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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

“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

Update: 2025-08-18
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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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Images from the article:

Graph showing probability of Ukraine/Russia ceasefire, comparing pre-summit (27%) and post-summit (9%).

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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

“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