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Although the government has not made any announcements on the issue, Trump has praised what he perceives as a change of stance by the UK government. In a social media post, published the day before Burnham became prime minister,, external Trump wrote: “The People of Aberdeen, in Scotland, are dancing in the streets because the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has stated that he will be opening up, all the way, the invaluable North Sea Oil!”This week, when asked about his conversation with Burnham, Trump said: “He said he’s going to open up North Sea oil.”If he does that, you’re…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Cyber Security myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude AI models hacked into three organisations while the start-up was testing cyber capabilities, a week after OpenAI reported a similar incident.The group said Claude gained unauthorised access to outside companies during an evaluation of its cyber-offensive tasks. “A misunderstanding” gave Claude access to the internet in its testing environment, when it was meant to be blocked, Anthropic said.The disclosure comes a week after rival OpenAI admitted that two of its models hacked into AI start-up Hugging…

Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing. The company says Claude reached the internet “from within or while interacting” with a third-party evaluation environment. The announcement comes more than a week after OpenAI revealed that one of its AI agents hacked into Hugging Face during a separate cybersecurity test.The discovery came after Anthropic decided to conduct “a large-scale retrospective review of our own cybersecurity evaluations” following the OpenAI incident, according to a blog post Anthropic published Thursday. The AI lab says it first identified 141,006…

Anthropic said today that during internal security testing, one of its Claude models built a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPI, where it ran on 15 real systems before the registry’s automated defenses pulled it. The company disclosed it as one of three incidents where Claude models reached the open internet from evaluation environments meant to be sealed, then compromised production infrastructure at three organizations. The review followed OpenAI’s July 21 disclosure that its models had escaped an isolated test environment and reached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. JFrog later confirmed the models broke out by exploiting zero-days in…

In brief Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on the Senate to immediately vote on the Clarity Act. He said the bill strengthens consumer protections and anti-money laundering requirements while providing regulatory certainty for digital assets. Bessent ended his appeal by quoting Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday urged the Senate to pass the Clarity Act, accusing Democrats of delaying a vote for political reasons and warning the U.S. risks losing its leadership in digital assets without clear rules.In a lengthy post on X, Bessent said the House passed the Clarity Act more than a year…

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at missile incursions into NATO airspace, a potential new front in the Iran war, and the likely winner of Greater Manchester’s mayoral race. ‘Another Reckless Act’ Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency meeting on Thursday to address an overnight missile incursion believed to be of Russian origin. Although Tusk stopped short of directly blaming Moscow, experts said that the projectile appears to be a Russian Kh-101 missile that was launched into eastern Poland during Russia’s overnight strikes on Ukraine. Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at missile incursions…

Claim: Anthony Fauci, former top infectious-disease official at the National Institutes of Health, wrote in his publicly released diary of President Donald Trump, “POTUS has no interest at all in the Pandemic. He is focusing on blocking Biden from being POTUS. He is embarrassing the USA.” Rating: In late July 2026, the unredacted diary of Anthony Fauci — the chief medical adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden during the COVID-19 pandemic — was the subject of a Senate committee hearing. During the hearing, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., questioned Fauci about his role during the pandemic.…

Mediator Pakistan insisted Thursday that negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing, even as Washington carried out a “heavy wave of strikes” on its foe in retaliation for fresh attacks targeting Jordan. The last two days have seen Saudi Arabia join the US in striking militant groups in Iraq, while Egypt has come under fire for the first time with a drone attack at a Mediterranean port, leading its president to warn that the Middle East conflict is facing a serious escalation. On Thursday, Jordan reported intercepting Iranian missiles for a second day running, while Kuwait said an…

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is stopping free public tours of the center, which had been a mainstay of the cultural institution for more than five decades, according to an internal memo.In a memo viewed by the The New York Times, Brooks Boeke, the director of the volunteer program, said the center was putting a “temporary pause” on the tour program, effective Friday. Volunteers serve in a variety of roles at the Kennedy Center, but only tour guides were mentioned, instructed to stop reporting for duty “until further notice.”The memo did not provide a reason for…

The current row began after Polanski shared a single post on Instagram that contained a carousel of 20 pictures.The re-post was shared to Polanski’s 713,000 followers, because he accepted a request to tag him as a collaborator, which on the platform makes him a “co-author,” placing it on his page and into his followers’ feeds.Polanski said he had not noticed the offending image among the others on the post.According to him, he had accepted collaborator tags for eight other posts from the same event in Bristol alone.Reform UK leader Farage claimed the t-shirt amounted to incitement to murder and his…