas before being exported to other parts of the world. The Trump administration is now seeking the forefiture of an oil tanker that was seized by the U.S. in December.
“The vessel was carrying oil supplied by Venezuela's state-owned oil company and PR's Ryan”
Lucas has more. The Justice Department alleges in court papers that the motor tanker's skipper was involved in the shipment and sale of oil products for the benefit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The U.S. has designated the IRGCA for terrorist organization and also placed it under
U.S. sanctions. The Justice Department says since 2021, the skipper has moved crude oil from Iran and Venezuela and has tried to hide its activities by spoofing its locations and flying false flags. The U.S. sees the vessel in December as part of the Trump administration's pressure campaign against Venezuela's strong man Nicolás Maduro.
At the time of its seizure, the tanker was allegedly carrying Venezuela and crude oil unwrought to Cuba. Ryan Lucas and PR news, Washington. Stocks tumbled today after a hotter than expected report on wholesale inflation and PR's Scott Horsley reports that Dow slid more than 1%.
Horsail prices jumped by half a percent last month, a bigger increase than investors had expected. Stubborn inflation means the Federal Reserve is likely to take its time before ordering any additional cuts in interest rates. Shears the FinTech company block, bucked the downward trend of the market and lost big
gains after the company announced plans to lay off about 40 percent of its workforce.
CEO Jack Dorsey says the company formerly known as Square will use artificial intelligence to make up to the thousands of laid-off workers. The AI boom is generating both excitement and anxiety. Open AI says it's attracted more than $100 billion worth of investment from Amazon and other tech giants.
Scott Horsley and PR news, Washington. The S&P 500 fell nearly half a percent and the NASDAQ fell nearly one percent. This is NPR news. Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded attacks in an escalation of tensions between the countries.
Pakistan's defense minister says they're now in open war. Pakistan accuses Afghanistan's Taliban government of harboring militant groups in an allying with its rival India.
President Trump's name and image are appearing on federal buildings.
The move critics say blurs the line between government messaging and political promotion and PR's Atammer key reports. Trump's face looms large on banners outside of agency buildings, including the Justice Department. Then there's the newly renamed Trump Kennedy Center and Trump Institute of Peace.
The Trump Gold Cart, Trump Rx, and Trump Accounts. "And I didn't name it. I did not. I did not name that." That was Trump earlier this week, insisting he had nothing to do with it.
"No, but he believes me, but I did not name it." Normally, U.S. presidents are out of office or even dead before they're honored in this way, if ever. The author of the book Strongman said the current trend mirrors what autocrats have done for a century.
Tamar Keith and PR news. Sometimes former presidents are just like us. Joe Biden got stuck in delays while flying commercially from DC's Reagan National Airport.
“There's noticed him because secret service agents in local police surrounded him, keeping”
a low profile he sat with a newspaper as he awaited his flight to South Carolina for a Democratic Party event. Passengers, thank the former president, shook his hand as they fled, filed past him on the plane. Federal law gives former president's lifelong secret service protection, but not special
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