The second day of the 81st UN General Assembly session in New York is focusing on the war in Iran, artificial intelligence regulation, and the climate crisis. World leaders and tech industry executives are participating in the debates.

The foreign ministers of Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan called for reform of the UN Security Council, stating it is more urgent than ever given the challenging geopolitical environment. The Security Council has 15 members, including five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US) with veto power.

US President Donald Trump blasted calls to slow AI development as a "globalist scheme." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue are set to brief an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on AI safety.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will address world leaders for the first time since the war against Iran began. US and Iranian representatives have met on the sidelines of the General Assembly, but a peace deal remains elusive and oil flow through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz has been stunted.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump to discuss ending the war before winter. Zelenskyy characterized the meeting as "positive and productive." Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is approaching its five-year anniversary.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasted fossil fuel giants for treating the Earth's atmosphere like an "open sewer." He chided "big oil" for its greed, noting that since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits, while just $34 billion was invested in helping developing countries adapt to a warming world.

Source: www.dw.com