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Last updated: 2026-09-13T16:04:23Z
World leads today's radar with 6 stories; AI follows with 2; top story: Russian drone hits Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train near Polish border
World and AI are the strongest signals in today's feed.
No casualties reported as Ukraine’s foreign minister says ‘Putin’s terror knocking directly on doors of EU and Nato’ A passenger train travelling from Kyiv to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone two kilometres from the Polish border, in an attack that Ukraine’s foreign minister described as “Putin’s terror knocking directly on the doors of the EU and Nato”. At least six people were killed and more than 40 injured in overnight attacks across Ukraine, which involved more than 450 drones and missiles launched by Russia. Ukraine’s air force said that it intercepted 405 drones and four missiles. Continue reading...
Turkish authorities have arrested at least 162 people in a weekend crackdown on the country's LGBTQ+ community. Ankara says police raids on gay bars and other venues are aimed at protecting family values.
Ukrainian officials accused Russia of a "systemic attack" on its railways following drone strikes near the Polish border, including a hit on a locomotive of a passenger train headed to Warsaw.
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor. The company says the model was trained only on licensed music. The article Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options appeared first on The Decoder .
Wage growth for workers has slowed and is struggling to keep up with inflation, drawing attention to AI's potential role even as evidence remains incomplete.
Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool use and office work. The article Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class appeared first on The Decoder .
China will take the lead to help foster artificial-intelligence collaboration and development among developing-economy countries, President Xi Jinping said.