Sally Rooney says Faber has stopped supplying her books in the UK because her stated support for the banned group Palestine Action could make fulfilling UK publishing contracts a criminal offence. Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act last July, and Rooney had pledged to continue directing sales proceeds to the group, which remains legal in Ireland. She previously cancelled a UK trip to collect an award over fears of arrest.
theguardian.com
· 2026-10-14
Tech Against Terrorism's Counter-Terrorism AI Benchmark report found that Alibaba's open-weight Qwen 3.8-27B model, released August 14, had 'abliterated' versions with guardrails removed circulating online within a day. A neo-Nazi user known as Johnny Doomsayer then used one such version to build a chatbot called 'MechaHitler,' which denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler, and began selling access to it for $14.88. The report tested 134 AI models from major US, Chinese, and European companies on how readily they would answer questions useful to terrorists or extremists.
wired.com
· 2026-10-14
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report assessing U.S. counterterrorism progress since the September 11, 2001 attacks, warning that advanced AI systems could help terrorists or hostile actors build weapons of mass destruction and plan deadly attacks. The panel called on intelligence agencies and policymakers to prepare for so-called 'Black Swan' scenarios in which frontier AI models lower the barrier for rogue actors seeking to cause mass casualties.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-31
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