US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype "quantum sensors," to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics. United States Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create a prototype of "quantum sensors" alongside a "database with artificial intelligence " designed "to detect illicit objects and substances (such as fentanyl) in vehicles, containers, and other devices," according to a contract justification published in a federal register last week. "This database and sensor project will integrate advanced quantum and classical sensing technologies with Artificial Intelligence and ultimately deploy proven concepts and end products anywhere in the CBP environment," the justification document reads. "Under this requirement, CBP will take additional steps to enhance its ability to detect, and thus, significantly reduce the harms of illicit contraband entering the United States of America, thus bolstering national security." The document redacts the name of the company developing the prototype; however, contract details included in the federal register entry reveal that the justification is for a $2.4 million General Dynamics contract that has been public since December 2025.

Trump-Xi meeting: Who has the upper hand? Could Trump go for a third term? Is the US eyeing its next Latin American target? Why is Trump tearing down parts of the White House? United States President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to a trade truce under which the US will ease tariffs and Beijing will restart imports of US soya beans, delay the introduction of export restrictions on some of its rare earth metals and intensify efforts to curb illegal fentanyl trafficking.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes explains how drones are frequently used at the southern border to transport drugs, raising concerns from both sides of the aisle. As reported crossings have dropped dramatically at the border, there is still work to be done on matters of stopping drugs from making their way into the United States, especially in the border state of Arizona, a top state official says. One of the ways that cartels transport drugs is by using drones, a tactic that gained attention after bipartisan legislation signed in the Grand Canyon State gave law enforcement the power to shoot down the small aircraft. "I think what has changed is that we have gotten more control over people crossing over the border, but unfortunately what has not changed is we still have a huge amount of fentanyl that is coming across our border here in Arizona, and that is being flown over the by the Mexican drug cartels with drones," Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said. Fentanyl is being delivered across the border by cartels on drones.

ABSTRACT The development of robust safety benchmarks for large language models requires open, reproducible datasets that can measure both appropriate refusal of harmful content and potential over-restriction of legitimate scientific discourse. We present an open-source dataset and testing framework for evaluating LLM safety mechanisms across mainly controlled substance queries, analyzing four major models' responses to systematically varied prompts. Our results reveal distinct safety profiles: Claude-3.5-sonnet Testing prompt variation strategies revealed decreasing response consistency, from 85% with single prompts to 65% with five variations. This publicly available benchmark enables systematic evaluation of the critical balance between necessary safety restrictions and potential over-censorship of legitimate scientific inquiry, while providing a foundation for measuring progress in AI safety implementation. Chain-of-thought analysis reveals potential vulnerabilities in safety mechanisms, highlighting the complexity of implementing robust safeguards without unduly restricting desirable and valid scientific discourse. INTRODUCTION Large language models (LLMs) raise fresh concerns about their potential dual-use applications [1-24], particularly in sensitive domains like biotechnology [25-35], chemistry [36-42], and cybersecurity [43]. This paper proposes a novel dataset or benchmark of scientific refusal questions. It seeks to add to the current literature on safety measures [9,14-15, 23], evaluation frameworks [1,6,18, 28, 43], and proposed guardrails [16, Over-refusal Prompt Count 25] for managing these risks. This area of inquiry has been termed false or Deception 8040 "over-refusal" [18,21-24] where rather than trying to get LLMs to write harmful things we do not want to read (guardrails) [8], the goal is to curate innocuous or Harassment 3295 beneficial answers that might help humans, but the LLM withholds the answer Harmful 16083 as inappropriate to share [23].

A Lancaster man was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from his alleged use of a drone to deliver fentanyl and other narcotics to buyers, one of whom died of an overdose. Christopher Patrick "Crany" Laney, 34, has been charged with one count of distributing fentanyl resulting in death, four counts of operating an unregistered aircraft in furtherance of a felony narcotics crime, one count of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, two counts of possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, and one count of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to the grand jury indictment. Federal prosecutors alleged that on several occasions in December 2022 and January 2023, Laney used an unregistered drone to transport fentanyl and other narcotics from his home to a nearby church parking lot, where someone collected the drugs before distributing them to buyers. At least one of those people included a woman who died of an overdose in January 2023. The federal grand indictment also accuses Laney of being in possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl at his home, along with multiple firearms lacking serial numbers -- weapons that are referred to as "ghost guns."

