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- 2026-02-24 20:00 UTC [L..T] Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge «Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME.» ... chief science officer Jared Kaplan: «“We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.”» ... «Kaplan [...] denied the company’s decision to change course was a capitulation to market incentives as the race for superintelligence accelerates. He framed it instead as a pragmatic response to emerging political and scientific realities.» It's a "pragmatic response" to "political ... realities", but definitely not "capitulation"...
- 2026-02-24 16:37 UTC [L..T] Three Head-Spinning Epstein Developments «There are three notable Epstein developments making headlines. Each strongly suggests the current story, as the Trump White House would prefer us to leave it, is far from complete. The Epstein matter could blow even further open in unexpected ways.» ... «The mere existence of previously unreported rented storage lockers strongly suggests that we’ve only just begun to peel away the outer layers of what’s out there on Epstein and his circle of pedophiles. We owe the British authorities and the British press a big thank you for doing what we have been incapable of because our own institutions are so badly corrupted. [..] But owing to the Brits, powerful figures are being arrested in the U.K. and the truth is now far closer to coming out.»
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