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NYTIMES (Anusha Bayya, Miles G. Cohen and Claire Fahy) - ‘We Don’t Have a Choice’: Tough Commutes Persist After L.I.R.R. Strike Deal

Transit officials and unions representing Long Island Rail Road employees agreed to a new contract on Monday, ending a three-day strike. But service remained limited on Tuesday morning.

NYTIMES (Ivan Penn) - Rising Energy Costs and Data Centers at Heart of NextEra’s Dominion Bid

NextEra’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy comes as Americans are paying a lot more for electricity, and data centers are demanding a lot more power from utilities.

AXIOS (Maria Curi) - Trump administration doubles down on Anthropic blacklisting in court arguments

The Trump administration defended its designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk in oral arguments in federal court Tuesday, even as it actively tries to figure out how it can adopt its most powerful model yet, Mythos, to combat cyber threats. Why it matters: Treating a U.S. company as a national security threat while looking to use its technology to combat foreign adversaries is an awkward needle to thread. Catch up quick: The Pentagon claims it's unworkable for the military or its vendors to rely on Anthropic because the company might pull the plug at any time due to its "ideological" views around AI safety. - Unlike other model-makers, Anthropic refused to agree to the Pentagon's "all lawful use" standard for AI deployment. -…

AXIOS (Madison Mills) - OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI , announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic . Why it matters: The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent — and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry's most respected technical minds. Driving the news: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic. - Karpathy will help launch a new team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pretraining research — an increasingly important frontier as AI…

ABCNEWS - Acting AG Todd Blanche faces questions on $1.7 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing questions Tuesday on the $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

NYTIMES (Julian E. Barnes) - Iran War Exposes Shortcomings in U.S. Military Industrial Base

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking on a problem that the Pentagon and Congress have tried, and mostly failed, to address for years.