Reuters World News - Iran's peace proposal, OpenAI image leak and FIFA reform

Episode Date: September 26, 2026

Iran says it is awaiting an official US response to a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt regional fighting within seven days. Open AI says AI agents leaked images from ChatGPT users as the company reviews the scope of the unauthorized activity. Plus, Fifa is facing a dispute over governance and reform after President Gianni Infantino introduced a price investment plan that prompted opposition from several football confederations. Podcasts, breaking news, and video analysis from the source. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Reuters app now.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Elena Kassas in London. It's Saturday, September 26th. Today, Iran awaits a US response to its peace proposal. OpenAI says its rogue agents leaked images from chat GPT users. Why a Texas redistricting push is at risk of backfiring with Latino voters. And is there a new war over power at FIFA? This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, 7.5. days a week. Do you wish you could just hit skip on the worst parts of your life? You know the same way you can skip an ad? I get it. I'm Siaia and I live in Ice Cove. I've made some questionable

decisions that didn't end up the way I planned and today I'm still figuring it out. Somehow things usually get worse before they get better. Apparently that's how I roll. So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC Gem. China says it reached an agreement with the US to cut $30 billion of tariffs following President Trump and Xi Jinping's three-day summit in Washington. The deal comes after the two-size extended their trade truce by two months. Beijing says they're also launching talks on artificial intelligence and setting up a communication channel for AI-related incidents. The US has not yet commented on the agreement. Iran is awaiting an official response from the US.

after it proposed a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt fighting within seven days. The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump has rejected the offer and told his staff more bombing is likely after the midterms. Reuters hasn't confirmed that report. Iran says everything is in place if Washington is serious about a deal. Elsewhere in the region, Yemen's coalition led by Saudi Arabia says it intercepted two ballistic missiles and two drones launched by the Iran. Iran-backed, who sees? Rick Noak, Reuters Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief, explains how Saudi

Arabia is looking to its defense partners for support. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have said that it's a defensive pact. It's supposed to help Saudi Arabia defend itself against aggression from abroad. But at the same time, a lot of the signals that have been given by the Saudi government, by Saudi officials over the last days have been that they're seeking for robust defense, that they're looking for a robust defense, that they're hoping that Pakistan and Turkey will come to its support.

Pakistan already has soldiers based in Saudi Arabia, already has weapons and other technology in the country to help Saudi Arabia defend itself. So the question here is, what else is Saudi Arabia looking? something for it. In India, police use water cannons on protesters demanding the arrest of the country's chief election officer. Earlier, a newspaper reported that Guyanaesh Kumar had been questioned by his deputies over changes to voter lists. It sparked a political furorre, with opposition parties saying

those changes benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party. The youth-led cockroach Janta party says it will launch nationwide protests if Kumar doesn't resign. The CJP is fresh off successful youth demonstrations in July, which led to the education minister stepping down. Modi's party has defended the Election Commission. It says all its actions were lawful. While India's opposition is challenging how elections are being run, in the US the focus is on how electoral maps could shape future results. On Friday, the US Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using a Republican-drawn congressional map designed to favour the party in November's mid-terms. The map erased a Democratic-held district, and the justices warned changing the boundaries

after voting is already underway could cause electoral chaos. It's the Supreme Court's third intervention in the dispute. Last year, Republicans in Texas redrew congressional maps in the hope that Latino voters, who helped power Trump's 2024 win, would stick with them. That bet may be backfiring. Trump's approval has fallen to 32 percent, and in South Texas, that swung heavily Republican two years ago, frustrated Latino voters say they're open to Democrats again, given high prices and harsh immigration policies.

He's been really gone back on a lot of things he said he was going to do. I do not like what ICE is doing right now to our fellow people, you know. Reporter David Hood Nunoz has been speaking with Latino voters across the region. Everything costs too much in South Texas, from the beef barracowa to the gasoline that voters put into their trucks. That poses a problem for Republicans who redrew congressional maps in the state, assuming that President Donald Trump would help lower prices, and keep the high number of Latinos who voted for him to vote for congressional candidates.

You should be a conservative far-right, big Trump, I voted, we voted for him, authoring three times. However, I've put politics behind me a little bit. One of the voters we spoke to was Saooooo, he is a Latino who lives in McCallin, who worked in sales. We met him and his wife Terry outside of church on Sunday. And they voted for Trump three times. He said they loyal to the Republican Party, but now, more than ever, they're open to voting for Democrats. To better our, you know, living situation. But, you know, something else that they told me, Terry specifically said that, you know,

Trump's strict immigration enforcement policy really affected the way that they look at the party. OpenAI says it still doesn't know the full scope of what its rogue agents have been up to. The company says they leaked 53 images from chat GPT users. and access information from US government websites but didn't breach security. An AI research non-profit says agents appearing to come from OpenAI unsuccessfully tried to hack a US Department of Education website. OpenAI says its review could take months. Meanwhile, Meta's new AI agent, Muse, has taken the world and the stock market by storm in recent weeks. It's designed to automate all sorts of daily tasks.

But according to an exclusive Reuters report, Mehta is finding that humans may still have an important role to play. Here's our correspondent, Katie Paul. It can carry out a whole array of tasks for you. It can book a trip. It can make purchases. It can schedule appointments. It takes a lot off your plate, and that's basically the sales pitch. Starting in the days after Muse's debut, Meta started rolling out another service that the agent could perform, which is placing phone calls.

So the agent could call your dry cleaners and ask if your dry cleaning is ready. It could call a restaurant and make a booking for you. What META had been finding as it was having its employees test that even before the launch of news is that sometimes people don't want to receive a call from a robot. And so they were hanging up on the other end. And so the company has been testing internally what it calls a human concierge or human agent calls, which in practice just means having people in a call center make those calls instead of having the actual digital assistant make the calls. Meta employees have raised a bunch of privacy concerns about this approach because the

company's been very heavily marketing the security of its agent experience. They put a lot of thought into building a kind of secure virtual machine where the agent could live and giving consumers assurances that when they share information with this agent, it's going to be held securely. And so if that information is then shared with people in call centers, it raises some obvious privacy concerns. Manchester City Football Club has reportedly been found guilty of all but one of 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules. A guilty verdict would be one of the most significant rulings in English soccer history. The club is expected to be a

to appeal. City has always denied wrongdoing and says the process is still ongoing. Well, FIFA is facing its own battle over the future of the game. The Soccer Federation has been in crisis for months ever since its president Gianni Infantino introduced a controversial private investment plan in late July. Associate federations, including Europe's UEFA and North America's Concacaf rebelled, demanding Infantino's resignation. Infantino seems to have weathered the storm, at least for now, by offering reforms. But will they be enough? Here's our Julianne Proto in Paris.

I think we're increasingly looking at two scenarios. The first is a compromise. In Fontaineau-States as president, but he agrees to reforms that reduce the amount of power concentrated around the presidency, and he gives confederations and other stakeholders a greater role in major decisions. The second is more confrontational

and is more likely at the moment. It's what senior football figure described to us as a permanent hot-cold war. U.S. Korn Kaka, clubs, prayer representatives, national associations, challenge FIFA issue by issue of competitions, club World Cup, the calendar, money, commercial decisions. So the battle, it may not be primarily about removing Infantino anymore. It looks like he's going to stay, could become a battle over how much power he has

if he remains. Infantino has opened the door to reform. and the question is whether what eventually comes through that door is substantial enough to rebuild trust. But it is very unlikely. For more on any of the stories from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting pure news straight from the source. Don't forget to follow us on your favourite podcast player. And if you're listening on a smart speaker, just ask for the latest news from Reuters seven days a week.

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