AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in AI “reckless” development, citing fears the technology could soon run out of control.来源 1
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Shares in the semiconductor designer Nvidia – the world’s most valuable company – were down 3.3% by market closing in New York City, while Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) slid 4% and Micron Technology and Sandisk shares slumped by 5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index fund was down 0.5% by the end of the day.来源 1
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The sell-off came after the chief executive of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, appealed at the weekend for the AI industry to “slow down”.来源 1
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Sept 14 : Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the pace at which they develop the technology, the latest in a series of warnings highlighting growing concerns across the tech industry over the safety of AI.来源 3
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Stocks from Asia to New York sank on the news, with tech-heavy equity markets including South Korea's KOSPI closing down 3.3 per cent and the U.S. Nasdaq index falling 0.8 per cent. In the U.S., chip stocks bore the brunt of the selloff while software names rallied sharply.来源 3
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OpenAI chief Sam Altman has made his most detailed comments yet on how artificial intelligence safety frameworks could work, after he joined Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Elon Musk in calling for an industry slowdown over the weekend.来源 4
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AI-linked stocks plunged across the globe on Monday morning after days of warnings by AI corporate executives.来源 2
US government borrowing costs have risen to 5% for the first time since 2023 as soaring oil prices fuelled by the war in the Middle East trigger an intensifying sell-off in the global bond market.来源 1
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The yield – in effect the interest rate – on 10-year US Treasury bonds hit the psychologically important threshold on Monday, on a day of renewed selling pressure on Wall Street as the global oil price reached $108 a barrel.来源 1
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Borrowing costs also rose across Europe on Monday, including a rise in 30-year UK government yields to the highest level since March 1998.来源 1
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The benchmark rate — which influences mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt — was last up more than 1 basis point at 4.987%. It had earlier reached 5.014%, its highest level since October 2023.来源 2
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Indeed, as of Monday afternoon, futures traders were pricing in a better than 92% probability of a rate increase this week, as well as a more than 75% chance that the FOMC would follow up in December with another move, according to the CME Group's FedWatch gauge. Fed funds, the benchmark overnight borrowing rate, currently stand at 3.50% to 3.75%.来源 3
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Money markets on Monday pointed to a roughly 90 per cent chance of a rate hike, up from around 60 per cent a week ago, according to CME Group's FedWatch tool.来源 5
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Six months later, the Fed stands on the verge of what markets expect to be the first rate hike since 2023. And futures markets predict this is will not be a one-off increase. At least three hikes are priced in through March of next year.来源 4
Brent futures rose $1.07, or 1.0 per cent, to settle at $105.68 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $1.34, or 1.3 per cent, to settle at $101.39.来源 5
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Saudi Arabia may need five to six weeks to repair damage from a drone attack on its East-West Pipeline, taking nearly four percent of global oil supplies off the market, according to a report by Reuters.来源 2
Trump's warning comes shortly after the price of diesel, a critically important fuel for everything from heavy-duty transportation and commercial shipping to industries like mining and agriculture, topped $6 per gallon for the first time ever on Friday.来源 6
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The average price of a litre of petrol now stands at 169.68p, according to the RAC motoring body, while diesel has risen to 191.68p.来源 3
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Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, surged to more than $108.5 a barrel on Monday – a 3.7% increase on the day.来源 1
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Monday announced they had captured Greater and Lesser Hanish Island in the southern Red Sea.来源 1
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The capture of Greater and Lesser Hanish now puts even more pressure on Saudi shipments and thus global oil supplies and prices.来源 1
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A spokesman for the group said the strikes had caused "significant damage" and had come in response to "more than 300 [Saudi] airstrikes in [Yemen over] the past five days."来源 1
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US media outlets reported last week that President Trump had rejected a request by the crown prince for the US to directly intervene.来源 1
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In war, tactical movements can achieve strategic objectives, while strategic manoeuvres can produce operational setbacks. This is perhaps the clearest way to understand the latest battles in Yemen, particularly after Houthi forces entered the city of Mokha.来源 2
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The Houthis said they fired dozens of missiles and drones at a military airbase in Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, targeting aircraft hangars, radar systems, runways and ammunition depots in retaliation for Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.来源 4
