Netanyahu:

Islamists and leftists ought to be natural adversaries.

Islamists hang gays and deprive women of any rights.

Netanyahu on Britain:

I think that if Britain doesn't regain control over its borders, you will lose Britain.

Source: Daily Mail

The Trump administration’s Ukraine talks with Russia have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil’s international assets.

Putin raised the deal with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during a Sept. 5 Kremlin meeting, presenting it as a way to rebuild U.S.-Russia business ties.

The leading bidder is a group involving Trump donor Todd Boehly, Qatar-based investors with business ties to Kushner, an Abu Dhabi fund linked to Sheikh Tahnoon, and the U.S. government.

There is no indication Kushner or Witkoff would personally profit, but the overlapping business relationships have raised conflict-of-interest concerns.

Source: NYT

Thousands of French high-school students blockaded schools nationwide over teacher shortages, overcrowding, and crumbling buildings.

It turned violent.

Burning barricades, acid thrown at police, a teacher sprayed with petrol — prompting mass riot-police deployments against minors.

A mother's tearful plea to officers went viral:

Stop, they're children. It's disproportionate.

Over 5,000 arrests were made in a week, about 90% of them minors.

The justice minister ordered parents held financially liable for damage, calling it "far more useful than locking them up."

The government accused far-left politicians of fueling the unrest.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

Korea’s aspirations are greater than your human capital. It’s still a small country in terms of overall number of citizens.

With AI and automation, you could punch well above your weight.

You could achieve your aspiration without the limitations of a smaller population.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

If you love eating, going to Korea is the perfect place. Not to mention drinking.

I’ve only been kissed in the mouth by a man in Korea. It was a Samsung employee, Jay.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

If the instruction you give to the AI is ambiguous, how do you know, at any given point in time, that you’re going to like the journey that it’s taking?

The answer is very simple. You have to contain and you have to monitor it.

This is how we deal with employees, children, students — almost anything with autonomous capabilities: humans.

A new INSA poll for BILD puts Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU at a record-low 18%, while the AfD reaches a record-high 30% for the first time.

The poll also shows record dissatisfaction with Merz and Germany’s CDU/CSU-SPD government.

An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City apartment killed at least five Palestinians and severely wounded six others, medical staff said.

The building was struck without warning while residents were asleep, causing damage across multiple floors as rescue crews searched for people under the rubble.

Source: Al Jazeera

Bessent:

We will get to the other side of this Iran conflict. Wage gains will keep coming because we are having a manufacturing renaissance.

Source: Axios

Bessent on China:

I do think that they have — over the past 60 days — woken up to... I think that they didn’t realize how powerful their open source models are.

So the open source models, they do industrial distillation, which is a nice word for stealing from the U.S. models.

Source: Axios

Bessent on Chinese AI:

One of their very powerful models is Kimi. Kimi thinks she is Claude. Kimi will tell you she is Claude sometimes.

Kimi sent back some PLA weapons plans to Anthropic. So I think things like that have made the Chinese realize that this is a very powerful technology.

Source: Axios

Q: CEOs are basically screaming for regulation, warning of losing control of AI.

Bessent: Well, then they should slow down.

I mean, it’s kind of like Hannibal Lecter: stop me before I kill again.

Source: Axios

Bessent:

I learned that the Financial Times is anti-American, anti-business. They have a fever.

They’re constantly trying to create a problem for the U.S. But let’s leave that disgrace publication in London aside.

Source: Axios

Bessent on Elon Musk:

I am a huge Elon fan, and in terms of what he was trying to do with government, very supportive.

We’re kinda like a sports team. You can have an argument in the locker room, but you go out in the field together and you’re all doing the same thing.

He’s amazing. Like, he’s taking us to Mars.

Source: Axios

Bessent on Iran:

For the first time in history, since they started pumping oil, they will have no oil on the water this week.

They will have no revenues.

A large fire and plume of smoke were seen near an Aramco facility in Riyadh on October 3, according to a Reuters witness.

Saudi authorities and Aramco had not confirmed the cause.

Source: Reuters

North Korea says it test-fired an intermediate-range strategic missile using AI technology, capable of changing its flight path at low altitude and flying in several trajectory modes.

Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the drill. Kim Yo Jong claimed South Korea and Japan were unable to fully track the missile, saying “there is no way to avoid this attack.”

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev:

The U.S. and China are the two superpowers in the world. There is no third.

Hegseth imitates Trump as he recalls what Trump told him when he first offered him the job.