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Videos generated by artificial intelligence may be getting more realistic, but are people actually watching them? Speaking at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference on Monday (Oct 12), TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi said that while more users are experimenting with AI-generated content, such videos still account for a “low single-digit percentage” of views on the platform. He believes audiences continue to value authenticity, with some showing resistance to content that looks obviously artificial.

As AI agents become more capable, are we giving them too much access? TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi warns that users may not fully understand the permissions they’re handing over. Speaking at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference on Monday (Oct 12), he says education will be key to using AI safely.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tears into Scott Bessent as rising borrowing costs undercut the Treasury secretary’s rosy economic claims. David Shuster breaks down the bond market backlash and Krugman’s brutal “Baghdad Bob of bonds” comparison.

And while the government has identified some of the symptoms of global instability, it has been somewhat selective in assigning responsibility to those creating those conditions. It can continue to tacitly normalise the destruction of international law by not applying the same moral and legal standards to every complicit major power. He told the Institute of International Affairs the country had faced “the worst international conditions since 1945”.

Mitchell Labiak Business reporter Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said. Brad Smith said there needed to be global safety rules in place, including a legal obligation to tell a “victim” if their system is breached by a rogue AI agent as well as deciding when outside evaluators should sign off on an AI product before it is released.

WooCommerce 11.2 is here with some exciting new updates. Here’s everything you need to know about the changes that’ll impact how you run your store. Got a price sheet from a supplier that only lists UPCs? You can import it as-is. With “Update existing products” turned on, the importer matches each row by ID, then SKU, then GTIN, UPC, EAN, or ISBN. If your store uses the Checkout block, you can now ask shoppers for a date during checkout, such as their preferred delivery date or their birthday.

Godzilla Minus Zero We also got a new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to director Takashi Yamazaki’s gloriously grounded kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One, which became a major international hit and snagged an Oscar for best visual effects. Godzilla Minus One focused on kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima, who struggled with survivor’s guilt after he failed to take action when Godzilla attacked the Japanese base on Odo Island in 1945.

President Donald Trump’s mental and cognitive faculties have been “rapidly declining” already, and as one author and long-time Trump enemy told The Daily Beast, he is about to get much worse very soon, once the GOP takes its predicted beating in the midterms.

Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an “energy ceasefire”, with Kyiv saying it would support such a move but Moscow yet to comment. The US president insisted that it was “effective immediately” but provided no details. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially expressed surprise at the announcement, before saying Kyiv would support it if Moscow did. He also accused Russia of striking Ukrainian energy facilities after Trump’s post.

A Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said a projectile struck a passenger terminal at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Sunday, less than a day after a missile attack on the same airport killed 12 people and wounded more than 300. This marks a major escalation in the war between Yemen’s Iran’s-backed Houthis and the kingdom and further complicated sputtering efforts to halt the U.S.-Iran war. CLARIFICATION (Oct.