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Photo from the Jeffrey Epstein files released by the U.S. Justice Department showing Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein. Date and context is unclear.U.S. Department of JusticeFormer President Bill Clinton was set to tell the House Oversight Committee on Friday morning in testimony about Jeffrey Epstein that “I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong” during their times flying together or socializing.”First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing,” Clinton planned to say during his closed-door deposition, which was underway in Chappaqua, New York.”No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that at the…

Anthropic is heading into Friday in a no-win situation. The artificial intelligence startup has until 5:01 p.m. ET to decide whether it will agree to allow the Department of Defense to use its models in all lawful use cases without limitation. If it doesn’t, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to label the company a “supply chain risk” or force it to comply by invoking the Defense Production Act.Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the DoD in July, and was the first AI lab to integrate its models into mission workflows on classified networks. The company has been negotiating…

Dell shares soared 19% on Friday after the company beat fourth-quarter estimates and issued strong guidance, as a historic memory shortage puts pressure on prices in the sector.Dell reported adjusted earnings of $3.89 per share, exceeding the $3.53 per share expected by analysts surveyed by LSEG. The company reported $33.38 billion in revenue for the quarter, topping a forecast of $31.73 billion.The company estimates fiscal 2027 revenue will come in between $138 billion and $142 billion, blowing away the $124.7 billion expected by Factset.Dell expects revenue for its artificial intelligence servers to hit $50 billion in 2027, over double the…

The Department of Defense’s clash with Anthropic over the integration of artificial intelligence into military operations, and who sets the limits on usage, reached a peak this week with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth giving the AI company until 5:01 p.m. ET Friday to cede to the government’s demands. Anthropic has not budged, to date at least, but the battle between military and industry over AI is just getting started. The Pentagon is colliding with the private companies that control AI in a way that has not been tested in the post-World War II era. On Thursday, Anthropic refused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s demand to loosen…

*China’s rural revitalization strategy, launched at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2017, aims to achieve basic modernization of agriculture and rural areas by 2035.*Since the launch of its reform and opening-up policy over 40 years ago, China has lifted 770 million rural residents out of poverty, accounting for more than 70 percent of the global total based on the World Bank’s international poverty line.*While poverty alleviation has enabled farmers to “stand on their own feet,” rural revitalization helps them thrive.A drone photo taken on Jan. 17, 2026 shows people visiting China’s “Snow Town”…

ISLAMABAD: Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal conceded on Thursday that the provincial National Finance Commission (NFC) share of 57.5% was untouchable due to reservations by the federating units, as Punjab’s readiness to share defence spending failed to win support from the other provinces. The concluding session of the two-day Pakistan Governance Conference revealed the positions of the four provinces and the Centre on the next NFC award. It emerged that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh held almost similar positions, while Punjab appeared to be toeing the Centre’s line. The federal government seemed willing to concede to ground realities, but its view on making…

An attendee holds a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Moms sign at the end of a press conference announcing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) intent to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the nation’s food supply, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 22, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersPresident Donald Trump is careening toward the Make America Healthy Again iceberg after issuing an executive order to boost the domestic production of a key herbicide called glyphosate. Democrats see an opportunity to steer the health-conscious movement back to their…

72 Taliban operatives killed in Op ‘Ghazab Lil Haq’; Multiple Afghan posts, arms depot destroyedA videograb from Express News shows the aftermath of an airstrike on an Afghan arms depot in Nangarhar province. ISLAMABAD: At least 72 operatives of the Afghan Taliban regime were killed while several others were wounded as Pakistan launched ‘Operation Ghazab Lil Haq’, delivering a “robust and effective response” to unprovoked firing from across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Thursday night. As the border clashes continued in several districts of former federally-administered tribal areas, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) struck and destroyed a large ammunition depot in Afghanistan’s…

This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.Back in 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published the now well-worn words: “software is eating the world.”Now, a debate is raging around how much software AI will eat.Many of the world’s most valuable software stocks have seen major selloffs in recent months as investors got jittery and worried about the future of the once-vaunted software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model.Investor concerns center around fears that corporates will buy fewer software licenses as tasks carried out by SaaS tools will be undertaken by AI.Salesforce has dropped 21%…

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured on Sept. 25, 2025, in Berlin.Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty ImagesOpenAI has closed a $110 billion funding round, a financing that’s more than double the size of its last raise a year ago, which was a record for a private tech company.Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia invested $30 billion and SoftBank invested $30 billion in the round, OpenAI said in a release on Friday. The investment boosts OpenAI to a $730 billion pre-money valuation, which marks a big jump from its $500 billion valuation in a secondary financing in October. Other investors…