Author: Dempsey May Ayuco

The AI company’s IPO filing reveals explosive growth, eye-watering losses and a list of fears it is no longer keeping quiet. Anthropic is ready to let the public see its finances, and the numbers read like a stress test for the entire artificial intelligence boom. The company behind the Claude chatbot has publicly filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the document that gives would-be shareholders their first full look under the hood before an initial public offering. When the stock arrives, it will trade under the ticker ANT. A Revenue Rocket With a Fuel Bill to…

The 82-year-old Virginia Senate leader and fierce Trump critic is accused of running a marijuana and money laundering scheme just weeks before the midterms. L. Louise Lucas has spent more than three decades as one of the most formidable voices in Virginia politics. On Thursday, the 82-year-old state senator walked into federal custody to face charges that could define the final chapter of that career. The Justice Department unveiled a 45-page indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia accusing Lucas, the Democratic president pro tempore of the state Senate, of leading a marijuana trafficking, bribery and money laundering operation run…

The Category 2 storm spared one fishing town from disaster, but its moisture is now fueling dangerous floods from Arizona to Texas Hurricane Polo tore into Mexico’s Baja California Sur on Tuesday, flooding coastal neighborhoods and toppling trees, yet the peninsula emerged far better than many residents had feared. The storm’s reach, however, was only beginning to show. Polo Makes Landfall as a Category 2 Storm Polo came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane just south of Las Barrancas, roughly 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Cabo San Lázaro, packing maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph). Forecasters expected…

Health officials warn unvaccinated residents face growing risk as cases climb across the state. Two residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have died after contracting measles, marking the first fatalities linked to the disease in the United States this year and the first recorded in the state in 35 years. Both victims were unvaccinated, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which confirmed the deaths this week. The losses underscore a troubling resurgence of a disease many Americans had come to view as a relic of the past. Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, but declining vaccination…

Despite the White House pushing hard for a coal revival, solar energy quietly crossed a threshold that energy analysts say could reshape the nation’s power grid for decades to come. Solar Crosses a Historic Threshold For the first time in U.S. history, solar energy generated more electricity than coal in a single month. According to data released Wednesday by Ember, a global energy think tank, solar accounted for 12.8% of the nation’s electricity supply in May — edging past coal’s 12.2%, which marked the fourth-lowest monthly share coal has ever recorded. In April, coal generation hit an all-time monthly low…

A fast-moving blaze near Oceanside triggers evacuation warnings for neighborhoods, a golf course, and an animal shelter that had already fled another fire days earlier. A brush fire that ignited Wednesday morning on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton escalated rapidly, scorching approximately 150 acres within two hours and prompting evacuation warnings for several communities bordering the sprawling military installation in San Diego County. The fire was first reported around 10:30 a.m. in the November Training Area near Wire Mountain Housing, according to Camp Pendleton officials. Within an hour, Oceanside police confirmed the blaze had already consumed roughly 75 acres. By…