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Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot "in good conscience" accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Syrskyi outlines difficult situation near Pokrovsk and Ocheretyne as Russia pulls in reserves: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/syrskyi-outlines-difficult-situation-near.html

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College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order
Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says

Despite a $500M federal funding cut, the US public media remains largely intact, as donations are estimated to have grown by ~$300M YoY, with new donors up 84% (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/media/npr-pbs-stations-…

Public Media Holds Its Apocalypse at Bay, for Now
Though Congress cut $500 million from NPR and PBS stations, vanishingly few have closed their doors. Angst about their long-term future remains.

Some US college students say they are using AI "humanizer" tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch "humanizers" (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/coll

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students turn to AI
On college campuses across the United States, the introduction of generative artificial intelligence has sparked a sort of arms race

Drones over railway stations and monasteries – Putin's terror crosses all red lines: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/drones-over-railway-stations-and.html

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Anthropic says it'll challenge "any supply chain risk designation in court" and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…