By Hadas Gold, CNN

(CNN) — ChatGPT maker OpenAI has the same redlines as Anthropic when it comes to working with the Pentagon, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

That means even if the Pentagon decides to cancel its Anthropic contract in favor of OpenAI, it’ll have to contend with the same concerns over the use of AI in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of US citizens.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview with CNBC on Friday morning that it’s important for companies to work with the Pentagon, “as long as it is going to comply with legal protections” and “the few red lines” that OpenAI and many in the AI industry have when it comes to AI use in the military.

“For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company, and I think they really do care about safety, and I’ve been happy that they’ve been supporting our war fighters,” Altman continued. “I’m not sure where this is going to go.”

Anthropic’s Claude system was the first AI model to be used for work on the military’s classified systems. But the Pentagon has given the company until 5:01pm on Friday to agree to drop its internal guardrails and allow its system to be used for “all lawful use.” If Anthropic doesn’t agree, it’ll lose a $200 million contract with the Pentagon and could be designated a “supply chain risk,” the same label given to companies connected to foreign adversaries.

Anthropic has said it wants to work with the Pentagon, but that its worries about the use of AI in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance stem from concerns the technology is still unreliable in these cases. Current laws and regulations do not properly account for advancements in AI, the company also said.

In a memo to OpenAI staff first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Altman said the company is still working toward a deal with the Pentagon for its models to be used on classified systems that he hopes will also help the resolve the outstanding issues between Anthropic and the military.

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By Jackie Wattles, CNN

(CNN) — NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land.

Space agency officials said that “Artemis III” — the mission name that had previously been used to refer to a moon landing slated to happen no earlier than 2028 — will now be a different mission entirely, one that involves launching a crewed NASA capsule to Earth orbit to dock with at least one prototype lunar lander vehicle made by SpaceX or Blue Origin. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he hopes the mission will get off the ground in 2027.

The moon landing mission, still slated for 2028, will now be referred to as “Artemis IV.” Isaacman said the agency is in fact pursuing up to two moon landings in 2028.

Oversight officials, however, have already cast serious doubt on whether the timeline is obtainable.

Isaacman billed the decision as an effort to increase the pace at which NASA launches Artemis-related missions. For context, the first uncrewed test flight of the program, called Artemis I, launched in November 2022 — putting more than three years between that test flight and the Artemis II mission, the first crewed Artemis flight test slated to carry four astronauts on a slingshot trip around the moon.

“We didn’t go right to Apollo 11,” Isaacman said. “We had a whole Mercury Program, Gemini — lots of Apollo missions before we ultimately landed right. Now, our program is essentially set up with an Apollo 8 and then going right to the moon. That is, again, not a pathway to success.”

The news comes as NASA continues to work to get Artemis II off the ground. That mission, which involves sending four astronauts on a test flight that will loop around the moon but will not land on its surface, was originally targeting launch windows in February.

But those plans were dashed because of issues with NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. Specifically, a series of hydrogen leaks and then an unexpected problem getting helium to flow to the upper portion of the launch vehicle led to a series of delays and ultimately a decision to roll the rocket back off its launchpad.

Artemis II — which will make use of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft but will not involve a lunar lander vehicle — is now expected to launch no earlier than April.

The landing problem

While Artemis II is designed to serve as a pathfinder mission for a moon landing, whether NASA can pull off an actual lunar touchdown this decade has remained in question. While SLS and Orion are designed to take astronauts from Earth to lunar orbit, the agency long ago decided to contract out development of a lunar lander to the private sector. Such a vehicle is necessary to carry astronauts from the Orion spacecraft down to the moon’s surface.

Both Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have fixed-price contracts with NASA to develop lunar landers. SpaceX plans to use its Starship megarocket — a gargantuan rocket system that Musk originally billed for Mars travel — for the task. Starship is still in the early stages of development and over the past year prototypes have exploded during brief, suborbital test flights.

Meanwhile, Blue Or

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Por David Goldman, CNN

Hace menos de un año, David Ellison dirigía una pequeña productora. Ahora, está a punto de convertirse en el rey de Hollywood.

El director ejecutivo de Paramount Skydance salió victorioso el jueves por la noche en una puja por Warner Bros. Discovery. Era un premio que Paramount necesitaba desesperadamente para sobrevivir, y ganar no estaba asegurado. Sigue sin estarlo.

La batalla enfrentó a Ellison contra Netflix, la empresa más grande e importante de la industria. El presidente Donald Trump se involucró en la puja. También lo hicieron los saudíes. Y en un momento dado, la puja incluyó una amenaza de adquisición hostil.

Pero Ellison ganó. Y si el acuerdo se cierra, pendiente de la aprobación de los accionistas y de una revisión regulatoria potencialmente difícil, dirigirá uno de los estudios cinematográficos, plataformas de streaming y cadenas de televisión más grandes de la industria de los medios.

