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Boko Haram and ISIS are fighting over the islands of Lake Chad, plunging the surrounding region into a humanitarian catastrophe
More than 27 leaders due to meet in French capital for talks on security guarantees
Anthropic is quietly winning favor with engineers and hobbyists with its tools designed to simplify and automate coding. Why it matters: Everyone is talking about Claude Code, reinforcing the fact that the AI race is not a binary battle between Google and OpenAI. The big picture: A mass market, easy-to-use coding tool is a game changer for the 99% of people who, until now, had to rely on other people's software to do anything from building custom data tools to automating repetitive work to building apps or websites. And Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding agent 5 — is having a moment. Zoom in: Professionals and dabblers alike say Claude's latest tool is best for coding and outperforms others like Cursor, GitHub Copilot and even Gemini 3 Pro. The tool can read an entire codebase, plan complex changes, write and debug code autonomously, run commands and loop for hours on tasks. Catch up quick: The term vibe coding — describing projects in natural language instead of code — was coined early last year, but most vibe coding tools still required some coding. Even as recently as early summer 2025, users still had to understand what a tool was doing in order to use it, Dan Shipper, co-founder and CEO of AI subscription service Every, tells Axios."You still really had to understand the underlying architecture, and maybe you still needed to go look at the code," Shipper says. "It would get lost or go off the rails." Claude Code changed this by letting users talk directly to an agent and giving Claude full read/write access to files. "You just tell it to do something, and it works," Shipper says, calling it an "infinite vibe coding machine." State of play: The explosion of online excitement about the tool isn't about one dramatic breakthrough, but a result of different factors coalescing. "The underlying models keep getting better," former OpenAI board member Helen Toner tells Axios. "It's not that it's a huge change, but it's a noticeable improvement."Another feature working
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is raising fears of wider spread, with over 900 suspected cases and more than 200 deaths reported in the DRC. Health workers warn the toll is likely higher due to limited testing, while conflict, mistrust, and lack of treatment for the rare strain are hampering containment efforts
Chinese investors are rushing to find alternative ways to buy and sell overseas equities after Beijing launched its most forceful crackdown on illicit cross-border stock trading to stem capital outflows
Inmates in Venezuela's western Barinas prison staged a protest over alleged abuse
Russia's army confirmed it had launched the Oreshnik at Ukraine for the third time in the war, saying it was "in response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure on Russian territory". The missile was used without a nuclear warhead
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The move by speaker El Malick Ndiaye clears the way for sacked premier Ousmane Sonko to run for head of parliament
Shannon, Robyn, Jenni and Natalie teamed up to bring Aaron Swan to justice after decades of abuse
Voters across France choose mayors this week. The far right is performing strongly in the country’s second city, making the contest there a test of national shifts
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that Singapore further welcomes the commitment under the ceasefire to restoring shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz