Can You Predict an Election?

Can You Predict an Election?

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Americanswers… on 5 Live! Trump claims Iran wants to "make a deal" to end the war

Donald Trump has told reporters there have been talks between the US and Iran in which the two sides had “major points of agreement” and both wanted “to make a deal”. The US president says his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner talked to Iran on Sunday a ...  Show more

Trump v Anthropic: The battle over who controls AI

Away from the war in Iran, the Pentagon is engaged in another battle, with Anthropic and its AI chatbot Claude. After awarding the company a contract potentially worth $200 million last year to integrate their artificial intelligence into the Department of Defence’s classified sy ...  Show more

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