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Frontier and agentic systems present escalating risks, where gains are ‘not automatic’

AI firms currently rely on voluntary net-zero commitments and renewable electricity targets to decarbonise

Planned support includes cash transfers and flood-control measures, among others

The World Meteorological Organization predicts that the weather pattern will likely continue until November

The agency is working to re-establish the mechanisms that allowed ships to cross the strait before the war

Oil prices have surged since the US and Israel struck Iran at the end of February

Investors are vacillating between bets either on a quick resolution, or on an escalation that could prolong a disruption to energy supplies

The president has oscillated between casting diplomatic efforts as productive, and threatening further destruction

The war has all but halted shipments of about one-fifth of the world’s oil and LNG through the strait