Leader of the Catholic Church says AI safety issues should be taken seriously and acted on. Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026 Pope Leo has said that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and…
Russian forces have again struck the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, hours after a drone hit the National Academy of Sciences in the historic centre of the city, killing at least two people. Explosions were heard across Kyiv early on Tuesday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko saying missile debris had fallen in the courtyard of one building while…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has met with Qatari mediators in New York to discuss a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while a United States official said there would be no agreement to end the war unless Tehran’s nuclear programme is addressed. Araghchi told Iranian state media on Monday that the Qatari mediators…
AI giant says GPT-6.1 Astra failed to meet alignment standards during internal testing. Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026 OpenAI has announced that it will not release it latest AI model after flagging safety risks during in-house testing, the latest move by industry to slow the roll out of the frontier technology. The AI…
Hungary’s Parliament lifts immunity of incumbent leader and two ex-Orban ministers, clearing the way for criminal probes. Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026 Hungary’s Parliament has stripped Prime Minister Peter Magyar and two ministers in former leader Viktor Orban’s nationalist government of their immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to pursue separate criminal investigations…
