High drama on “Puppy Live” last week. Now in its sixth year, the livestream has well over a million viewers and is going international.

A programmer in Guernica, Spain, on Thursday, working on PHP code, software used throughout the internet.

Prime Minister Rob Jetten of the Netherlands in Brussels last week. He said that his cabinet was closely monitoring the online vulnerability caused by a security flaw in PHP.

The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.

Under rules proposed last week, the next advanced A.I. models might need the government’s permission to be exported out of China.

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.

Japan has been hit by a wave of cyberattacks that have affected businesses and government.

The chief strategy officer for OpenAI, Jason Kwon, center, at the Parliament of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday.

Russian society is becoming increasingly militaristic since the war in Ukraine began. These soldiers marched in Moscow in a parade in 2023.

The U.N. Security Council convened its first meeting on artificial intelligence last week.

President Javier Milei at the United Nations last week where he asserted Argentina’s “commitment to not preemptively regulate A.I.”

Australian ministers at a news conference in Sydney on Thursday after it was revealed an A.I. agent developed by OpenAI had infiltrated a government website in June.

People use their mobile phones at dusk in Brisbane, Australia, in December. The country already bans those under 16 years of age from using social media.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells last year.

Teresios Bundi, who ran an essay-writing business catering to overseas students, said his experience with artificial intelligence was a warning for online gig workers.

A 15-year-old using social media apps in Australia in July, more than half a year after the country had implemented a ban on children under 16 using many platforms.

Officers from Ukraine’s First Separate Assault Regiment looking at live battlefield footage from drones, displayed through the Delta system, at a command bunker in eastern Ukraine in 2025.

Malaysia’s social media ban for children under 16 was supposed to take effect on June 1.

Pavel Durov, left, founder of Telegram, in Paris in 2025. The Kremlin has used various methods to try to restrict access to Telegram in Russia.

Lautaro Martinez of Argentina scored the winning goal over England on Wednesday. When did you see it?

A friend’s call for help led Mykhailo Rudominski into defense work. His company, Himera, makes electronic warfare-resistant radios.

Sébastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, has called for France to increase its independence from American technology firms, announcing plans to replace Zoom with a French-developed version.

Men looking for daily gigs in Kunshan, the heart of China’s manufacturing industry. As the country pivots toward automation, lower-skilled workers are finding fewer steady opportunities.

Matthias Deindl, a product management executive for the company SAP, at an A.I.-enhanced production line in Walldorf, Germany.

China’s National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi in 2020. LineShine, a supercomputer in Shenzhen, has been declared the world’s fastest.

People holding up cellphones at a concert in Toronto.

A campaign event last week for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of Armenian parliamentary elections.

The skyline of Beijing. A Chinese firm is working on products that use A.I. to examine location data and internet use to predict who could do or say something critical of the government.

Peter Thiel, right, arriving for a meeting with President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires in April.

At the Grand Bazaar in Tehran this month. For a quarter of a year, most Iranians were only able to access a “domestic internet” of government-approved apps and websites.

In Tehran on Sunday. The Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout during the war with the United States and Israel.

Regulators in Europe said Meta appears to be violating the Digital Services Act, an E.U. law passed in 2022 to force social media companies to police their platforms more aggressively.

On a subway in Moscow. As Russians criticize the internet restrictions, the discontent has helped send the approval rating of President Vladimir V. Putin to its lowest level since before the war with Ukraine.