Today’s Sponsor | | | Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Daily Review. | Today at WPR, Ulrike Franke argues that the most immediate existential risk related to AI is human misuse of the technology. And Sylvia Colombo reports on a still-unfolding scandal tainting both of the frontrunners in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election. | Scroll down for more on those items. But first, here’s today’s top story, in collaboration with our sister site GlobalPost: |  | People take part in a youth led protest in Casablanca, Morocco, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy) |
| As Moroccans go to the polls today to elect a new parliament, many young voters shrug and say that no matter which party wins, they expect little to change. | “We no longer want to be part of this farce,” one of them told Middle East Eye recently. “We’ve lost hope in the parties or the state to represent us and our hopes and aspirations. Gen Z see no point in holding elections.” | Instead, the younger generation is voting with their feet, as in late July, when tens of thousands of Moroccans crossed the border into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on Morocco’s northern coast. Thousands more have pursued immigration channels, both regular and irregular, across Europe. | As Kenza Sammoud wrote in a recent dispatch for WPR from Rabat, “the more consequential question … |
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| | Sponsor | | | These days, there is no escaping the debates about the possibility that artificial intelligence may spell the end of the human race. But alongside the risk of an AI superintelligence turning against humanity and that of AI misalignment causing widespread harm, there is also a more immediate threat, Ulrike Franke writes: humans misusing AI. | | | With the first round of Brazil’s presidential election less than two weeks away, a sprawling financial scandal has tarnished the country’s highest court, as well as the two front-runners in the race. Following the collapse of mid-size lender Banco Master last year and the arrest of its former owner, Daniel Vorcaro, on corruption charges, troves of text messages have been released showing Vorcaro’s ties to high-level figures across Brazil’s political spectrum. | The two people most affected are Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing frontrunner and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing incumbent. Both men are feeling the fallout from the scandal, though in very different ways, Sylvia Colombo writes. | | | U.N.: On Wednesday, U.S. and Iranian representatives resumed diplomatic talks for the first time since a ceasefire collapsed in July, communicating through mediators on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meetings. Neither side indicated any shift in their position, but President Donald Trump said the talks had generated “a lot of momentum” toward a deal, despite threatening to “annihilate” Iran yesterday in his speech. | Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian struck a defiant note in his own address to the assembly earlier today: “The resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying.” | On Tuesday, Trump met Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez for the first time since U.S. forces seized the country’s former leader Nicolas Maduro in January. As the Guardian noted, the hotel where the two leaders met is only 7 miles from the Brooklyn jail where Maduro is being held. | Trump also held talks Tuesday with the U.K.’s newly elected Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who described the meeting as “very encouraging.” Despite some disagreements, the two said they found common ground on issues like AI and ending the conflict in the Middle East. | Ethiopia: Tigray’s regional government said Wednesday that its forces had entered a “defensive war” against Ethiopia’s federal government, after Tigrayan fighters launched an … Purchase your premium subscription now to make sure you don’t miss important news and analysis. | U.S., China: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is arriving in Washington today for a three-day state visit that will combine include discussions with President Trump alongside a lavish itinerary meant to match Trump’s red-carpet treatment when he visited China in May. In a rare gesture of friendship, Trump is expected to … Purchase your premium subscription now to make sure you don’t miss important news and analysis. | South Sudan: President Salva Kiir dissolved the country’s transitional government and appointed a caretaker government Tuesday, naming interim officials to lead key ministries as South Sudan prepares for its first … Purchase your premium subscription now to make sure you don’t miss important news and analysis. | | More From WPR | | Read all of our latest coverage here. |
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