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Leon Neal/Getty Images A B-52 bomber crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, likely leaving eight crew members dead. The crash occurred during a routine test mission shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base. The Edwards Air Force Base is known for advanced flight testing programs. Eight crew members are believed dead after an Air Force B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday. Emergency responders rushed to the scene after the aircraft went down around 11:20 a.m. local time during what officials described as a "routine test mission." "An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after takeoff at 11:20 a.m. (PDT)," Edwards Air Force Base said in a social media statement. "Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable." Edwards Air Force Base did not immediately respond to a request for comments. Images from the crash showed a large plume of black smoke rising from the base. A large plume of black smoke rises from the Edwards Air Force Base. ALERTCalifornia, via REUTERS/Reuters Edwards Air Force Base posted on X that it has closed operations and diverted incoming aircraft as of 12:48 pm local time. Edwards Air Force Base is home to some of the military's most advanced flight-testing programs, including the Air Force Test Center and Test Pilot School. The 480 square-mile base in Kern County was where pilot Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947. The Boeing-made B-52 Stratofortress first entered service in the 1950s and remains a key part of the Air Force's bomber fleet. The aircraft has been used in conflicts in the Middle East, including recently against Iran. Read the original article on Business Insider

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. George Chan/Getty Images GitHub used to run its own data centers, and Microsoft aimed to move GitHub to Azure by 2027. This year, GitHub has faced capacity and reliability issues after an AI-driven surge in usage. Now, GitHub is adding capacity from Amazon's cloud to address the issues. Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages, according to two people familiar with the plans. GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, is a popular place for engineers to store and manage code, and collaborate on projects. As an independent company, GitHub mostly operated its own data centers, but Microsoft had planned to move the coding platform entirely to its Azure cloud service by 2027. Now, a boom in AI demand is forcing Microsoft to lean on Amazon. AI coding tools have made it easier for developers to write more software. That has swamped GitHub with a flood of new code, straining its compute resources. GitHub commits — records of code changes that serve as a proxy for development activity — were on pace to reach 14 billion in 2026, up from 1 billion in 2025, Chief Operating Officer Kyle Daigle wrote on X in April. To handle this surge in activity, Microsoft is adding extra computing capacity via Amazon Web Services, the people familiar said. The move is notable because Microsoft is battling AWS for market share in the cloud market. Giving an arch rival more business, rather than addressing GitHub needs via its own Azure cloud service, is likely not an ideal move for Microsoft. However, AI-driven demand is so strong that other big tech companies are having to make similar deals. Earlier this month, SpaceX and Google disclosed a new deal in which Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute capacity from October 2026 to June 2029. That emerged just two months after Google's own cloud business agreed to sell AI compute capacity to Anthropic. GitHub's "multi-cloud" strategy A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed GitHub is tapping multiple cloud providers but declined to comment on any Amazon involvement. "The incredible spike in agentic development that began late last year has tested our infrastructure's limits," the spokesperson said. To meet this demand, Microsoft is "both accelerating our move to Azure and continuing to explore a multi-cloud strategy to ensure we have the future capacity, compute elasticity and horizontal scale required to support continued growth." An Amazon spokesperson said the company doesn't comment on individual clients, but said "customers choose AWS because they need global infrastructure that performs reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale, and we're committed to providing the best performance no matter the workload." Keeping services running While these deals might seem strange, the main goal is to keep popular services running for customers — no matter who you have to work with. For Microsoft, that's likely the situation with GitHub, which has suffered dozens of major outages in 2026. Mitchell Hashimoto, cofounder of startup HashiCorp, in April wrote that GitHub was "no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day." GitHub had an early lead among engineers. Lately, though, it has faced more competition from AI tools such as Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code. Microsoft recently projected that its capital expenditures for the 2026 calendar year will reach $190 billion, largely to expand data center capacity. However, many data center projects are delayed, and Microsoft has a host of other important AI projects and businesses that it must support with compute capacity. In an internal meeting late last year, a Microsoft executive spoke about needing to overhaul GitHub to compete with Cursor and Claude Code, according to audio reviewed by Business Insider. Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at astewart@businessinsider.com or Signal at +1-425-344-8242. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely. Read the original article on Business Insider

