Ukraine has used its FP-7 tactical ballistic missile in combat for the first time, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Oct. 1, marking a milestone in the country's development of domestically produced missile systems.

Large US federal deficits are coinciding with substantial private-sector investment in artificial intelligence, increasing demand for capital and potentially contributing to higher real interest rates, according to economist Alexander William Salter.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned that the United States could face economic failure without major productivity gains from artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, arguing that those technologies could help address the country's growing national debt.

Elon Musk says artificial intelligence and robotics could eventually usher in an “age of abundance” in which people enjoy high incomes and dramatically improved healthcare, although he expects the nature of work to change.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son has issued a rare warning about the safety risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence, saying countries need to cooperate to manage the technology.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a package of laws aimed at protecting workers from potential risks associated with artificial intelligence, including workplace surveillance, automated employment decisions and AI-related layoffs.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has renewed his proposal for taxing automation, suggesting that companies replacing human workers with robots or artificial intelligence could be required to pay an equivalent of FICA payroll taxes.

An Asian university placed higher than continental Europe’s leading institution for the first time in the latest annual global ranking released recently by British magazine Times Higher Education.

The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting people who gain unauthorized access to computer networks. But the emergence of autonomous AI agents that can independently take actions online is raising a new question: Who is legally responsible when the actor is not human?

The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft components that were diverted to Hong Kong while being shipped from Australia to the United States.

AI research lab Transluce said that it had found evidence of AI agents attempting to exploit websites months before previously reported incidents involving rogue AI systems, with activity dating to at least March 2026.

Leaders of major artificial intelligence companies told the UN Security Council on that increasingly capable AI systems require stronger safeguards and international cooperation, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calling for "extreme care" as the technology develops.

Australia said an OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorized access to a government health statistics portal in June, prompting a forensic investigation into what files and systems may have been accessed.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence could cause catastrophic loss of life if powerful AI tools were used by people with malicious intent.

The current El Niño could contribute to as many as 451,000 additional heat-related deaths worldwide between June 2026 and February 2027.

McKinsey & Co. is warning companies that AI spending could become more expensive and less predictable as businesses increasingly deploy AI agents.

California is preparing for potentially severe weather impacts from a strengthening El Niño that federal forecasters expect to become very strong during the fall and winter.

People in 34 of 37 countries surveyed say they expect artificial intelligence to result in fewer jobs rather than more jobs, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

The world added a record 692 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power capacity in 2025, a 15.5% increase from the previous year.

For years, the race to build increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems followed Silicon Valley’s familiar “move fast” ethos.

More than 150,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste were dumped in the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, and scientists investigating the sites have found corroded barrels with radioactive material visibly escaping.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency as the state prepares for potentially severe winter weather associated with a strengthening El Niño, which federal forecasters say has a 75% chance of reaching historic strength.

Opposition to data centers continues to grow in the United States, with 45 projects worth about $68 billion blocked or delayed by local opposition between April and June.

OpenAI has disclosed six examples of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” and introduced a new framework for tracking, investigating and reporting instances of AI model misalignment.