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✓ Verified More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' - as Anthropic reveals another 'cybersecurity' incident
There is a more than 10% chance that "AI could kill all humans" in the next decade, according to a top safety researcher at Anthropic
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August joint-hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive heat
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Why gains by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen could push gas prices even higher
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Trump bans some Canadian imports as North America trade war intensifies
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Apple's new boss starts with big gamble on £1,999 first folding iPhone
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The tourist coach was carrying dozens of Dutch passengers when it overturned in the south-eastern Swiss Alps
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✓Social media users could opt out of the algorithm if Australian government has its way – but that’s a big if
Even if the legislation passes, tech companies may still find ways to frustrate its intent and keep Australians hooked on their feed. Social media could become a “choose your own…
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Sweden’s PM channels Trump saying he wants to ‘make Sweden great again’ ahead of election – as it happened
Ulf Kristersson’s comments come ahead of the parliamentary election taking place this Sunday. in Brussels. The European Commission has said it is assessing whether Ukraine has a…
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Anthropic blocks efforts to use AI to research weapons development and carry out cyber attacks
Anthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its artificial intelligence models to carry out cyber attacks and research which could have led to the creation of biological weapons
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✓US consumers faced more high prices in August as Iran war raised energy costs
Annualized inflation rate was 3.4%, same as July, and core inflation, which omits energy and food prices, rose to 2.4%. US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as…
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✓Hurricane Lowell’s fierce winds and rains knocks out power on Hawaii’s Kauai
Center of storm passed west of the islands and was moving away but flooding and mudslides will continue to be a risk. Damaging winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Lowell pelted…
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At least five dead and more than 80 missing after fire on Philippines ferry
At least five people have been killed and more than 80 are missing after a fire on a passenger ferry off the western Philippines
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✓Russian strikes kill two in Kyiv as Moscow targets capital’s fuel stations
Second day of strikes on fuel stations suggest a new campaign focused on civilian areas in the Ukrainian capital
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✓Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements
Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence. ‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctions.…
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✓Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists sentenced to up to seven years in prison
Hong Kong used to be one of the only places in Chinese territory where people could gather to mark the 1989 crackdown
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✓Deadly Philippines ferry fire triggers search for scores of missing
Multiple search and rescue vessels deployed after blaze off Palawan island leaves at least five dead, says coast guard. A large-scale search and rescue operation is under way…
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✓Buddhist monk arrested in Thailand on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
Phra Wachirayan Wi arrested alongside woman he was filmed having sex with in latest scandal to hit country’s clergy. Police in Thailand have arrested a senior Buddhist monk on…
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Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air
Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily…
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains. Pinch yourself, it’s happening again. Here…
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Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds
Southbank Centre, London Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality…
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How the fate of a small furry animal reveals the ecological tragedy of Israel’s war on Lebanon | Hisham Younes
The Syrian rock hyrax depends on the fragile landscapes of the border region. Alongside other environmentalists, I have been documenting the destruction of its habitat. Wars are…
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Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’
Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’. Get our breaking news email , free app or…
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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks. The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a…
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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health. Leer en español en Quinto…
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‘It’s hell’: father of slain Australian surfers tells Mexico homicide trial about identifying sons’ bodies
Three men are on trial over the death of brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their friend, US citizen Jack Carter Rhoad, in Ensenada. The father of two Australian surfers killed…
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Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do your best to pronounce these words’
People online are distressed at men butchering words such as ‘hyperbole’ and ‘hors d’oeuvres’ – highlighting a gender reversal in ‘intelligence gaps’. There are common…
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When her ‘soul cat’ died, she was bereft. Now she designs memorial jewelry to help others with pet loss
A layoff and a leap of faith convinced Katie Teixeira she had what it takes to run her own business. In 2010, Katie Teixeira adopted a kitten found all alone in an abandoned…
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‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu
As bird flu reshapes agriculture, small farms operate under strict rules. Just a single case could tank their business. Joshua Beebe often starts his day by cleaning the tires of…
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‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains
Following six years of talks, Pitt Rivers Museum will return body parts collected by British colonial administrators to north-east India. Anthropologists and community leaders…
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The September reset is real. I’m about to become a better person, flaxseed by flaxseed | Emma Brockes
Small changes are what I’m aiming for – 10-minute workouts, cleaning out my handbag. Then I’m less likely to have failed come October. Are you a January resolutions or a September…
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Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves
As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together. On a bitingly cold night in…
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Trump uses 9/11 memorial speech to defend Iran war as families commemorate victims of attack – live
President appears to tie Iran war to ‘sacred oath’ to victims killed in September 11 attacks as memorials are held across the US. On 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden…
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‘We have really cool sharks’: three-year project to lift lid on Britain’s little-understood species
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State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film
Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children.…
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Apple’s new CEO introduces himself at annual showcase: ‘I continue to be inspired every single day’
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The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less
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The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder
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Brother of Muslim policeman killed in 9/11 'disappointed' by calls for Mamdani to sit out memorial
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From Shropshire to Hamburg, depleting reserves and spiralling costs are spawning a continent-wide energy crisis. Bridgnorth Aluminium has faced down Brexit, Covid and repeated…
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Rubio signals shift to working with allies to fight drug trade as latest boat strike kills three
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