<p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand">Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand</a></p> <p>I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall &gt; Custom rules &gt; Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from aggresively spidering my <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-faceted-search/">faceted search engine</a> on this site, but I got fed up of even simple <code>?q=term</code> searches triggering the challenge.</p> <p>After some mucking around with Claude Code it turns out you can register the following rule instead, so the CAPTCHA only kicks in for search URLs containing at least one ampersand:</p> <p><code>(http.request.uri.path wildcard r"/search/*" and http.request.uri.query contains "&amp;")</code></p> <p>And now <a href="https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=lemur">/search/?q=lemur</a> works without triggering a CAPTCHA!</p> <p>Also included: notes on <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand#trying-the-cloudflare-mcp">trying out the Cloudflare MCP with Claude Code</a>, though it turned out not to be able to edit the rules in question so I had Claude Code <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand#using-the-api-instead">switch to the Cloudflare API</a> instead.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/captchas">captchas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cloudflare">cloudflare</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/model-context-protocol">model-context-protocol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-code">claude-code</a></p>

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Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic. Chesnot/Getty Images Anthropic met with Trump officials to resolve the export ban on Fable, POLITICO reported. Anthropic argued the breach was minor, not a "jailbreak." AI experts warn export controls may hinder US AI leadership, impacting innovation and competition. Anthropic staff met Monday with senior Trump administration officials for their first in-person sit-downs after a federally imposed export ban forced the artificial intelligence startup to pull its latest model from the market Friday night, two administration officials, a person familiar with the discussions and a person close to the company told POLITICO, which is — like Business Insider — part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. It will likely take longer than a few days to reach a resolution that eases the federal government's Friday action, which had barred Anthropic from allowing non-U.S. users to access its newest model because of potential security vulnerabilities, a senior White House official said. But the official left the door open to the possibility that it can be done quickly. "That's up to Anthropic," the official said. The company raced to send senior leaders with research and safeguard expertise to D.C. after multiple hourslong calls among Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross over the weekend, said the officials, who like others quoted in this story were granted anonymity to describe the discussions. Anthropic head of public policy Sarah Heck was also present on those calls. Monday's in-person meetings, held by Commerce and Cairncross' office, were more technical and were led by staff, including Chris Fall, who heads Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the person familiar with the discussions said. Anthropic gave a presentation to administration officials, explaining Anthropic's cybersecurity safeguards in hopes of moving past the restrictions, the administration official said. Representatives from Anthropic included Logan Graham, who evaluates and stress-tests models as part of the company's Frontier Red Team; Dave Orr, the company's head of safeguards; and Nicholas Carlini, its lead security researcher, a person close to Anthropic said. The export restriction was the most significant escalation yet in the administration's attempts to regulate the AI industry, which is developing faster than the government's infrastructure around the groundbreaking technology. It was also the first time the White House has forced a company to remove a model from public access — but only the latest in a series of spats between the administration and Anthropic over ethical restrictions on potentially catastrophic AI risks. Anthropic has defended its safeguards since the restrictions were handed down Friday night. "These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass," it said in a blog post. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who played a leading role in the discussions with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei before the administration implemented the export restrictions, was less involved over the weekend, and Treasury did not participate in the in-person meetings Monday. Lutnick was tapped in by the president and became more heavily involved over the weekend because of his oversight of the nation's export policy, the person familiar with the discussions said. Lutnick and Bessent both traveled on Air Force One with the president to France for G7 meetings taking place Monday through Wednesday. The export control, which banned Anthropic from allowing foreign nationals to use its latest model, Fable 5, effectively forced the company to pull the model down entirely in order to comply, the company said Friday night. The escalation came after a disagreement between Anthropic and the administration over a perceived security concern with Fable that Amazon, a key investor in Anthropic, had raised to the White House late last week, as POLITICO previously reported. Amazon reported that it found a way to bypass Anthropic's guardrails on Fable, a long-awaited model designed to be less powerful than the company's highly advanced model Mythos. Anthropic has allowed only a select group of companies to gain access to Mythos because of its ability to exploit cyber vulnerabilities faster than any human. Fable performed at a level similar to Mythos, but came with built-in safeguards to prevent users from prompting it to carry out a cyberattack or to detail how to create a bioweapon, the company said. Amazon's discovery, elevated to the White House and the National Security Agency, prompted Cairncross, Bessent and others to demand that Anthropic halt access to Fable. When Anthropic did not agree, arguing instead that the security breach was minor and not a larger so-called "jailbreak" that would allow people to use it for cyberattacks, the administration handed down an export control that the company said forced its hand. Over the weekend, a group of nearly 80 technical experts and CEOs wrote an open letter to the administration urging officials to revoke the export control. They said the actions that Amazon researchers had gotten Fable to carry out were a "necessary capability in any model that is intended to write secure code," and "should not be considered an offensive capability." The Trump administration's abrupt controls have "taken the best models away from defenders, created market uncertainty, and risked America's AI leadership without any real risk to justify it," the tech leaders wrote in the letter. Graham, one of the Anthropic employees attending meetings with the administration, had told Fox News in April that Anthropic was looking to walk a fine line in giving defenders access to Mythos "without the bad actors having access." "Ultimately, we think that tools like this need to be scaled to the entire world in a secure way because we need the entire world to use these tools to defend themselves as well," Graham added. The interview occurred before Fable's release. Some in the tech community have vouched for the tough export restrictions and said the risks posed by the guardrails being broken were serious. But other AI experts, and even officials within the administration, have said the controls create a threatening regulatory landscape that will hobble the industry. "AI is licensed now, but the requirements change constantly and are always a secret, even to the administration itself, which will discover the rules spontaneously in real time as it reacts to events," Dean Ball, a former Trump administration official who worked on AI policy, wrote on X. One current administration official warned that the longer the export dispute goes on, the more likely it is to become a de facto licensing regime that AI companies would have to contend with when they release new models, slowing their innovation and competition with China. If the export control doesn't amount to a brief "slap on the wrist" that's quickly alleviated, "it's going to be a huge problem for the entire industry," the administration official said. "It means that every model going forward needs to ask the government's permission for whether it can be released. That's an extremely bad situation," the official said. Megan Messerly contributed to this report. This story originally appeared on POLITICO and is courtesy of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, which harnesses the resources of the company's newsrooms to publish ambitious scoops, investigations, interviews, opinion pieces, and analysis. It allows journalists — including those from POLITICO, Business Insider, WELT, BILD, Onet, and Fakt — to collaborate on major stories for an international audience of hundreds of millions across platforms. Read the original article on Business Insider

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The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will release supervised self-driving tech this year, with hands-free, eye-off driving coming in 2027. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Rivian Rivian is developing autonomous-driving technology for its next-generation vehicles. CEO RJ Scaringe said the company is set to release Tesla FSD-like self-driving later this year. Autonomous driving is also part of Rivian's plans for a robotaxi launch through Uber. Rivian's CEO says the company is on track to release a supervised self-driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving later this year. During a fireside chat at a Masters of Scale event in Anaheim on Thursday, CEO RJ Scaringe said Rivian will release an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) that could enable the company's second-generation cars and the new R2 to drive on their own with supervision from one destination to another — also known as point-to-point driving. The CEO compared the tech to Tesla FSD. "Later this year, we'll have full