the daily brief

• India hosted a BRICS summit on September 12, with PM Modi welcoming Putin, Xi Jinping and other leaders for talks on trade, investment and global conflicts — euronews
• Houthi rebels captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, threatening Saudi oil exports through the key commercial lane, prompting Saudi Arabia to shut down a major pipeline as a precaution after it came under attack — euronews
• Tehran accused the US of the latest attack on an Iranian commercial ship near Qeshm; a senior Iranian official said no negotiations are currently taking place with Washington, and strait traffic remains roughly 90% below pre-conflict levels — euronews
• A planned signing ceremony in Muscat for an Iran-Oman Hormuz shipping-route agreement was postponed at Saudi Arabia's request, citing "developments in Yemen" — cnbc
• Zelensky confirmed a Russian strike hit a train carrying a former CIA director on September 15 — kyiv independent
• Putin's Valdai meeting in Sochi was canceled at the last minute over a drone threat, after Ukrainian drones struck a $100 million Russian radar system 175km from the front line — rbc-ukraine
• Nearly 80% of Ukrainians support continuing the fight through winter; Ukraine has backed a US-proposed energy truce, and the Kremlin says it backs Trump's truce plan but with conditions attached — rbc-ukraine
• Ukraine's advance in the Donetsk region has liberated an area larger than the city of Zhytomyr — rbc-ukraine
• A Turkish court ordered opposition New Party leader Özgür Özel to pay President Erdoğan 800,000 lira in damages over remarks made in three speeches in August 2025 — institude

• OpenAI's global policy chief Chris Lehane said the company has been working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks, following Dario Amodei's essay calling for the industry to slow the pace of frontier AI — techcrunch
• Sam Altman reiterated to Fortune that OpenAI will not go public in 2026: "not 2026 — we got a lot of stuff to do" — techcrunch
• Google quietly opened Claude Opus 5 access to every engineer through its internal Antigravity IDE, breaking a longstanding rule that had forced staff onto Gemini and blocked Claude Code and OpenAI Codex — techcrunch
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company "welcomes" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right" and unveiled a Code of Conduct for its MAI models, framing superintelligence work around keeping AI "helping humanity and under human control" — techcrunch

• Stocks fell Tuesday ahead of the Fed's decision: the Dow lost 0.63% to 52,093.11, the S&P 500 fell 0.45% to 7,585.73, and the Nasdaq dropped 0.78% to 25,981.57 — kiplinger
• The Federal Reserve's two-day meeting was widely expected to produce its first rate hike since 2023, with a steady labor market and elevated energy prices keeping inflation high — kiplinger
• The 10-year Treasury yield surged to 5.04%, its highest level since 2007 — motley fool
• Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has scaled back forward-guidance traditions, adding to market uncertainty, while facing pressure from the Trump administration to keep rates low — motley fool

• The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil-fuel power plants — sciencedaily
• Scientists uncovered sweeping changes in how the human brain organizes its genome beginning in midlife, offering new clues to why aging sharply raises the risk of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases — sciencedaily
• Simply smelling chocolate helped men complete more leg-extension repetitions without the workout feeling harder, with dark chocolate producing the strongest effect — sciencedaily
• Semaglutide helped older healthy mice live longer while improving memory, muscle function, blood-sugar control and several biological signs of aging — sciencedaily
• Antarctic krill were found at a hydrothermal vent off the Antarctic Peninsula during a National Geographic and Rolex expedition — a surprising location for the species — npr
• Türkiye's education minister hailed the country's PISA 2025 results, and Turkish Airlines will become Liverpool's shirt sponsor starting with the 2027–28 season — hürriyet daily news
• The ice cap on Mount Ağrı in eastern Türkiye shrank from 15 to 5 square kilometers, triggering warnings of potential mudflows — hürriyet daily news

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