US President Donald Trump says he had a ‘very good’ three-hour meeting with Iranian officials at the UN as the White House and Tehran explore a possible deal to end the monthslong conflict. Trump described the choice for Iran as “potential greatness” or “obliteration”.来源 1
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to discuss terms to end their war, in the first public meeting between the two sides in months.来源 5
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President Donald Trump has told the United Nations General Assembly he faces a "big decision" on whether to strike Iran again or pursue a peace deal.来源 6
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Iran has suggested it could reopen the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the U.S. eases military pressure and lifts its blockade on Iranian ports, according to media reports.来源 7
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Iran has opened a new “channel of communication” with mediators in an effort to arrange a meeting with US officials in New York and “break the deadlock” in the war, a source close to the Iranian delegation told The National on Tuesday. The news comes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Trump is open to meeting the Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. “New York is a platform for Iran to present its position on the war. There is now a new channel of communication with the Americans through the Pakistanis and Qataris, who are intensifying their contacts in New York in an effort to break the deadlock and meet,” said the source. “Our trust is in the mediators and in the guarantees that the Americans must provide,” added the source. “The choice at the New York meeting is between two paths: either escalation, futility and chaos, or allowing reason to prevail and returning to the path of settlement and negotiations.” Iran had signalled a renewed willingness to revive diplomacy with the US as its President, Masoud Pezeshkian, headed to New York to attend the UN General Assembly. In two separate reports after Mr Pezeshkian took off for the UN annual gathering, senior Iranian officials said Tehran had offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington eases military pressure and lifts its blockade. Mr Pezeshkian is due to address the General Assembly on Wednesday and hold meetings with foreign leaders, Iranian expatriates, US experts and think tank members, state media reported. On Tuesday, Mr Trump is due to meet Gulf and Arab officials to discuss the Iran war and ways to ease the conflict after months of Iranian missile and drone attacks on Arab states. Gulf officials have said in recent days that dialogue with Iran must remain on the table, acknowledging that rebuilding trust will not happen overnight but that the process has to start somewhere. According to sources with knowledge of the meeting, President Trump has conveyed messages that he will try to “persuade” representatives of Arab nations to sit down with Iranian officials. “He is hoping that representatives of the two sides will meet in Oman later this month to start a reconciliation process that ends hostilities and recalibrates relations,” said one source.来源 8
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“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild, and create a far greater country than it ever was before?” he asked. “Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”来源 9
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Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz to Gulf shipping within seven days if the US fulfilled Tehran's demands to ease military pressure and lift an American blockade on Iranian ports, the Iranian official said, adding that Iran had conveyed its latest proposal to Washington via mediators last week.来源 10
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Regional leaders agreed on the need to find a path towards de-escalation in the Middle East during talks with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the US ambassador to Turkey and senior envoy said. Tom Barrack was speaking to reporters as Mr Trump met leaders from across the Gulf and wider Middle East in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Among those in attendance at the meeting were Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara; Jordan's King Abdullah II; Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim; and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam; as well as representatives from Iraq and Gulf Co-operation Council states. Mr Trump was joined by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as well as Mr Barrack. "There's a consensus that we need a way forward. That's the only consensus," Mr Barrack told The National after the meeting. He said the talks were aimed at finding a temporary pause in regional hostilities that could open the door to a broader diplomatic process. "It's just trying to get to a time-out, to take a breath, to have focus over a longer process, knowing it's not just an event," Mr Barrack said. "The message is we all need to find more tolerance, more kindness, and get along." The meeting came after Mr Trump said US and Iranian officials had met shortly after he threatened in his address to the UN General Assembly to “annihilate” the country if a deal is not reached soon to end the almost seven-month war. At the meeting, Mr Trump briefed regional leaders on the three-hour talks that Mr Witkoff and Mr Kushner had held with Iranian officials. He described the two as "brilliant mediators" and sounded upbeat about the diplomatic push. "We have a lot of momentum," he said. “The Iranians respect them very much. Hopefully they do the right thing fast before it's too late and they won't be able to survive as a nation. "We’re not going to let Iran get a nuclear bomb. We may have to hit Pickaxe Mountain if we see any activity there."来源 4
