Security stationed outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in March.

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.

Thélyson Orélien in Montreal earlier this year.

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.

A DeepSeek AI sign at the company’s office in Beijing.

Daisy Snow, right, Ann Shuttleworth, left, and others protesting the proposed data center in Bideford, England, last month.

Residents of Wangaratta, Australia, paid tribute on Tuesday to Helen Haines, a lawmaker who was struck by a car outside her office and is now in a Melbourne hospital.

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.

A jet drone struck the National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 28

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

A photo provided by Russian state media shows President Vladimir V. Putin visiting the Sakhalin region in Russia’s far east in August.

Thélyson Orélien in Montreal earlier this year.

Alexsander at Prison Colony No. 122 in central Ukraine.

Gathering evidence at the Leipzig-Halle airport, Germany, in August after an explosive-laden drone was found.

At the Athens Democracy Forum, one panel after another warned of the potential risks that social media, deepfakes, cyberattacks and A.I. posed to humanity.

CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, said in a report on Wednesday that it had found evidence of the use of A.I. in the attacks.

Dr. Madani, left, and Dr. Timothy Jackson, perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on a patient at Toronto General Hospital, with the help of visual A.I. guides.

August Hanning in 2007, after he left the German intelligence service.

Chinese A.I. companies like Deepseek and Moonshot have made a name for themselves internationally. But China still struggles to recruit foreign researchers.

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

Hana Bank was one of several financial institutions in South Korea affected by recent cyberattacks.

A police roadblock near the R.A.F. Fairford air base. Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain said on Wednesday that there were “strong indications that Iran played a part” in the previous weekend’s events there.

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

The Chinese government is imposing regulations on the use of A.I. apps and chatbots out of concern that the technology could interfere with human relationships and undermine social order.

A Latvian guard patrols the border with Belarus. Migrants have streamed into Latvia, many through considerable border defenses, cutting gaps in fencing or burrowing under it.

Greta Garbo in 1925.

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.”

OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said it would work to rebuild trust with Australians.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at The New York Times on Sept. 23, 2026.

For many in China, A.I. doomsday warnings feel remote and distinctly Western.

The author Thélyson Orélien at a cafe in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood in April.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday. He has called for international standards to govern A.I.

António Costa, E.U. president, at the U.N. yesterday.

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.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada during an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday.

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that A.I.’s development had made its “upside more tangible, but also the stakes and risks more immediate.”

In Beijing in May.

At a telecom company’s display during an expo in Beijing on Tuesday. In China and Vietnam, more than 90 percent of people polled said they believed that A.I. would mostly make daily life better, a Gallup poll found.

Robots competing in a tug of war in Beijing, in August.

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres addressing the general assembly on Tuesday.