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Did Live Nation punish a venue by taking Billie Eilish away?

John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global's existing Ticketmaster contract would expire at the end of September, and Abbamondi and his team had evaluated proposals from SeatGeek, AXS, and […]

Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models  —  Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal  —  Sam Altman's start-up planning additional protections as it implements the agreement hastily announced on Friday

A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month  —  An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted Tycoon2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) …

A new video from the White House mixes Call of Duty footage with actual video of Iran strikes

On Wednesday, the White House posted a video of actual military strikes on Iran in the style usually seen in Call of Duty highlight videos, and started the video with a clip from Call of Duty. The real-life footage of missiles and other munitions hitting targets in Iran shows clips seen in other Trump administration […]