The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to discuss free maritime passage in the Strait of Hormuz.来源 2
UNITED NATIONS: US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday (Sep 22) that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island.来源 1
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Trump signed the agreement along with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen in a trilateral ceremony after Trump gave his UN speech.来源 1
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The US, Denmark and Greenland have signed a defence deal that allows Washington to build two new military bases in the Arctic territory, while reaffirming Copenhagen's sovereignty over it.来源 2
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The deal amends and updates a 1951 defence agreement between Denmark and the US.来源 2
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The new deal must still be approved by both Denmark's and Greenland's parliaments.来源 2
Ukraine is ready to halt strikes on Russian energy sites if Moscow agrees to do likewise, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, adding both Kyiv and Washington want the war to end before winter.来源 2
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U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to agree to an energy truce with Russia in a high-stakes meeting on Tuesday, saying that Moscow has "unfortunately lost control" of its diesel oil industry due to the war.来源 3
Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday killed four people, Ukrainian officials said, while also cutting the electricity supply to thousands.来源 1
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In Russia, Ukrainian drones killed one person and injured four in the Samara region, local authorities said. The region is home to important facilities, including oil refineries.来源 1
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The death toll from Typhoon Dujuan rose to six Tuesday with six others still missing after heavy rain triggered landslides and flooding in Tokyo and nearby areas a day earlier, authorities said.来源 1
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As the typhoon passed near the Pacific coast, intense rain inundated houses and temporarily cut off electricity to about 58,000 households early Tuesday in Chiba Prefecture.来源 1
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Typhoon Dujuan has killed at least four people and injured 22 in Japan, while tens of thousands of houses near Tokyo remained without power after the storm swept through the region, authorities said on Tuesday.来源 2
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The storm forced Japan Airlines to cancel 135 flights and All Nippon Airways to scrap 140, and more than 1.6 million residents in and around Tokyo were urged to evacuate on Monday, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. The evacuations were not mandatory.来源 2
US President Donald Trump has said he would back proposals to halt American diesel exports in a bid to ease prices for drivers at the pumps.来源 2
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed officials were assessing "whether a full or partial ban would work" without disrupting refinery capabilities.来源 2
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National average diesel prices surpassed $6.50 (£4.87) a gallon on Tuesday according to AAA data, a new high.来源 2
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The US exports roughly 1.3 million barrels of diesel per day – nearly a quarter of its refining output.来源 2
The world’s fault lines have turned from cracks into canyons as superpowers show that they alone do not have the military, economic and technological power to guarantee security or solve the world’s problems, the outgoing secretary general of the United Nations has said in his final address to the general assembly.来源 1
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“The greatest power is not the power to dominate. It is the power to build a future that works for everyone,” he said, presenting his annual report of the Organization.来源 2
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UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used his final address to the General Assembly on Tuesday (Sep 22) to urge world leaders to regulate artificial intelligence, end wars, focus on climate change and overhaul UN institutions he warned are struggling to confront mounting global challenges.来源 3
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“The fault lines in our world are widening,” he said, citing raging wars, rising temperatures and artificial intelligence, among other matters. Instead of letting the future continue to veer toward fragmentation, transactionalism and mistrust, he called for “a world built on interdependence – and sustained by a dense web of economic, political, social and technological connections”.来源 4
El Nino is part of a natural climate cycle of warming ocean temperatures, but this year's is expected to reach new extremes of drought, heat waves, flooding and other climate-related disruptions in South America, Africa and Asia.来源 1
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This intensifying El Nino may be the "strongest in living memory," according to the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. Similarly, the U.S.' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there is a 69% chance that this will be the strongest recorded El Nino since record-keeping began in 1950.来源 1
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El Nino's impact will be felt differently across regions, but it is expected to jeopardize food security worldwide. It could push at least 49 million more people into acute food insecurity by the end of 2027, according to the United Nations' World Food Program.来源 1
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Cutbacks in staple crops like rice and palm oil can have global impacts. The world's top three exporters of rice -- India, Vietnam and Thailand -- are among the nations most likely to be hit hard by El Nino this year.来源 1
