From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day. The Franklin County board of elections building at 1700 Morse Street in central Columbus, Ohio, is an early voting site for next week's midterms . It is also located in the middle of the large Somali American community that was targeted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's Operation Buckeye last December. The campaign was designed, the agency said, to find "the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens." The result was a paltry number of arrests, months of sustained harassment, and a lingering feeling that ICE agents could return at any minute, especially around election time.

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I ranked six AI agents--from Meta's Muse to Anthropic's Claude Duet--on how well they completed basic tasks. Last year, I remember sitting in WIRED's office, complaining to my colleagues nonstop about how much AI agents suck. They were just bad at everything. As a software reporter, I sat through meeting after meeting where tech bros --mostly men--demonstrated how their new agent would revolutionize my everyday life and automate away the tedium. The catch was that none of these so-called "agents" actually worked. Fast-forward to today, and always-on AI agents are booming, with major players racing to release their own versions to attract early adopters.

Members of the Save Brick Lane campaign protested against the construction of an AI datacentre in the east London neighbourhood in June. Members of the Save Brick Lane campaign protested against the construction of an AI datacentre in the east London neighbourhood in June. The UK's policy on datacentres and AI was developed without any meetings with environmental groups, an investigation has found. The nonprofit organisation Spotlight on Corruption said a "considerable revolving door" shaped the government's development of "AI growth zones", a central plank of the former prime minister Keir Starmer's AI and economic policy, with 38 ministers, senior civil servants and special advisers hired to positions in AI companies between July 2024 and September 2026. Meanwhile, even as top officials left government for jobs at OpenAI and Anthropic, government departments largely failed to engage meaningfully with stakeholders outside the technology industry.

The 92-page document released on Monday talks about Anthropic's explosive growth and the risks AI has brought to the business. The 92-page document released on Monday talks about Anthropic's explosive growth and the risks AI has brought to the business. The AI company's first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards Anthropic has filed to go public on the US stock market, revealing for the first time the AI research lab's financials and all the risks - more than 90 pages of them - that might negatively impact its business. The company's investor prospectus, released Monday, veers from hyperbolic predictions about AI's "incredible potential" to existential risks of the technology to the reality of its current business: explosive but incredibly expensive growth. The filing to US financial regulators, known as an S-1, provides the public's first look at an audited version of Anthropic's finances.

AI is being trialled in near-total secrecy, with officials routinely invoking national security to stonewall FoI requests, the report says. AI is being trialled in near-total secrecy, with officials routinely invoking national security to stonewall FoI requests, the report says. 'Digital hostile environment': AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims Tasks from determining asylum seekers' ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group AI has been embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to research. Tasks from the detection of potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers and checking through the contents of phones of new arrivals now involve use of the technology, according to a report by Open Rights Group (ORG). It is also being used to conduct surveillance of borders, through live facial recognition and AI-powered drones and satellites; to summarise asylum interviews and country policy information used as evidence in those interviews; and to prioritise and assess cases through the opaque Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases (Ipic) tool.

'I'm a single mum on £41,000 and limit my weekly shop to £40.' What do you want from the Budget? Chancellor John Healey is set to unveil his first Budget on Wednesday. Unlike in previous years there have been very few leaks about what will be in it, though Healey's tax and spending plans will be under close scrutiny at a time when government borrowing costs are at historic highs. BBC News has been speaking to people on a range of incomes on how they feel about their finances and what they would like to see in the Budget. If there are issues you would like to see covered, you can get in touch via BBC Your Voice .

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Why Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key Figures Anthropic's S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long--and it leaves out quite a few financial details. "Anthropic owes investors more information," one analyst tells WIRED. Anthropic filed its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus on Monday, spelling out parts of the company's business, strategy, and risk profile ahead of its public debut. Though the filing, known as an S-1, is several hundred pages long, it has some notable omissions--namely, certain financial figures. "Claude has experienced the fastest enterprise adoption of any technology in history, as demonstrated by revenue growing from $0 at commercial launch in the first quarter of 2023 to $_____ for the three months ended September 30, 2026," reads the first of dozens of such examples.

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