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Anthropic has told would-be shareholders that the technology it sells could threaten humanity itself. The warning appears in a long-awaited initial public offering prospectus shared with a small group of partners, according to people familiar with the filing cited by the Financial Times. The company behind the Claude chatbot dedicated almost a third of its lengthy S-1, the document companies file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission before listing, to risk factors. These include the possibility that increasingly advanced AI models could manipulate, blackmail or behave in other unpredictable ways as Anthropic’s own research has shown autonomous models sabotaging…
By Roselyne Min with AFP Published on 29/09/2026 – 10:52 GMT+2 Google said on Tuesday it had appealed EU measures announced in July requiring it to share data with rival search engines and give competing AI services greater access to Android, warning that the measures could put users’ privacy at risk. The company filed its appeal with the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg. “We’re appealing decisions that will force us to share people’s private search history without sufficient anonymisation and weaken vital security protections on Android,” said Oliver Bethell, Google’s senior director for competition. The European Commission said Google must begin sharing search…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 9:54 GMT+2 UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has confirmed the UK’s national museums will remain free and open for all. Nandy confirmed universal free entry would be maintained for the 15 institutions sponsored directly by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – institutions like the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, National Museums Liverpool and the British Museum – which currently displays the Bayeux Tapestry. “Our museums are the places that light up the world,” Nandy said. “They remind of us our shared history and enable us to step outside the confines of our…
However, many net contributors — those who pay in more than they get out — want their bills cut. Others, including those who stand to gain most from the funding, want to see spending increased. “Our six countries alone finance almost 40% of all Member States’ contributions. While net contributors as a whole are in the minority, they shoulder around three-quarters of the total financing burden,” the letter reads. A 60% nominal increase in the size of the budget compared to the current one, they argue, is “simply not realistic.” In a bid to lessen the financial pressure on national…
A wave of images depicting Italy’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister Antonio Tajani wearing a variety of skirts and dresses has swept across Italian-language social media platforms. No, he hasn’t suddenly become a fashion icon overnight: these pictures are actually AI-generated, and Italians are sharing them over a controversial statement he made about women. To understand the joke, we need to go back to something Tajani, leader of the centre-right Forza Italia party, said at a political event near Rome on 18 September. He was responding to a question about why voters should choose an established party, such as…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 10:56 GMT+2 The blasts that wounded three South Korean soldiers last week were apparently caused by North Korean mines, Seoul said on Tuesday, adding it was an armistice violation that would prompt “corresponding measures.” One troop lost a foot due to the explosions in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), the heavily mined buffer zone that has divided the two Koreas since their 1953 armistice. The northern and southern boundaries of the zone are among the world’s most heavily fortified frontiers and landmine incidents have previously heightened tensions between the two countries. Defence Minister Kang Shin-chul’s comments came…
It’s the new prime minister’s big day in Liverpool – but will he explain what Labour conference slogan “hope again” actually means? After a series of major speeches with little substance so far from his cabinet colleagues, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy wonder whether Andy Burnham is saving all the juicy details for himself. Could there be some policy surprises – with the pensions triple lock seemingly on the table? And with Reform inching back ahead in the latest polling, the duo ask who Labour views as their main opponent heading into the next election: Reform or the Conservatives? Plus,…
Tobias Cremer, an S&D MEP, said economic support for Ukraine is necessary because “the cost of the country failing would be much higher for us than the cost of supporting Ukraine”. Cremer called on the EU to explore how frozen Russian assets could be used as “leverage for peace”, arguing that this could show Russian President Vladimir Putin that if he continues the war in Ukraine, Russia should “start paying for it”. The MEP also said Russia’s attacks in Europe are “no longer hybrid”, arguing that cities such as Leipzig in Germany have faced what he described as “proper attacks”.
A powerful nor’easter has exposed weathered wooden beams on Nantucket’s southern shore, possibly revealing the remains of a 19th-century shipwreck. Maritime experts from the Egan Maritime Institute are examining the wreckage and will work with state underwater archaeologists to identify the vessel. The remains appeared near an area where parts of the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner that ran aground in 1884, have been found before. However, experts say the newly exposed wreckage has not yet been identified with certainty.
International crude oil prices climbed further on Tuesday morning amid uncertainty over US-Iran talks, as hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway crucial to oil shipments, faded. Hopes that Middle East tensions would ease were dashed at the weekend when Donald Trump rejected Iran’s offer of a seven-day truce. Mediators are working with the US and Iran on a deal to end the fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, officials told the Associated Press. The disruption to shipping through the waterway has affected global trade and added to inflation. Iran has proposed reopening the strait if the…