UNAMA says it verified at least 10 civilian deaths, most of them children, and nine injuries following Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan. Pakistan says the operation targeted militant hideouts and killed 22 militants.
At DevDay 2026, Sam Altman launched Dots — always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra — one day after OpenAI scrapped the GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety failures.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard spokesman read a “letter to the American people” declaring Trump’s war a failure, urging U.S. voters to reconsider their leadership weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.
Google’s new Gemini 4 Argon, billed as its most powerful model yet, is built for defensive cybersecurity — but access is restricted to trusted partners through the Fairwind Program.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul visited the ICC in The Hague, pledging full German support as the Trump administration sanctions 13 court staff and threatens wider measures against the tribunal.
The FTC plans civil subpoenas for Anthropic and OpenAI over whether they misled consumers about AI safety, probing whether rogue-agent incidents amount to unfair or deceptive practices.
A multi-agency rescue team reached a 21-year-old man stranded on a cliff in Idaho’s Purjue Canyon after an Idaho Army National Guard Black Hawk transported technical rescuers to the scene.
NASA and ISRO’s NISAR satellite captured a time-lapse of lava spreading from Russia’s Krasheninnikov volcano after its first eruption in nearly five centuries.
Passengers and crew intervened after a copilot allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash a FlyDubai flight carrying about 170 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The aircraft landed safely in Saudi Arabia.
Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, killing at least seven people, including a child, as the country prepares for winter.
