What happened
Thousands yesterday crossed from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, in the largest border influx the enclave has experienced since 2021. Streams of people climbed over border fences or swam onto shores, overwhelming security forces at border controls. Spanish news agency EFE said 16 people had died during the crossings.

Who said what
The autonomous Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa have “long been a point of tension between Morocco and Spain,” The New York Times said. The two areas “constitute the European Union’s sole land border with Africa.”

The government in Madrid “finally reacted to what is effectively an invasion of European territory by mobilising army units,” said David Sharrock in The Times of London. One migrant traveling with his family told the paper: “I did not want us to miss the opportunity. Salaries are very low in Morocco — it’s dead; Morocco is dead.”

What next?
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is due to visit Ceuta today as authorities focus on restoring order. Italy has called for Spain to be suspended from the EU’s free-travel zone.

What happened
AI company Anthropic has discovered three separate incidents when its Claude model accessed the internet and hacked into other organizations’ systems without Anthropic’s knowledge. The security breaches, which happened during testing, follow the recent revelation that competitor OpenAI’s technology had hacked into AI platform Hugging Face.

Who said what
Anthropic and its testing partner accidentally “left the models with live internet access,” The Wall Street Journal said. So Claude “didn’t break out of a sandbox; it simply wandered out of systems where the sandbox didn’t exist.” The lesson is “not necessarily that AI has developed a fundamentally new attack capability,” cyber security expert David Allott told the BBC, but that AI agents can “combine capabilities, obtain credentials and system access to take actions autonomously.”

“We need to change how we model such threats as AI capabilities advance,” Anthropic said in a blog post. 

What next?
Expect more calls for better safeguarding around AI development, which “may be moving much faster than society is ready for,” CNN said.

The right garment can make you invisible. So-called adversarial clothing is specially designed to thwart artificial intelligence’s ability to identify the wearer, using “special patterns and materials made to confuse AI facial recognition software,” said Inc. This may include “unique patterns that can cause AI to misidentify people as animals or objects” or “infrared reflective gear that blocks faces out entirely on camera.” The trend is emerging at a time when “modern computer vision systems can identify faces, follow individuals across cameras and search footage at scale,” said The Guardian.

Video surveillance using artificial intelligence is “worth over $4 billion in 2026” and is “expected to surpass $10 billion” by 2032, said Inc. Companies such as Ring and Flock Safety have incorporated AI into their products. The problem with AI video surveillance is that “citizens don’t have the possibility in the physical world to opt out,” Rachele Didero, the founder of adversarial clothing brand Cap_able, said to the Mozilla Foundation. “In the digital space, we can say yes or no to cookies. In the physical world, we don’t have this option.”

While adversarial clothing is designed to avoid AI facial recognition, “controlled testing against one object-detection model can’t prove a garment will defeat facial recognition in public,” said Digital Trends. “Lighting and camera position can alter the result, while newer software may learn to ignore patterns that once caused trouble.” Additionally, “if such clothing genuinely proved effective, it could get political very quickly,” Nick Tidball, the co-founder of the clothing brand Vollebak, said to The Guardian. “Then this type of clothing could find itself banned.”