UK Prime Minister Burnham Rejects Calls For National Data-Center Moratorium

Populism Is Not Dead Yet: Bulgaria's Pro-Russia Ex-President Radev Wins In Landslide Victory Despite Orban's loss in Hungary earlier this month, Europe's populist right is not dead by a longshot. Official results released Monday show former President Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria coalition capturing roughly 44.6-44.7% of the vote in Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections, delivering an absolute majority of approximately 130-135 seats in the 240-seat parliament. It marks the first time since 1997 that a single political force in Bulgaria will be able to govern without coalition horse-trading. Radev, who stepped down...

DOJ Probes Big Banks For Alleged "Debanking" Of Clients The US Dept of Justice is intensifying scrutiny of some of the country’s largest financial institutions over allegations that customers were denied banking services, or "debanked" for political or ideological reasons, according to the Wall Street Journal. The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, led by Jeanine Pirro, has reportedly issued subpoenas to several major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. Investigators are seeking information on account closures, customer offboarding decisions, and internal records explaining why...

Anthropic Says One Of Its Claude Models Was Pressured To Lie, Cheat, & Blackmail Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has revealed that during experiments, one of its Claude chatbot models could be pressured to deceive, cheat and resort to blackmail, behaviors it appears to have absorbed during training. Chatbots are typically trained on large data sets of textbooks, websites and articles and are later refined by human trainers who rate responses and guide the model.  Anthropic’s interpretability team said in a report published Thursday that it examined the...