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Federal agencies skirt Trump’s Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
Federal agencies and government officials are quietly sidestepping U.S. ?President Donald Trump’s ban on working with ?Anthropic, Politico reports. The Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation is actively testing Anthropic’s frontier ?AI model Mythos’ hacking prowess, the ?report says. Earlier this year, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed all federal agencies to…
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Auditors still stuck with manual inventory counts despite AI advances
Accountants are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI), drones, and automation, but one of the most unpleasant parts of auditing – physically counting inventory – remains largely manual, requiring auditors to endure harsh, messy, and sometimes dangerous conditions. From climbing grain bins and wading through fertilizer to counting livestock, frozen goods, or construction materials, auditors –…
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Remote work declines at IRS after Trump orders staff back to offices
The percentage of IRS employees working from home dropped from 65% to 25% following President Trump’s Return to In-Person Work directive issued on January 20, 2025. A TIGTA report highlighted that as of May 2025, around 70,000 IRS employees logged approximately 2m daily time charges for in-person work. However, 11% of these charges lacked corresponding…
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U.S. summoned bank bosses to discuss cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned major bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington last week to warn of ?cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model. Anthropic launched the powerful Claude Mythos model earlier in the week to a small number of businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft,…
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Night shifts worsen diabetes management
According to a study published in Diabetic Medicine, night shift workers, particularly nurses and midwives, face significant challenges in managing type 2 diabetes. Lead researcher Rachel Gibson, a registered dietitian at King’s College London, observed: “What struck me is that these are people who work in health care, yet they don’t have access [to] a…
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Anthropic says its new AI model is a cybersecurity ‘reckoning’
AI company Anthropic has built a new model that it claims is too powerful to be released to the public. Anthropic will instead make the Claude Mythos Preview available to a select 40 or so technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which will use it to find and patch security vulnerabilities in critical software…