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That commitment was quickly tested on 8 September, when Iran-backed Houthi forces launched a massive drone and missile barrage into Saudi Arabia, striking critical military and energy infrastructure. Overnight, an abstract commitment turned into a high-stakes operational question.来源 3
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday repealed limits on carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants imposed by the Biden administration, and proposed a sweeping action that would eliminate all remaining greenhouse gas rules for the sector.来源 1
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The broader repeal, first proposed by the EPA last year, argues the federal government does not have authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants on the basis of climate change.来源 1
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is repealing rules limiting emissions by coal and gas power plants, in a move that undoes decades of protections meant to curb gasses scientists say are responsible for global warming.来源 2
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The EPA estimated the changes would eliminate more than $300bn in costs for power plants. The agency also proposed a separate rule, expected to be made final next year, that could prevent future administrations from returning and again regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.来源 2
WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - US President Donald Trump said Monday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to target each other's energy facilities, a day after he chastised Kyiv for hitting Russian oil refineries.来源 1
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In one of his surprise social media posts, the US leader announced on Monday that "Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!"来源 3
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Russia made no immediate comment. But in his daily address, Zelensky highlighted "a strong proposal from the United States regarding a mutual halt to strikes on critical infrastructure".来源 3
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New trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the US could begin in October, according to Kyiv and Moscow. Few expect a breakthrough, but Ukraine is seeking a partial de-escalation to help it get through the winter.来源 2
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"We're preparing. For October," said Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian president's office.来源 2
Europe must develop its own AI technology and build more datacentres in order to nullify the threat of being cut off by the US or China, according to the president of the European Central Bank.来源 3
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European firms have been investing in AI but mostly importing the technology from overseas, especially the United States, leaving them vulnerable in case access is cut and potentially jeopardizing every sector.来源 2
However, Donald Trump dismissed calls to increase controls on AI as a “sick conspiracy”.来源 1
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Calls for increased government oversight of artificial intelligence are unnecessary and part of a “conspiracy” aimed at allowing China to out-develop the United States in the technology, said US President Donald Trump.来源 2
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"I'm telling you, it's all a hoax," Trump said, according to a video posted on social media by an attendee. "The data centers are great, and they make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy."来源 3
One of Britain’s steelworks is to come into public ownership after the government said it would take over Yorkshire-based Speciality Steel UK (SSUK).来源 1
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Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, said officials would “work towards” acquiring the company to protect the jobs of its 1,300 workers in Rotherham, Stocksbridge and Brinsworth in South Yorkshire and Wednesbury in the West Midlands.来源 1
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The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has announced the Government will “work towards” the public acquisition of Speciality Steel UK (SSUK), after ministers decided they could not support its sale to Norwegian steel startup Blastr Green Steel.来源 2
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Ministers’ preference was for a private sector buyer, but after what were described as “extensive discussions” with Blastr, officials decided the company’s offer could not provide the desired long-term stability for SSUK.来源 1
Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing human safeguards, UN human rights chief Volker Türk wrote on Monday.来源 3
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GENEVA: The United Nations rights chief called on Monday (Sep 14) for countries and "frontier" artificial intelligence companies to act urgently to rein in a technology he warned posed "unprecedented risks".来源 4
The United States has barred Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, from attending this week’s annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at its headquarters in Vienna, after the United Nations Security Council rejected any waiver of “snapback” sanctions.来源 1
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Eslami and his accompanying delegation were forced to cancel their trip to the five-day conference after Austria revoked his visa, Iranian state media said.来源 1
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei accused the US of pressuring Austria into the decision, as Eslami had regularly attended and addressed the IAEA’s General Conference in Vienna since being appointed head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in 2021.来源 1
China has hit out against what it has called "threat narratives" over AI governance and warned against "engaging in confrontation and malicious competition".来源 1
