A Missouri appeals court ruled in favor of a Trump-backed electoral map. The ruling keeps the map in place while the legal challenge continues.

Ro Khanna urged international AI rules as the US and China prepare summit talks involving Trump and Xi. Proposed safeguards include banning self-recursive AI and certifying and inspecting frontier laboratories in both countries.

World leaders addressed the climate crisis at New York’s largest Climate Week, held alongside the UN General Assembly. Speakers framed renewable energy and moving beyond fossil fuels as essential for security and economies amid geopolitical tensions.

G7 foreign ministers urged Iran to stop arming and supporting Yemen’s Houthis before UN General Assembly discussions. Houthi attacks and Red Sea fighting threaten energy routes and deepen a humanitarian crisis that has displaced more than 120,000 people.

Putin's United Russia party won a parliamentary supermajority in Russia. The result gives the party dominant control over parliament.

The New York Times reports that artificial intelligence is now considered a major global threat alongside climate change. The assessment places AI beside climate change in discussions of major global dangers.

Researchers say AI training is increasingly automated, with Anthropic and OpenAI reporting substantial AI involvement in research and experimental model training. It matters because experts associate this automation with recursive self-improvement, while critics reject claims of imminent superintelligence or catastrophe.

Genetic evidence identifies four gentoo penguin species on the Kerguelen Islands, including newly named Pygoscelis kerguelensis, while reclassifying three subspecies. The first new gentoo species named in over a century clarifies biodiversity as warming threatens some habitats by 2050.

NATO forces in Latvia are adapting lessons from Ukraine, but a major gap remains. The gap limits how fully NATO forces can apply those lessons.