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An Iranian spokesman said Tehran has the right to target US bases in any countries that are used to attack Iran.  “There is no justification for any country to fear Iran unless that country opens its territory to the United States for aggression against Iran,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday. “It […]

Chinese Hackers Impersonate Former White House Official In Attempt To Steal US AI Policy Secrets Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Chinese-linked hackers have allegedly been impersonating American artificial intelligence experts, including a former White House official, in a targeted cyberespionage campaign aimed at obtaining sensitive information about U.S. AI policymaking. Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint revealed Thursday that a hacking group it identifies as TA419 has been attempting to steal passwords from individuals at American and Japanese think tanks, defense contractors, universities and law firms since at least 2025. Proofpoint attributed the...

Anthropic Warns Of 'Existential AI Risks To Humanity' In IPO Prospectus; OpenAI Scraps Release Of "Deceptive" Model Update (1010ET): Another day, another doom headline involving frontier AI labs. Yesterday, OpenAI announced that they would be scrapping the planned release of its next-gen AI model because of "deceptive" behavior. Today, we find out from a leaked prospectus ahead of Anthropic's $2T IPO that AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei"Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further ⁠increase the risk that our models cause...