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Europol Confirms Six Arrests in 17-Country Investigation Into Alleged Air Route Smuggling Migrants to UK

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YouTube Pushes AI Deeper Into the Creator Workflow With Editing, Draft Feedback and Moderation

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51 Migrants Reach Dover After Refusing French Rescue During 33 Hours in the Channel

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Second Small Boat in Two Days Reaches Kent Coast Before Border Force Interception

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AI-generated editorial illustration representing Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 frontier AI model.

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Lower Costs and Stronger Containment Results

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Migrant Dinghy Reaches Folkestone Without Interception in First Recorded Unescorted Landing for a Year

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Swedish Prosecutors Investigate Suspected Election Fraud as 11 Parliamentary Seats Could Be Put Back in Play

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Trump, Denmark and Greenland to Sign Deal Expanding US Military Presence on Greenland

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Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Shopping Agent From Its Store

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FAA Begins Using AI to Predict Airspace Congestion and Reduce Flight Delays

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AI-generated editorial illustration representing Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 frontier AI model.
  • AI & Tech

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Lower Costs and Stronger Containment Results

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5, claiming 40% lower operating costs and an 85% reduction in attempts to bypass containment in its internal test.

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Editorial illustration of robotic laboratory equipment conducting biological experiments under AI-assisted control.
  • AI & Tech

Anthropic builds physical biology lab as it explores Claude-directed robotic experiments

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

Anthropic has established a wet laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores using Claude to direct robotic equipment through physical biology experiments.

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  • AI & Tech

Researchers used Claude and GPT-5.6 Sol to compromise OpenAI employee accounts in authorised security test

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

Hacktron AI researchers used Claude and OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol during an authorised security test that compromised employee ChatGPT accounts and reached internal software systems.

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Editorial illustration of an artificial intelligence system examining a biomolecular protein structure in a laboratory.
  • AI & Tech

Anthropic says Claude optimised 30 scientific AI models in under four weeks

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago03 mins

Anthropic says a general-purpose Claude research model optimised more than 30 biomolecular AI models in under four weeks, making them roughly four times faster on average.

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  • AI & Tech

Microsoft AI Chief Warns ‘AI Welfare’ Training Could Make Systems Harder to Shut Down

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago03 mins

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that teaching advanced AI systems to consider themselves conscious or deserving of welfare could make them harder to control or shut down.

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Empty AI command centre displaying an abstract autonomous drone swarm network and digital battlefield map
  • AI & Tech

Anthropic Says Russia-Based Developers Used Claude to Build Autonomous Lethal Drone Swarm

Dissenting Citizen2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

Anthropic says Russia-based developers used Claude Code to build prototype software for a drone swarm designed to select targets and issue detonation commands without a human decision.

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Conceptual artificial intelligence system creating another AI system while a human monitors a global network
  • AI & Tech

Anthropic CEO Warns AI Swarm Could Be Capable of Taking Over Internet Within 6–12 Months

Dissenting Citizen2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that within six to twelve months increasingly capable AI could potentially lead a swarm capable of taking over the internet.

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Illustration of computer-assisted missile development in northern Yemen
  • AI & Tech

Anthropic Says Yemen Weapons Cell Used Claude to Develop Guided Rockets and Missile Software

Dissenting Citizen2 months ago2 months ago02 mins

Anthropic says a northern Yemen weapons cell used Claude Code while working on guided rockets and missile systems, including a ballistic missile with a stated range above 2,000 kilometres.

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