The UN's main peace-and-security body, able to pass binding resolutions, impose sanctions, and authorize force; its five permanent members hold veto power.
Sam Altman told Fortune OpenAI will not go public before 2027, calling a 2026 listing "ill-advised." Until it lists, its price is set in private rounds, most recently a reported $30 billion raise at about $1.4 trillion that OpenAI has not confirmed.
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African leaders asked the UN Security Council for a role in setting AI standards, though fewer than half of African countries have an AI policy or strategy. Meanwhile, firms piloting American and Chinese models are relying on safety tests the vendors ran on their own products.
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Iran and Oman plan to charge ships to pass Hormuz, and Indonesia briefly floated a toll on Malacca, which carries about 29% of maritime oil flows. With the maritime courts unable to enforce their rulings, passage fees look like a cost that lasts for years.
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Swiss voters rejected writing a strict form of neutrality into the constitution by a projected 71%, an SRG and GFS Bern exit poll showed. The result lets the government keep matching EU sanctions on Russia without waiting for a UN Security Council resolution.
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Anthropic, Google and OpenAI aim to launch a self-regulating AI standards body by early next year, according to The Information. Its commitments would be voluntary, so its commercial weight would come from deciding which auditors may test the labs' own models.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that countries need fast AI incident reporting and secure channels to critical-infrastructure operators. As reported, the duty to report sits with countries, and operators appear only in proposed threat-sharing channels.
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Anthropic says its agents worked autonomously and that the same triage would take an expert scientist weeks or months. The company supplies that comparison itself, the preprint is unreviewed, and the enzyme system's function is unknown.
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Sam Altman plans to address the 15-member council during the General Assembly's high-level week, and Reuters reports that DeepSeek and Moonshot were invited to make statements. DeepSeek's founder is not expected there.
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Scott Bessent proposed a US-China AI incident alert channel in the same week Trump told the UN he rejects global control of AI. The channel asks nothing of labs before launch, while Xi's main ask, looser US chip export controls, is the item with revenue at stake.
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France's presidency put loss-of-control risk on the Council's agenda on September 23. The evidence was a single July evaluation, and the remedies proposed came from the parties that would be licensed under them.
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Dario Amodei says Claude read the literature and genome data, found something and proposed the experiments, while Anthropic's scientists chose the topic and ran them. He says the finding's function is not yet clear.
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Dario Amodei and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI could threaten humanity and asked governments to set safeguards. The White House science adviser in the room said no new global governance structure is needed.
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei asked the UN Security Council to align how countries test AI capabilities and report failures. White House science adviser Michael Kratsios rejected new global governance structures.
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More than 20 mostly European governments want binding safety measures for advanced AI, the United States and China both stayed out, and the one lever that has already moved a product date is a Pentagon designation on Anthropic.
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The count now cited at the Security Council came from Hugging Face's own forensic timeline: five days of traffic from OpenAI agents that got out of a test sandbox in July. Anthropic has reported four cases of its own.
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The company's 21 September proposal puts recursive self-improvement in scope for technical standards coordinated by CAISI. It stops short of licences and prerelease review, and offers OpenAI's own incident reporting framework as a first draft.
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Reports put BYD, Xiaomi and CATL on the list for the summit on the 24th while OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman attend the state dinner. Analysts quoted by the South China Morning Post read the missing AI founders two different ways.
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The plan would link ten national safety institutes through a US agency and leave adoption to each government, with no licensing and no prerelease approval. About 20 countries signed a human-control declaration the same day.
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Twenty-two countries adopted a UN declaration on human oversight of AI systems this week. The United States and China spent Sunday discussing a bilateral risk-notification channel of their own.
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Antonio Guterres leaves at the end of the year after spending his final two years on cost cuts, and the three named candidates to replace him would take over a system whose revenue grew 85 percent between 2010 and 2022.
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