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…

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…