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Anthropic is heading to the White House after being forced to block users from accessing its newly released AI models. The sudden meeting signals just how quickly things can escalate when powerful tools hit the public and behave in unexpected ways. Washington wants answers, and Anthropic will need to provide them carefully.
Shifting to orbit, NASA's thirty-fourth SpaceX commercial resupply mission has returned to Earth, with a Dragon capsule splashing down in the Pacific carrying one of the most science-dense payloads the program has ever seen. Biological samples, materials research, and tested hardware are now back in the hands of scientists preparing humans for long-duration spaceflight.
And back here on the ground, the United Kingdom's prime minister has announced that children under sixteen will be banned from Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and similar platforms starting in early two thousand twenty seven. It's one of the most sweeping age-restriction policies any government has attempted, and the question of how platforms will actually verify ages remains very much open.
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