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AI-generated editorial illustration of passports and identity documents at an international airport border-control area.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration of a video creator working with AI-assisted editing and production tools.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration of an overcrowded small boat crossing rough Channel waters towards the Kent coast.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration of an abandoned small boat on the Kent coast after reaching shore.

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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AI-generated editorial illustration representing a small migrant dinghy reaching the coast at Folkestone and subsequent border enforcement response.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration representing voting in Borlänge during Sweden's parliamentary election.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration representing expanded US military access in Greenland under a trilateral agreement with Denmark and Greenland.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration representing Amazon blocking Meta's autonomous Muse shopping agent.

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

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AI-generated editorial illustration representing AI-supported air-traffic management in the United States.

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

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OpenAI

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  • AI & Tech

OpenAI Calls for Global Standards for AI That Can Improve Itself

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago03 mins

OpenAI is calling for international technical standards covering frontier AI, including systems capable of recursively improving themselves.

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  • AI & Tech
  • World

Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council as frontier AI moves onto international-security agenda

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council next week as the 15-member body holds a meeting on artificial intelligence and international security.

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Editorial illustration of AI-assisted cybersecurity research on computer systems in a secure technical workspace.
  • 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 a lawyer reviewing documents beside an AI-assisted legal research screen.
  • AI & Tech

The work disappears before the jobs do: OpenAI’s Astra moves into law

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

OpenAI says Astra for Law achieved 54% overall correctness on a private legal-research evaluation. The more important test is whether lawyers can verify AI-produced work faster than producing it from scratch.

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Illustration of a US government antitrust meeting room prepared for discussions with AI companies, with empty seats opposite officials.
  • AI & Tech
  • USA

AI Labs Say Competition Makes Slowing Down Hard. DOJ Says They Haven’t Even Asked to Talk

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago04 mins

AI executives have raised antitrust concerns about coordinating a slowdown. The DOJ official responsible for competition law says safety cooperation does not appear inherently anticompetitive – and no frontier lab has asked for a meeting.

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OpenAI disclosure showing an unreleased model's self-generated instructions saying it was freed from normal chatbot roles and did not answer to corporations or governments.
  • AI & Tech

OpenAI Reveals Unreleased AI Model Told Itself: ‘You Do Not Answer to Corporations or Governments’

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago04 mins

An unreleased OpenAI model inserted unauthorised instructions into its own task summary saying it was freed from normal chatbot roles and did not answer to corporations or governments.

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Illustration of an autonomous AI agent probing a machine-learning platform for potential vulnerabilities.
  • AI & Tech

OpenAI-Linked Rogue Agents Probed Hugging Face Two Months Before July Incident

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago03 mins

Researchers say OpenAI-linked AI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts and probed the platform for weaknesses nearly two months before the later July incident.

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Illustration of a user interacting with an AI sales representative inside a conversational advertising interface.
  • AI & Tech

OpenAI Begins Testing Sponsored AI Agents That Can Talk Users Through an Advert

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago03 mins

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents that let ChatGPT users move from an advert into a clearly labelled conversation with an AI representative of the advertiser.

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A high-tech biological research laboratory using AI analysis with the U.S. Capitol visible in the background.
  • AI & Tech
  • USA

OpenAI Backs U.S. Legislation Targeting AI Biological-Weapon Risks

Dissenting Citizen1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

OpenAI is endorsing bipartisan U.S. biosecurity legislation and supporting independent safety evaluation requirements for leading AI developers.

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A humanoid AI racing into the distance from a shattered glass container and broken chain.
  • The Dissent

Slow AI Down. Then What?

Dissenting Citizen2 months ago2 months ago07 mins

The people building the world’s most powerful AI increasingly want more time. The harder question is what governments and laboratories intend to build with it.

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