Morning papers opened on Anthropic CEO Amodei's warning that without safeguards AI could control the internet within 6-12 months and be used in wars, backed by Musk and Altman and rejected by Trump as negative forces.
Attention then shifted to Ukraine after a Russian drone strike hit a service station and a passenger-train locomotive near the Polish border. Kyiv called it deliberate and warned Russians were at Europe's doors, while drones over Lithuania briefly closed Vilnius airport and scrambled NATO jets. Moscow said Xi and Modi offered to mediate and opened to trilateral talks in October; Palazzo Chigi denied German reports an Italian adviser was aboard the train.
Evening coverage turned to Sweden, where exit polls put the centre-left ahead and the far right retreating before counting narrowed to one seat, alongside Antonelli's Madrid win and Napoli and Sassuolo victories in Serie A.