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Fighting fire with fire is a known response. Fighting AI attacks with AI defense is a growing practice. But instant remediation is new and welcome. Sevii has extended its Autonomous Defense & Remediation (ADR) platform with a new AI security module. As the speed and scope of AI driven attacks increases, it requires an AI defense. Since companies are rarely aware of all the shadow AI used within the organization, this defense needs to operate at runtime irrespective of source, with effectively immediate and autonomous remediation. This is what the new module provides. As with Sevii’s wider ADR platform, alerts…

In brief Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, scoring 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 against Fable 5’s 24.7%, and 55.8% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 42.0%. Cache reads now cost 75% less, cutting typical workload costs by roughly 25% and highly agentic workloads by up to 45%, with base pricing unchanged at $10/$50 per million tokens. Fable 5.1 is not included in Pro plans or standard Team seats, which run it on usage credits; Max and premium Team or Enterprise seats get it included for up to 50% of weekly limits. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1…

A unique approach to ecosystem restoration in South Africa — repairing exhausted farmlands through the mass planting of an endemic drought-tolerant succulent called spekboom — is receiving global attention as one new entrant gets an injection of $91 million to dramatically increase its plantings.This financing will contribute toward the goal of planting more than 300 million spekboom (Portulacaria afra) cuttings, funded by investors through global carbon markets.Smaller restoration projects have blazed a trail until now, helping to improve planting and land management methods to get maximum plant survival, bush recovery and, ultimately, carbon credit returns.Plant survival rates through the…

Amsterdam, September 2026 – The countdown to Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2026 is on. On November 24 and 25, the international offshore energy industry will come together at RAI Amsterdam – and now is the time to secure your ticket. With November getting closer, preparations are in full swing. Companies, industry leaders, experts and professionals from across the offshore energy value chain are getting ready for two days of business, networking, knowledge sharing and new opportunities. Get your ticket OEEC brings together the people and companies shaping the future of offshore energy. From offshore wind, maritime and oil…

A British national was among 119 people rescued in Nepal on Tuesday, an official said almost a week after deadly flash floods on the country’s border with Tibet.An army spokesperson told reporters at a press conference that Tuesday’s rescue efforts had saved 118 Nepali nationals – 44 women and 74 men.“We have also rescued one British male during this search and rescue operation, and the search and rescue operation is continuing,” he said.The British man is yet to be identified. The UK Foreign Office was contacted for comment.The rescues mark a rare breakthrough in a devastating week for Himalayan communities…

But polls show Trump’s trade policies are increasingly unpopular, and Democrats are determined to make them an issue over the next two months, particularly in border states with economies that are tightly intertwined with their Canadian neighbors’. Michigan Democrats launched new attacks Monday on Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers for refusing to denounce the tariffs, with Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed calling Trump an “asshole” for launching the trade war.“They’re very damaging politically,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist and vocal Trump critic, referring to Trump’s tariffs. “They’re hurting his base vote and the voters that he needs the most.”The…

Andy Burnham has blamed Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for a decade of low growth in the UK, arguing that Britain needs to be brutally honest about having taken “a series of wrong turns” in the last 40 years.In his first Commons appearance since he took over as prime minister around six weeks ago, Burnham told MPs he wanted to build a new sense of optimism so “we can make this next decade better than the last”.The British people wanted “much more substantial change” on the big issues facing the country, he said. “That is what I will bring. Britain is…

Nigel Farage is facing questions about why he claimed his finances were the subject of a second standards investigation, as he was sworn in again as Clacton’s MP.The Reform UK leader said when he resigned in July that the standards system had become a “political tool” because “yet another standards investigation is under way” into his finances.He argued he wanted the people of Clacton to be the judge of his actions, rather than “the establishment”, after revelations in the Sunday Times that his friend and convicted fraudster George Cottrell had paid for social media work, accommodation and security before the…

After 15 years, Tim Cook has handed off the Apple CEO role to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. As of Tuesday, Ternus now leads one of the world’s most valuable companies. But if you’re not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you’ve probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until he was announced as Cook’s successor in April. Ternus is assuming the CEO role at a crucial time for Apple. Next week, the company will host its iPhone launch event, ushering in its newest line of hardware. Apple will also…

Healthcare organizations need AI that works across the systems and information central to care and operations. Patient context, medical evidence, public healthcare data, and organizational knowledge often live in different places. Connecting these sources in a governed workspace helps teams find the right information, understand it in context, and put it to work across the business.Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring…