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A senior defense official says Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk — The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it’…
Ken Paxton doubles down on disobeying Trump: ‘The president can have his own opinion’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) again insisted that he would refuse to drop out of the race for U.S. Senate after President Donald Trump suggested he would endorse his opponent, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), in retaliation for threatening to disobey …
Peter Jackson to receive honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival will honor filmmaker Peter Jackson with an honorary Palme d’Or at the upcoming French festival.
OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work — OpenAI is releasing a new flagship artificial…
New York sex-trafficking case against high-end real estate broker brothers goes to jury
Lawyers for Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander argued that the brothers were womanizers but not rapistsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxOren, Alon and Tal Alexander surrounded themselves with beautiful women. Young…
OpenAI says GPT-5.4’s “individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2” (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI says GPT-5.4’s “individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2” — ZDNET’s key takeaways —…
Indiscriminate Iranian attacks threaten all Gulf shipping, experts warn
Vanguard Tech warns that Iran still controls huge arsenal of missiles likely to target ships
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Decision on new low-cost air defence missile yet to be made
The Ministry of Defence has said a decision on whether the UK will procure a proposed new low-cost air defence missile has not yet been taken.
The post Decision on new low-cost air defence missile yet to be made first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens — On Thursday, OpenAI released a GPT-5.4, a new foundat…