"Houthi rebels responsible for deadly missile strikes in Saudi Arabia have been using Anthropic's artificial intelligence to make warheads, the US firm has admitted.

The makers of Claude revealed in a report last month that the Yemen-based fighters launched three weapons programmes using their AI products.

Over the weekend, the Houthis launched their most devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia to date.

In two attacks on the King Khalid International Airport, 14 were killed and hundreds injured, forcing the closure of the airport."

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"With the race between Democrats and Republicans to control the House and Senate now in the homestretch, many candidates are eagerly seeking opportunities to one-up their opponents and secure a last-minute edge -- or knockout.

"Most of those opportunities have or are still coming in the form of the classic, one-on-one debates with Election Day on Nov. 3.

"But the question remains, do these actually impact the key contests?"

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"Over the summer, the Miami Herald told the story of a young man named Camron Drummond. In June, he found himself standing in line at a South Florida job fair in Amerant Bank Arena, holding a red folder filled with resumes. Employers at the fair included the Army, the Navy and several police departments. He was looking for IT work -- 'literally anything,' he told the newspaper.

"Since graduating, he estimated he had applied to hundreds of jobs. By the time the piece went to press, six employers had gotten back to him -- three just to say no. The furthest he got was the final stage of a customer service interview with a budget airline. Then the company stopped responding.

"In the meantime, Drummond was working for DoorDash about seven hours a day, bringing home roughly $300 a week. He was crashing at his brother's place, facing the prospect of having to start repaying $20,000 in student loans.

"The New York Fed reported that unemployment for Americans ages 22 to 27 with bachelor's degrees was 5.6 percent in the second quarter of this year. Unemployment for 20-to 24-year-old college grads hit 9.7 percent in July -- a post-pandemic high -- before falling back to a still-high 7.8 percent last month."

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"Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.

"A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing 'too fast,' while 27% say its development has been 'about right' and only 8% say it's moving 'too slow.'

"The risk that powerful AI models could evade human control and hurt humanity, once the stuff of science fiction, has been emerging as a more pressing concern. Even leaders of the companies that are developing frontier AI models are calling for a slowdown so that government regulation can catch up. President Donald Trump has pushed back against slowing down AI development because of concerns that China will gain an advantage with the technology. Data centers powering AI projects have also taken a prominent role in major political races as the midterm elections approach."

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"A House Judiciary Committee investigation into the Environmental Policy Institute's Climate Judiciary Project confirms critics' claims that the group's judicial training provides activist-driven materials aimed at biasing judges overseeing climate litigation cases.

"The Environmental Policy Institute established the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) in 2018 to provide 'judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.'

"Critics have long contended that the CJP's curriculum provides a one-sided view of climate science that's favorable to plaintiffs in the dozens of climate lawsuits filed across the country, and it's functioning as an activist-driven effort to bias judges overseeing those cases."

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"You can't open a newspaper or watch cable news these days without seeing a story about the pain and suffering Americans are feeling at the pump, with scary headlines such as 'no relief in sight' and 'the worst is yet to come.'

Actually, when it comes to gas prices, the worst has come and gone -- three times -- all while Democrats were in the White House. Not that you'd ever know that from the mainstream media.

Shortly after those headlines ran, gas prices started to moderate. AAA says they are down by about 10 cents a gallon from a week ago. That's not much, but it's far from 'soaring.'"

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"The death of a worker at an anti-plague laboratory in Russia has prompted officials to put at least one hospital facility under quarantine and nearly 200 people reportedly under medical observation as of Monday.

"The female staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died from a “pneumonia of undetermined” origin last week, according to the regional governor, Igor Kobsev.

"He said no 'microorganisms linked to the employee's professional activities were detected' in her body, and that there had been 'no new cases' of illness among other employees of the lab.

"'The sanitary-epidemiological situation' in the area 'is currently stable,' Kobsev said."

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"The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its 2026 term next week with what will be one of its biggest cases of the year. And according to several legal specialists, there's much more to the dispute than meets the eye.

The case in question is Suncor v. Boulder, which deals with the lawfare that Boulder, Colorado, launched against Suncor Energy companies and the Exxon Mobil Corporation. The city is seeking monetary damages based on claims that the oil giants' activities are contributing to 'climate change' and that such activities are harming Boulder residents.

Before SCOTUS is the question of whether federal law prevents state-law claims 'seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions on the global climate.' The justices will also consider whether they have jurisdiction to hear the case."

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"The Transportation Department released a final rule Monday that aims to 'reset' the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's fuel economy standards, rolling back substantial required mileage increases for automakers' fleets implemented under the Biden administration.

"Dubbed 'Freedom Means Affordable Cars' by the department, the 892-page rule will impact Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for cars and light trucks from model years 2022 through 2031.

"The administration is touting the rule as a major deregulatory action to reverse the prior administration's 'green agenda.' Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement that 'we have finally ended the illegal mandate that forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn't want.'"

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"Less than 40% of electric school buses purchased under a multibillion-dollar Biden-era program have been delivered, new statistics released by the EPA Thursday reveal.

"The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion 'Clean School Bus Program,' for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out -- and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel vehicles.

"'Instead of following Congress' directives to effectively provide safe and reliable transportation for American school kids, the Biden-Harris administration rushed money out the door without enough thought or oversight,' Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.

"'This carelessness resulted in 90% of the money going to "buy" electric school buses; yet over 5 years later, there are very few tangible buses to show for it,' Zeldin continued. 'In essence, American taxpayer dollars vanished into thin air, and our children were left without school buses.'"

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