Ellison, hijo del fundador de Oracle, Larry Ellison, ha sido productor de Hollywood durante dos décadas. Fundó Skydance con su multimillonario padre en 2006 y financió algunas franquicias importantes, como Star Trek, Misión Imposible y Top Gun. Cuando Paramount, una compañía en crisis y con graves dificultades financieras, comenzó a cortejar a posibles compradores en 2024, Ellison emergió como el caballero blanco. Skydance completó la compra de Paramount en agosto de 2025.

Pero la compañía necesita más ayuda de la que Ellison puede brindar por sí solo. Paramount+ es una plataforma de streaming de segunda categoría con algunas franquicias favoritas de los fans, derechos de transmisión de la NFL y muchas incógnitas. El estudio cinematográfico no logró colocar ni una sola película entre los 10 estrenos más taquilleros de 2025. Sus cadenas de cable apenas producen contenido original, más allá de South Park de Comedy Central y The Daily Show. Los índices de audiencia de CBS cayeron un 12% en 2025, según Nielsen.

Para competir con compañías de medios tradicionales como Disney y Netflix, y con empresas de redes sociales como TikTok y YouTube, Paramount necesitaba escala. Por lo tanto, Ellison casi de inmediato comenzó a cortejar a Warner Bros. Discovery.

Dos meses después de que Skydance comprara Paramount, WBD se puso a la venta. Pero Netflix emergió con la oferta favorita de WBD.

Netflix pareció tener la sartén por el mango durante meses: tenía suficiente efectivo para completar la transacción, y Netflix planeaba vender CNN y el resto de los activos de cable de WBD en una escisión libre de impuestos antes de adquirir HBO Max y Warner Bros. WBD siguió insistiendo en que la oferta de Paramount, a pesar de ser por toda la compañía, infravaloraba los activos.

WBD también cuestionó si Paramount realmente era rentable, lo que generó dudas sobre la financiación saudí que respaldaba parte del acuerdo y si Larry Ellison realmente garantizaría que financiaría la adquisición. Incluso después de que Paramount disipara esas preocupaciones permitiendo a WBD revisar la contabilidad de Ellison y nombrando a los saudíes sin derecho a voto ni miembros de la junta directiva, WBD seguía favoreciendo a Netflix.

Así que Paramount amenazó con una oferta pública de adquisición hostil, comprometiéndose a llevar el acuerdo directamente a los accionistas. La situación cambió la semana pasada, cuando Paramount anunció que revisaría su oferta. Al aumentar su oferta en 1 dólar, a 31 dólares por acción, Paramount convenció a la escéptica junta directiva de WBD el jueves. Horas más tarde, tras la salida del director ejecutivo de Netflix de una reunión en la Casa Blanca, Netflix anunció, sorprendentemente, que se retiraba de la puja.

No está claro por qué Netflix se retiró tan rápido. Sabía que Paramount iba a subir su ofert

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN

(CNN) — The US has recorded more than 1,100 measles cases so far this year, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a troubling milestone that has many in public health bracing for the worst.

According to the CDC, out of every 1,000 children who are infected with measles, one may develop encephalitis, ​which is a dangerous swelling of the brain. Up to 3 out of every 1,000 infected children will die.

The US is on track for another record-breaking year for measles: The number of measles cases reported in the first eight weeks of the year — ​1,136 as of February ​26, according to CDC data — is already six times more than typical for an entire year. A tracker from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation has tallied an even higher the annual case total than the CDC.

The current US trajectory for measles cases is “disappointing and depressing and ominous,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center — especially because there is a safe and highly effective vaccine available to protect against measles infection and its complications.

“Measles is a fierce infection, and we should be preventing it,” he said. “It can strike any healthy, normal child in its most severe fashion.”

But the vast majority of measles cases reported in the US so far this year — ​about 96% — have been among people who have not been vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or who have not received both recommended doses. More than 80% have been among children and teens, with about 1 in 4 cases among children under 5.

Last year, the US reported nearly 2,300 measles cases — more than there have been in a single year since 1991, and significantly more than there have been in any year since measles declared eliminated in 2000.

Three people died from measles last year: two children in Texas and one adult in New Mexico, all of whom were unvaccinated.

“That’s in that range of one to three deaths per 1,000 (cases). So, can we expect another death? Yes, I think we’re getting there where we can expect another death,” said Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease physician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “And it is unconscionable.”

“When more people are choosing not to vaccinate their children, you’re going to see more disease, more suffering, more hospitalization and more death,” he said. “Children are dying from a vaccine-preventable disease because their parents are choosing not to vaccinate them, and they’re choosing not to vaccinate them because they fear the vaccine more than they fear the disease.”

More than half of US states have reported a measles case so far this year, and there are at least three large outbreaks happening across the country that continue to grow.

Multiple outbreaks throughout US

A record-breaking measles outbreak in the upstate region of South Carolina has led to at least 979 cases since it started in October, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

The outbreak is centered in Spartanburg County, where vaccination rates ​are ​particularly low. As with broader national trends, nearly all measles cases in South Carolina — more than 93% — are among people who have not been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, according to Read more