An ex-Harvard Medical School morgue manager admits his role in the theft of human remains
A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has admitted his role in the theft and sale of human body parts — including hands, feet and heads.
Day: May 22, 2025
Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons (Billy Perrigo/Time)
Billy Perrigo / Time:
Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons — Anthropic’s hope is that the several safety syste…
Forest Loss Around the World Hit a Record in 2024
Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for nearly half of the losses.
Amid Soaring Demand, Palantir Gets $795 Million Boost For Maven Smart System
The Defense Department on Tuesday awarded Palantir Technologies [PLTR] a $795 million modification to the company’s existing contract to provide more software licenses for a battlespace awareness software platform increasingly […]
Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 — During its inaugural developer conference T…
UK signs £101m-a-year deal to hand over Chagos Islands
Under the deal, the UK will lease back the Diego Garcia military base from Mauritius.
Bussiere: USAF Bomber Fleet Availability ‘In the 50s’
The percentage of U.S Air Force bombers available for missions is in the 50s—a trend consistent with service-wide aircraft availability statistics, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, the head of Air Force Global […]
Get ready for another busy Atlantic hurricane season, but maybe not as crazy as 2024
With warmer-than-normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic.
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump’s tax bill will ‘stabilise things’ – but there’s still one big problem
‘There’s a chance that […] you’ll have stagflation,’ the JP Morgan Chase CEO said Thursday
Mariners officially welcome George Kirby back, send Troy Taylor to Tacoma
The Mariners activated George Kirby from the injured list Thursday morning before his first start of the season in the series opener against the Astros.