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Al Jazeera has published video reports showing Ukrainian drones striking a Russian oil tanker while evading helicopter fire, and separately hitting a port on the Caspian Sea in Dagestan. No further details on casualties or damage were provided.
A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border at Yahodyn station on Sunday, shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a delegation of top European security officials had travelled along the same route, Ukrainian authorities said. No casualties were reported; all passengers were evacuated before the strike.
In an open letter, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that within the next six to 12 months, an AI-powered botnet swarm could become capable of taking over the entire internet, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Amodei is urging the industry to slow the pace of frontier AI development and implement stronger guardrails before such capabilities emerge.
In a rare display of consensus, OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk have endorsed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's appeal for a deliberate slowdown in artificial intelligence development, following his stark warning that unchecked progress could enable an AI network to overrun the internet as soon as next year.
A former researcher at AI safety company Anthropic has told the BBC that employees at leading AI firms are 'genuinely frightened' about the pace of progress and the risk of human extinction. Jacob Coxon, 27, resigned from Anthropic and his departure post went viral, as industry leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and xAI's Elon Musk publicly agree on the need for slower, regulated AI development.
Anthropic's September 2026 threat report alleges that China-linked agents used its Claude AI model for at least five programs, including two military projects: developing 16 software modules for electronic warfare and suppression of enemy air defenses targeting Taiwan, and drafting a fire-control specification for an anti-torpedo system intended for the People's Liberation Army Navy.
Ukraine's Navy has announced what it calls the first-ever battle between unmanned naval boats, releasing video footage that appears to show a Ukrainian Sargan 3000 sea drone destroying a Russian MBeK unmanned surface vessel in the Black Sea using a 12.7mm automatic turret.
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