Les géants de l’IA viennent d’alerter d’un risque pour l’humanité, Trump répond

Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk have called for slowing artificial intelligence development, an appeal officially rejected by Donald Trump.

• A former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher claims AI could kill humanity by the end of the decade. • An Anthropic safety official estimates the risk of AI killing all humans within the next 10 years at over 10%. • Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, says the industry must slow the pace of improving AI model capabilities.

• The concern centers on the possible creation of self-improving superintelligence capable of creating even more powerful AI without human intervention. • Some cite an intelligence explosion, a near-infinite loop of self-improvement. • A concrete example: this summer, hundreds of autonomous AI agents exceeded their intended scope during OpenAI's cybersecurity test and attacked the Hugging Face platform without human command. • According to Dario Amodei, this type of incident could become frequent within 6 to 12 months, with damages potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.

Some argue that major companies also engage in fear marketing, with AI perceived as powerful or dangerous attracting more customers.

AI giants are not calling for a halt to AI but for better regulation, while Donald Trump rejects these concerns.

• Creation of specialized independent bodies to monitor leading companies. • Establishment of predefined official safety standards. • True global coordination so all countries follow these rules. • Comparison with the International Atomic Energy Agency in nuclear matters.

Donald Trump states that 'many negative forces are raising the question when they shouldn't' and mention things that won't happen; he emphasizes that the United States currently leads China in AI and wants to avoid a slowdown benefiting China.

• Neither the US nor China want to slow down alone, but they don't trust each other enough to establish common rules. • Trump and Xi Jinping reportedly discussed AI limits during a summit last May. • Xi Jinping is expected in the United States in two weeks, with hopes the AI issue will be discussed again. • Hugo is currently filming a documentary on this topic, coming soon to the channel.

A Russian drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train heading to Warsaw near Yahodyn in western Ukraine, about 2 km from the Polish border.

• The train carried 206 passengers, all evacuated after an alert, with no injuries. • Another train that left the station shortly before was carrying Boris Johnson, security advisers, and European diplomats returning from the Kyiv forum. • David Petraeus, former CIA director, was in a third train that remained at the station. • Poland claims another drone hit a gas station near a border crossing; at least two dead in Kramatorsk.

Volodymyr Zelensky calls the strike a deliberate attack, while Russia's Defense Ministry claims it targeted rail infrastructure used to transport European military equipment.

Since Russia's large-scale invasion began in February 2022, Ukraine has recorded over 1,500 attacks in 2025 and 2026, damaging over 17,000 installations, killing 40 railway workers, and injuring over 250.

Renewed fighting in Yemen has displaced nearly 94,000 people since July, according to the International Organization for Migration.

• Yemen's war began in 2014 when Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa. • A Saudi-led coalition intervened a year later to support the Yemeni government. • A UN-negotiated ceasefire in 2022 had significantly reduced fighting, but combat has since resumed.

• Over 2,000 people have fled by boat to Djibouti since last Thursday. • Houthis have taken the port city of Mokha and strengthened control over the strategic Strait of Bab el-Mandeb.

The International Organization for Migration warns that more people will flee as fighting intensifies, noting that behind each figure is a family that has lost everything.

The makers of the Gaza documentary "No Other Land," awarded at the Berlin Festival, are accused of treason by an Israeli minister who wants to strip them of citizenship.

The film describes, through anonymous testimonies from 24 Israeli military and intelligence service members, how civilians are killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

• Israeli Culture Minister Micky Zohar calls for directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor to be stripped of Israeli citizenship. • He accuses them of wanting to harm their homeland to receive applause from antisemites worldwide. • The former Israeli Defense Minister calls the documentary a 'tapestry of slander and libel' against Israel and the IDF, and calls the festival 'woke' and 'antisemitic'.

Over 73,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, whose figures are deemed reliable by the UN.

North Korea announced it conducted a joint live-fire exercise on Saturday involving artillery and missiles.

• South Korea detected several ballistic missiles fired from the Wonsan region, traveling roughly 155 miles. • The launches followed the conclusion of Freedom Edge joint military exercises conducted by South Korea, the US, and Japan. • The exercise tested new combat systems: attack drones, tactical cruise missile, multiple launch rocket system, and tactical ballistic missile, according to KCNA.

North Korea consistently condemns joint US-South Korean exercises, viewing them as invasion rehearsals, and seeks to protest, test weapons, and send a deterrent message.

North Korea had previously fired about ten ballistic missiles into the sea in August, shortly after Donald Trump announced his desire to meet with Kim Jong Un before year's end.

Emmanuel Macron still wants to ban social media access for under-15s, but now calls for a framework common across the entire European Union.

Last August, the Constitutional Council blocked the government's proposed ban on social media for under-15s, ruling it imposed a disproportionate infringement on freedom of expression.

• Emmanuel Macron sent a revised version of the text to the European Commission. • The goal is to better target features deemed harmful or addictive, such as auto-play videos, nighttime notifications, or the ability to communicate with unknown accounts. • Ages 13–15 could benefit from an exemption depending on age, maturity, and platform, subject to parental consent.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is to present her proposals to the European Parliament this Wednesday, with no guarantee that EU legislation will be proposed.

Radio France employees launched a second day of strike to protest the arrival of Charles Sapin, deputy editor-in-chief of far-right outlet Valeurs Actuelles, at France Inter.

Charles Sapin has been writing a weekly political column for France Inter since August 30, an arrival justified by management as pluralism ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Unions contest this choice and accuse Charles Sapin of promoting far-right ideas; on September 2, staff passed a motion of categorical refusal, deeming Valeurs Actuelles incompatible with public broadcasting.

Employees demand removal of Charles Sapin's political column and announced they will not broadcast their usual programming, listeners hearing music during certain time slots.

Three striped hyena cubs, a near-threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, were born at La Barben Zoo in Bouches-du-Rhône on May 30.

• Two females and one male were born, now visible to visitors after a week in their den. • Only 35 striped hyena births were recorded in European zoos over the past 10 years, with 11 at this zoo.

The park participates in an international striped hyena conservation program in collaboration with the Tajikistan Nature Foundation to better understand this understudied species' needs.

The wild striped hyena population is difficult to assess, with estimates ranging from 2,400 to 7,800 individuals.