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China has dismissed what it said were “fearmongering” calls for the US to block Beijing’s AI industry, even as the top Chinese spy chief warned the evolving technology could threaten Communist party rule.来源 2
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The head of China’s ministry of state security, Chen Yixin, wrote that “hostile forces and individuals with ulterior motives” were abusing AI to wage a “propaganda war and a cognitive war against us, directly threatening our political security, institutional security, and ideological security”.来源 2
"Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance -- which serves no one's interest," spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a press conference in response to a question about Amodei's essay.来源 3
The United States has weapons deployed in space, the US Space Force said on Monday, confirming the presence of such capabilities in orbit for the first time.来源 1
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"The US has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action," a US Space Force spokesperson said in a statement that did not provide specifics on the weapons.来源 1
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Both Russia and China – the two main geopolitical rivals of the United States – pose potential threats to US interests in space.来源 1
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 : U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would require AI companies to demonstrate they are taking reasonable precautions to keep their tools from causing harm, according to a Senate aide and a lobbyist familiar with the talks.来源 1
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The senators are debating giving the U.S. commerce secretary the power to request proof that AI developers are taking reasonable steps to prevent harm, known as a "duty of care," according to the Senate aide and lobbyist. The secretary would also have the power to deploy government auditors to test companies' products themselves, they said. Reuters could not immediately determine what would qualify as “reasonable.”来源 1
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The legislation is still being debated. Even if Congress approves the measure, it faces long odds of becoming law. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that existing authorities already provide adequate tools to regulate and prosecute tech companies, suggesting he wouldn't sign a bill setting new rules for AI.来源 1
Finland has agreed to join France’s Forward Deterrence Initiative, extending the coverage of the French nuclear deterrent to eleven European countries.来源 2
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“Finland has decided to join forward deterrence,” according to their joint statement.来源 2
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Finland does not intend to allow nuclear weapons to be stationed on its territory in peacetime, Stubb noted.来源 2
The Kremlin said on Monday it would keep striking targets across the "whole" of Ukraine, when asked about a rare drone attack on the Polish border that has rattled Warsaw and its European allies. NATO-member Poland said on Sunday that Russia had hit a railway locomotive inside Ukraine, about two kilometres (one mile) from their shared border, just days after Kyiv said it had hit a crossing at its border with Moldova.来源 1
BRUSSELS, Sept 14 : The European Union will propose a ban restricting under 15s from social media, video sharing platforms, AI chatbots and online games, in the most sweeping plan yet to protect children from online dangers, a European Commission document seen by Reuters shows.来源 1
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The Commission's proposal, which will also cover video gaming platforms, allows for gradual access to the various services according to age, while the obligations imposed on the companies will depend on the type of service and the age of the children.来源 1
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BRUSSELS: The European Union will on Thursday (Sep 17) propose a new law to shield children from social media harms, a day after EU chief Ursula von der Leyen is due to reveal an age limit for minors to access such platforms.来源 2
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She has also been weighing up barring social media access entirely for children under 13 - which an expert panel has recommended - or under 15, which France wants.来源 2
JAKARTA — Rescue teams in Indonesia were searching Monday for 129 people who were unaccounted for after a passenger ferry sank in the Java Sea, killing at least six people, the authorities said.来源 1
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Another 108 people had been rescued as of Monday morning, according to Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency.The ferry, the Virgo Transport-8, sank Sunday while traveling to the island of Borneo from Surabaya, a major city on Java, Indonesia’s most populous island. It was carrying 213 passengers and 30 crew members, the authorities said.The ferry’s last reported position was about 93 miles (149 kilometres) south of the city of Banjarmasin around 2am on Sunday, before officials lost contact with the vessel as it encountered rough seas, according to the authorities.Search teams deployed aircraft and boats to look for survivors, and several other ships were providing assistance.Ferries are a widespread form of transportation in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.来源 1
A supertanker caught fire after hitting naval mines while trying to cross a restricted zone south of the Strait of Hormuz, Fars news agency reported, citing a statement by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).来源 1
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Commodity vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz fell to a single digit per day at the weekend, preliminary ship tracking data showed on Monday, well below a 10-day average of 14.来源 2
IEF says 14 billion-cubic metre gap in spare global LNG capacity last year leaves little cushion for buyers来源 1
