Operator Good evening, and welcome to Universal Music Group’s Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Call for the period ended December 31, 2025. My name is Nadia, and I’ll be…
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US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was instructing every federal agency to “immediately cease” use of Anthropic’s AI tools. The move comes after Anthropic and top officials clashed for weeks over military applications of artificial intelligence.”The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to…
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US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” on Friday, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and leaving many companies scrambling to understand whether they can keep using one of the industry’s most…
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This week, the Uncanny Valley team dives into the feud that has been brewing between Anthropic and the Pentagon—and what it says about how the government interacts with tech companies. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why figuring out whether you…
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