Ed Kalegi

The Pentagon earlier declared Anthropica supply chain risk after President Trump directed U.S.

government agencies to stop using the artificial intelligence giant's products.

The Pentagon wants to use Anthropica's Clawed chatbot for any purpose within legal limits, but without any usage restrictions from Anthropica.

The firm has insisted that Clawed not be used for mass surveillance against Americans or in fully autonomous weapons operations.

OpenAI says it has reached an agreement with the U.S.

Department of War to deploy its models in their classified network.

CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that two of OpenAI's most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems.

Paramount says it has entered a definitive merger agreement to acquire Warner Bros.

The transaction values Warner Bros.

at an enterprise value of $110 billion.

The deal has been unanimously approved by boards of both companies and is expected to close in the third quarter.

Paramount will issue $47 billion of new Class B shares at $16.02 a share, supported by a fully committed investment from the Ellison family and Redbird Capital Partners.

Adding to this,

Paramount has paid the $2.8 billion breakup fee owed to Netflix after dropping its planned deal to buy parts of Warner Bros.

Countries including the U.S., U.K.

and China evacuated embassy staff in the Middle East and issued travel advisories amid concerns about a regional conflict as President Trump Friday sounded downbeat about diplomatic talks meant to avert airstrikes on Iran.

The president commented on the situation while in Corpus Christi, Texas, saying the U.S.

now has a big decision to make on Iran.

The U.S.

on Friday told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they're allowed to leave Israel, with the country being vulnerable to Iranian retaliation if it participates in a U.S.