The UN General Assembly voted to move away from the Mercator world map toward a projection that represents continents’ relative sizes more accurately. Togo sponsored the resolution, which received support from 164 countries; the United States cast the only opposing vote. Critics say the traditional projection exaggerates and centres Western countries while diminishing Africa.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation after Tesla put its first production Cybercabs on Austin roads. Regulators are examining whether the self-driving taxi, which has neither a steering wheel nor pedals, meets federal vehicle-safety rules and reviewing the process and data Tesla used to certify it.
OpenAI changed evaluation figures published for Astra after the model’s launch, Fortune reports. Some revisions improved Astra’s reported performance while making rival models appear weaker. The available RSS material does not identify every benchmark affected, quantify each adjustment or state why the figures changed, leaving the significance of the revisions unclear.
Real Betis beat Real Madrid 1-0 to end Madrid’s perfect opening to the La Liga season. Substitute Troy Parrott scored nine minutes from time, and goalkeeper Álvaro Valles saved Kylian Mbappé’s stoppage-time penalty. The result delivered Betis a late victory while denying Madrid a point after it had a final chance to equalise.
President Donald Trump called the conflict with Iran “small potatoes,” saying the United States was not fighting at that moment despite a recent exchange of fire. Reports say 18 US service members have been killed. Trump compared that toll with the Vietnam War, while the available RSS material did not include an Iranian response.
Google updated Chrome to fix an actively exploited, high-severity zero-day vulnerability in its V8 engine, along with 11 other security flaws. Reports say the zero-day could enable remote code execution inside Chrome’s sandboxed renderer process. The available RSS material does not identify the attackers, victims or scale of exploitation.
Anthropic is close to awarding Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs leading roles in a potential initial public offering that could value the AI company at $2 trillion, the Financial Times reports. The company could unveil underlying paperwork as soon as next week. The available RSS material does not provide the proposed offer size or timetable.
Serena and Venus Williams lost to Hao-Ching Chan and Maya Joint in a deciding tiebreaker in the first round of the US Open women’s doubles. It was the sisters’ first appearance together at the tournament in four years. Their three-set defeat ended a closely watched return for two of the sport’s most decorated siblings.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to travel to Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend to try to revive stalled negotiations on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Reports say it will be their first visit to Kyiv in this diplomatic effort. The available RSS material does not describe any agreed agenda, concessions or ceasefire terms.
Nvidia launched DLSS 5 in NBA 2K27 for RTX 50-series graphics cards and said support for older RTX 40-series GPUs will follow once performance on the newer generation is more fully tuned. Reports describe the technology as neural rendering; Nvidia did not confirm whether every previously announced DLSS 5 game remains scheduled.