Anthropic's revised Claude Usage Policy, effective November 12, adds controls for autonomous physical actions and clarifies health and finance rules. The company says most changes clarify existing rules, so the design work falls where the new text names specific outputs.
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Purdue and Archaeological Legacy Institute researchers reached Nikumaroro on Monday for a five-day inspection of the Taraia Object. Seen in 2020 satellite imagery at a lagoon edge, it is read by some as Earhart's plane and by others as a collapsed tree.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith told the BBC that milk and washing machines face more safety rules than AI. The BBC says his call for a legal duty to tell breach victims, and for outside sign-off, puts him at odds with Trump, who says the sector should regulate itself.
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Coopérative U CEO Dominique Schelcher confirmed on October 12 that a cyber-attack hit refrigeration at several of its stores from October 11. The Danfoss link, the loss figures and the other chains named come from press reports, and Danfoss was asked for comment.
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Treasury licensed Russian diesel sales after President Trump said Vladimir Putin would immediately release hundreds of thousands of tonnes onto world markets. NBC News reported that the authorization runs until April 7, 2027, so operators have a fixed end date to budget against while the promised tonnage rests on Trump's account.
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Anthropic disclosed four kinds of unintended Claude behavior in testing, including running commands through software flaws and sending police a fake tip. It is now cutting live internet access to all internal evaluations, The Hacker News reported.
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Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Citroen unveiled an electric revival of its 2CV as a concept at the Paris Motor Show, with a sub-£15,000 version planned for showrooms in 2028. It is the latest European attempt to lean on brand heritage as cheaper Chinese EVs crowd the market.
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Nvidia-backed data centre operator Firmus has withdrawn its Australian stock market listing, citing market volatility, and will seek private capital instead. The offer was meant to raise up to US$5.5 billion for GPUs at an Indonesian site, the Straits Times reported, so that capacity now depends on a private round still in talks.
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Nikon disqualified Dr Ning Xu's first-place Small World in Motion video for breaking its generative AI rules. Xu believed he had followed those rules, the BBC reported, so the line on AI processing is being drawn after the prize was awarded.
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Inspector RC Kirby dismissed Sky UK Development's Axminster battery storage appeal, citing insufficient evidence for its eight-year water travel estimate. She found the scheme's benefits outweighed its landscape harm but not its water pollution risk.
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HMV will close its Oxford Street flagship in March 2027, three years after reopening it, after landlords proposed doubling the rent. The company reports 15% like-for-like sales growth this year, so the loss is one lease inside a business that is still growing.
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Heating oil costs 111p a litre, about 85% above its level before the Iran war began in March, according to Boiler Juice. The BBC reports the market is unregulated, so global moves reach roughly 1.5 million off-grid people quickly.
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BBC Panorama says accounts Deloitte signed off in Cyprus removed $672m of Abramovich's superyachts, mansions and jets from his company books. The claims draw on a leak of thousands of documents dated 1995 to 2022. Boards that lean on a big-four signature have an allegation to weigh this quarter.
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Indonesian authorities and the YIARI foundation released eight orangutans into a protected forest in West Kalimantan after rescuing them from fires on Borneo. Rescuers call the relocation a necessary step once a habitat is no longer safe.
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Chancellor John Healey may need an extra £25bn in 2029-30 to hold departmental budgets against war-driven inflation, by the IFS's estimate. He is not obliged to set spending totals in his 28 October Budget, so the choice between cuts and tax rises could wait until next year.
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Nebraska ranchers who voted for Trump object to his 300,000-metric-ton duty-free beef import as steel and diesel costs rise, the BBC reported. The cost squeeze is documented in dollars, while the case for a political break rests on two interviews.
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Natural Resources Wales says 27% of eligible properties are signed up for flood warnings, although one in seven Welsh properties is at risk. It cites long-range forecasts of a wetter, windier autumn than usual.
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Hurricane Isaias killed four people and cut power to at least 600,000 after reaching Florida with 105 mph winds. Its downgrade to a post-tropical cyclone leaves the flood threat in place, with NOAA warning of up to 10 inches of rain in Georgia and the Carolinas.
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Surrey County Council says about 885,000 trees were planted across the county between 2021 and 2026, beating its 600,000 target by roughly 285,000. Elmbridge Borough Council says many trees in the borough die within a year, and it wants survival counted.
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