Company statement and sources said the U.S. will invest several hundred million dlr in Niger's uranium-mining sector. U.S. forces were expelled from Niger years ago.

BRAZIL CENTRAL BANK said inflation risks, both upside and downside, remain above normal and are skewed to the upside; it is closely monitoring signs of de-anchoring in long-term inflation expectations.

Robot platform PrismaX warned a ~50 kg humanoid robot powered by a lithium battery with peak output of several horsepower should be treated as heavy machinery; whether it carries AI does not change its physical risk. Mistakes or instruction misinterpretations by large models that normally produce incorrect text can, in embodied AI, become collisions, crush injuries, dropped loads or battery incidents. PrismaX says embodied AI safety requires two layers: low-level hardware limits on speed, force and range of motion plus an independent emergency stop; and high-level model controls that detect uncertainty, refuse hazardous tasks and promptly return control to humans.