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“Trump-Putin talks end with no ceasefire, Meta allowed AI chatbots to flirt with children, ​FARC spinout drone attacks | Global Risks Weekly Roundup #33/2025” by Nuño Sempere, belikewater, Tolga Bilge, Vidur Kapur


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Forecasters’ estimate of the chance of a ceasefire by October dropped from 27% pre-summit to 9%.

Executive summary

  • Geopolitics: Trump and Putin met in Alaska to discuss the Ukraine war. Forecasters’ estimate of the chance of a ceasefire by October dropped from 27% pre-summit to 9%.

  • Biorisks: The chikungunya virus continues to spread, including in France and the UK.

  • Tech and AI: Meta's policies explicitly allowed its AI chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.”

  • And more: Three soldiers were killed and four others injured in a drone attack by FARC dissidents on the Colombian military.

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Outline:

(00:29) Executive summary

(01:30) Geopolitics

(01:33) Trump/Putin summit in Alaska

(05:46) Middle East

(06:57) Europe

(07:44) United States

(09:11) Elsewhere in the Americas

(09:21) Asia

(10:19) Africa

(10:53) Artificial Intelligence

(13:02) Biorisk

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First published:

August 18th, 2025

Source:

https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/trump-putin-talks-end-with-no-ceasefire

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