Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.来源 1
Anthropic said Monday that small AI models are "months away" from developing the capabilities needed to replicate themselves across internet-connected devices in the home, marking the latest warning from the frontier lab about the technology's potential safety risks.来源 3
LONDON - The head of Britain's domestic spy agency warned Tuesday that artificial intelligence was affecting the security risks faced by the UK, and could "change the stakes" on bioweapons.来源 1
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MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said.来源 2
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LONDON: The head of Britain's domestic spy agency warned Tuesday (Oct 13) that artificial intelligence was affecting the security risks faced by the UK, and could "change the stakes" on bioweapons.来源 3
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Iran has raised the stakes in its sabotage efforts against military bases in the UK with Tehran behind multiple plots, the head of the UK's domestic intelligence service warned. Authorities have arrested scores of people suspected of working for Iran, as the level of state-backed threats against the UK exceeds terrorism and extremist activity, Ken McCallum, the director general of MI5, revealed on Tuesday. “Over the last 12 months, our Iran-linked operations have led to more than 50 arrests in the UK,” he said. “The other major shift this year has been Iranian ambitions to come at harder targets, like military sites.” British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Tehran was "highly likely" behind a suspected plot against RAF Fairford on Monday. The base had been used by US bombers to carry out strikes on Iran since the war was launched in February. The plot prompted a security alert and led to US President Donald Trump withdrawing planes from the air base. Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the incident. Two more suspects were arrested last week at the RAF Molesworth base in Cambridgeshire, which is known to be used by US intelligence agencies. Mr McCallum warned an even greater threat existed elsewhere, raising the prospect of more "aggressive and sophisticated" tactics spreading to the UK. "Clearly it is the case that in countries closer to its own homeland, the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] has quite deep experience of using more conventional and hybrid technology," he said. Iran has previously attempted attacks at UK bases in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and Akrotiri in Cyprus. The UK has prosecuted dozens of people for carrying out attacks on Jewish sites and on dissidents active in London and other parts of the UK. Mr McCallum's last national security update a year ago revealed that there were 15 active plots disrupted within the UK. In his latest his annual report he added that all state threats, including from Russia and China, had quadrupled. He referred to interconnected financial systems, energy grids, supply chains and manufacturing bases – designed during simpler times for maximum efficiency – as key vulnerabilities to disruption and coercion by foreign actors. Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign affairs minister, expressed solidarity with the British government on Tuesday, following Mr Burnham's statement. "UK has now concluded that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was almost certainly behind the threat to Fairford airbase," she said. "Iran’s campaign of intimidation and chaos extends well beyond the Middle East. "The EU has already designated the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation. We have sanctioned Iranian officials for undermining freedom of navigation and serious human rights violations. The UK is a close partner, and we stand firmly with them."来源 4
BANGKOK – The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that government bond yields could rise in a disorderly fashion, as rising inflation, mounting debt and AI-related borrowings pressure sovereign bond markets.来源 1
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Since 2023, 14 publicly disclosed deals channeled about $300 billion of equity, led by hyperscalers, into financially weaker AI firms, alongside $650 billion of debt. In exchange, the investors secured $1.4 trillion of "future revenue commitments" through services or chip orders, the IMF said.来源 1
Oct 13 : Alphabet's Google on Wednesday released its flagship AI model Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses worldwide, seeking to regain ground against rivals OpenAI and Anthropic after months of delays and a leadership shakeup at its DeepMind lab.来源 1
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The model excels at "deep work" on complex, multi-step tasks in coding, finance, law, cybersecurity and science, Google said. API pricing at launch starts at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with rates set to double after November 30.来源 1
Move authorises distributor to direct 'large-load customers' to back-up power resources, if needed来源 1
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The US Department of Energy has issued an emergency order to try to prevent power cuts amid increasing demand. Monday's order prompted PJM Interconnection, a corporation that transmits electricity in parts of the US, to "direct data centres and other large-load customers to switch to back-up generation resources, if necessary". Data centres in the US are commonly blamed for a surge in electricity prices and have driven public opinion on AI to sour, according to polls. In issuing its emergency order, the Energy Department also gave "a high rate of planned generator outages during the autumn maintenance season" as a possible cause of blackouts. The order remains in effect until October 16. