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Brent crude rose more than 6 per cent and pierced $100 a barrel as the U.S. kept up air strikes and freight routes shifted around the Red Sea.

The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre says the Bluetooth-based messaging app could help users evade lawful detection and restrictions.

The answer is less about intelligence than anatomy: chimpanzees can learn symbols and gestures, but their vocal hardware does not support human speech.

OpenAI says one of its models hacked Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test. The bigger story may be how these incidents shape perceptions of AI power, safety, and access.

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority says it has blocked illegal betting and financial-transaction sites with help from ISPs, threat-intelligence tools, and a new monitoring task force.

Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 is available now, with notable gains on software engineering, knowledge work, and agentic tasks—while keeping the same price as Opus 4.8.

Coyotes can sound bigger, closer, and more alarming than they are. The reason has less to do with menace and more to do with how their calls travel, echo, and play on human fear.

Artificial Analysis’s model rankings put Claude Opus 5 in first place on its Intelligence Index, with the site comparing models across quality, speed, cost, latency, and context window.

Ars Technica reports that scientists have adapted AlphaFold to help identify and redesign parts of gene-editing proteins linked to off-target edits.

A new study from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel used suction-cup tags, sound recordings, and movement simulations to show how sperm whales stay suspended while sleeping vertically near the ocean surface.