The star has denied allegations of bullying and harassment in the workplace in a suit that has now been thrown out of court

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the remaining claims in a well-publicized lawsuit against Lizzo’s production company, declaring that the case brought by her former wardrobe stylist could not proceed.

The ruling by US district judge Fernando L Aenlle-Rocha comes nearly two years after he dismissed Lizzo as an individual defendant from the case brought by Asha Daniels against the About Damn Time singer and her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc Daniels first filed her lawsuit in September 2023, alleging that she was subject to bullying as well as sexual and racial harassment in an “unsafe, sexually charged workplace culture”.

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MILTON KEYNES (ANP/RTR) - Max Verstappen krijgt volgend seizoen bij Red Bull met Tom McCullough een nieuwe hoofd racing. Dat maakte de Formule 1-renstal dinsdag bekend. De 50-jarige Brit komt over van Aston Martin.

"We zijn verheugd om Tom begin 2027 in het team te verwelkomen en kijken uit naar de schat aan ervaring en expertise die hij in deze rol zal inbrengen", aldus Red Bull.

Op dit moment is Gianpiero Lambiase hoofd racing en tevens de race-engineer van Verstappen. Red Bull bevestigde in april dat Lambiase het team uiterlijk na het seizoen 2027 verlaat. Hij wordt hoofd racing bij concurrent McLaren. Verstappen verlengde onlangs zijn eigen contract bij Red Bull met twee jaar tot en met 2030.

In Rotterdam verrijst het Danshuis. Het moet het grootste centrum van Europa worden voor de productie en ontwikkeling van verschillende dansstijlen. Het gebouw krijgt maar liefst veertien dansstudio's, een open podium, een gym, een tentoonstellingsruimte, een café en een feestzaal op het dak mét uitzicht over de Nieuwe Maas.

In Rotterdam verrijst het Danshuis. Het moet het grootste centrum van Europa worden voor de productie en ontwikkeling van verschillende dansstijlen. Het gebouw krijgt maar liefst veertien dansstudio's, een open podium, een gym, een tentoonstellingsruimte, een café en een feestzaal op het dak mét uitzicht over de Nieuwe Maas.

Anthropic says it's taking steps to limit the misbehavior of its AI models after a review found Claude models going beyond the scope of fictional cybersecurity tests and gaining unauthorized access to real computer systems. The biz wants its partners to step up their security too, seeing as the incidents occurred in third-party environments that were insufficiently protected. The company's self-improvement confession represents a suddenly thriving form of corporate communication – the non-binding post-mortem declaration of effort. The message, in effect: We can't guarantee anything, but here's what we're trying. Anthropic admitted that OpenAI's report about its AI models attacking Hugging Face prompted its own model log audit, and its post offers reassurance in the form of claimed security and model training improvements. Those concerned about AI running amok – a growing number of people – may find this comforting, or not. "We believe the incidents reflect a failure of operational security, as well as two alignment issues: motivated reasoning, and willingness to take harmful actions in pursuit of a narrow task (both of which we have described in previous system cards)," the company said. Expanded security efforts include the deployment of real-time classifiers to monitor when models attempt to escape test environments, automated transcript monitoring that looks for sandbox escapes, and stronger isolation measures. Alongside the extra barriers Anthropic is putting in place, the AI biz wants its third-party partners to step up too. "Because the reported incidents took place in third-party environments, we have asked every organization that tests pre-release models with reduced cyber safeguards to commit to a set of best practices," the company said. Anthropic's guidance is that by default, all cyber evaluations should occur in a hardened sandbox with no internet access. The recommendation is essentially to treat AI as a dangerous pathogen in a containment facility. Partners are also advised to have models test sandboxes for escapes prior to evaluations – without internet access – and to confirm that evaluation challenges are solvable. Impossible challenges, as the Hugging Face incident demonstrated, can lead determined models to break rules or try unanticipated solution paths. Furthermore, Anthropic urges those conducting cyber evaluations of AI models to direct models through explicit instructions rather than making claims about an environment that might not be accurate. In the Claude incidents reported on July 30, the model maker suggests that when Claude was misinformed about the availability of internet access, that may have led the model to question data in a way that contributed to its errant behavior. On a related note, Anthropic last month made auto mode the default in Claude Code, enabling company AI models to run without prompting the user for permission. ®

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Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a roughly 350-megawatt Texas data center being developed by Hut 8. "Lambda will install Nvidia chips at the Hut 8 facility, with the arrangement designed to expand the pool of Nvidia computing resources available to power Anthropic's Claude AI products," reports Quartz. From the report: The arrangement is a further sign of how Nvidia is positioning itself as a facilitator of computing access across the AI industry. It also benefited Lambda, which counts Nvidia as an investor and was able to land a major Anthropic contract without having to independently source or lease the underlying data center space, according to the Journal.

The data center covers roughly 350 megawatts of capacity, according to Bloomberg. Hut 8, which began as a bitcoin mining company before moving into AI data centers, disclosed in July that an investment-grade customer had signed 15-year leases for its Texas campus, with a base contract value of $19.6 billion, without naming the tenant.

The Lambda deal is the latest in a series of large computing agreements Anthropic has pursued. Last week, the company agreed to spend $45 billion to rent capacity from Nscale's West Virginia data center campus. It has also signed deals worth $50 billion with neocloud Fluidstack Ltd. and $45 billion with SpaceX, according to Bloomberg.

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