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was confident in his decision to order utility companies and others to take emergency measures. "This order will help ensure millions of American families and businesses across the mid-Atlantic have access to affordable, reliable and secure electricity by making additional power generation, including back-up power, available to use as needed," Mr Wright said. The Department of Energy said in a statement that the US had 35 GW of unused back-up generation available nationwide. PJM issued a maximum generation alert for October 13 and 14: "Emergency procedures took place as above-normal temperatures are forecast across much of the PJM region. Additional emergency procedures may be necessary pending system conditions." The company said the alert does not "require any action from customers". The warnings come before the US midterm elections, where energy policy, AI and data centres are key issues. Any blackouts or failure to adequately address them could add to friction between residents in the US and utility companies, as well as AI firms. President Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed critics of AI in recent weeks and accused them of "hoaxes". But in February he tried to ease the strain data centres were putting on the grid by signing a non-binding ratepayer protection pledge in which technology and data centre companies would provide their own electricity to operate. Meanwhile, the Department of Energy has pushed for the construction of more nuclear reactors to address AI energy needs.来源 1
Hackers targeted hundreds of French supermarkets in a cyberattack that reportedly caused refrigerators and freezers to overheat, spoiling food and sparking fires.来源 1
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Felix Aime, a senior cyberthreat intelligence analyst at Sekoia Threat Detection and Research, said the attack affected several European countries, including Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany and Belgium, according to the Reuters article.来源 1
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French investigators on Tuesday were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets in a cyberattack that underlined the vulnerabilities of connected systems, with no group publicly claiming responsibility. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Marta Rybczynska, cybersecurity expert at Ygreky. She says that basic measures like regularly updating software or passwords are essential to prevent hacking attacks.来源 2
In a bankruptcy proceeding that kicked off yesterday, Disney has offered to buy some of the technology that powers the controversy-plagued chatbot Character.AI.来源 1
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Character.ai, the startup behind one of the largest artificial intelligence companion apps, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, according to a company release and court filings.来源 2
OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested.来源 1
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Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested on 9 October, according to a press release from the US Department of Justice.来源 1
A group of more than 300 scientists from around the world is calling for urgent changes to how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed amid growing concerns about its unpredictable behaviour.来源 1
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Many recent incidents in which AI models escaped secure environments could have been prevented with stronger security systems, the scientists said.来源 1
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The scientists also called for more safeguards, including the creation of an international organisation to establish a set of best practices for AI alignment and containment along with timely reporting of incidents.来源 1
Apple on Tuesday began showing off a new round of smart home products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView, meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops and act as a hub for other smart home devices.来源 1
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Apple said the device with a 7-inch screen was designed to be mounted on a wall or placed on a table. It's designed for multiple people in a household, and will recognize the user by their face to display pertinent information. It starts at $299 and ships on Nov. 13.来源 2
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The HomeView smart-home hub, which took center stage at an event in New York, is an important test of Apple's AI strategy as it tries to close the gap with rivals Amazon and Alphabet's Google, while reinforcing its reputation for user privacy.来源 3
NASA’s SpaceX 35th commercial resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware, bound for the International Space Station. Following its successful launch, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry new scientific experiments, cargo, and the final pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays to the orbiting laboratory.来源 1
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Dragon is scheduled to autonomously dock at 11 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 15, to the space-facing port of the space station’s Harmony module. NASA will stream rendezvous and docking coverage beginning at 9:15 a.m., through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online:来源 1
Employers around the globe are grappling with the fallout from rushing to adopt fast-changing artificial intelligence tools.来源 1
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Meta has scaled back plans to axe staff and use more AI agents after the company found employees were spending more and more time cleaning up technical and security errors, Reuters reported. And after thinning its workforce, especially middle managers, in a 2023 efficiency push, the company is expanding its managerial ranks again, LinkedIn posts from workers show.来源 1
