Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons. Reports say that a former Anthropic employee made a troubling statement, saying that AI is developing so quickly that the people building it believe the technology could kill us all by the end of the decade.

A North Carolina pastor who led the opening prayer at a recent campaign stop for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison. Records show pastor Daimon L. King was convicted in 1998 and again in 2010 for offenses involving children. Democrats have hammered Whatley over his ties to another sex offender who served in the state GOP when Whatley was chairman. The episode comes at a critical time in a marquee Senate race that could help decide which party controls the chamber. It risks undermining one of Whatley’s central campaign arguments that his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Roy Cooper, is soft on crime.

Houthis seize an island, opening a new front in the Iran war, as Saudi Arabia shuts down a pipeline.

French military jets launch a 40-day global flight to project power and strengthen alliances.

15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea.