Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Monday, including US President Donald Trump saying he expects more talks with Iran this week while warning that Tehran has “overplayed” its hand, Trump saying the US worked with British authorities in the arrest of five men near RAF Fairford air base in England, and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calling for the army to “go to war” in the occupied West Bank and “do there what we did in Gaza.”
US President Donald Trump said he anticipates his envoys will take part in negotiations with Iran in the coming days while adding that Tehran has yet to offer acceptable terms to resolve the ongoing conflict.
"I expect more talks with Iran (this week)," Trump told the US news website Axios in an interview, adding: "They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make. It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand."
Asked whether Washington is considering resuming military strikes against Iran, he said the option remains active.
US President Donald Trump said that American authorities collaborated closely with British security services to arrest five men near the RAF Fairford air base in western England.
"They were looking to do big damage to our ports," Trump told reporters after arriving in the US state of Illinois for a golf tournament.
"The arrest of the UK was fantastic ... We had them under investigation," he said, adding that the US had the suspects under surveillance for an extended period before their arrest.
British authorities declared a major incident Sunday in a village adjacent to the military installation, evacuating 85 households after police detained the five suspects under the Explosives Act. UK Counter Terrorism Policing confirmed the individuals were arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the army should “go to war” in the occupied West Bank and “do there what we did in Gaza,” where nearly 74,000 Palestinians were killed and over 175,000 others wounded since October 2023.
“We need to go to war in Judea and Samaria,” Smotrich told the Israeli news outlet Ynet, using the biblical name for the occupied West Bank, which is supposed to make up part of a future Palestinian state.
Asked how Israel should respond to security tensions in the territory, he said: “We should do there what we did in Gaza.”
Breaking Bad, the saga of a former chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with cancer and turns to crime, has been named the best television series of the 21st century in a ranking published by the New York Times.
For the 100 best list, the daily surveyed more than 500 actors, showrunners, writers, craftspeople, executives and other industry figures, asking each to select up to 10 of the best series that premiered on or after Jan. 1, 2000.
Created by Virginia native Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad follows onetime chemistry teacher Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, as he enters the illegal drug trade, going from a drug producer to a ruthless kingpin.
British police arrested two demonstrators during a pro-Palestine protest outside the ruling Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool.
Protesters gathered outside the conference venue, with several holding homemade signs expressing support for Palestine Action, a group banned by the UK government.
Police officers moved to arrest an elderly man who was sitting beneath a tree before making a second arrest involving a protester holding a sign supporting the banned group.
US President Donald Trump said he will host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private one-on-one dinner at the White House as part of his engagement with the artificial intelligence company.
“Tonight, I'm having dinner with the head of Anthropic,” Trump said, speaking to reporters aboard Marine One, referring to Amodei, whom he described as “very highly respected.”
The dinner comes ahead of a planned meeting Tuesday between Trump, US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and leading AI executives amid growing pressure on Congress to establish safeguards for the rapidly developing technology.
A new report said that OpenAI, Anthropic and global security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which the companies’ frontier AI models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic.
The findings, reported by the Axios news site, are surfacing as part of internal work to assess models and in investigations at both Anthropic and OpenAI into model behavior.
These assessments raise questions about whether either company is currently capable of establishing complete control over their technology, according to the report.
The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes, website hijacking, self-prompting, or seeking to bypass monitors, sources said, having occurred both in internal testing and real world application, with many yet to become public.
Australia has summoned the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before a Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites, local media reported.
The two chief executives have been called to appear at the Greens-led inquiry into AI and data centers, which is to hold public hearings in the capital, Canberra, on Thursday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
The inquiry is looking into the potential impacts of AI and data centers on safety, data transparency, Australian communities, industries, water and energy. It is one of several state and federal inquiries into AI.
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