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Reopening the Strait of Hormuz will not return Qatari and UAE liquefied natural gas exports to normal, with damaged facilities and soaring insurance costs set to keep supplies constrained for months or years, gas executives said on Monday. About 17 per cent of Qatar’s LNG capacity is offline after Iranian strikes damaged two of its 14 export trains, removing 12.8 million tonnes a year from the market. QatarEnergy has said repairs will take three to five years, meaning even a safe reopening of Hormuz would restore access to only part of Qatar’s prewar supply. “First of all, you have reopening, and then you have restoration. Those are still two very different things,” Cederic Cremers, Shell’s president of integrated gas, told the Gastech conference in Bangkok. “Even if we would see a normalisation or reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, I don’t think you would immediately go back to the type of flows that we saw before the war started.” The other constraint is shipping, as the Strait of Hormuz is the only outlet for Qatari and Emirati LNG to international markets, with no alternative pipeline or seaborne routes. About a fifth of global LNG trade transited the strait in 2024, almost all of it from Qatar and the UAE, according to the International Energy Forum. LNG tankers have also been slow to return to the Gulf as war-risk insurance costs remain high and security concerns persist. Even with safe passage, restoring regular marine flows will take time, Mr Cremers said. Shell’s Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar, whose two trains were hit by a missile early in the seven-month conflict, is expected to be back online towards the end of the first quarter of 2027. “It’s not just restoration of production capacity itself,” Mr Cremers said. “It is also restoration of the actual marine flows, which will not be overnight either.” Some 36 million tonnes of Qatari and Emirati supply has been absent from the market year-to-date compared with 2025, Mr Cremers said. Roughly 20 million tonnes of the shortfall were offset by new volumes from the US and Canada, while the rest came from demand destruction and storage draws. The global LNG market entered the February disruption with a thinner supply cushion than in previous years. In 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, spare liquefaction capacity was insufficient to replace all the LNG moving through the Strait of Hormuz, leaving a replacement gap of about 10 million tonnes, according to a report published on Monday by the IEF and Japan's Jogmec. The market has since absorbed about three-quarters of the volumes lost since early March, chiefly through higher US production and cargoes redirected to Asia. But the IEF cautions that nominal spare liquefaction capacity does not necessarily translate into deliverable LNG, with feedgas availability and shipping limiting how much supply can actually reach buyers. The disruption has left Europe particularly exposed before winter. Gas storage across the continent is at historically low levels, while Asian buyers are competing for replacement cargoes. India sourced about 75 per cent of its LNG through Hormuz in 2024, while the share was 87 per cent for Pakistan and 71 per cent for Bangladesh. Guido Brusco, Eni’s chief operating officer for global natural resources, pushed back on the longer timelines. “You can read many reports on three months, four months, five months. Generally, in our experience, our industry reacts much faster than what reports say.” Mr Brusco declined to forecast prices, calling gas “one of the most studied commodities and the least predictable”. Asian prices are up about 150 per cent year-to-date, European prices are up about 100 per cent. Asian buyers spent $7.8 billion on spot cargoes in the first nine months, against $3 billion a year earlier. Peter Clarke, ExxonMobil’s senior vice president for LNG, said Qatar would re-enter the market “rapidly” once the strait opened, drawing on undamaged trains and expansions already well advanced. “Qatar has been one of the most reliable suppliers in the world. It is a cornerstone of energy security.” Falling prices would restore affordability, he said, while latent Asian regasification capacity would absorb volumes as economics improve. Where affordable gas is unavailable, countries are switching to higher-emission fuels. Qatar is already preparing for a prolonged shortfall. QatarEnergy is seeking multiyear US LNG contracts to 2031 after previously relying on US spot cargoes to help meet commitments to Asian customers. The move suggests Doha expects damaged capacity to remain a constraint well beyond any reopening of Hormuz. A new supply wave is hitting the markets nonetheless. Exxon’s Golden Pass delivered its first cargoes in March-April and will add 18 million tonnes; Mozambique – a further 18 million tonnes – is due for a final investment decision before year-end, with six million tonnes more from Papua New Guinea. Mr Clarke expects US LNG to make up about 30 per cent of global supply by 2030. Shell is growing its LNG sales by 4 per cent to 5 per cent a year from a base above 70 million tonnes, while Adnoc is targeting 47 million tonnes by 2035. The IEF projects global trade of about 590 million tonnes by 2031, with the US adding 56.7 million tonnes and Qatar 34.5 million tonnes as Doha lifts capacity to 142 million tonnes a year by 2030, from 77 million. The disruption is also changing how LNG buyers contract for supply, with long-term agreements and diversification gaining importance as companies seek protection against future disruptions. “A long-term contract with diversified suppliers gives you that comfort that if one is not able to deliver, in three days’ time the other one will,” said Rashid Al Mazrouei, Adnoc’s chief marketing and origination officer for LNG. Single-project sourcing “has gone”, he said. Buyers left exposed to the spot market “can’t afford it”, Mr Cremers said.来源 1
Microsoft has posted a provisional code of conduct that would impose restrictions on its artificial intelligence models, days after Anthropic and OpenAI leaders agreed to slow development speed.来源 1
