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Daniel Forti and Mariea Sekijima join Viola Gienger to discuss the most important developments from the 2026 UN General Assembly.

Advanced AI systems have crossed an important threshold from commercial software to technologies viewed as strategic national assets.

Taipei should extend its new semiconductor equipment certification system to test industrial AI agents, constrain their permissions, and monitor them after deployment.

An expert outlines the body of international law governing the placement and use of weapons in outer space.

The challenges facing the U.N. include recurrent financial shortfalls and political irrelevance to some of the world's major crises.

States parties should use the United States’ bid for support in its fight against the ICC to push back on Washington’s attempt to dismantle the Court.

As the U.S. and China compete on AI, concepts such as export controls can no longer determine who leads in that or across a range of other emerging technology.

Neither banning Chinese advanced AI models nor ignoring their risks to national security will serve American interests.

China's new rules limiting the use of A.I. companion systems reveal a gap in how the United States regulates A.I. chatbots.

All highly capable AI models should be regulated through pre-deployment and ongoing testing. But any safety regime that works for domestic models should work for Chinese ones.

China's prominent role in negotiations over the U.N. mission in Afghanistan marks a shift in its approach to Security Council diplomacy and illuminates its tactics.

Recent U.N. discussions add a new forum on global governance and international norms on military uses of A.I.