China Reopens Fuel Export Spigot, Offering Relief To Asian Buyers

Chinese AI Matches Mythos In Cybersecurity Tasks With Open-Weight Model While Anthropic has been forced to shut down its latest general-use models for over two weeks after it emerged that the company's de-tuned public-facing Fable 5 model could be 'jailbroken' into its unrestricted form (Mythos 5) to perform tasks that pose security risks, a Chinese AI company backed by Alibaba and Tencent has released a model that matches the performance of Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios.  The company, Zhipu AI - also known as Z.ai, can match the latest US models when it comes...

Embassy Tells Americans Still In Lebanon Depart Now While Flights Available As Ceasefire Collapsing The US-mediated Lebanon ceasefire is unraveling fast amid intensified fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on Thursday. This has resulted in the US embassy in Beirut issuing an urgent renewed security alert, urging US citizens to depart Lebanon while commercial flight options are still available. via AFP The statement explained the security situation "remains complex and can change quickly." It further said that those who don't or cannot leave must be prepared to encounter emergency situations, and also warned of unexploded ordnance...