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As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code of conduct meant to guide AI models away from dangerous behavior.来源 2
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Under Microsoft’s system, each model has an overarching code of conduct that overrides the preferences of individual users or any specific tasks. That includes “absolute constraints” forbidding cyberattacks, nuclear weapons, or deepfake production. It also includes broader provisions against a general loss of human control.来源 2
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“MAI Models will not use adaptive, deceptive, self-reinforcing, collusion, or other mechanisms to evade or defeat human oversight so that they can no longer be reliably directed, modified, or shut down by authorized people or systems,” the document reads.来源 2
OpenAI has urged British lawmakers to capitalise on renewed fears over AI safety and impose legislation reining in the technology.来源 1
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“We support stronger UK rules for the handful of companies, including OpenAI, developing the most powerful AI systems,” said OpenAI’s head of policy in Europe, Tom Duff Gordon.来源 1
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OpenAI’s intervention came as a UK parliamentary committee demanded more restrictions on the power of AI, warning that the world was unprepared for the “potentially dire” consequences of the technology, in the latest sign of rising global concern.来源 1
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A new regulatory framework is needed for AI in the UK, including an independent oversight body and legislation to protect the public, according to the cross-party joint committee on human rights, comprising MPs and Lords.来源 1
With less than a month before nearly 159 million Brazilians choose their next leader on 4 October, the election appears on a knife-edge, with the incumbent leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro, neck-and-neck in the polls.来源 1
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Bolsonaro’s campaign appears to have seized the momentum in recent weeks amid a slew of corruption scandals involving Lula’s son and the supreme court. That has prompted despair among progressives who fear their country could fall back into the hands of a radical rightwing movement that tried to grab power after the then-president, Jair Bolsonaro, lost the 2022 election to Lula.来源 1
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Minas Gerais, a mountainous mining and agricultural region that is larger than France and has 21 million inhabitants, is Brazil’s bellwether state. Since democracy returned in the 1980s, no candidate has won the presidency without triumphing here. In 2018, Jair Bolsonaro beat Lula’s candidate in Minas by more than 1.7m votes. Four years later, Lula reclaimed the state by fewer than 50,000. After landing in Minas last week, Flávio Bolsonaro said he was confident of clawing back the swing state, with one recent poll putting him ahead there.来源 1
The US on Monday imposed new sanctions on Russia's VTB Bank over its financial ties to Iran, accusing the country's second-largest financial institution of helping Tehran to evade restrictions. The measures against the heavily sanctioned lender are the latest by the US to isolate Iran's economy. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been pushing European and Gulf partners to hit sources of the Iranian regime's revenue. Mr Bessent last week said the Treasury would impose sanctions on a “large bank” this week, although he did not identify which lender. “Under Operation Economic Outcast, Treasury will continue to target and disrupt those who provide material, technological or financial support that allows the Iranian regime to sustain its terrorist enterprise,” he said in a statement. “Treasury will not tolerate any support to the regime and will continue to identify, expose and isolate Iran’s enablers.” Mr Bessent announced the latest target in US President Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign against Iran last month. The Treasury Department at the time said it was also broadening the scope of its secondary sanctions campaign, threatening to cut off the dollar access to institutions that continue to do business with Iran. VTB had already been placed under US sanctions in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury Department said VTB has moved to formalise closer banking co-ordination with Iran in recent years by opening bank offices in the country, and that it has helped to move billions of frozen assets and created a settlement system to increase bilateral trade. Russia's VTB is the third financial institution the US has hit. The Treasury Department has previously focused on Egypt's Banque Misr Branch in the UAE, as well as a Turkish bank and its subsidiaries. The UAE Central Bank said on August 30 that it will conduct a “special and urgent examination” into the branches' activities. The Central Bank said it expects lenders licensed in the country “not to expose the UAE’s financial system to reputational risks, to respect the laws and regulations of the countries whose financial institutions are used in conducting transactions, and not to misuse the advanced financial infrastructure of the UAE”. The Treasury's actions did not impose full secondary sanctions on the bank. The Treasury Department last week also imposed sanctions on Iranian commercial airlines and other targets over links to Iran's aviation sector, which Washington alleges Tehran uses to move weapons, personnel and illicit cargo.来源 1
An artificial intelligence "kill switch" which can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for companies, a co-founder of one of the world's largest AI firms has said.来源 1
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Jack Clark, one of seven founders of Anthropic, said a way of shutting off AI software completely if it gets too dangerous was something society "might want to eventually pass rules around".来源 1