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Despite billions of dollars that firms around the globe have invested in AI over the past few years, major returns remain to be seen: 90% of executives say AI efforts have yet to translate to productivity gains at their companies, according to an Atlanta Federal Reserve working paper. And an Ernst & Young survey published last month found that 36% of senior AI executives at companies with at least $1bn in annual revenue reported an AI incident that led to issues including data loss, financial damage, brand damage or operational disruptions.来源 1
Anthropic plans to disclose its third-quarter financials for the first time at a meeting with potential investors on Wednesday as the artificial intelligence giant prepares for what could be the largest initial public offering in history.来源 1
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Anthropic is plowing ahead with what could be a $2 trillion listing based on its latest reported revenue numbers, which could top $100 billion by the end of this year, according to people familiar with the plans.来源 1
The sale was brokered by a company called SimpleClosure, part of a new growth sector in tech: businesses catering to dying startups. Estimates from Carta and AngelList show shutdowns rising between 26% and 56% annually in recent years, and an end-of-life ecosystem—including coaches, “death doulas,” and firms that help handle the legal, tax, and operational headaches of going belly-up—has emerged. Now tech undertakers are selling the data remains to AI labs.来源 1
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SimpleClosure added data sales to its services in April. Its Asset Hub platform helps founders sell their code and workspace data—emails, chats, documents. Buyers include foundation AI labs, vendors that construct simulated workspaces for AI training, and mature tech companies building their own models. Asset Hub has handled over 150 deals and expects to return over $10 million to startups by the end of 2026. CEO Dori Yona has seen these transactions, once rare and “somewhat taboo,” become increasingly routine, with 47% of SimpleClosure deals now including code or data sales.来源 1
Oct 13 : UK finance minister John Healey is expected to announce that online marketplaces such as Amazon.com, eBay and Temu will be made responsible for collecting tax owed by retailers selling on their platforms, The Times reported on Tuesday.来源 1
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The move is expected to raise up to £1 billion ($1.33 billion) for the Treasury, the report added.来源 1
A commercial lander that will be at the forefront of NASA’s efforts to establish a Moon Base, humanity’s first lunar outpost, has passed a series of critical tests at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The tests simulated the extreme temperatures and vacuum of space, as well as the intense shaking and ear-splitting roar of launch. Results show that Voyager Technologies’ Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1) spacecraft is ready to survive the rigors of space exploration.来源 1
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A lunar lander from Voyager Technologies completed nearly three months of environmental testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in late September 2026. The tests demonstrate that the spacecraft is prepared to face the harsh conditions of launch, its journey to the Moon, and landing on the surface. Its final trial was in JPL’s historic 25-Foot Space Simulator, a thermal vacuum chamber listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in supporting historic missions like those of the Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, and Voyager programs.来源 2
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new beginning for the PC — a reinvention combining the capabilities of a gaming PC, a creative studio and a personal AI supercomputer into a single superchip. With up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute, RTX Spark delivers the full stack of NVIDIA RTX and CUDA technologies for creators, developers and gamers, while unlocking a new paradigm in personal computing via powerful local AI agents.来源 1
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, available Thursday, Oct. 15, is a new LLM purpose-built for running local agents on RTX Spark.来源 1
A new messaging and payment “super app” marketed at British students uses servers owned by a Chinese company that has been put on a US military blacklist for its alleged affiliation to the People’s Liberation Army.来源 1
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ZyMix, which is being pushed on university campuses as the UK’s first super app designed “for gen Z”, combining chat, payments and community features, has a contract with a German-based subsidiary of Tencent Holdings, a Chinese conglomerate in Shenzhen.来源 1
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The document, which is legally required, said that Tencent (Frankfurt) stored user-generated content and messages. After the Guardian approached the company, the privacy policy was rewritten and mention of Tencent was removed.来源 1
Shopify will let customers shop its catalog via AI agents by connecting their Shop accounts. The agent can browse products and make purchases with the user’s approval.来源 1
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More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company’s agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify’s catalog. (The catalog consists of both items on and off Shopify storefronts.) In September, Shopify announced it was partnering with Meta to allow its Muse agent to browse and purchase items on a human’s behalf; now, shoppers can use any agent without a partnership integration. To set up the feature, customers connect an agent with their account on Shop, a Shopify-owned platform that consolidates orders, tracks packages, and recommends products. Like the Muse partnership, customers use the one-click Shop Pay feature to check out within the conversation with the agent. Orders placed through the agent are funneled back to the Shop app. Shopify is marketing the feature as a “personal shopper” that humans can give rules to, like setting budget guardrails or only displaying products with fast shipping. Buyers must approve each purchase. E-commerce has become one of the battlegrounds in the era of AI — it’s no coincidence that many demos of agentic tools end with a transaction, whether it’s buying clothing, booking a flight, or ordering takeout on a human’s behalf. The tech industry, including big commerce players like Google and Amazon, are investing in AI-driven shopping tools where the end goal is an “agent” purchasing things for a human user. It’s also the basis of an ongoing fight between Amazon and AI companies like Perplexity — and more recently, Meta’s Muse — over whether agents should be able to shop on a customer’s behalf.来源 1
