WORLD ROUNDUPAI Technologies Aiding Bioterrorists | Why Britain Beat France in the Spy League Table | The Ceuta Crisis and the Age of Weaponized Migration, and more

AI Executives Worry About Their Technologies Aiding Bioterrorists. How Likely Is That?  (Matt Field, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
Plenty of hurdles remain for anyone hoping to use fast-improving AI to develop a bioweapon, but, as one expert notes, “Where we will find ourselves a year from now is likely to be, without intervention, a much more risky circumstance.”

Why Britain Beat France in the Spy League Table  (Emily Smith and Roland Oliphant, The Telegraph)
MI6 outdoes international rivals to be crowned Europe’s most powerful intelligence agency

Smiley Is a Better MI6 Agent Than Bond. But Both Make Britain’s Spooks Great  (Guy Walters, The Telegraph)
Our foreign intelligence agency is the best in Europe because of the combination of spycraft and audacity.

Russian Disinformation “Smearing French Election Candidates”  (Charles Bremner, The Times)
Paris has warned that President Putin’s GRU intelligence agency is seeking to discredit presidential nominees to boost the chances of those it supports.

Kyiv Unable to Stop Russian Strikes After Missile Defenses Run Out  (Catherine Philp, The Times)
President Zelensky said at least 17 were killed and dozens wounded in attacks that Ukraine was unable to intercept amid a global shortage of Patriots.

Why AI Is a Risk to Communist China  (Economist)
It is not as well placed to take advantage of the technology as many people think.

The Ceuta Crisis and the Age of Weaponized Migration  (Tanya Goudsouzian and Ibrahim al-Marashi, National Interest)
In the last decade, the use of migration flows to extract diplomatic concessions has become just another tool of statecraft.