Sept 22 : Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Opus 5.5, a new AI model that it says delivers performance comparable to its top-tier Fable 5.1 while costing 40 per cent less to run than its predecessor.来源 1
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Opus 5.5 is priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, 20 per cent below Opus 5, Anthropic said. The model is available on platforms including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.来源 1
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The model also scored better than previous systems in internal safety tests and was about 85 per cent less likely than Opus 5 or Mythos 5.1 to attempt to bypass containment boundaries in a dedicated evaluation, the company said.来源 1
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Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, its latest release in the new Claude 5.5 model family. The company described the latest release as a more token-efficient version that will cost around 40% less to run than the company's Opus 5.来源 2
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Anthropic’s newest model, Opus 5.5, was released on Tuesday, setting a new state-of-the-art in coding and knowledge work performance, according to the company. Opus is the most capable and expensive tier in Anthropic’s three-tier Claude lineup; Sonnet sits in the middle, while Haiku is the fastest and cheapest. Notably, Anthropic says, the release outpaces the larger Fable model in many benchmarks and succeeded in a number of informal tasks that Fable failed to complete.来源 3
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The real story here is cost. From Anthropic’s announcement: “Input and output tokens are $4 and $20 per million, 20% less than Opus 5. Cache reads (which make up the majority of agentic and coding work costs) are $0.20 per million tokens, 60% less than Opus 5. Opus 5.5 also generates output more than 30% faster than Opus 5.”来源 4
OpenAI introduced additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, slashing the API prices by 50% compared with GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.来源 1
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Earlier this month, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, which it heralded as its most powerful and capable model yet, and the “world’s best model” for a variety of activities, including computer work and coding. Now, the lab is expanding the GPT-6 generation with updated versions of the smaller Sol and Luna models.来源 2
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GPT-6 Sol will cost $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, down 50 per cent from GPT-5.6 Sol's promotional prices, while GPT-6 Luna will cost $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.来源 4
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The GPT‑6 models lead across the cost–intelligence curve, combining exceptional capabilities at every tier with infrastructure that delivers them efficiently at scale. Improvements in caching and inference let us serve these models at lower cost, and we’re passing those savings directly on to users and customers by reducing API prices for Sol and Luna by 50% compared with their GPT‑5.6 promotional pricing. Together, these improvements make advanced AI practical for more everyday tasks and applications at scale.来源 5
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GPT-6 Sol’s API pricing is $2 per 1 million input tokens and $10 per 1 million output tokens. For Luna, it’s $0.10 and $0.50, respectively.来源 3
British Columbia has sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in the Canadian province could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the attack.来源 1
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Nine people, primarily children, were killed in the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. The shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, had been flagged by the company’s safety team after her conversations about gun violence, but the company did not alert police.来源 1
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Now, British Columbia is suing, explaining for the first time how costly and extreme the disaster response has been. OpenAI and Sam Altman owe the tiny remote mining community shattered by the tragedy much more than an apology, the Canadian province argued. They must make meaningful changes to end ChatGPT-assisted violence and then pay whatever it costs to help Tumbler Ridge to rebuild, recover, and heal.来源 2
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In a complaint filed Monday, British Columbia explained that Tumbler Ridge Secondary School had to be demolished after an 18-year-old transgender shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, died by suicide there in February after killing five kids and an education assistant. In total, eight lives were lost, as prior to the school shooting, Van Rootselaar shot their mother and half-brother.来源 2
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Most urgently, British Columbia and the local school district’s Board of Education have asked the court for an immediate order that would force OpenAI to share Van Rootselaar’s chat logs with the public for the first time.来源 2
Why have the results of the two German state elections held on Sunday, September 20, thrown the spotlight on the federal government led by the Christian Democrats (CDU) and its chancellor Friedrich Merz?来源 1
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For the first time, the party failed to reach the required 5% of votes to enter parliament in the northeastern coastal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It marks the first time in its history that the CDU has failed to enter a state parliament. In the city-state of Berlin, where the CDU was incumbent, the party suffered heavy losses and is likely to end up on the opposition benches.来源 1
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In the German capital, the AfD's result grew from 9% to 16% compared to the previous election. In the northeastern coastal state, the party more than doubled its result, to 38%. AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla said, alluding to his party's color: "The blue wave cannot be stopped."来源 1
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In Berlin, the socialist Left with lead candidate Elif Eralp succeeded in doubling its previous result to 26% and won an election in the city-state for the first time. A scandalous campaign event appearance by rapper Dahabflex, who sang about wishing death for Israel's soldiers, appears not to have damaged the party. Its district association in Neukölln, which had invited the singer, said it intended to clarify the matter.来源 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 22 : Microsoft on Tuesday said it will give the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency direct, on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware as part of a new research center the company opened in Maryland alongside the University of Maryland and other industry partners.来源 1
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The center, located in the university's Discovery District near Washington, D.C., will house a new quantum system that uses Microsoft's Majorana 2 chip for independent testing and evaluation by DARPA.来源 1
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Until now, DARPA has evaluated Microsoft's technology remotely, accessing machines in Redmond, Washington, and Europe. The Maryland delivery marks a shift to physical access in a dedicated DARPA space where its experts can load hardware and run it through their own boot sequences.来源 1
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Microsoft has said it plans to have commercial quantum systems ready by 2029.来源 1
Paramount Skydance has settled a lawsuit with a dozen US states, paving the way for its $110bn (£82.8bn) merger with Warner Bros Discovery.来源 2
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Under the agreement, Paramount must produce at least 30 films a year and ensure a certain percentage are made in the US, or face penalties including selling off parts of its business.来源 2
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As part of the deal, Paramount has agreed to establish a "news editorial independence board" to "ensure independent, objective, fact-based reporting" at CNN and CBS.来源 2
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The studio is set to pay $17.5m into the WGA health fund, cover legal fees, and prohibit writer layoffs at CBS News Broadcast for five years.来源 2
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Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world’s biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million more on film and TV projects produced in the US, Paramount says that it will release a minimum of 30 movies annually after it absorbs WBD. On paper, these goals make it sound like Paramount is trying to ensure that the entertainment industry won’t be harmed by its WBD acquisition. But when you look at the studios’ recent output, it seems very much like Paramount CEO David Ellison is making promises to the public that he might not be able to keep. In a statement about the settlement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta stressed that the settlement was designed to maintain consistent film output and domestic production while “protecting the livelihoods of workers above and below the line.” (Of course, any redundancies caused by a merger of this scale will likely lead to layoffs, which makes Bonta’s claim that the settlement “protects workers, jobs, and Hollywood” questionable in the first place.) In a statement of their own, Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) president Sean Astin and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland thanked Bonta and noted that the settlement represents “the lowest standards that our employers must meet.” Though the acquisition — which has not yet officially been finalized — would permanently fuse Paramount and WBD, the settlement only requires the newly merged company to adhere to a few rules for just five years. In the first two years, Paramount/WBD has to either put out 30 films annually or pay $30 million per film into healthcare and retirement funds managed by Hollywood’s biggest unions. During the following three years, the merged studio would need to release 32 films annually, and if it fails to meet any of these requirements during this five-year period, it will be forced to sell off its 49 percent stake in Miramax Studios to one of its competitors. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/Paramount_WB_chart_v2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] In terms of overall output, these proposed goals would be a step up for both Paramount and WBD as separate corporate entities. Over the past six years (including projects slated to debut later in 2026), Paramount has released an average of 15 films annually while WBD has averaged 17. Assuming that the newly merged studio will stick to Paramount and WBD’s previously announced release slates for 2027 and 2028, it would need to put more than a few new projects on the board in order to avoid multimillion dollar penalties. But that probably isn’t all that much of a concern to Paramount because the settlement doesn’t require the new company to produce the projects necessary to hit its annual movie quota. Paramount/WBD could fulfill its obligations by distributing films that it acquires from other production houses. These films would carry the Paramount/WBD branding, but they would be the products of labor carried out by teams with no direct connection to the