Calls for urgent action to stop 'catastrophic' AI hacking model

A blockade to end a blockade has begun in the Strait of Hormuz with the United States vowing to prevent ships coming to or from Iranian ports. According to military analysts the strategy could bring Iran back to the negotiating table but Al Jazeera Tehran correspondent Ali Hashem says the regime has shown a high tolerance for pain so far. Why has one of the world’s most powerful AI companies decided its latest model is too dangerous to release? Former cyber security chief Alastair McGibbon says Anthropic's new AI model poses a catastrophic risk to Australia's infrastructure if it gets into the wrong hands.  Fiji is in the grip of a spiralling drug crisis, becoming a key transit point for vast quantities of methamphetamines and cocaine en route from Mexico to Australia. A special ABC investigation for Foreign Correspondent has found that the trade is fuelling drug addiction and spreading crime and HIV beyond Fiji.