Bobby Allen

The demand comes as Pentagon leaders have pressed tech companies to harness AI for all lawful uses.

A category Google workers fear will mean its tools will be deployed for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Anthropic, the maker of Claude, has been locked in a legal standoff with the Trump administration.

over the company's refusal to give defense officials access to its technology without guardrails.

The Google letter urges the company to reject any contracts that involve classified work which the employees say could violate human rights.

Google and the Pentagon did not return requests for comment.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

The Trump administration has dropped investigations into Polymarket that were started under President Biden.

And, you know, while Polymarket's main competitor, Kalshi, is subject to more rules by being regulated by the federal government, Trump officials don't seem too bothered by Polymarket operating overseas.

In fact, Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, is an advisor and investor in Polymarket.

He's a Kalshi advisor as well.

Prosecutors have unsealed an indictment against Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S.

Special Forces soldier who helped plan and carry out the arrest of Maduro.

Under the username BurdensomeMix, Van Dyke allegedly placed $32,000 in bets on Polymarket that Maduro would soon be out of power.

Those wagers netted him more than $400,000 in profit.

Polymarket is an overseas, unregulated exchange where traders are anonymous and bet with cryptocurrency.

But federal investigators worked with Polymarket to identify Van Dyke.

He's the first person criminally charged in the U.S.

over trades on prediction markets, which have seen massive growth in Trump's second term.

Donald Trump Jr.