studio. Paramount/WBD could also flood the zone with completely new, original films it greenlights and finances itself. But many of those movies could feel less ambitious because the settlement only requires that 20 percent of them have production budgets over $50 million. Paramount appears to have convinced Bonta and his fellow attorneys general that absorbing WBD will give it the ability to basically double its usual output. But that logic presumes every single aspect of both studios’ production pipelines will continue to operate normally once Paramount and WBD become one. Though Paramount/WBD could ramp internal production up, what feels much more likely to happen is the studio doing the bare minimum to abide by the settlement’s terms. Everything about this settlement makes it seem like Ellison is playing a long game, and after those guardrails disappear in five years, Paramount/WBD will be in an even stronger position to shape the broader entertainment landscape.来源 1
UNITED NATIONS: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Sep 22) announced that the US government would rename artificial intelligence "super intelligence" in official communications, as he firmly rejected calls for international supervision of AI, calling them a "globalist scheme" to control the new technology.来源 1
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"The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control... artificial intelligence," he said.来源 1
Microsoft said Tuesday that it led an industry-wide disruption of a subscription-based scam platform that used an AI chatbot to compromise 12,000 Microsoft accounts over a few-month span.来源 1
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Microsoft said users of EvilToken compromised 12,000 customer accounts belonging to 10,000 organizations around the world, with the highest concentration of them located in the US. Countries with the next-largest numbers were Canada, the UK, Australia, India, and France. Victim organizations included wholesale distribution, construction, financial services, real estate, higher education, and healthcare. SpyCloud, a security firm that assisted in the disruption operation, has more details about victims here.来源 1
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Using a legal process and a network of partners, Microsoft seized 50 websites and 150 more domains used to operate EvilTokens. The UK’s Metropolitan Police Service arrested two men on suspicion of offenses allegedly connected to the crime platform.来源 1
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Microsoft said that EvilTokens represents a major shift in the mass compromise and post-compromise of accounts. Normally, it took time for attackers to sift through thousands of emails to assemble the organization’s management chart, suppliers, customers, and other relationships with third parties. That burden is greatly reduced with AI-assisted tools.来源 1
JAKARTA – More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a Health Ministry official said on Sept 22, as the country battles for weeks to control fires that caused the toxic smog.来源 1
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“There were 174,694 cases of acute respiratory infections between August and Sept 21 in areas affected by forest and land fires,” she said.来源 1
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More than 40,000 of the recorded respiratory cases affected toddlers, she said.来源 1
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The overall figure, reported in seven haze-affected provinces across Indonesia, was up from over 113,000 cases reported as of Sept 9.来源 1
Billionaire industrialist Sir Jim Ratcliffe is pausing production at three chemical plants in Hull, blaming the UK’s “ridiculously high” gas prices.来源 1
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Ratcliffe’s chemicals conglomerate, Ineos, said on Tuesday it would “mothball” three chemical plants because the cost made it difficult to compete in the global market.来源 1
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Production has already been paused at two of the Humberside plants and the third is due to come offline in a few days, according to Ineos. About 240 people are directly employed by the company across the three sites.来源 1
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Ineos said the number of jobs on Humberside that would be affected by a permanent closure would rise to 4,000 including those employed in the sites’ supply chains.来源 1
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“I’m sure people will find it hard to believe that we are being forced to mothball some of the most efficient plants in Europe,” Ratcliffe said in a statement. “[W]e just cannot compete.”来源 1
Fuel prices have hit record highs across Europe in recent days, driven by soaring oil prices amid the war in the Middle East and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries. However, the scale of the increases, as well as the measures taken to address them, varies significantly from one EU country to another. Here’s why.来源 1
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On September 14, according to European Union data, a litre of diesel cost around €2.50 in Denmark and Finland, €2.29 in France and €1.83 in Spain.来源 1
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EU nations Portugal and Romania have implemented measures to directly cut fuel taxes to limit price hikes at the pump.来源 1
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Others have favoured targeted aid. Bulgaria announced that nearly 550,000 vulnerable citizens would receive a one-off payment of €50 to offset rising fuel costs.来源 1
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The European Commission has authorised state aid for the most affected industries – agriculture, fisheries, and transport.来源 1
Some of Europe’s biggest pharmaceutical companies have said the continent is “losing ground” to rivals including the US and China in developing new drugs and attracting investment.来源 1
