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US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says

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Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir TechnologiesClaude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal revealed on Saturday, a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence […]

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‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests

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Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resourcesOn an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across the arid Patagonian steppe of southern Argentina, Sergio Pichiñán points across a wide swath of scrubland to colourful rock formations on

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Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi

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A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?Days before Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, an investment firm controlled by a senior member of the United Arab Emirates royal family secretly signed a deal to pay $500m to buy almost half

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Cornish tin mine could reopen with Trump administration investment

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South Crofty site could get $225m funding as US seeks to secure supply of critical metalDonald Trump has aggressively pursued investment into hi-tech industries recent months, but the US administration has now set its sights on a more traditional sector: tin mining in Cornwall.The South Crofty mine, near the village of Pool, could start up

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Superstates and spheres of influence | Brief letters

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Orwell’s insight | Antisocial media | AI takeover | Howff Club | Beyond the TamarInteresting article by Brendan Simms of Cambridge University on spheres of influence in the world (Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?, 16 January). Is anyone else reminded of the three

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Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates

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Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targetedUK politics live – latest updatesThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of “coercion and intimidation”, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of

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Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators

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State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformationThe state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.Secretary

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