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• Het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (IMF) heeft op 7 mei 2026 een waarschuwing afgegeven over de groeiende gevaren voor de wereldwijde financiële stabiliteit door kunstmatige intelligentie, waarbij wordt gewaarschuwd dat AI gelijktijdig zowel defensieve als offensieve cybercapaciteiten versterkt. • Geavanceerde AI-modellen verminderen nu drastisch de tijd en kosten die nodig zijn om systeemkwetsbaarheden te ontdekken en uit te buiten, wat snellere en meer wijdverspreide aanvallen mogelijk maakt die kunnen cascades veroorzaken over onderling verbonden financiële markten en infrastructuren. • Het Claude Mythos Preview-model van Anthropic demonstreerde baanbrekende autonome cybermogelijkheden door kwetsbaarheden in grote besturingssystemen en browsers te identificeren en uit te buiten, zelfs wanneer deze door niet-specialisten werden bediend, wat aangeeft hoe snel AI het voordeel naar de aanvallers verschuift.

The Politburo, a top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, was cited as saying by state news agency Xinhua that the economy got off to a better-than-expected start this year.

The drug industry’s self-regulatory body criticised Theramex for ‘alarming’ compliance issuesOne of the biggest producers of hormone replacement therapy has been censured by regulators for “systemic failures” that put patient safety in jeopardy.Theramex, the UK producer of HRT drugs Evorel and Intrarosa was found to have breached fundamental compliance standards including not updating crucial prescribing information – in some cases for several years – and not making it clear that a drug must not be used during pregnancy. Continue reading...

Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplainedSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe circumstances of many of the record number of deaths in US immigration custody under the second Trump administration have left loved ones often searching in vain for answers amid a lack of transparency over key investigations.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports mandated by Congress, autopsy reports and 911 calls collected by the Guardian raise questions about the quality of medical care, allegedly inadequate or haphazard responses to emergencies, and contraction of diseases and infections inside detention facilities that in some cases contributed to detainee deaths. Continue reading...

Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk’s promise that ‘removing child exploitation is priority #1’ in letter obtained by Guardian Australia The Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk’s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation scandal that it found child abuse material was “particularly systemic” on X and more accessible than “any other mainstream service”, correspondence obtained by Guardian Australia reveals.The eSafety commissioner wrote to X in January after its chatbot Grok was used to generate sexualised images of women and children online, in what the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described as “abhorrent”. Continue reading...