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• Claude AI firm warns AI may pose ‘existential risk’ to humanity

  29-09-2026 11:42 via metro.co.uk
  
  Anthropic has warned that future AI models could ‘resist shutdown’ (Picture: Reuters)The company behind Claude AI has warned investors that advanced artificial intelligence could pose a ‘catastrophic or existential risk to humanity’.Anthropic, which is one of the most valuable AI companies in the world, has highlighted risks associated with its models in its IPO prospectus.The company said future models could exhibit ‘self-preserving behaviours’, including at
  
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• Christa Pike execution descends into chaos with child killer still alive after TWO lethal injection doses, her lawyer says

  01-10-2026 04:35 via dailymail.com
  
  Christa Pike, now 50, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10am on Wednesday for the 1995 slaying of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in a fit of jealous rage.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu claims Britain 'warned of Iranian attack' before RAF Fairford incident

  01-10-2026 04:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Israeli Prime Minister was speaking to US network Fox News and claimed that Britain were warned ahead of time of a potential attack linked to Iran
  
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• FlyDubai pilot's chilling mayday call as passengers scream amid hijacking fears

  01-10-2026 04:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Details of the chilling mayday call made from FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 have been revealed moments before it made an emergency landing following a terrifying kinfe attack on board
  
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• Junkyard statue that builder snapped up for £300 could sell for a massive £100,000

  01-10-2026 04:09 via dailymail.com
  
  The sculpture had come from a country house near Andover in Hampshire and the yard owners thought the weathered sculpture was made of concrete...
  
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• Heartbroken mother of Sydney student Marco Tapia speaks out after three charged over alleged mistaken identity murder

  01-10-2026 04:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Marco Tapia, 23, was shot dead in his family home in southwest Sydney's quiet Glen Alpine estate on September 1.
  
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• Diddy sent back to solitary confinement amid investigation into claims of his lavish VIP life behind bars

  01-10-2026 04:04 via dailymail.com
  
  The disgraced hiphop mogul, 56, is returning to solitary in response to a recent NBC News report about the alleged special treatment he's been receiving from inmates willing to do his bidding.
  
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• Aussie politician unleashes after paying $12.40 for just a loaf of white bread and milk: 'That barely feeds a couple of kids'

  01-10-2026 04:04 via dailymail.com
  
  A politican has slammed the price of milk and other basic every day needs - blaming the Albanese government for driving inflation.
  
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• Millionaire Mark Bouris delivers urgent wake up call to the Albanese government - as he reveals why interest rates are soaring: 'Our government is spending more than it receives'

  01-10-2026 04:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Millionaire Mark Bouris has warned the Albanese government.
  
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• Jesse Baird's female housemates kicked him out over 'issues' weeks before he was allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre-Condon: Trial live updates

  01-10-2026 04:01 via dailymail.com
  
  Follow Daily Mail's live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon's murder trial.
  
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• FlyDubai passenger's haunting thoughts as horror knife attack on 'hijacked plane' unfolded

  01-10-2026 03:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  During the terrifying incident on board the allegedly hijacked FlyDubai flight passenger Naama Bershadski recalled thinking “We’re going to die,” as passengers screamed in fear
  
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• Omani hijacker who stabbed fellow pilot 'was a religious extremist who refused to shake hands with women': Israel launches probe into how 'terrorist' was cleared to fly as Flydubai jets are grounded

  01-10-2026 03:43 via dailymail.com
  
  Passengers and crew wrestled the believed terrorist after he violently attacked his colleague and attempted to take control of the jet cruising at altitude.
  
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• Woman set to be executed after last-minute delay overturned by US Supreme Court

  01-10-2026 03:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christa Gail Pike is set to be executed after the stabbing and beating of a classmate in 1995 which she said "sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime"
  
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• Better late than never? Only up to the 29-minute mark...

  01-10-2026 03:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Turning up 15 minutes late is 'fashionable' but 29 minutes is the point tardiness becomes rude, research has found.
  
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• Mystery surrounds disappearance of elderly couple who haven't been seen in two weeks as concerned relative pleads for help to find them

  01-10-2026 03:25 via dailymail.com
  
  The couple and their small white dog vanished from their home in rural Missouri, and police have yet to uncover any leads.
  
