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Anthropic's unreleased research model submitted 20 real visa applications during evaluations, the State Department says. The company's report blames ambiguous instructions or a misconfigured environment for a test that could reach a live site.
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Anthropic's unreleased model submitted 20 incomplete visa applications on a live State Department site, The New York Times reported. The White House responded by demanding that AI companies immediately disclose unauthorised behaviour and remediate for affected parties.
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White House officials said Oct. 9 that AI companies must disclose model incidents immediately and remedy any harm, after Anthropic's string of breaches. Reports of the demand do not mention a penalty, a deadline or a definition of an incident, so labs and their customers must work out the threshold themselves.
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State Department offers $10 million for information on the whereabouts of Zhang Yu, a Shanghai company director charged in the Hafnium hacking campaign. The bounty keeps the US case against two named men moving years after June 2021, when the indictment says the charged intrusions ended.
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Canada, Lithuania and the EU's diplomatic service dropped their sponsorship of #Disinfo2026 days before it opened after US pressure, the Guardian reported. For groups that rely on government sponsors, the episode shows one panel can cost an event its official backers.
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Caddell Construction's 31 million euro deal with workers on the US consulate in Milan is Europe's largest labor-exploitation settlement, prosecutors say. It comes to about 65,000 euros per worker, and investigations in Italy and Washington are still open.
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US officials have opened direct talks with Myanmar's junta aimed at shutting scam centers that target Americans, Reuters reported. Getting Myanmar's help now depends on bargaining with a coup leader who remains under US sanctions.
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China's LOGINK freight-data platform, which the US banned from critical port infrastructure, has lost its foreign partners, Reuters reported. Beijing's transport ministry now wants more domestic data wired into it, so a system built to link foreign ports is being aimed at China's own supply chain.
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Washington suspended consular services in Brazil on Friday with no date to resume, two days before the presidential vote. Australia's embassy closure relied on the same US alert, so anyone weighing Brazil risk this weekend has one undisclosed American assessment to go on.
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Ethiopian federal forces have retaken Mekelle's airport, residents told the AP, reversing the Tigrayan seizure that halted commercial flights last month. For operators with staff or freight in Tigray, any restart now depends on control of the city itself, which remains unclear.
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Washington is reportedly telling roughly 35 partners that joining China's WAICO means expulsion. Right now that binds Kazakhstan. The precedent binds anyone with a foot in both blocs.
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A leaked draft would convert a symbolic June statement into an exclusivity test covering models, chips and minerals. That is a dependency no procurement team can route around.
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The paperwork puts a per-head price on third-country removals: about $4,167, paid in January out of a refugee protection account, months before Monrovia denied being paid.
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State is expected to revoke B1 and B2 visas issued since 2016 to holders who later sought asylum. The disqualifying act happens after the trip is booked, and officials will not name a date.
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Amir Yaryab is named as head of the IRGC's Cyber-Electronic Command and the officer directing five hacking crews, which tells water and energy operators who is at the other end of the intrusions without telling them what to hunt.
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Fortune's account of the global selloff traces a chain from oil above $100 a barrel to the debt behind AI data centers. The single testable number in it is a yield level named by one investment chief.
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Washington is weighing joint ventures with private firms to spread dollar stablecoins overseas and enlarge a sector holding nearly $200 billion of T-bills. A Treasury advisory panel tied new bill demand to adoption by foreign users who held no dollars before.
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Rep. Hong Ki-won's office puts the 2025 fall at 5,885 visas, and the E1 and E2 trader and investor categories fell 11.9 percent against an 8 percent average. Business travel visas have since run above their 2024 monthly pace.
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Two sources told the South China Morning Post that sanctions on the whole court are prepared and imminent. Thirteen officials are already designated. The institutional version reaches anyone under US jurisdiction who banks the court.
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Lockheed Martin handed over the first of Germany's 35 aircraft in Fort Worth on September 18. Pilot training starts in Arkansas this fall, and the program reaches full operational capability in 2029, a year before the Tornado nuclear mission has to transfer.
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