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The letter, entitled Europe is Losing the Pharma Investment Race – But the Comeback is Within Reach, called on governments to treat medicines as strategic infrastructure, secure health sovereignty and act now to restore Europe’s competitiveness.来源 1
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“In our boardrooms, we see Europe losing ground to global competition. Over $600bn in pharmaceutical investment has been announced in the US and China in the last two years alone.来源 1
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Europe’s share of global pharmaceutical research and development has fallen from 43% in 1990 to 31%, according to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).来源 1
21. 第二十一条，TechCrunch科技媒体报道：高通9月22日发布两款旗舰手机芯片Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6和8 Elite Extreme Gen 6，均采用2纳米工艺，主打端侧人工智能。Extreme版本可在本地运行300亿参数的混合专家模型，摩托罗拉、小米、中兴等厂商将采用。
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are relatively minor, mostly limited to improved AI processing, video capture, and gaming performance on the Extreme model. Both Gen 6 chips are built on a 2nm process, and share much in common, including their modems, display specs, security features, GPS, and memory and storage support. Qualcomm no longer publishes detailed breakdowns of the cores across its silicon, but the CPU details given are identical, with two big cores at up to 5GHz and six performance cores running at up to 4GHz. Despite that, the Extreme is described as having slightly superior performance across its CPU, GPU, and NPU. Some differences are more clear-cut. The 8 Elite Extreme is capable of driving superior video capture, including 8K at 60fps, 4K at 240fps, and support for the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec. A larger shared memory pool for the NPU should drive faster and more efficient AI performance on the Extreme chip too, while AI-dedicated matrix cores in the GPU (plus more memory) should boost gaming performance slightly when using AI features. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-extreme-gen-6-chip.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] With core performance seemingly similar, the jump up to the Extreme chip is relatively minor, so it will be interesting to see which chips manufacturers use for which phones. Motorola is the first to jump on board, confirming that its newly announced Signature 27 flagship will use the Extreme chip. Qualcomm has announced that the two chips will also be adopted by Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, Honor, iQoo, Nubia, OnePlus, Redmi, Redmagic, and ZTE. The two 8 Elite Gen 6 chips are Qualcomm’s first 2nm silicon, joining Apple’s A20 Pro and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro in bringing the new silicon scale to smartphones.来源 1
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Qualcomm today announced two flagship smartphone processors, called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, with a focus on facilitating better AI-focused features.来源 2
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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 has a new accelerator element that’s designed to run models in a more efficient way. The high-end Extreme version can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model locally. This means that while the overall model size is 30B, the model only activates a certain number of parameters for a particular task.来源 2
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The new chips, under the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 brand name, will be built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s 2-nanometer manufacturing process, and will be included in premium smartphones from companies including Motorola, Xiaomi and ZTE, Qualcomm said in a press release on Tuesday.来源 3
Second, our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created. And it was not created with children's wellbeing or development in mind. Platforms are designed to capture attention. The goal is to keep the children online and monetise their attention. If you look at the Meta settlement, it speaks volumes. Meta is admitting to not having protected children enough. They created the algorithm. So it is absolutely time for us to act. And there is a growing body of strong evidence right now in the medical field on the harm that social media does to children. We have experts here at the table who can much more than me describe what is going on. This is the reason why we convened a panel of experts for six months, including civil society, parents' organization, youth, to figure out what can we do and how should we shape an act if it's necessary. Just last week, we presented our EU KIDS Act. The KIDS Act says, no social media under 13. No personal accounts under 15. That means, from 13 until a child turns 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents, with limited features and time restriction – 60 minutes a day, but the parents can reduce this time. For me the most important part of this law was and is that we will reverse the burden of proof. Today, under the DSA and the DMA, the European Commission has to assess, for example, whether algorithms are harming children. But the process can be tedious. It takes months to investigate. Then months of discussions with the platforms. They make some changes. And more months pass. In the end, three, four, five years may have gone by before a fine is imposed. But by then, an entire generation of children has grown up with those harmful algorithms. So the reversal of the burden of proof means the responsibility is on the platforms to prove they are safe for children. If this is not the case, they do not get access to our children.来源 1