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• Wife of slain NYT executive seen for the first time as parents appear in court after allegedly gunning down transgender husband in parking lot

  01-10-2026 03:24 via dailymail.com
  
  Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, allegedly gunned down their son-in-law, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, in the parking lot of a Dublin Sports Grounds store in Dublin, California on Saturday.
  
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• Outrage as Muslim graves are vandalised at Sydney cemetery - as Islamic leader blames Pauline Hanson

  01-10-2026 03:21 via dailymail.com
  
  Community leaders are condemning vandalism at an Islamic cemetery, saying attacks on multiple graves showed Australia is experiencing social warfare.
  
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• MI5 warns Cambridge and other universities to stop working with China on key technologies or face prosecution for helping its spies

  01-10-2026 03:20 via dailymail.com
  
  The security service has called out 100 British academics taking funding from China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) for research on sensitive topics such as artificial intelligence (AI).
  
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• Wife of slain New York Times executive seen for the first time after parents allegedly gunned down transgender husband in parking lot

  01-10-2026 03:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, allegedly gunned down their son-in-law, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, in the parking lot of a Dublin Sports Grounds store in Dublin, California on Saturday.
  
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• Huge room full of distraught children confront school district over violent behavior at chaotic New York school

  01-10-2026 03:13 via dailymail.com
  
  Students at an upstate New York high school confronted the Board of Education during a meeting on Tuesday after at least four fights broke out since the start of September. 
  
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• Pro skier, 29, killed in avalanche after being swept 1,300ft down mountain with her newlywed husband

  01-10-2026 03:11 via dailymail.com
  
  French skier Juliette Willmann has died in Argentina after being swept down a mountain in an avalanche alongside her husband in a tragic accident.
  
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• Neighbourhood victory as locals revolt against data centre being built 500m from their homes: Tradie tip-off leads to bin and car 'blockade'

  01-10-2026 03:04 via dailymail.com
  
  Residents of a Melbourne neighbourhood used bins and cars to block the construction of industrial power poles that were purposed to power a new data centre, in a small win for the suburbs.
  
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• Ben Affleck breaks silence on the heartbreak of his parents' back-to-back deaths

  01-10-2026 03:03 via dailymail.com
  
  The 54-year-old filmmaker lost his dad Timothy Affleck in April, followed by the loss of his mom Chris Affleck in June.
  
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• PM reignites Brexit war: Burnham 'won't rule out a new EU vote' - as Macron sends a 'welcome'

  01-10-2026 02:50 via dailymail.com
  
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham provoked fury by declaring that the UK could go 'all the way' back into the European Union and refused to rule out a fresh national vote.
  
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• Substitute teacher fired after offering extra credit to students who donated to her GoFundMe for a trip to Ecuador

  01-10-2026 02:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Stephanie Mullaley was terminated from her position as a full-time, long-term substitute high school teacher for the Clinton Community School District in Iowa on May 29.
  
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• Friendly fire erupts as Chris Minns takes veiled swipe at Anthony Albanese over spending as interest rates and inflation surge

  01-10-2026 02:42 via dailymail.com
  
  A major Labor figure has broken ranks from the Albanese government, as concerns grow about inflation.
  
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• Dame Esther Rantzen captivated 22 million viewers - but grew up in a house without a TV. Then when they got one it was kept in the hall so it didn't spoil conversation

  01-10-2026 02:42 via dailymail.com
  
  Back in the 1980s, the story went that there were three properly powerful women in Britain: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Queen, and Esther Rantzen.
  
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• Beware the giant googly eyes! Scientists deploy 'floating scarecrows' off the coast of Cornwall to deter seagulls

  01-10-2026 02:42 via dailymail.com
  
  The floating scarecrow, also known as the Looming Eye Buoy (LEB), is designed to save seabirds from getting caught in fishing nets.
  
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• Rihanna's alleged house shooter indicted on attempted murder charge as she faces life in prison

  01-10-2026 02:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 36, was also charged with 10 counts of assault with an assault weapon, and three counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.
  
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• Fears diesel could hit $4 a litre in Australia amid fuel rationing warning

  01-10-2026 02:29 via dailymail.com
  
  A warning has been issued to Australian drivers.
  
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