Sources: US is considering sanctions waivers to allow flights to resume between Iran and Iraq's holy city Najaf.

Brazil's Ministry of Finance said federal public debt rose 0.04% month-on-month in August.

The Wall Street Journal reports research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Microsoft have asked policymakers to assess their firms’ advances in automating AI research. In a paper published Monday, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic co‑founder Jack Clark, Microsoft chief scientific officer Eric Horvitz and Meta AI research VP Dawn Song warned that automation of AI research could trigger an “intelligence explosion,” compressing progress that would normally take years into months or less and potentially outpacing human understanding. The authors, writing in a personal capacity, urged urgent transparency from companies on the extent of model‑development automation.