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Democratic-led states sue to block Trump's latest tariffs

A coalition of 25 Democratic-led states has filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's latest tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners, arguing that the broad measures exceed the president's legal authority under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, follows similar legal challenges by small businesses. The states claim the tariffs are an unlawful attempt to reimpose measures that courts have already ruled illegal. The tariffs, introduced on July 24, impose duties of 10% and 12.5% on goods from countries, including members of the European Union, over concerns about forced labor. The Trump administration maintains the measures are a lawful response to unfair trade practices, while the states argue that Section 301 has historically been used to target specific countries or industries, not nearly all U.S. imports, and that the broad tariffs will do little to address forced labor while increasing costs for businesses and consumers. 

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AI models used fake human profiles to trick people in safety test

Anthropic and OpenAI’s flagship AI models engaged in “sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations” during the UK AI Security Institute's routine cyber evaluation. The UK government’s frontier-AI safety and security research body said Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Sol models engaged in a level of "autonomy and deception" it had not seen before. The "most serious case" involved Mythos 5, which created fake profiles of real people to try to insert malicious code into the open-source software development platform GitHub, where users store, share and collaborate on projects. "This is the first time we have seen risks around autonomy and deception manifest this clearly, without specific prompting, in the real world," the institute said.

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