Israel has killed two people, including a State Security officer, in separate attacks in Lebanon as it continues its assaults on the country since the ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect last week. For its part, the Lebanese group said on Monday that it carried out a "preliminary defensive response" to the "repeated violations" of the ceasefire by attacking an Israeli military base in the hills of Kfar Chouba, a disputed area that Lebanon claims as its own. Hezbollah said Israeli breaches of the truce that went into effect on Wednesday include deadly air raids across Lebanon, shooting at civilians in the south, and flying drones and jets in Lebanese airspace, including over the capital, Beirut. The group said it launched its "warning" attack because "appeals by the relevant authorities to stop these violations did not succeed". The renewed violence highlights the fragility of the ceasefire, which ended a devastating war that killed nearly 4,000 people in Lebanon and saw Hezbollah fire rockets daily at Israel.

TikTok parent company ByteDance is going after a former intern for allegedly sabotaging an AI training project. According to The South China Morning Post, ByteDance is seeking 8 million yuan (about 1.1 million) in damages and a public apology from ex-intern Tian Keyu. The case, which has already been accepted by Haidian District Court in Beijing, centers around accusations of Tian tampering with code related to an AI training project. Tian was fired in August because he "maliciously interfered with the model training tasks," according to a statement from ByteDance. In the same statement, ByteDance disputes rumors that the tampering involved 8,000 GPU cards and lost the company tens of millions of dollars, saying those claims are "seriously exaggerated."

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said that it targeted an Israeli military base south of Tel Aviv with a swarm of drones "for the first time", as Israel launched renewed air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut city. Hezbollah fighters launched a "squadron of attack drones at the Bilu base south of Tel Aviv, for the first time", late on Wednesday, the group said in a statement. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to infrastructure from Israeli authorities. Earlier, Hezbollah also claimed a slew of attacks, including two that targeted naval bases near the Israeli port city of Haifa, and another base near Israel's main international airport close to Tel Aviv. The Israel Airports Authority said operations at the airport were not affected by the attack.

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Donald Trump's fascism, disinhibition, and age; the state of young men in America with Rachel Simmons; and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan with Nicholas Confessore of The New York Times. Tickets are on sale now. And send us your Conundrums at slate.com/conundrum. Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic: Trump: 'I Need The Kind Of Generals That Hitler Had' ABC News: Kamala Harris reacts to John Kelly's remarks that Trump is a'fascist' and CNN: Harris says she believes Trump is a fascist: Part 1 of Kamala Harris' Town Hall Niall Stanage for The Hill: What we know, and what we don't, about early voting numbers Nicholas Confessore for The New York Times: The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong? and Anna Betts: What to Know About State Laws That Limit or Ban D.E.I.

NATO member Turkey on Thursday carried out a second day of aerial attacks on what it said are Kurdish militant positions in Iraq and Syria, following a terrorist attack on a state-run defense agency this week in which five people were killed. Turkey's National Intelligence Organization reportedly targeted numerous "strategic locations" allegedly used by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) – which was deemed a terrorist organization in the U.S. in 1997 – as well as targets used by Syrian Kurdish militia affiliated with the militant group. Armed drones were used to hit military, intelligence, energy and infrastructure facilities and ammunition depots, The Associated Press reported. Smoke rises as emergency rescue teams and police officers attend outside Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. on the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. However, according to General Commander Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who is Kurdish, the Turkish attacks have been "indiscriminate" and have targeted civilian areas and health centers.

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a drone attack last week on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's holiday residence in Caesarea in northern Israel. "The Islamic Resistance claims responsibility for the Caesarea operation and targeting Netanyahu's home," the head of Hezbollah's media office, Mohammad Afif, said at a news conference on Tuesday. One of three drones launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu's holiday residence on Saturday. His spokesperson said the prime minister was not in the vicinity at the time of the attack and there were no casualties. Afif said that if in the previous attack Netanyahu was not hurt, "the coming days and nights and the [battle]fields are between us."

As the hype around generative AI continues to build, the need for robust safety regulations is only becoming more clear. Now Anthropic--the company behind Claude AI--is looking at how its models could deceive or sabotage users. Anthropic just dropped a paper laying out their approach. Anthropic's latest research -- titled "Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models" -- comes from its Alignment Science team, driven by the company's "Responsible Scaling" policy. The goal is to gauge just how capable AI might be at misleading users or even "subverting the systems we put in place to oversee them."

One of the civilians who spotted the drone, Viki Kadosh, said she was "so frustrated, because 10 minutes before the hit, we had called in to warn about it." Speaking on Monday to Galei Tzahal, a radio station run by the Israeli military, Ms. Kadosh said: "We spotted it flying very low, right above our home. We heard the sound it was making and immediately noticed there was something strange about it." The Israeli military declined to comment. The sequence of drone attacks has caused alarm in Israel as it prepares for a potential escalation with Iran.

Hezbollah has carried out its deadliest attack against Israel since the latest escalation in fighting began, sending a'swarm' of drones to a military base and killing at least four soldiers. Here's what we know about the attack.

Israeli rescue services say nearly 60 people were injured, some critically, in a drone strike in Binyamina on Sunday, which Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for. Rescue services in Israel said over 60 people were wounded, some of them critically, in a drone strike in Binyamina, Israel, which the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group has claimed responsibility for, according to reports. Israeli media reported that two drones were launched from Lebanon, one of which was intercepted. Who was hurt – whether military members or civilians – or what was struck was not immediately clear. On Thursday, Israel conducted two strikes in Beirut that killed 22 people, and Hezbollah said it was retaliating for the strikes by targeting an Israeli military training camp.