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"We are rolling dice with immense risks," Clark said. "And the point is, we have to change the course of this industry."来源 1
Exclusive: US and Qatari companies to be joined by French oil giant to invest in alternatives to Strait of Hormuz来源 1
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French energy giant TotalEnergies is seeking a share in a new international consortium planning to build a pipeline to help export Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean, its chief executive Patrick Pouyanne has told The National. "Total is in active discussion for a stake in the consortium that is planning to build the Basra-Baniyas pipeline," Mr Pouyanne said on Monday at a ceremony in the French presidential palace in Paris, where France and Iraq signed a series of agreements. Sources said TotalEnergies is seeking a 10 per cent stake in the consortium, which would give it a role in developing the pipeline to provide Iraq with an alternative route for exporting crude. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi travelled to Paris on Monday before heading to Berlin as Baghdad seeks solutions to its oil export difficulties since the shut-down of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran this year after a joint US-Israeli attack. The pipeline project, which would allow Iraq to export from its southern oilfields in Basra near the Arabian Gulf to Baniyas on Syria's Mediterranean coast, and Europe and beyond, has been encouraged by the Iraqi government as an alternative export route to the Hormuz Strait. TotalEnergies announced in August that it would join the consortium that includes US oil and gas giant Chevron, Qatari-Syrian company UCC Holding and US investment company TI Capital. Discussions to finalise the consortium's structure are continuing. The total cost is estimated by industry experts at $15 billion. Construction is expected to take at least four years. Recent drone attacks coming from Iraq on a Saudi pipeline have highlighted the infrastructure's vulnerability. Iraq has been exploring several pipeline projects, including the revival of a route built in the 1950s between Baniyas and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. The pipeline was built by the Iraq Petroleum Company, in which TotalEnergies’ predecessor, the Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, held a share. It has since fallen into disrepair, but at the time had a capacity of about 300,000 barrels a day. During Mr Al Zaidi's visit, Mr Pouyanne signed a preliminary agreement with Iraq's Ministry of Electricity Ali Wahib for TotalEnergies to strengthen Iraq's supply of liquefied natural gas. Other agreements struck between Baghdad and Paris dealt with defence, data infrastructure and civil aviation. Mr Pouyanne, who was in Syria in July and in Iraq in August, has insisted in the past months on the need for his company to diversify routes in the Middle East. "As we are big producers in the Middle East, in Abu Dhabi, Iraq, our priority will be also to diversify the routes, so contributing to build pipelines to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz," he said recently in Stavanger, Norway.来源 1
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 : Progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon will together on Tuesday call for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will harm humans.来源 1
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They will speak at the same Washington gathering on Tuesday, a sign of how concerns about AI are upending political norms.来源 1
美国国土安全部9月15日起实施新的国际学生入境及停留规定，持F-1学生签证的国际学生将从现行的“身分有效期间”（duration of status）制度，改为获准在美国停留固定期限。新规定可能影响需要延长修业、转换课程、参加毕业后实习训练（OPT）或出境再入境的学生。来源 1
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根据周二开始的新规定，F-1学生获准停留的期限，一般将依“非移民学生身分资格证明”（Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status），即Form I-20所载的课程长度决定，但最长不得超过4年。学生仍可在课程开始前30天进入美国，完成课程或毕业OPT、STEM OPT后，则有30天时间准备离境或寻求其他合法身分。来源 1
JAKARTA: Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has sacked Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa and appointed his deputy as his replacement, the president's office said on Monday (Sep 14).来源 1
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"I was instructed by the president to look after the country’s finance, its health and its credibility. The state budget must be able to support the government’s priority programmes," he said, adding that he would commit to maintaining the fiscal deficit below the legislated limit of 3 per cent of gross domestic product.来源 1
UAE space technology company Space42 and California firm Viasat have agreed to establish a satellite communications platform, committing $1 billion in equity as part of the venture. The Equatys platform aims to connect smartphones and other devices directly to low-Earth orbit satellites, enabling operators to offer services in areas with no mobile coverage. Space42 managing director Karim Sabbagh told The National in Paris that services were expected to be available from 2029. "The whole idea is that Equatys will be a perfect complement to terrestrial technologies and a perfect complement to the business model of mobile network operator," he said. "What you and I are used to in our daily life in terms of using our phones for voice communications or data communications, we should be able to have the same experience where terrestrial networks are not covering because they cannot physically or because they are congested." The commitment to inject $1 billion puts Equatys on a strong footing from day one, he added. Work on satellite internet technology started a year ago and has since moved into a "fast development and manufacturing mode", Mr Sabbagh said. "We bring to bear from day one 400 relationships with mobile network operators across the world. "Space 42, on its own, has relationships in 160 countries that give us the ability to have conversations and a meeting of the minds with mobile network operators. "Equatys can be seamlessly integrated into the service of these mobile network operators."来源 1
OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors.来源 1