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Let me start with some striking figures – in our July Eurobarometer, 92% of Europeans say we should engage more in protecting children online. Young people in Europe spend on average 4 to 6 hours on screens - a day. For those who started before the age of 10, it is even more. They spend around 7 to 8 hours online. This is almost a full working day for an adult.来源 1
Sept 22 : Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered clinical decision support to physicians in regions without access to the technology, the companies said on Tuesday.来源 1
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The new initiative is a specialized version available to healthcare providers for free in dozens of low- and middle-income countries where limited access to medical literature, specialist expertise and continuing medical education can impair patient care.来源 1
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The initiative is being rolled out in about 100 countries, including Uganda, Angola, Sudan, Haiti, and Mongolia, according to a list provided by OpenEvidence.来源 1
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In August alone, US clinicians consulted OpenEvidence 42 million times, according to Nadler. In 2026, several hundred million Americans will have been treated by a doctor who used OpenEvidence to help guide care, he said.来源 1
Frontier AI labs carry an immense responsibility in training, evaluating, and deploying models safely. Third party assessments are a critical part of balancing that responsibility, expanding opportunities for input on AI safety, keeping the world informed, and keeping labs accountable to clear and independently supported safety claims.来源 1
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- Independent assessment of safety cases, spanning training, evaluation, internal deployment and external deployment. Assessment of safety cases requires expertise in alignment, control methods such as monitoring, cybersecurity, biological and chemical misuse and red teaming. Safety cases consist of claims including training, capability evaluations, and safeguards, which can be assessed as a whole or in parts (see priorities 2 and 3 below). Multiple assessors will likely need to examine different parts of the cases, drawing on their respective expertise. Together, their assessments should answer questions such as:来源 1
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- Independent investigation of critical misalignment incidents Independent investigation can be valuable across a range of critical AI safety incidents. Here, we focus on model misalignment, including models acting without authorization or evading oversight, which can reveal weaknesses in alignment methods and safeguards even without intentional misuse. In select circumstances, as with the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, it can be beneficial to bring in an independent third party for independent misalignment incident investigations. It is critical that third parties involved in incident investigation have the requisite expertise for investigation, including where applicable: cyber forensics expertise, alignment expertise, large-scale chain of thought analysis, and the staff and resources available to conduct investigation in a timely manner. Incident response may involve access to sensitive internal data and third party data, and as a result some details may be sensitive to publish or access. Findings from independent investigations can also inform a model’s safety case by providing evidence to assess claims about its alignment and the effectiveness of measures taken to remediate previously observed misalignment. In the context of misalignment incidents, we prioritize independent assessments on:来源 1
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We are committed to supporting independent assessors and establishing clearer, shared international standards—both through future laws and private governance institutions—for effective third party assessments. While the independent evaluation ecosystem is still growing, we will help it grow by supporting and working with a diverse community of independent assessors with deep expertise across frontier safety questions. No one third party can or should comprehensively cover urgent frontier safety questions. We will move deliberately and with intention to grow our capacity and enable the growing third party ecosystem to align on the best practices and principles. We are in conversation with multiple third parties about proposals that align with the priority areas above.来源 1
BEIJING – Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek will be among the companies briefing the United Nations Security Council this week on the risks posed by AI, two sources familiar with the matter said, as world leaders gather in New York for the annual UN General Assembly.来源 1
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The 15-member Security Council is set to meet on Sept 23 to discuss AI and international security, weeks after several AI industry leaders called for a coordinated slowdown of the development of the increasingly powerful AI systems, warning that they could soon improve on their own and slip beyond human control.来源 1
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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman plans to brief the meeting, where diplomats also expect participation from senior representatives of Anthropic, Reuters reported last week.来源 1
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DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms, including Moonshot, have been invited to make statements, one of the sources said.来源 1
NASA-supported scientists have discovered an organism that lives at extreme temperatures previously thought impossible for complex life. High temperatures can cause the destruction of necessary cell components, which is a big problem for cells with complex parts like a nucleus encasing delicate genetic information.来源 1
