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Global alert as websites go offline worldwide over security flaws threatening millions of sites
Critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, discovered using artificial intelligence, have triggered a global security alert – Government and private websites across Europe were taken offline as experts warned of rapid, large-scale cyberattacks


Mitsotakis at Daedalus supercomputer inauguration in Lavrio: Greece now has infrastructure to be AI leader
The prime minister said Daedalus has enormous capabilities that have yet to be fully understood – Papastergiou: Greece becomes the 14th country in the world to have such infrastructure

MI5 chief warns of growing threats from Iran, Russia and AI to Britain
Ken McCallum says state-backed threats have quadrupled over the past decade, with the security service now devoting more resources to tackling them than during the Cold War

How Greece’s under-15 social media ban will work on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
Bill to be passed on Thursday, 22 October, with restrictions taking effect on 1 January. No children's personal data will be shared with platforms – Georgiadis highlights alarming figures on social media use among young people
Altman cynically says that “the world must accept potentially bad things in order to reap the benefits of AI”
The head of OpenAI stressed that people can reap many benefits from artificial intelligence, but this will not happen without “losses”

Trump appoints Jay Clayton as America’s AI ‘tsar’
Trump has named Jay Clayton, the Director of National Intelligence, as the US government's AI "tsar", tasking him with leading a "Super Intelligence Force" that will report on the risks and opportunities of AI within 120 days while keeping America ahead of China

Tech chiefs sign voluntary AI safety pact at White House
The accord commits AI developers to four layers of safety checks but carries no legal force or state oversight, while a new executive order directs federal agencies to replace the term artificial intelligence with superintelligence

The global threat from AI and the role of AI Agents that can even hack governments – Why Anthropic warned the UN and investors
Its CEO spoke of “the most important global security issue facing the world today” – The company set out the warning in one of its most important documents – AI agents are changing the level of risk

AI giants head to the White House as Anthropic’s IPO filing warns of “existential risks to humanity”
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Greg Brockman and Dario Amodei meet Donald Trump today to discuss oversight of artificial intelligence, as Anthropic's prospectus sets out the dangers of the technology to investors.

