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By Clare Duffy, Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition. Instead of self-imposed guardrails constraining its development of AI models, Anthropic is adopting a nonbinding safety framework that it says can and will change.

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Roofers are turning down jobs. Painters are locking themselves inside the homes they’re finishing. Concrete crews have monthslong waiting lists. In the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has slowed home construction to a crawl – at a time when Minnesota, like much of the

By Brian Stelter, Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Paramount has officially raised its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, to $31 per share, and now the WBD board says it is extending the window for talks with Paramount about a possible deal. In addition to the higher price per share, Paramount

By Matt Egan, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is weighing a new requirement for US banks to verify citizenship information of current and future customers as part of the president’s aggressive immigration crackdown, sources told CNN. The potential action, which one source said could take the form of an executive order, has

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Spirit Airlines, which had been in danger of going out of business due to ongoing losses and two bankruptcy filings, has reached a deal that will allow it to survive, albeit as a smaller company. The budget airline announced Tuesday that it made an agreement with creditors that will

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Former US Senator Bob Kerrey has resigned from the board of directors of a Nebraska clean-energy startup amid controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Kerrey, a Democrat who also served as Nebraska’s governor in the 1980s, joins a growing list of business leaders

By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — Just weeks after its new AI tools for the office shook software stocks, Anthropic is pushing even deeper into the workplace. The company is updating its Claude AI helper to perform better at tasks for specific jobs, such as design, human resources and wealth management roles, while

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned Monday that current financial conditions and banks doing “dumb things” like taking on risky loans could lead to a market meltdown similar to the one before the 2008 financial crisis. “There will be a cycle one day,” he said, “I don’t know what

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — The surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota over the past few months left many people not only traumatized but financially hard up. People lost income because they were too afraid to go to work or their breadwinner was taken by agents of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — The government is on the hook to refund $134 billion – and counting – worth of tariff revenue collected from President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, which were rendered illegal by the Supreme Court last week. How much of that will consumers, who paid for steep tariffs via higher

By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises national security concerns. The Chinese unicorns – DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot AI – created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and trained their

By Ramishah Maruf, Liam Reilly, CNN New York (CNN) — Celebrity doctor Peter Attia has resigned from his new contributor position at CBS News following new revelations about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. “Dr. Attia’s contributor role was newly established and had not yet meaningfully begun,” a spokesperson for Attia said in a statement. “As

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Meta executives testified in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this month that while use of the company’s platforms could become problematic, it couldn’t be considered addiction. But inside the company, researchers have sought to study whether certain Facebook features could contribute to “addiction” or “addictive’-like” behaviors among

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — During the past year, President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping and steep tariffs on most imported goods with the intent to reduce trade deficits and bolster US-based manufacturing. The near-term effects have been monumental both in and outside of the United States by reshaping global trade, raising the effective

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Stocks fell, gold moved higher and volatility picked up Monday as uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s new proposed tariffs and nerves about artificial intelligence weighed on Wall Street. The Dow closed lower by 823 points, or 1.66%, and posted its worst day in one month. The broader

By Julian Torres, CNN New York (CNN) — With the Trump administration effectively dismantling automotive emissions regulations, cars on dealership lots could see some changes. Your next car could be bigger, with fewer fully electric options – but it also might be a hybrid. The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding effectively

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will increase the global tariffs he imposed a day earlier to 15% from 10% following an adverse ruling at the Supreme Court. The court on Friday ruled that Trump exceeded his authority with the way he imposed tariffs on trading partners

By Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Jeffrey Epstein is once again haunting one of the most powerful firms on Wall Street: Apollo Global Management. Five years after the Epstein scandal forced billionaire Leon Black to step down as Apollo’s CEO, the recent release of millions of documents related to Epstein show Black’s replacement, current CEO

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump announced plans to raise the nation’s effective tariff rate to levels not seen since 1930 last year, most CEOs were silent. They’d seen how opposing the president’s ambitions – let alone his signature economic policy – could prove even more costly than the policies he

By Matt Egan, David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — Now that the Supreme Court has taken away a significant chunk of President Donald Trump’s tariff-wielding authority, what does that mean for your prices? “Nothing,” said Stephanie Roth, chief economist at Wolfe Research. That’s because Trump has other tariff levers to pull. The Supreme Court noted other