Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

Anthropic released a threat-intelligence report detailing how it intercepted multiple attempts to weaponize its Claude model for cyberattacks, influence campaigns, surveillance, scams and illicit distillation. The company also halted research that could have aided biological-weapon development after being unable to verify its legitimacy, shutting down the work entirely.