An emotional PM, AI alarm, Venezuela's 'rebirth' and other UN moments

Key players in some of the world's biggest conflicts were among speakers at the UN on the second day of its annual New York summit.

They included Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, who moved around Manhattan under the protection of the Secret Service despite his country's ongoing war with the US. ( You can read about his speech here .)

AI remained near the top of the agenda too, and Australia's prime minister threw a major revelation into the conversation.

The risks of rogue AI were destined to feature heavily at this year's summit — but nobody foresaw the bombshell news that an OpenAI agent had hacked into Australian Medicare data .

The hack happened in June, but the government apparently only found out a week ago, via an email in a public inbox.

Anthony Albanese shared the news on the same day OpenAI head Sam Altman was at a Security Council meeting on AI's dangers.

His presence at the summit meant Mr Albanese was able to have a "frank" chat with him and pass on "Australia's extreme concern".

But it is line with the mounting warnings about AI , which are starting to spur action from some world leaders , despite being dismissed as a "hoax" by US President Donald Trump .

At the Security Council meeting, which was called by France, Mr Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned of two main types of AI dangers: humans could misuse it, or humans could lose control of it.

Both AI chiefs said their companies would slow development, but called for global cooperation towards international standards — a mission that could be difficult, given Mr Trump's position and the dire state of diplomacy among some other key nations.

The White House's representative on the UN's AI panel, Michael Kratsios, said the US was committed to talks on new technology, but added: "International dialogue in this forum and in others cannot be allowed to drift towards global governance."

British representative Ed Miliband struck a different tone. "We cannot outsource to private companies the first duty of government — to protect our people, whatever the issue," he said.

Mr Amodei suggested the UN "begin with narrow agreements that every member can support, such as a ban on using AI to make biological weapons".

Anthony Albanese was close to tears when he caught up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the summit.