September 25, 2026 — In this week’s episode of Around the World, hosts Dhruva Jaishankar and Rachel Rizzo examine growing concerns around AI safety, from recent cybersecurity breaches to the risks of recursive self-improvement and debates over regulating frontier AI models. They also cover the newly signed U.S.-Denmark-Greenland defense agreement and the EU’s proposal to make Canada its first “associate member” as the transatlantic landscape continues to shift. Finally, they turn to the recent BRICS summit in New Delhi and Trump and Xi’s meeting in Washington this week, with AI safety, trade, Taiwan, and Iran among the issues in focus.
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