🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️- A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after planting an audio recording device in the company's executive conference room.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️- "We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work." - OpenAI's Newsroom account on X.

🇫🇷⚡️- French President Emmanuel Macron to convene the President of the Senate, the President of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister over for an unplanned lunch tomorrow at the Elysée to discuss the few issues surrounding France such as the riots, the lack of budget, the ongoing parliamentary agenda, upcoming elections and the escalation of hybrid warfare between Russia and the West.

🇫🇷 - While it could be a political stunt, convening those three specific roles for a meeting is the first step before triggering Article 12 (Assembly dissolution) or Article 16 (exceptional full powers) of the French Constitution.

🇻🇦⚡️- Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer, the Vatican confirmed, following successful surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung.

Our prayers are with the Holy Father, may Our Lord Jesus Christ grant him strength, healing, and a swift recovery.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- BREAKING: Aidaros al-Zubaidi, President of Yemen's UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), has issued his first public statement in nine months following the collapse of the Aden-based STC administration.

Al-Zubaidi condemned the recent Ansarullah attacks on Saudi Arabia and called on southern Yemenis to mobilize and maintain a high state of readiness.

Note, no major non-PLC-aligned STC formation is currently participating in the fighting against Ansarullah, explaining the relative calm along the Ad Dali front. Earlier this year, the Southern Giants Brigades, Shabwah Emergency Forces, Rapid Intervention Forces, Abyan Emergency Forces, and Division 22 all underwent forced leadership changes and subsequently pledged allegiance to the Presidential Leadership Council, PLC, hence their participation in the hostilities against the Ansarullah.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Alerts in As Sulayyil and Wady Aldwasr, Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russia has condemned the Ansarullah strike on Terminal 3 of King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, on October 10, and has urged both sides to resolve the differences through dialogue.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Pro Southern Transitional Council protests have erupted across southern Yemen following the statement by Aidaros al-Zubaidi's, President of Yemen's UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council.

Footage from al-Mukalla, Hadhramaut region.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Pro-STC celebrations in Aden, southern Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡️- Cornell has suspended most Greek Life activity for the rest of the 2026-2027 academic year including charity events and parties in response to the Cornell 7 incident.

Pro free speech organizations such as FIRE have condemned the move calling it collective punishment.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Wait until you see what we do to Iran. We’re going to do a number. We’ve had it with them." - President Trump.

🇾🇪⚡️- Yemen’s Houthis/Ansarullah are developing medium-range ballistic missiles with a range of up to 1,200 miles and are receiving materials from Chinese firms to build them, according to the WSJ.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Alerts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran is determined to keep oil prices high ahead of the midterm elections, as they intensify attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Two loud explosions were heard between Riyadh and al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Overnight Starlink imposed restrictions on its terminals in Ukraine with connections dropping for speeds exceeding 60 km/h.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "Hey, Elon Musk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again? As your European customers, we are watching you," - Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland.