ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior on Friday formally banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), declaring the group a proscribed organisation under the anti-terrorism act (ATA).

The notification, issued by the Ministry of Interior, stated that the federal government has reasonable grounds to believe that Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan is connected with and concerned in terrorism.

“… In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 11B(1)(a) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (XXVII of 1997), the federal government hereby orders TLP to be a proscribed organisation for the purpose of the Act and list the aforesaid organisation in the first schedule to the said Act,” read the notification.

The interior ministry has sent notification to TLP leadership as well as to all concerned federal and provincial authorities.

This is a developing story and is being updated accordingly..

Anthropic is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of billions of dollars, as the startup races to advance its AI systems in the competitive market.

Under the deal announced on Thursday, Anthropic will have access to more than one gigawatt of computing capacity, coming online in 2026, to train the next generations of its Claude AI model on Google’s in-house tensor processing units, or TPUs, which were traditionally reserved for internal use.

Anthropic said it chose the TPUs due to their price-performance ratio and efficiency, as well as its existing experience in training and serving its Claude models with the processors.

The deal is the latest sign of insatiable chip demand in the AI industry, where companies are rushing to develop technology that can match or surpass human intelligence.

Alphabet-owned Google, whose TPUs are available for rent on Google Cloud and serve an alternative to supply-constrained Nvidia chips, will also provide additional cloud computing services to Anthropic.

Rival OpenAI recently signed multiple deals that may cost over $1 trillion to secure about 26 gigawatts of computing capacity, enough to power roughly 20 million US homes. One gigawatt of compute can cost roughly $50 billion, industry executives have said.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is actively using Nvidia’s graphics processing units and AMD’s AI chips to power its growing demand.

Reuters exclusively reported earlier in October that Anthropic is projecting to more than double, and potentially nearly triple, its annualised revenue run rate next year, fueled by the rapid adoption of its enterprise products.

The startup emphasises AI safety and building models for enterprise use cases. Its models have helped power a boom in vibe coding startups such as Cursor.

Nicole Kidman’s close pal has expressed her shock over the Babygirl actress’s split from husband Keith Urban.

Isla Fisher, who is Nicole’s Australian friend, spoke about the Oscar-winning actress’ broken marriage during her recent appearance on the Fly On The Wall podcast on Thursday.

It is pertinent to mention that Nicole filed for divorce from Keith after nearly 20 years of marriage on September 30, citing irreconcilable differences.

Isla revealed on the podcast that the news of Nicole’s split was very shocking for her.

“I’m really, really, really shocked,” she said.

However, she has not talked to Nicole, “I have left a message. I have not connected yet.”

Isla further noted that she does not want to share any remarks on it out of courtesy to Nicole and Keith’s daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.

“I don’t really wanna comment on that because there are children involved,” she added.

At the time of the split, a source told People that Nicole tried every move in her power to save her marriage but Keith seemed to have “moved on” and she was “hurt” by the crooner’s changed behavior.

“Keith has not been honest,” the insider revealed to the outlet. “She wanted to save their marriage and believed that she could, but it seems he’s already moved on.”