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Today — 29 September 2026Main stream

The Migrants Being Shipped Back to a War Zone

✇NYT - World
By: Zunaira Saieed
29 September 2026 at 12:13
Malaysia says it is repatriating undocumented migrants from Myanmar who want to return. Critics say it is putting their lives at risk.

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A bus carrying Myanmar nationals being repatriated from Malaysia to their homeland, seen heading toward the Lumut Naval Base, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday.

Accusations of Antisemitism Hit a Star of the French Far Right

✇NYT - World
By: Mark Landler and Ségolène Le Stradic
29 September 2026 at 12:09
Jordan Bardella, the 31-year-old protégé of Marine Le Pen, is said to have made antisemitic statements as a teenage activist. He denies it.

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Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s main far-right party, National Rally, in Paris this month.

Alaska Air bets on premium travel for earnings boost as fuel costs bite

✇Reuters - Business
By: Rajesh Singh
29 September 2026 at 12:02
Alaska Air Group is making its biggest push yet into premium travel, adding lie-flat seats, premium-economy cabins ‌and new airport lounges to earn more from travelers willing to pay for comfort while high jet fuel prices squeeze its profits.

China's AI agents can lie and scheme - just like their US rivals

✇Reuters - Business
By: Eduardo Baptista， Laurie Chen
29 September 2026 at 12:02
Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits in autonomous artificial intelligence that have raised global alarm about US models, research documents and experts say.

Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers

✇The Verge
By: Lauren Feiner
29 September 2026 at 12:00
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As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. But wrangling leaders in both countries to take action could be a long shot.

In letters shared exclusively with The Verge, Khanna - the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China and a possible presidential contender - asked a US intelligence agency and Chinese AI companies whether they would be prepared for an incident like OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face this summer. The companies included DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, all of which …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing

✇The Verge
By: Jess Weatherbed
29 September 2026 at 11:48
Photo illustration of Dario Amodei of Anthropic.

As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm." These disclosures come as Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion valuation, more than double the $965 billion it was valued at four months ago, making it a contender to overtake SpaceX as the largest IPO in history.

According to Reuters, which reportedly reviewed Anthropic's prospectus, the AI startup plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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