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In the heated waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, a team of scientists observed an amoeba that can reproduce by division at an astonishing 145 degrees Fahrenheit (63 degree Celsius), setting a record for the upper temperature limit for all known eukaryotes. Incendiamoeba cascadensis, also dubbed the fire amoeba, stops reproducing above 145 degrees Fahrenheit but is still active, moving around to search for food at up to 147 degrees Fahrenheit (64 Celsius). The previous limit of 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius) for eukaryotes was set by a few species of fungi and red algae. The results were published on Tuesday in the journal Cell.来源 1
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In particular, the study increases our understanding of where and how life with complex cells might persist on Earth and beyond.来源 1
Toyota workers are already helping to train humanoid robots as part of the automaker’s race to eventually deploy 400,000 factory robots—but a Toyota executive said the robotic push is not meant to directly replace humans.来源 1
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Starting in 2028, the Toyota Motor group aims to start investing $6.42 billion every year in upgrading factories with the new robotic workforce, according to Nikkei Asia. The company wants to put 150,000 robots in its own automotive plants and deploy another 250,000 at group company facilities that produce various components and materials.来源 1
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That naturally raises questions about the future of the Japan-based automaker’s human workforce, which has 18,000 veteran workers across 60 factories worldwide, including 11 US manufacturing plants. But Hiroki Nakajima, a Toyota executive vice president, told Nikkei Asia that the company aims for “a world where robots coexist with humans, rather than replacing them.”来源 1
Ottawa and Brussels will announce a comprehensive set of partnerships within the coming year, but the shape of the future relationship is still up for discussion, Canada’s ambassador to the EU said Tuesday.来源 1
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced during her State of the Union speech last week that the door would be open to Canada becoming “the first associate member” of the EU. But Ottawa has played down the formal nature of that arrangement.来源 1
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The EU and Canada are in the process of identifying areas to upgrade their partnership, including critical raw materials, AI, research and innovation. Asked when those deals could be signed, Wilkinson said they would be coming “pretty soon,” with several planned for the joint EU–Canada summit in October.来源 1
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“This is not something that you commit to do, and it’s five years later. This is something that we’re looking to do within the next 12 months,” he went on. “I’m not sure what you’re going to call it, but a much deeper and closer relationship.”来源 1
Xbox is cutting hundreds of jobs and making sweeping changes to the production of its flagship Halo franchise, as its company-wide "reset" continues.来源 1
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Its latest reductions, forming part of a wave of ongoing layoffs, will impact staff at the studio which currently makes Halo - with Call of Duty publisher Activision to take on development of any future games.来源 1
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He said Ninja Theory would now enter into consultation with employees on a proposed closure, though potential buyout talks are continuing.来源 1
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Xbox's announcement of a further 268 cut jobs comes after Sharma revealed in July that the company was "beginning the most significant restructure in Xbox history".来源 1
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group launched today the European Institutional Investors Pact (EIIP) at the TechEU Equity Summit.来源 1
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The Pact is a new voluntary framework designed to channel more long-term institutional capital into Europe's technology and scale-up ecosystem. Thirteen institutional investors have already expressed their intention to channel investments into Europe's innovation and scale-up ecosystem, including through the €15 billion European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI) 2.0 and the €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund.来源 1
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The 13 institutional investors ready to join the EIIP have expressed their intent in investing in large EU-based funds focused on later-stage and growth equity financing for European technology companies. These include the European Tech Champions Initiative 2.0, the Scaleup Europe Fund, the European Investment Fund-backed funds supported under InvestEU, and other investment strategies targeting the scale-up phase of venture and growth capital.来源 1
The Japanese government has set a target of introducing 10 million AI-powered robots by 2040 to deal with the labor shortage caused by the country's aging and shrinking population.来源 1
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In August, AI startup Zeals Co. unveiled its D1 wheeled humanoid robot at a launch event in Tokyo. The 129-centimeter-tall robot for indoor use is equipped with a camera that allows it to communicate and recognize human faces and has two arms capable of carrying objects weighing up to 5 kilograms each.来源 1
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With prices for the D1 starting at 5 million yen ($32,000), the startup aims to boost sales in cooperation with robotics trading and leasing companies, with a production target of 100 robots by March 2027 and a goal of achieving a cumulative operating time of 10,000 hours.来源 1