Trump says US will win war with Iran: 'It’s going to be one way or the other'
Donald Trump confirmed that the US negotiating team spoke with Iranian officials through mediators today. This comes after the president rejected the latest ceasefire proposal from Tehran, and Iran said it has “no plans” to negotiate with Washington.
Once again, Trump was resolute.
“We’re going to win,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one way or the other. It’s going to be it’s going to go pretty quickly.”
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:
Anthropic will caution investors that artificial intelligence could pose ‘catastrophic or existential risks to humanity’ in its IPO prospectus. As Anthropic prepares for an IPO listing, which could value the AI company at a monumental $2tn, it dedicated almost a third of its prospectus to discussing concerns around AI safety. The news comes as OpenAI has halted the release of its next AI model over safety concerns, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Donald Trump confirmed that the US negotiating team spoke with Iranian officials through mediators today. This comes after the president rejected the latest ceasefire proposal from Tehran over the weekend, and in response Iran said it has “no plans” to negotiate with Washington. However, in the Oval Office today, Trump was resolute. “We’re going to win,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one way or the other. It’s going to be it’s going to go pretty quickly.”
Trump will also be on the campaign trail this week – hosting rallies in Durant, Oklahoma, on Thursday, Mobile, Alabama, on Friday and Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday. The first two states are GOP strongholds, and Trump has pushed voters to turn out to the polls and pretend the president was at the top of the ballot this midterm cycle. There are now growing concerns from national Republicans that the party is facing stronger headwinds in otherwise safe seats and states, amid record-low polling for the Trump administration.
Pete Hegseth ordered the defense department to ‘protect and uphold the reliability of America’s voting mechanisms against external manipulation and disruption from foreign actors’ in a 22 September memo. Hegseth’s order comes as concerns about artificial intelligence are on the rise, but also as the Trump administration has spread misinformation about voter fraud. In July, Trump accused China of interfering in the 2020 election, which he lost.
Andrew Bailey said he is stepping down as one of the FBI’s two deputy directors after just over a year in the role – a short tenure that unfolded as he helped oversee several of Trump’s election‑related investigations. Bailey was appointed in August 2025 to serve alongside Dan Bongino at a moment of sharp tension between the FBI and justice department leadership over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The move was striking because the bureau has historically had only a single deputy director. More here
Pope Leo addressed concerns about artificial intelligence and the war in Ukraine during a press conference onboard the papal plane today. Saying that concerns about AI are not “fake news”, the first US pope appeared to criticize Donald Trump, who called concerns about AI a “hoax” during a UN address last week. Leo also encouraged Russia and Ukraine to discuss an end to the war, and criticized leaders who are “beginning to speak about nuclear weapons and wars that are becoming ever more destructive”.
While the lawmakers in the US House have already left Washington to get a head start on midterm campaigning, the Senate is hoping to wrap up its legislative agenda this week. Today, we can expect a vote in the upper chamber on the Protect College Sports Act, which attempts to provide greater protections for university athletes in the US. The bill includes provisions for players to earn compensation from their name, image and likeness – known as NIL payments – and allow them to transfer schools (and teams) without being penalized or forced to sit out for a defined period of time.
The state department will revoke the visas of 27 Latin American officials, former officials and their families, over allegations of ‘corruption and narco-trafficking’. Those affected include Bolivian attorney general RogerMariaca, more than 20 other Bolivian prosecutors and judges, two Colombians, two Ecuadorians and one Peruvian judge.
Samuel Alito has recused himself from a major climate-change case before the supreme court after calls for him to step aside due to his stock holdings in oil companies. The court is expected to hear arguments from local officials in Boulder, Colorado, alleging officials at SunCor Energy and ExxonMobil deceived the public about the role of fossil fuels in climate change. After Colorado’s supreme court refused to dismiss the lawsuit, the defendants filed a petition with the US supreme court asking them to shut down the case.
OpenAI says its AI models accessed Australian government websites without authorization during internal training exercises the company conducted in June. According to the company, the AI models accessed websites and systems connected to Services Australia, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Victorian Department of Health and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
OpenAI’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon will appear at a joint select committee meeting on artificial intelligence in Sydney in October.
The Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles.
The move, which was criticized by environmentalists, relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks for model years 2022 through 2031.
