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Last weekend, after one of his researchers resigned over fears that AI could lead to human extinction, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote about the need for outside organizations “to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes.” Executives at OpenAI, Google, and SpaceXAI have already rallied around Amodei’s plan, which has quickly become a central pillar of the emerging AI safety push. But there may be a simpler and more effective fix hiding in plain sight. Internet security experts say the labs need…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to serve President Bola Tinubu with court processes through the All Progressives Congress (APC). Judge Inyang Ekwo made the order on Wednesday in a ruling on an ex parte application filed by Mr Abubakar and the ADC in their suit challenging Mr Tinubu’s eligibility to contest the 2027 presidential election. The judge directed the plaintiffs to effect the substituted service within seven days and adjourned the suit until 28 September for mention. The suit was filed by Mr Abubakar and the…

Key eventsRégis Le Bris: “I’m feeling really proud, for the players, the club … for our fans too. [We need to] play the game first, and we want to be brave, but not naive. [The fans are] really important, they connect to our style of play. When we press high, they get behind us.”ShareI mentioned in my preamble that Sunderland’s last European fixture came in Lisbon, 53 years ago. Well, here’s the Guardian match report from our archive …Sunderland v Sporting match report from The Guardian, 1973. Photograph: The GuardianShareMilan v Benfica team newsMilan (3-4-2-1) Maignan (c); Terracciano, De Winter,…

‘You’re going to Samobor? You must try kremšnita,” my Dubrovnik friends told me before I set off on my trip north. “But I’ve already had kremšnita in Zagreb,” I told them. They do it better in Samobor, they insisted. I wasn’t about to get embroiled in a battle of the cream cakes in a region where Croatians, Slovenes and Austrians all like to celebrate their own versions of this decadently thick, fat custard slice topped with puff pastry and icing sugar. But I was more than willing – happy, even – to follow everyone’s suggestions to try kremšnita in Hotel…

House cancels Thursday votes, sending lawmakers home early for midterm recessThe House speaker, Mike Johnson, has cancelled votes currently scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday). This means that lower chamber lawmakers will now head back to their districts for the midterm recess a day early.The change to schedule means that the House will avoid voting on Republican congressman Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.ShareUpdated at 17.29 CESTKey eventsDemocrats slam Johnson decision to send House lawmakers home earlyMany Democrats are slamming the decision by Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, to send lower chamber lawmakers home a day early for…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.As question marks linger over its future ownership, Giorgio Armani has announced Dario Vitale as creative director of Emporio Armani, the first external creative appointment at the Italian company since the death of its eponymous founder. Vitale, 43, built his industry reputation as the ready-to-wear design director at Prada-owned fashion brand Miu Miu before a tenure as creative director at Versace ended abruptly after a single season last year. He will take the design reins of Giorgio Armani accessories as well as the top…

Smart home owners will soon be able to control their devices connected to Google Home via an AI agent. On Tuesday, Google rolled out early access to its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Google Home ecosystem, which will allow any AI agent that supports MCP — like Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity — to securely work with their smart home devices and access their event history. This update will allow people to use natural language instructions to do things like review their camera summaries, monitor smart home activity, control their connected devices, and build their own…

Dan Thomas resigned as Welsh Reform leader and Sarah Cooper-Lesadd defected to Plaid.

Study 1 (survey fielded in 2021; YouGov CES)We fielded this extensive survey to N = 3,227 non-Hispanic white people in November 2021 as part of the CES—a widely used source of data in peer-reviewed political science research on US public opinion. The CES’s in-depth Common Content questionnaire and respondent geocodes permit documentation of the demographic and political predictors of support for white nationalism and exploration of our theories. The CES was conducted on the web by the YouGov survey firm; respondents were selected from an opt-in panel using a sample matching and weighting methodology that yields estimates aiming to approximate those obtained…

By Adegboyega Adeleye Real Madrid have defended Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior after the forwards obscured a solidarity message for the people of Ceuta before Tuesday’s LaLiga clash with Elche. A Real Madrid official told Reuters that the club accepted Elche’s request for both teams to wear shirts in solidarity with Ceuta, but respected differing opinions within the organisation and gave each player the freedom to decide whether or not to wear the shirt. The players emerged before the match wearing shirts bearing the message, “Todos somos caballas” — “We are all mackerels” — with caballas being a nickname for…