Author: Samantha
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Anthropic’s latest threat-intelligence report makes for uncomfortable reading. Published on 10 September, the report details real-world attempts to misuse Claude across cyber operations, surveillance, conventional weapons, biological research, fraud and model distillation. The significance isn’t simply that people are trying to misuse frontier AI. We already knew that would happen. It’s how far some of…
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As artificial intelligence advances, the conversation around its energy footprint is becoming louder – and more complicated. The public narrative is often straightforward: AI needs more GPUs, more data centres and therefore more electricity. But there is another problem emerging beneath the headline numbers. Some of the power being planned for AI may never be…
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Compute, capital and climate this week. Anthropic reported its first-ever positive operating income on $11.5bn of quarterly revenue. A record-low Danube forced Romania to shut down its only nuclear power plant. And fusion start-ups collectively passed $7.1bn in funding, from investors who, by their own admission, are betting on AI’s growing power demand as much…
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In March 2024, a satellite roughly the size of a washing machine was launched into orbit with one job: to see something invisible. MethaneSAT was built to detect plumes of methane escaping from oil and gas infrastructure — leaks that had been quietly warming the planet for decades because nobody was measuring them properly. The…