the daily brief

• The White House said it will not seek to extend its memorandum of understanding with Iran after a 60-day ceasefire deal expired without agreement; Trump called on Tehran to "put up the white flag of surrender," while Iran's foreign ministry said the country would shift to a "fully offensive" military posture — business standard
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU's first associate member, as Trump's tariffs push Ottawa closer to Europe — business standard
• The BRICS Delhi Declaration was adopted unanimously at this month's summit, with Modi calling for urgent UN Security Council reform and stronger Global South representation — business standard
• Russia is believed to be holding thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians as prisoners of war — business standard
• Ukrainian forces struck Russian S-400 launchers, UAV launch sites and support facilities overnight, while Ukraine's air defenses neutralized seven Banderol missiles and 124 drones since the evening of September 16 — ukrinform
• Injuries from the September 17 Russian attack on Kyiv rose to 16, including two children, and a fresh strike on Sloviansk in Donetsk injured a 20-year-old woman — ukrinform
• Ukrainian officials expect increased Russian sabotage activity in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions and cannot rule out additional Russian forces being transferred to Chernihiv — ukrinform
• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for freedom of passage to be restored in the Strait of Hormuz and for a return to the pre-war status quo — daily sabah
• Syria and Türkiye signed 40 agreements and memoranda of understanding linking 22 Syrian ministries and agencies with their Turkish counterparts — daily sabah
• Saudi civil defense said falling debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed one person — cnn

• Anthropic is open-sourcing optimized biomolecular-modeling code and launching a $1 million protein-design competition with Adaptyv Bio, backed by Claude credits and wet-lab validation for more than 5,000 designs — anthropic
• Anthropic published research showing Claude can optimize more than 30 biomolecular modeling tools with a 4x speedup, plus a new low-memory mode capable of handling systems of 10,000-plus tokens on a single GPU — anthropic
• Anthropic introduced a Life Sciences Verification Program offering refined, biology-specific safeguards for research users — anthropic
• AI industry leaders, including figures at OpenAI and Anthropic, are publicly pushing for regulatory intervention and a development slowdown, citing existential risks — nakedcapitalism
• OpenAI released new ChatGPT Work guides for finance, marketing and legal teams as part of a broader enterprise-adoption push — aiweekly

• Stocks rebounded Thursday from Wednesday's Fed-driven sell-off: the S&P 500 rose more than 1% and the Nasdaq gained 1.6%, helped by falling oil prices and lower Treasury yields — cnbc
• The Fed signaled another rate hike before year-end despite Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish tone at Wednesday's meeting — schwab
• Generac soared almost 20% on news of an Amazon data-center deal — yahoo finance
• Memory stocks gained broadly, including Sandisk and Micron Technology — yahoo finance
• Türkiye's diesel prices neared $2 per liter, hitting a record high — daily sabah

• Researchers found that blocking the pathway aging cells use to hijack malfunctioning mitochondria for inflammatory signaling reduced inflammation and improved healthy aging in their models — sciencedaily
• Scientists found the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may be more vulnerable to how fast the climate warms than to the amount of warming itself — sciencedaily
• A newly discovered Arctic process can dramatically boost the number of cloud-forming particles near melting sea ice, where sunlight reacts with chemicals released by the ocean, algae and ice — sciencedaily
• GITEX AI Türkiye 2026 opened in Istanbul with investors from 70 countries and more than 120 startups, positioned as a bridge between global AI markets and local enterprises seeking international expansion — daily sabah
• Erdoğan announced Türkiye's PISA standing rose 50% across reading, mathematics and science, calling it the only country to post significant gains in all three fields — daily sabah

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