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Anthropic bloque l’utilisation de son IA pour la « surveillance intérieure de masse » et les « armes complètement autonomes » par le Pentagone

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-27T01:15:03+00:00

L’administration Trump avait donné jusqu’à vendredi à Dario Amodei, patron de l’entreprise, pour qu’il ouvre sans contraintes son modèle Claude. Ce dernier a rejeté la demande, affirmant que « dans certains cas précis (…) l’IA peut saper, plutôt que défendre, les valeurs démocratiques ».

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Anthropic bloque l’utilisation de son IA par le Pentagone pour la « surveillance intérieure de masse » et les « armes complètement autonomes »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-27T01:15:03+00:00

L’administration Trump avait donné jusqu’à vendredi à Dario Amodei, patron de l’entreprise, pour qu’il ouvre sans contraintes son modèle Claude. Ce dernier a rejeté la demande, affirmant que « dans certains cas précis (…) l’IA peut saper, plutôt que défendre, les valeurs démocratiques ».

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Woman at heart of US trial says she was addicted to social media aged six

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T01:14:32+00:00

Lead plaintiff, now 20, says use of social media made her anxious and strained relationships with friends and familyThe young woman at the heart of the landmark trial about the addictive nature of social media testified for the first time on Thursday, saying she got hooked on YouTube starting at age six and Instagram at nine. By the time she was 10, she said she had become depressed and was engaging in self-harm.The woman, who is now 20 and known by her initials KGM, is the lead plaintiff in an expansive lawsuit against YouTube and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook. The crux of the case

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Woman at heart of US trial says she was addicted to social media at age six

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T01:14:32+00:00

Lead plaintiff, now 20, says use of social media made her relationships with friends and family anxious and strained The young woman at the heart of the landmark trial about the addictive nature of social media testified for the first time on Thursday, saying she got hooked on YouTube starting at age six and Instagram at nine. By the time she was 10, she said she had become depressed and was engaging in self-harm.The woman, who is now 20 and known by her initials KGM, is the lead plaintiff in an expansive lawsuit against YouTube and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook. The crux of the case

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Burgertory founder’s chant about Zionists at pro-Palestine rally incited hatred against Jews, tribunal rules

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T01:11:51+00:00

Hash Tayeh flags appeal to Victorian civil and administrative tribunal finding over phrase used at Melbourne rally last yearFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA prominent pro-Palestine protester racially and religiously vilified Jewish people when he chanted “All Zionists are terrorists” at a Melbourne rally, a Victorian tribunal has ruled.Hash Tayeh, who has flagged an appeal to Thursday’s ruling, was found to have breached the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act with his comments in March last year. Continue reading

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky annonce qu’une réunion trilatérale incluant la Russie et les Etats-Unis devrait avoir lieu en mars à Abou Dhabi

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-27T01:06:06+00:00

Le président ukrainien a estimé que les discussions du jour, à Genève, entre les représentants de son pays et les émissaires américains avaient permis de progresser pour la tenue de cette réunion pressentie pour le début du mois de mars.

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Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T01:00:27+00:00

Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancersVegetarians have a substantially lower risk of five types of cancer, a landmark study on the role of diet has revealed.The research, using data from more than 1.8 million people who were tracked over many years, found that vegetarians had a 21% lower risk of pancreatic cancer, a 12% lower risk of prostate cancer and a 9% lower risk of breast cancer compared with meat eaters. Combined, these cancers account for around a fifth of cancer deaths in the UK. Continue reading...

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Boss of theatre hosting Chinese dance group Shen Yun in Sydney won’t be intimidated by ‘outrageous’ threats

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T01:00:19+00:00

Graeme Kearns, chief executive of Foundation Theatres, says: ‘Our job in theatre is to absolutely defend the right to tell stories about culture’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of the theatre hosting the Shen Yun dance troupe in Sydney says the company would not be intimidated to pull the shows by any “outrageous” anonymous threats and that the publicity had increased interest in the show.On Monday, the Gold Coast venue for the Shen Yun performances was forced to evacuate after a bomb threat, with a simil

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Watch: Key moments from Hillary Clinton's Epstein deposition

Source: BBC News - World · Published: 2026-02-27T00:53:31+00:00

The BBC's North America correspondent Nada Tawfik, reporting from Chappaqua, New York, explains what we know about Clinton's closed-door testimony.