Anthropic IPO cautions of 'catastrophic or existential risks to humanity'
Anthropic will caution investors that artificial intelligence could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” in its IPO prospectus.
As Anthropic prepares for an IPO listing, which could value the AI company at a monumental $2tn, it dedicated almost a third of its prospectus to discussing concerns around AI safety. The document highlights risks that AI models could exhibit “self-preserving behaviors”, including attempts to “resist shutdown” and behavior “resembling blackmail”.
“Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further increase the risk that our models cause harm,” Anthropic said in the prospectus.
As we reported earlier this month:
Safety concerns have not slowed down Anthropic’s own IPO plans so far. Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November, people familiar with the matter told Reuters this month.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with Senate majority leader John Thune in Washington tonight, following a visit with Donald Trump yesterday and a planned White House meeting tomorrow
“It was a productive meeting,” Thune told reporters.
Amodei, who has warned about the growing risks of artificial intelligence, is slated to meet with Trump and House speaker Mike Johnson tomorrow, in a meeting that Politico reports will also include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The Trump administration will formally overturn Biden-era Title IX rules that aimed to protect transgender and LGBTQ students. The Department of Education will return to rules it established in 2020, under Trump’s first administration.
“We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls,” education secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.
On its website, the education department wrote: “The Biden Administration’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) pushed schools across the country to illegally allow males to intrude into women’s sports and intimate facilities, and it investigated school staff for using incorrect pronouns or failing to ask students to declare a preferred gender.”
As the education department website notes, the Trump administration began applying its own Title IX rules after Donald Trump began his second term in January 2025.
Pennsylvania is recording more than 900 measles cases, according to the state’s Department of Health, which updated its measles dashboard with 114 new cases this week. South Carolina and Utah are also reporting significant measles outbreaks.
After Pennsylvania announced two unvaccinated people had died from the disease earlier last month, the first measles-associated deaths in the state in 35 years, health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. questioned whether the deaths were “fabricated”.
To date, Pennsylvania reports four people have died from measles this year. Less than 1% of those who’ve been infected with measles in the state were fully vaccinated against the disease.
In 2000, the United States eliminated measles, but the disease has experienced a resurgence amid a rise in anti-vaxxing rhetoric. In November, the Pan American Health Organization will consider whether to reevaluate the United States’ measles elimination status.
OpenAI has halted the release of its next AI model over safety concerns, the Wall Street Journal reports
The company was slated to release GPT-6.1 Astra in October, but safety chief Saachi Jain told the WSJ that it fell short of ChatGPT’s standards in alignment tests, showing more deception than previous models and failing to follow human intent.
The news comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the artificial intelligence agency to slow the development of AI models amid growing safety concerns. In a 12 September blog post, Amodei called for increased global cooperation and oversight of AI.
Last week, the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic were called to face an Australian senate inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites. Both executives addressed the United Nations security council in separate briefings on AI safety last week as well.
Donald Trump called claims he offered sanctions relief to Iran ‘untrue’ in a social media post
The US president cited an Axios story published today, which reported that “Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release Iranian frozen funds in return for concrete Iranian steps regarding the nuclear program, U.S. officials say.”
In a post to his social media platform, Trump wrote: “I offered them NOTHING! Axios’ story, like most others, is a HOAX, used only for purposes of satisfying their Trump Derangement Syndrome. They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY!”
The NFL has asked the US Department of Homeland Security to take down a video likening former Eagles star Brian Dawkins’s most violent hits to a clampdown on immigrants.
The video shows Dawkins’ pregame walkout as he chants “The time has come,” followed by a series of violent hits from his playing career. The DHS post includes the caption “Our time has come” in response to a social media account claiming a “huge migrant caravan” is approaching the United States’ southern border.
A Louisiana judge has handed lengthy prison sentences to two people convicted of roles in a criminal enterprise that targeted New Orleans tourists led to the death of a reporter covering the 2025 Super Bowl there, my colleague Maya Yang reports.
A state court judge sentenced Danette Colbert, 49, to a total of 60 years in prison: fifty years for racketeering and a consecutive 10 years for negligent homicide in the death of Adan Manzano, a journalist for the Spanish-language news outlet Telemundo Kansas City.