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Anthropic says China and Russia attempted to use Claude AI for cyberattacks, weapons design, propaganda and mass surveillance.

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Vice President Vance directly contacted U.S. military commanders across the Middle East, Europe and Asia during the spring and summer to seek their assessments of the Iran war, according to current and former officials cited by The New York Times.

Commanders told Vance that by late spring, one theater had fewer than 100 Patriot interceptors remaining, while ATACMS and PrSM stocks were at their lowest levels ever.

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Anthropic says Iran used Claude to help surveil thousands of Iranians, analyze 155,216 tweets and develop a malicious Firefox extension designed to harvest users’ identities from social networks.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the CIA has warned him of possible developments involving Russia in the coming months, hours after Polish and Ukrainian services averted a direct threat to a Polish border crossing with Ukraine overnight.

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Iran has resumed producing ballistic missiles at underground facilities, using components stockpiled before the war to rebuild its arsenal, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern officials.

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The UK and Bahrain have requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss the escalating hostilities between the Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces.

The UN special envoy for Yemen is expected to brief the council by video, with no resolution currently set for a vote.

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The Pentagon’s technology chief has rejected warnings that artificial intelligence could lead to mass unemployment or human extinction, arguing that such fears amount to a “doom loop.”

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2,977 drones recreated the Twin Towers over New York Harbor as part of a 25th-anniversary tribute to the September 11 attacks, with one light representing each person killed in the attacks.

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Iran has temporarily suspended a 10% freight charge on foreign vessels carrying imported or exported oil, gas and liquid petroleum products to and from the country.

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The Houthis have seized the strategic Yemeni port city of Mocha and are advancing toward the Bab al-Mandab Strait, while also launching attacks on strategic Red Sea islands, according to military sources.

The developments mark a major escalation along Yemen’s western coast and threaten a key global shipping route.

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned Iran against attacking Israel, saying Tehran’s economic strain and mounting pressure could prompt further action.

Katz said any attack “for any reason and from anywhere” would trigger a powerful Israeli response, including possible strikes on Iran’s key energy facilities.