Trump administration allows Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to select US firms and state agencies
The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5, allowing the company to grant access to more than 100 US organisations, including large corporations and government agencies. In a letter to Anthropic’s co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown obtained by...
Australian government to double fines for breaches of under-16 social media ban
The Australian government has announced that it will move to double the maximum fine for companies that fail to enforce the nation’s social media ban for children younger than 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement at the weekend that technology companies are not “doing enough” to comply...
Survey: Siaya County in Lake Victoria Basin bears heaviest respiratory disease burden in Kenya owing to dirty cooking energy
EPRA Director General Joseph Okech said the initiative is part of the organisation’s corporate social responsibility in line with the government’s agenda of promoting access to universal health.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy command warns American bases ‘will experience hell in coming days’
The 14-point interim peace accord was meant to halt the fighting, which the US and Israel started on February 28, and reopen the strait while talks proceeded on issues such as Iran’s nuclear programme.
China’s zero-tariff policy on African agricultural exports cements centuries-old relations between the two blocs, AU chair says
Effective May 1, China has implemented a zero-tariff policy on products from 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic relations, an expansion from the zero-tariff treatment for 100 percent tariff lines from 33 countries in Africa with which it has diplomatic relations, including Burundi, since December 1, 2024.
Pastoralists in four northern Kenya counties land $5m from carbon credit after one-year delay over integrity, transparency issues
In 2024, the county governments of Isiolo and Samburu each received Ksh11 million as levies from conservancies, an increase from Ksh9 million in 2022.
Chief architect of lab manufacture of Covid risks perjury charges as Senate Homeland Security Committee issues subpoena to testify
In an interview with Semafor, Paul said he will also ask Fauci about the destruction of federal records and about the pre-emptive pardon former President Joe Biden granted him last year. The pardon shields Fauci from federal prosecution for his official acts dating back to 2014.
While oil prices have fallen to pre-war levels in Middle East there’s no sign it’ll defuse civil unrest in emerging markets
Iraq has seen the sharpest proportional rise in protest activity among emerging markets over the past year, followed by Turkey, according to Verisk Maplecroft’s civil unrest index, which measures protest size, fatalities and commercial property damage.
Iran-US fragile ceasefire put to test following renewed attacks in strait of Hormuz
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed hope that the Strait of Hormuz could return to its status quo ante, said his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Friday.
France considers reciprocal measures as it denounces Burkina Faso’s decision to sever ties hostile, baseless
France’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux said in a statement that the country regrets the “hostile and unfounded decision, which illustrates the worrying drift of the Burkinabè authorities.”