supervised point-to-point, which will be very similar to Tesla's FSD," he said. "And that'll roll out to all of our Gen 2 vehicles and, of course, R2." The release would be a notable step up from Rivian's current self-driving system, called Universal Hands-Free, if Scaringe's projection is realized. UHF is an ADAS that can handle steering and speed control on about 3.5 million miles of clearly-marked roads in the US and Canada. It does not navigate turns, traffic lights, or parking lots like Tesla's FSD Supervised. Scaringe's pronouncement could mean that Rivian has advanced its ADAS to a level of driving similar to FSD within a year of its release to customers. The CEO did not specify if there would be a limit on the number of miles the self-driving tech could handle upon first release. Rivian did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last December, the company announced a push to develop fully autonomous driving technology for its future vehicle lineup, enabling hands-free, eyes-off driving. Scaringe said at the event that unsupervised self-driving will be released next year. Part of Rivian's strategy is to develop autonomous driving for robotaxi fleets. The company inked a $1.25 billion deal with Uber in March, in which the ride-hailing company could buy up to 50,000 R2s for its robotaxi aspirations. Read the original article on Business Insider

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The White House hosted a UFC fight on Trump's 80th birthday. Bloomberg via Getty Images The White House hosted a UFC fight, branded "UFC Freedom 250," on the South Lawn on Sunday. The event coincided with President Donald Trump's 80th birthday. Trump cabinet and family members were joined by Mark Zuckerberg, Joe Rogan, and others. The UFC fight that President Donald Trump had promised would be "the greatest show on Earth" finally took over the White House's South Lawn on Sunday night. UFC Freedom 250, a seven-bout event, was attended by Trump, who also turned 80 on Sunday, along with members of the Trump family, cabinet officials, tech leaders, business executives, and a handful of celebrities. JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth were there, as well as other Republican leaders like Mike Johnson and John Thune. Some business executives and celebrities showed up, too. Among those in attendance was David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, which owns exclusive streaming rights to UFC, and which was cleared by the US Department of Justice to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery just days before the White House event. The New York Times reported that New York Knicks owner Jim Dolan was also spotted at the event, less than 24 hours after his franchise won its first NBA championship since 1973. See other big names in attendance. Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg was seen chatting with Trump at the event. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Meta CEO was seen speaking with Trump during a break at the event. In late 2024, Meta donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund, and Zuckerberg later attended the ceremony alongside other tech CEOs and billionaires. Last year, he sat beside Trump at a White House dinner for tech leaders. Joe Rogan Joe Rogan interviewed Justin Gaethje after the lightweight matchup. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Rogan, a longtime UFC interviewer and color commentator, was part of the broadcast event. Rogan interviewed Trump on his podcast ahead of the 2024 election, but has levied criticism against the president as recently as last Friday, speaking of his frustration over the Epstein files and the Iran war, The Hill reported. Rogan previously criticized the idea of an outdoor UFC fight, but has since praised the event. Ari Emanuel Ari Emanuel was joined by other TKO executives. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Emanuel is the CEO of TKO Group Holdings, which owns both the WWE and UFC. Emanuel and Trump have had a longtime professional relationship. Shane Gillis Shane Gillis repped the Philadelphia Eagles at the UFC fight. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The comedian, whose impression of the president is well-known, and Trump previously met at the Super Bowl LIX. The president later said, "I like him," The New York Post reported, citing The Spectator. Zac Brown Zac Brown performed the national anthem ahead of the fight. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The singer performed the national anthem at the fight, drawing criticism from some fans. Brown said that he sang at the event because of "patriotism, not politics," USA Today reported. Kris Marszalek Kris Marszalek is the CEO of Crypto.com. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Marszalek co-founded Crypto.com, which is engaged in a "strategic partnership" with Trump Media, per the company. Crypto.com co-sponsored the UFC fight. Tony Hinchcliffe Tony Hinchcliffe performed a comedy set at a rally for Trump in 2024. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Hinchcliffe is perhaps best known for his comedy performance at a 2024 Trump rally in which he called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," among other racial and ethnic remarks, the BBC reported. Hinchcliffe later defended his comments, saying his critics had "no sense of humor." Read the original article on Business Insider

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