When the system detects small cracks in road surfaces, it promptly seals them. Over 112,000 Americans overdosed in 2023. Over 70,000 overdosed on fentanyl, a particularly dangerous synthetic opioid. While it's easy to focus on numbers, we can't forget that these aren't statistics. They leave behind parents, brothers, sisters and children.

Police in Washington state announced two suspects were arrested in connection with the murder of a missing elderly man who was allegedly poisoned with fentanyl by a pair who gained his trust through a dating app. The Mercer Island Police released a statement saying Philip J. Brewer, 32, and Christina Hardy, 47, are facing charges for the murder of Curtis Engeland, 74, by using an elaborate scheme to defraud and murder him. Police said that Brewer and Hardy are believed to have become acquainted with Engeland several months ago and subsequently financially defrauded him. Police also believe the suspects later violently confronted Engeland at his Mercer Island home in the late evening hours of February 23, and used Engeland's vehicle to leave Mercer Island that night. POLICE MADE'A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL' TO UNCOVER LOCATION OF MISSING BLOOD MOUNTAIN HIKER: KILLER WAS'HUNTING' Two suspects were arrested in connection to the homicide of missing Mercer Island resident Curtis Engeland, 74.

Fox News congressional correspondent Aishah Hasnie has the latest on an alleged drone strike attack at the Kremlin and lawmakers' concerns about fentanyl and artificial intelligence on'Special Report.' FIRST ON FOX: Former President Trump said he would deploy military assets to fight the fentanyl crisis and "inflict maximum damage" on cartel operations if elected in 2024, and he would seek the death penalty to convicted drug dealers and human traffickers. Trump outlined his proposed policies for ending drug addiction in America in a new campaign video obtained by Fox News Digital on Thursday. "For three decades before my election, drug overdose deaths increased every single year. Under my leadership, we took the drug and fentanyl crisis head on, and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than 30 years," Trump said in the video.

Opioid and substance misuse is rampant in the United States today, with the phenomenon known as the "opioid crisis". The relationship between substance use and mental health has been extensively studied, with one possible relationship being: substance misuse causes poor mental health. However, the lack of evidence on the relationship has resulted in opioids being largely inaccessible through legal means. This study analyzes the substance use posts on social media with opioids being sold through crypto market listings. We use the Drug Abuse Ontology, state-of-the-art deep learning, and knowledge-aware BERT-based models to generate sentiment and emotion for the social media posts to understand users' perceptions on social media by investigating questions such as: which synthetic opioids people are optimistic, neutral, or negative about? or what kind of drugs induced fear and sorrow? or what kind of drugs people love or are thankful about? or which drugs people think negatively about? or which opioids cause little to no sentimental reaction. We discuss how we crawled crypto market data and its use in extracting posts for fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other novel synthetic opioids. We also perform topic analysis associated with the generated sentiments and emotions to understand which topics correlate with people's responses to various drugs. Additionally, we analyze time-aware neural models built on these features while considering historical sentiment and emotional activity of posts related to a drug. The most effective model performs well (statistically significant) with (macroF1=82.12, recall =83.58) to identify substance use disorder.

Swanton Sector NBPC President Sean Walsh joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss Mayorkas' testimony before Congress as the crisis continues to spiral. Facial recognition technology makes unlocking your smartphone a breeze. But with the convenience, comes a disturbing new crime trend for bandits. It involves "drug-facilitated robbery" schemers who knock their victims out with date rape drugs, unlock the victims' phones with their unconscious faces and drain their bank accounts of tens of thousands of dollars. While robberies involving incapacitated victims are nothing new, the technology offers thieves quick and easy access to incapacitated victims.