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'AI Godfather' Hinton Calls Hugging Face Incident a 'Mini-Chernobyl' and Urges Safety Guards Within a Year Capitol in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2026. Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the "godfather of artificial intelligence" and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, warned on the 16th local time that the U.S. SBS Sep 18, 2026 10:07 AM

UN Probe Finds US Strike on Iran Elementary School May Constitute War Crime, Knowing Risks According to foreign media outlets including the US daily The New York Times on September 17, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran is scheduled to officially report these findings in an 18-page report to the UN Human Rights Council convening in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 21. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:39 AM

Yemeni Rebels Target Government's Northern Stronghold of Marib, Raising Fears of All-Out War Concerns are growing that the Yemeni civil war, which had remained relatively quiet since the 2002 truce agreement, could escalate into an all-out war. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:27 AM

Amazon: AI Should Be Released When Ready and Safe According to Bloomberg and other outlets on the 17th , Amazon spokesperson Tom Parnell said in an email statement, "We do not view this as a choice between progress and safety. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:22 AM

UN Security Council Resolution to Extend Iran Sanctions Monitoring Vetoed by Russia and China The Security Council put to a vote a U.S.-led resolution on the 17th at the UN Headquarters in New York to extend the mandate of the Iran sanctions monitoring panel by one year until September 2027, but it failed to pass due to opposition from Russia and China. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:20 AM

Foreign Minister Cho Hyun Meets US Lawmakers During US Visit Ahead of Talks with Rubio South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, who is visiting the United States for a bilateral foreign ministers' meeting, met with U.S. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:19 AM

China's US Treasury Holdings Drop to Lowest Since 2008, Less Than Half of 2013 Peak Department of the Treasury China's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have fallen to their lowest level since August 2008. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:18 AM

Zelenskyy: North Korea Gaining Combat Experience in Russia; Ukraine Seeks Military-Technical Cooperation With Japan Following the interview with NHK, President Zelenskyy posted the interview content on his X account to emphasize it once again. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:15 AM

US SEC Lowers Barriers to Tokenized Stock Trading, Paving Way for 24-Hour Trading Securities and Exchange Commission has significantly eased regulations to pave the way for the full-fledged trading of "tokenized stocks," which allow existing shares to be bought and sold in the form of digital tokens on a blockchain. SBS Sep 18, 2026 9:15 AM

"Slept 30 Minutes a Day for 17 Years" Livestreamed... A Twist Ending There is a Japanese YouTuber who has claimed to sleep only 30 minutes a day for a whopping 17 years, but things got awkward after he tried to prove it through a live broadcast, didn't they? Daisuke Hori, a well-known "short sleeper" in Japan, livestreamed his daily routine of sleeping only 30 minutes a day for a week. SBS Sep 18, 2026 8:56 AM