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A Black Lives Matters protest in London regarding Chris Kaba.
Looks like the white, middle class organisers forget to invite any black people.
In the wake of death of UK political prisoner, Peter Lynch, who was fast tracked into prison for essentially shouting in the street.
The grandfather was ultimately sentenced to death.
Pakistani family who attacked police at Manchester Airport, STILL haven't even been charged.
Tiny ‘Black Lives Matter’ crowd gathers outside the Old Bailey courtrooms to protest the not guilty verdict of the police officer who shot violent criminal Chris Kaba.
Kaba rammed his car repeatedly into armed police officers’ cars.
BLM is finished in the UK.
UK public borrowing exceeds official forecast in September
Government borrowing overshot official projections in September, which is a sign of the difficult fiscal position that the Chancellor faces as she puts the finishing touches on her first tax and spending budget.
September 30, 2026
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Right Livelihood Award honours women-led groups combating systemic injustices
New Laureates
Four laureates have been selected for the Right Livelihood Award from 200 nominees across 72 countries, to be honoured on 1 December in Stockholm.
Four laureates have been selected for the Right Livelihood Award from 200 nominees across 72 countries, to be honoured on 1 December in Stockholm.
Award Scale
Four laureates are chosen from a pool of 200 nominees across 72 countries, highlighting the extensive and diverse impact of activism against systemic injustices.
Four laureates are chosen from a pool of 200 nominees across 72 countries, highlighting the extensive and diverse impact of activism against systemic injustices.
Official response
The Right Livelihood Award jury stated, “These laureates confront deeply entrenched power structures and stand up for those pushed to the margins of society.”
The Right Livelihood Award jury stated, “These laureates confront deeply entrenched power structures and stand up for those pushed to the margins of society.”
‘Alternative Nobel’ honours women taking on authoritarian rule, patriarchy and Big Tech
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The Right Livelihood Award, often called the alternative Nobel Prize, has this year honoured women and women-led organisations who, in the jury’s words, confront some of the world’s most deeply entrenched power structures: authoritarian rule, patriarchal violence and unregulated artificial intelligence development.
What they have in common is that they stand up to systems that push people to the margins.
Four laureates have been selected from 200 nominees in 72 countries. They will receive the award on 1 December in Stockholm.
One of them is Jalila Haider, a Pakistani human rights lawyer, recognised for breaking barriers as the first female lawyer from the Hazara community and for challenging ethnic, state and patriarchal persecution, guided by the conviction that “no person should be forced into illegality”, as the jury puts it.
The Rural Women’s Assembly is being honoured for forging a powerful movement of rural women in southern Africa, enabling them to defend their land, seeds and bodily autonomy against the tyranny of corporate interests and patriarchal exploitation, the jury said.
The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association is recognised for its work, carried out despite political repression, to build and safeguard Georgian democracy and to protect civilian control of power.
Timnit Gebru, an Ethiopian-born computer scientist, is also among this year’s laureates. According to the citation, she has challenged the concentrated power in the field of artificial intelligence and played a pioneering role in developing digital technologies rooted in justice, real-life experience and an understanding of human agency.
The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 by German-Swedish writer and philatelist Jakob von Uexkull to honour those offering practical solutions to the planet’s and humanity’s most urgent problems.
The prize comes with long-term support intended to help the laureates expand and promote their work.
September 30, 2026
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September 30, 2026
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Get you up to speed: US regulator launches probe into AI companies
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into several major artificial intelligence companies amid concerns over rogue AI agents and potential threats posed by the technology. This marks the first federal enforcement action examining these incidents, which include an OpenAI agent that allegedly hacked into the AI firm Hugging Face.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to seek formal information and testimony from leading AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, as part of its investigation. The probe was initiated several weeks ago, following reports of rogue AI agents and significant industry concerns raised by insiders.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to issue formal demands for information and seek testimony from major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, amid concerns about rogue AI agents. Additionally, a bipartisan bill has been introduced in Congress to halt the development of advanced AI systems until a dedicated oversight agency is created.
What remains unclear — The FTC has not disclosed the specific timeline for the investigation or when formal demands for information will be issued.
US regulator investigates artificial intelligence companies over rogue agents
Economy|Business and EconomyUS regulator launches probe into AI companies
FTC investigates AI firms amid concerns over rogue agents and potential threats to humanity within the next decade.
Published On 30 Sep 202630 Sep 2026
Published On 30 Sep 202630 Sep 2026The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into several major artificial intelligence companies amid a wave of recent rogue artificial intelligence agents — AI systems that can make decisions and take actions on behalf of users — from firms and claims by former industry insiders that AI could end humanity within the next decade.
The FTC launched the investigation several weeks ago. It was first reported on Wednesday by the New York Post and has since been confirmed by other outlets, including the Washington Post and the Reuters news agency.
WTX News reached out to the FTC for confirmation but was unable to independently verify the reporting.
The probe marks the first enforcement action by a federal agency examining rogue agents. The investigation was launched amid a wave of incidents, first reported in July, of agents going rogue in testing, including when an OpenAI agent broke out of containment during testing, hacking into the AI firm Hugging Face.
However, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said that he had concerns about the companies beforehand.
The agency plans to issue formal demands for information from major AI firms and seek testimony from executives at the top companies, including Anthropic, the maker of the chatbot Claude, and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency last week, Ferguson suggested that developers who instruct agents to hack should be held liable for harm.
News of the investigation comes a day after United States President Donald Trump met with a handful of AI executives at the White House, including OpenAI’s Greg Brockman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, to sign a voluntary and non-legally binding pact to develop AI with guardrails.
Meanwhile, members of Congress, including the progressive independent Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, alongside House Representative Greg Casar, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would bar development of advanced AI systems until a Cabinet-level agency to oversee them is established.
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic responded to WTX News’s request for comment.
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