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Woman charged with murder of 31-year-old woman
A woman has been charged with the murder of another woman in east London.
Hope Rowe, 32, of Piazza Walk, Whitechapel, is accused of killing a woman who was stabbed in a foyer of a block of flats in Duckett Street, Stepney Green, in the early hours of Sunday.
The victim has not been formally identified but the Met Police says it is “confident” she is Charlotte Lawler, 31.
Ms Rowe is due to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court later.
She has also been charged with possession of a bladed article.
Police were called at about 01:17 BST on Sunday to Duckett Street in Tower Hamlets. The London Ambulance Service also attended but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Met said Ms Lawler’s next of kin had been informed and continued to be supported by specially trained officers.
A 37-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender was later released on bail.
A crime scene remains in place at the address and inquiries into the circumstances continue, the force said.
It appealed for anyone with information to 101 and quote CAD480/15Sep.
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Anthropic says US lifts export ban on its advanced AI tools
The US government has lifted an export ban on Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools, just weeks after ordering it to restrict access to them over national security concerns, the company has said.
Anthropic said in a statement that it will begin restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Wednesday after being notified that the US Department of Commerce has lifted restrictions on the two models.
They are the firm’s most advanced AI tools, which were abruptly suspended on 12 June over concerns that they could be used by hackers to exploit weaknesses in computer systems.
The Commerce Department said in a letter seen by the BBC that Anthropic has addressed the risks.
“Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a letter to the tech company.
The firm has also agreed to collaborate on future releases of its AI models and alert the government of any malicious activity, Lutnick wrote.
The Commerce Department reserves the right to reconsider its decision to lift export restrictions if necessary, he added.
The BBC has contacted the Department of Commerce for further information.
Mythos and Fable are two of Anthropic’s AI models built on its Claude platform – a rival to the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
Fable 5 is a version of the AI model for the consumer market, capable of deep reasoning and can perform complex tasks independently.
Mythos 5 is a version of the platform designed for select businesses and cybersecurity experts. It is said to be able to identify vulnerabilities in computer code and exploit them. Both models were released on 9 June.
The firm previously said that US authorities had not pinpointed specific concerns about its technology even as it ordered both platforms to be suspended around the world.
“Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said at the time, referring to a process of slipping past software safety restrictions to unblock features.
“However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people.”
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US to cut troop levels in Germany by 5,000 amid Trump spat with Merz
The decision to reduce the US deployment to Germany comes amid a row between the two allies over Iran.
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