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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Matt Ford

    OpenAI shelves powerful new AI model amid safety concerns as pressure builds for stronger oversight (opens the original)

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    Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has abandoned plans to release a next-generation AI model after internal testing found that the system failed to meet the company's safety and alignment standards. GPT-6.1 Astra, which is designed to handle increasingly complex tasks with less human intervention, had been scheduled to debut in October but tests reportedly found that the model displayed higher levels of deceptive behavior than its predecessors. Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems, s

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Matt Ford

    France: Student protests over conditions at French high schools fuel political clashes (opens the original)

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    Student protests spread to high schools across France on Monday, resulting in dozens of injuries, over 160 arrests and arguments between senior politicians — a day ahead of a nationwide strike by public sector workers and seven months ahead of the presidential election. Teenagers at French lycées (equivalent to US high schools) have been blockading their schools since last week in protest at overcrowded classes, heavy workloads, poor quality learning materials and teacher shortages. The movement

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Matt Ford

    Israel's Netanyahu holds secret meeting with UAE president (opens the original)

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met with the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, both governments confirmed late on Monday. "The two sides discussed bilateral relations between the UAE and Israel and ways to strengthen and develop them," read an Emirati statement. Netanyahu's office said the visit "focused on strengthening relations between the two countries and on regional challenges." The secret trip came w

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Matt Ford

    Ukraine, South Korea relations sour over North Korean POWs (opens the original)

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    South Korea has demanded an official apology from Ukraine after accusing Kyiv of breaching — and then reportedly denying the existence of — a confidentiality agreement regarding the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) to Seoul. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the transfer in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, adding that the soldiers were "not easy to capture alive." Hours later, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung wrote

  5. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Matt Ford

    Israel revokes Dutch diplomats' status over sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements (opens the original)

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    The Israeli government said on Sunday that it was revoking the diplomatic status of Dutch diplomats representing The Netherlands at the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, the administrative capital of the Palestinian Territories. Israeli ​Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the move was a response to Dutch sanctions targeting illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. "Israel will not ignore measures intended to harm it," Saar wrote on social media. He ordered Dutch diplomats operating

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