Science George Washington's famous'golden suit' was actually purple More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. George Washington's original 1789 inauguration overcoat (left) is a golden-yellow color, but researchers believe it originally was a deep plum color as the reproduction shows on the right. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . With the United States' 250th birthday coming up on July Fourth, it may seem like George Washington is everywhere, from a live PBS broadcast featuring Ken Burns at Colonial Williamsburg to two-part screenings of the musical where actor Christopher Jackson plays the Revolutionary War hero.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on April 6. | REUTERS WASHINGTON - CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to nuclear weapons in a tacit defense of Washington's recent hard line on controlling the release of the most powerful AI technology. "In conversations with many of the president's other national security and economic security advisors, we're talking about the impact of these frontier AI models," Ratcliffe said during a speech at the AWS summit in Washington. "It would be ... not misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons," he said. On June 12, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration forced Anthropic, a leading American AI firm based in San Francisco, to cut off access to its two most powerful models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, by imposing an export control on them. The forced withdrawal of a frontier model by a government -- a first -- was only partially lifted on Friday for Mythos, now accessible to a restricted circle of U.S. partners, while Fable 5, its restricted consumer version, remains offline. OpenAI, Anthropic's American rival, launched its GPT-5.6 model the same day with very limited access, agreeing for the first time to let the U.S. government vet authorized partners on a client-by-client basis.

For America's 250th birthday, the U.S. government is hosting two major events hosted by rival groups. One got Trump, the other got bigger stars.

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Plus: Meta is pausing an AI training program that tracks workers' keystrokes. It's a bit of a schlep to get to the top of ASML's newest machine. It's about the size of a double-decker bus, weighs more than 150 tons, and costs $400 million. But if you want to make the world's most powerful chips, a lithography system like this is essential. The AI era needs ever faster chips, and ASML's machines make that possible. They pattern chip features with extreme-ultraviolet light, or EUV--radiation outside the visible spectrum, produced by shooting lasers at tiny molten drops of tin tens of thousands of times a second.

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