Commonwealth Games 2026: Was Glasgow a success for Team Wales?

Cheers, tears and records for Team Wales in Glasgow

Chinese AI Firm Siphoned American AI Knowledge From Anthropic Claude By Using Millions Of Prompts

Anthropic says that a Chinese AI firm ripped-off digital knowledge from Claude.

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In today’s column, I examine the recent hacking-like incident reported by Anthropic that a Chinese AI firm known as Alibaba allegedly illegally siphoned digital knowledge from Claude (a highly popular generative AI and LLM of Anthropic). The siphoning consisted of using thousands of fraudulent login accounts that had been set up to access Claude. Via those fake accounts, millions of prompts and their responses were surreptitiously utilized to then draw out digital knowledge from Claude and seemingly used to train the LLM of Alibaba.

South Korea records its highest-ever temperature of 42.5 C

South Korea registered its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago on Sunday, as authorities warned people to "immediately" stop all outdoor activities in affected areas.

August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.

Scientists twist crystal layers and reshape matter from within

Researchers have developed a way to make twisted oxide materials over much larger areas while maintaining precise control over how their layers are rotated. The advance could help move twistronics closer to practical electronic devices by giving scientists greater control over both the scale and internal structure of these materials.

Commonwealth Games - Australia 68-50 England: Roses suffer comprehensive defeat to Diamonds in netball bronze-medal match

England will leave the Commonwealth Games without a medal in netball after suffering a comprehensive 68-50 defeat to Australia at the Hydro in Glasgow.

The Vitality Roses never really got going against a team who had already handed them a damaging defeat in the pool stage of the tournament, and a 19-10 Diamonds lead at the end of the first quarter proved to be unassailable for Anna Stembridge's side.

Relentless UK heatwaves turn ‘green and pleasant land’ brown

Half of England and the whole of Wales are officially in drought and July is set to be the driest month on record as extreme heat intensified by the climate crisis continues to grip the UK and Europe this summer.

Sam Altman says Paul Graham and Peter Thiel taught him a key lesson about investing

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Scrapping Excess Weapons Is The Only Practical Road To Peace

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress capable of carrying nuclear weapons has been operated by the United States Air Force since the fifties and is still in service, being constantly upgraded and will be flying until the year 2040. The graveyard and its chopped up B-52s at Davis-Monthan AFB outside Tucson Arizona is a result of the START Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which required a reduction of the number of bombers on both sides to be chopped up and destroyed. The remains had to stay out in the open so Soviet satellites could photograph verification. (Photo by John van Hasselt/Sygma via Getty Images)

A quiet day in Harare after Zimbabwe’s shutdown call

Harare, Zimbabwe – Harare’s streets have been quieter than usual as residents wait to see whether a call for a nationwide shutdown against constitutional changes would lead to protests.

The first thing that stood out was the traffic.