The ongoing indirect talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in New York are being mediated by Qatar, according to NewsNation.

NEW: Egypt’s intelligence chief, Abbas Kamel, made an urgent visit to Israel on September 26, 2023, warning that Hamas appeared to be preparing a major attack, according to The Atlantic. Kamel arrived on a chartered aircraft linked to Egyptian intelligence and spent just over an hour in Israel. He urged Israeli officials to offer Hamas economic concessions to prevent an escalation, warning that Gaza could “blow up in your faces” if Israel failed to act. Although Kamel provided no specific date or operational details, officials familiar with the visit said its urgency should have raised alarms within Israel’s leadership. Egypt continued issuing warnings until October 5, just two days before the attack. Netanyahu has denied receiving warnings from Egypt or the UAE's MbZ, while his former national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, disputed that Kamel’s visit took place at all.

Ukrainian President Zelensky’s office has denied reports that President Trump urged him to travel to Moscow for a meeting with Vladimir Putin during their talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, according to FT's chief Ukraine correspondent. The two leaders discussed the possibility of future trilateral negotiations involving Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S.

Elon Musk: The Chinese AI models are generally outstanding, actually. You can see on the sort of intelligence rankings there; especially given the limited amount of compute that the Chinese AI companies have, the performance is excellent. Probably China is doing by far the best in terms of performance per unit of compute. And as I've said publicly, you know, I think China's going to address the compute limitation faster than most people expect. My rough guess would be that China addresses the compute constraints with lithography and chipmaking in about 2 or 3 years.

Elon Musk on AI: We don’t want to get complacent regarding the 10% probability of a bad outcome, so we need to — it’s important for us to pay close attention to AI safety. But let me tell you about the 90% positive outcome. The 90% positive outcome is that everyone’s got robots that are their buddies. And if you think of like Star Wars, where we had C-3PO and R2-D2, and they were friendly, helpful robots, well, wouldn’t it be great if everyone could have their own personal C-3PO, R2-D2, but even better than that? Like more productive, that could take care of elderly parents, or be a good guardian and watch over the children, or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child, and taking care of any jobs that you can think of. So that would be pretty cool.

Elon Musk: President Xi seems like a great leader. Under his tenure China has prospered immensely. If you visit China and you see the amount of progress that happens from one year to the next or even within a year, it's very visible. You can see the new buildings, the new infrastructure. It's also obvious to see that just walking around the streets, the increased prosperity of the average Chinese citizen has increased tremendously.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: All those actions that the United States should take are not new. They are all already in the MoU. They are all already under the commitments of the United States. So we don't see any difficulty to implement them. I can tell you, if there is seriousness in the U.S. side, to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared. They can accept this seven-day plan, and at the end of which, the Strait will be open.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has presented Washington with a “concrete seven-day plan” through Qatar to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin negotiations. Under the proposal, the seven-day period would begin once the U.S. accepts Iran’s conditions. Maritime traffic could resume on the sixth day, with negotiations toward a final agreement beginning on the seventh. “The choice now rests with the United States,” Araghchi said, stressing that Iran would not accept “coercion, threat, or intimidation” or surrender its sovereign rights under pressure. “Diplomacy is not surrender,” he added, warning that “peace cannot be built through threats of annihilation.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The United States cannot credibly claim to defend non-proliferation while attacking IAEA-safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: Until 28 February 2026, the Strait was open. The insecurity prevailing in the Strait of Hormuz and the disruption of maritime navigation are the direct result of the aggressive actions of the United States and the Israeli regime. You cannot bomb a country, threaten its annihilation, impose a maritime blockade and coercive measures, and expect automatic restoration of security and navigation. Responsibility also rests squarely with those regional states that, in flagrant disregard of the principles of good neighborliness and in violation of their international obligations under the UN Charter, enabled and facilitated the aggression by opening their territory, military bases, airspace, and logistical and intelligence infrastructure to the aggressors.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The allegation that Iran is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon is a big lie, first concocted by Israel in 2003, and the United States and European countries have been parroting it ever since. Iran has been a faithful party to the NPT since 1970 and has been subject to extensive IAEA monitoring for decades.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: The United States is now weaponizing economic deprivation as an instrument of collective punishment and political coercion. It is deliberately inflicting grave and foreseeable harm on the Iranian people and directly violating their fundamental rights, including the rights to life, health, medicine, and food. This is not diplomacy. It is coercion and economic terrorism.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: From the podium of the General Assembly, the U.S. President, along with the criminal Prime Minister of Israel, attempted to distort the facts and reverse the rules of victim and aggressor. The United States and the Israeli regime cannot whitewash their criminal acts against the people of Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue told Fox News that Washington’s position on Taiwan remains unchanged, emphasizing that the U.S. neither supports Taiwanese independence nor accepts coercion. He said Washington wants peace in the Taiwan Strait and a peaceful resolution between Taiwan and China. Perdue also said that President Trump urged Chinese President Xi Jinping during their White House meeting to stop any assistance to Iran. He described support to Iran as “totally unacceptable” and said Beijing had assured Washington it was not providing assistance. Perdue noted that the U.S. has already seen "movement" from China on the issue.

Reporter: Regarding the summit between Xi Jinping and President Trump, how do you feel about this? Are you jealous? President Putin: Jealousy is something from a completely different sphere — humanitarian relations between a man and a woman. In politics, in international politics, such categories are not really used, I think. We welcome negotiations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Why? Because these are the two largest economies in the world.

Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Estonia’s defense minister over remarks about a potential war with Russia, describing them as “political clownery” and commenting, “The circus has left, but the clowns remain.” Putin dismissed the comments as “complete nonsense,” pointing out that Estonia’s population of roughly 1.3 million is smaller than Russia’s military, which he said numbers 1.535 million personnel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine: They started everywhere. Is this some kind of toy? Some kind of children’s game? Therefore, they need to feel these retaliatory strikes from Russia and understand that no provocative actions, no escalation of the situation will lead to the result they want. They only make their situation worse.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Europe: They are trying to deceive citizens of European countries with the claim that Russia itself supposedly intends to attack someone. This is complete nonsense.