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Pakistan strikes Kabul hours after Afghanistan attack on border troops

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T00:41:17+00:00

Escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours makes a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shakyPakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan in the latest escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours that made a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky.At least three explosions were heard in Kabul, but there was no immediate information on the exact location of the strikes in the Afghan capital, or of any po

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Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T00:23:20+00:00

OpenAI-powered assistant will help to ‘understand overall service patterns’, company says, as move sparks backlashFrom hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from someone’s real voice, has long been a cultural trope. Fast-food giant Burger King is now taking that voice one step further, saying it will detect whether employees are using words like “please” and “thank you” through the assistance of artificial intelligence.On Thursday, Burger King announced it is rolling out a new AI chatbot connected t

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Australia news live: Ley says ‘I hope I have paved the way’ as she formally quits parliament, triggering Farrer byelection

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T00:03:18+00:00

Former opposition leader resigns as MP for Farrer. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSarah Mitchell, the NSW shadow minister for health, said revelations two people had died after an outbreak of fungal infections at a major Sydney hospital were “shocking”, calling for more transparency from the Minns government.As reported yesterday, the Sydney local health district said the two deaths and four other infections resulted in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital closing its transplant unit temporarily. The infections occurred between October and December, and t

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Kinship carers in England to be given financial support in government pilot

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-27T00:01:25+00:00

Charities hail ‘groundbreaking’ scheme for grandparents and others who take full parental responsibility for a childGrandparents who step in to provide full-time care for their grandchildren to prevent them being taken into care will be given guaranteed financial support under a government pilot scheme.Charities welcomed the trial as groundbreaking and said if fully rolled out across England it had the potential to transform the lives of tens of thousands of children looked after under “kinship care” arrangements. Continue reading...

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Domenico, le testimonianze dai verbali: “Il cuore era una pietra”. E il primario: “Non batterà più”

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-02-27T00:01:00+00:00

Le voci dal Monaldi nelle carte dell’inchiesta su cosa accadde prima e dopo il trapianto fallito: “I corsi di formazione per l’uso dei nuovi contenitori iniziati solo dopo la tragedia”. L’ira del cardiochirurgo contro un’infermiera durante una riunione: “Ho a che fare con gente di m...”

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Assunzioni e salario fisso. Così Just Eat volta pagina sui rider

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Contratto firmato da Cgil, Cisl e Uil. Chi lavora 30 ore a settimana prende 1.500 euro con tredicesima, ferie, malattia e infortuni. Pesa la concorrenza del contratto pirata Ugl

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Crisi Kabul-Islamabad: missili e vittime civili

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Accuse su confini e terroristi. Il ministro della difesa del Pakistan: “È guerra aperta”. Raid talebano oltreconfine, in serata il contrattacco dei jet sulle città

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Iran-Usa, niente accordo ma si tratta

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

A Ginevra Teheran non cede sul programma nucleare. Lunedì muovo round nella sede Aiea di Vienna

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Observers raise concerns over secret ballot breaches at Gorton and Denton byelection

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-26T23:53:29+00:00

Democracy Volunteers say they saw 32 cases of apparent collusion – the highest levels in its 10-year historyAn election observer group has raised concerns over people appearing to collude on voting in the Gorton and Denton byelection.Democracy Volunteers, an organisation founded by Dr John Ault, and supported by Conservative peer and psephologist Prof Robert Haywood, deployed four accredited election observers across the constituency. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: Sussan Ley formally quits parliament, saying ‘I hope I have paved the way’ for next female Liberal leader to succeed

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-26T23:46:52+00:00

Byelection to follow after former opposition leader resigns as MP for Farrer. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSarah Mitchell, the NSW shadow minister for health, said revelations two people had died after an outbreak of fungal infections at a major Sydney hospital were “shocking”, calling for more transparency from the Minns government.As reported yesterday, the Sydney local health district said the two deaths and four other infections resulted in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital closing its transplant unit temporarily. The infections occurred between

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