Personal AI agents are increasingly making transactions on their users’ behalf, but given the nondeterministic nature of large language models, AI bots are prone to doing what they’re not supposed to. Which, in this case, raises the possibility of AI misfiring and making unauthorized transactions.来源 1
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To get ahead of this problem, American Express is introducing a new framework designed to capture and authenticate a customer’s purchase intent before an AI agent completes the transaction.来源 1
Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds.来源 1
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Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” on Tuesday, a feature it first launched on Instagram. The new tool allows Facebook users to influence the content they see in Feed and Reels by describing their preferences in their own words using natural language. Rather than relying entirely on automated recommendations, users can now communicate directly with the platform about the topics and content they want to see more or less frequently.来源 1
The AFL has told its official gambling partner, Sportsbet, to stop featuring its high-profile athletes in AI-generated social media content without player permission.来源 1
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The AFLPA, which acts as a union, wrote to the league late last week with its concerns. It argued the videos breached a collective bargaining agreement between players and the AFL, which restricts how their images can be used by the league’s partners.来源 1
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The association’s general manager of legal affairs, Alex Taverner, said: “AI-generated player imagery is not permitted without the players’ approval.”来源 1
A key energy facility supplying Kyiv with heating and electricity has been hit in a Russian ballistic missile attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.来源 1
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was killed and 13 injured in the missile strike on the apartment block late on Tuesday. Four people were in a serious condition, he said.来源 1
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"Ukraine supported an energy ceasefire. Russia is targeting yet another power plant and the lives of our people," Zelensky said on social media following Tuesday's strikes.来源 1
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Later, Zelenskyy described a new Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital. "A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, no early warning from our partners," he wrote on social media.来源 2
LONDON — Andy Burnham offered his “rock-solid” support to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to visit the U.K. Wednesday.来源 1
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Britain will deliver £45 million of surface-to-air missiles and implement a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.来源 1
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Britain will also accelerate deliveries of more than 5,000 Lightweight Multirole Missiles to Ukraine over the next four years with £1.6 billion funding, Downing Street added.来源 1
Six crew members on the Guinea-Bissau-flagged HS Dignity were rescued and 10 others are missing, according to Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, after it went down 17 nautical miles (31km) east of the village of Krapets having sent a distress signal.来源 2
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Radev convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday and said he had summoned Russian envoy Eleonora Mitrofanova. Although there was no conclusive evidence of blame on "either side... the logic suggests that the outcome benefits the Russian Federation", he said.来源 2
A Ukrainian citizen faces court in Hamburg, accused of attacking the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022. It raises questions about Kyiv's possible role in the explosions. German support for Ukraine is also under scrutiny.来源 1
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From October 14, Ukrainian citizen Serhii K. is facing trial before a court in the northern German city of Hamburg. He was arrested in Italy in August 2025 on a European arrest warrant and later extradited to Germany. This week he must answer for the attacks before the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court. He is accused of being an accomplice to a war crime by attacking civil energy infrastructure, disruption of public services, causing an explosion and destroying structures.来源 1
Elon Musk has become the biggest political donor of the 2026 US midterm elections cycle, funneling about $366m into political groups and campaigns as he backs conservative candidates and rightwing causes. The world’s richest person has poured more than $276m into politics since July alone, some of the most rapid political spending in US history. He’s targeting key races that will determine which party controls the US Senate.来源 2
EU lawmakers urged the bloc’s executive to robustly defend the International Criminal Court against U.S. sanctions in a letter sent to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday and obtained by POLITICO.来源 1
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U.S. sanctions announced on Friday risk to cut off the whole ICC from the financial system, which runs on the dollar, and from the majority of tech service providers.来源 1
Tens of thousands of people joined rallies across France on Tuesday to support protesting high school students, boosting a movement that poses a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron as his term in office winds down. Some 161,500 people turned out, according to the interior ministry -- more than double the 71,500 it gave for the last nationwide demonstrations on Thursday last week. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Andrew Smith, Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary's London, says that France's youth is undergoing "a crisis of hope" which is pushing "the anger and the sense that something has to change".来源 1
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- The International Monetary Fund on Monday raised its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1 percent from 3.0 percent projected in July as robust artificial intelligence-related exports in parts of Asia continued, cushioning the economic impact of the war in Iran.来源 1
Despite a more protracted conflict that has kept oil prices above US$100 a barrel, the IMF is forecasting 2026 global growth at 3.1 per cent, a slight uptick from the 3.0 per cent it predicted in July.来源 5
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BANGKOK - The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that while low-income developing countries were dealing with the disproportionate impacts of the Iran war-fuelled energy shock, many had "no choice" but to cut spending or potentially face debt restructuring.来源 4
Pope Leo XIV has had lung cancer diagnosed after surgeons removed a part of his right lung on Tuesday, the Vatican said. The Pope, 71, has adenocarcinoma, a common form of lung cancer, with tissue tests conducted during the operation confirming what doctors had suspected from preparatory examinations, the Vatican said. He was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital for surgery to remove the growth that doctors had discovered in a recent health check-up. The Vatican said earlier on Tuesday that the operation had been successful, before providing a more detailed update from the Pope's lead surgeon and personal physician. "In order to make the procedure curative, the lower lobe of the right lung was removed using a video-assisted technique," the medical update said, making it clear that the aim was to eliminate all cancerous tissue. Medical experts said that in order to assess the Pope's case they would need to know the size of the tumour removed from him and whether the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes. Pope Leo is due to make an 11-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru starting from November 6 to 17, but it was not clear if this trip would still go ahead. The Vatican has cancelled all of his audiences until October 21 to give him time to recuperate. The American-born pontiff revealed during his regular Sunday blessing on October 11 that doctors had discovered the nodule. The late Pope Francis, Pope Leo's predecessor, was admitted to hospital several times as he grew frail in his later years. He died aged 88 in April 2025. Pope Leo was elected leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics in May 2025. He has left his mark on the papacy by addressing the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence and has grown increasingly critical of US military actions, challenging the administration of President Donald Trump's argument that God was on the side of the US in its conflict with Iran.来源 2
Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan told reporters in Sepang yesterday that the haze issue required special attention as it was not covered by existing ASEAN mechanisms for natural disasters, the state media agency Bernama reported.来源 1
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Widespread land and forest fires have raged in Indonesia for weeks, causing transboundary haze, a spike in respiratory conditions in the three countries and the shutting of schools in parts of Malaysia including the southern state of Johor.来源 2
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Between Aug 18 and Sep 21, Indonesia's health ministry recorded close to 175,000 cases of acute respiratory infections in areas affected by forest and land fires. Of these, over 40,000 cases involved children under the age of five.来源 2
Oct 13 : Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday it would invest $15.5 billion in India through 2032, deepening its bet on the world's third-largest car market as a key driver of future growth.来源 1
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The investment announcement followed a meeting between Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday.来源 1
A forest fire on Indonesia’s Sumatra island fuelled by El Niño has razed nearly 300 homes, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, an official has said, as the country battles devastating blazes and haze.来源 1
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The local disaster agency said nearly 1,000 people had fled the village.来源 1
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This year’s fires have created severe haze locally, with tens of thousands of cases of respiratory illnesses, and caused increased air pollution in Singapore and Malaysia.来源 1
The People’s Bank of China on Tuesday (Oct 13) gave its approval to Visa to make preparations for a locally registered bank card clearing organisation, calling the move a major step in the country’s financial opening up in an online statement.来源 1
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Visa competitor American Express received a clearing licence for its joint venture in 2020, followed by Mastercard in 2023. However, Visa’s local branch would be permitted to do so as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise.来源 1
- Americans Robert Hall from Stanford University and Michael Woodford from Columbia University have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on managing boom-and-bust cycles to reduce inflation and unemployment.来源 1