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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump had a “tense” and “uncomfortable” meeting at the White House on October 17, 2025, according to sources. The conflict reportedly centered on Zelenskyy’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles, which Trump declined to provide after speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. [1, 2, 3]Details of the meeting:
Missile request declined: Zelenskyy had hoped to secure a commitment for long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, but Trump pushed back and showed no flexibility on the issue, citing concerns about depleting U.S. military stockpiles and the risk of escalation.
Timing after Putin call: The meeting took place a day after Trump had a lengthy phone call with Putin. Sources noted Trump’s attitude seemed to have shifted after that conversation.
Call for a ceasefire: Following the meeting, Trump posted on social media calling on Ukraine and Russia to “stop where they are” and end the war. Zelenskyy later agreed that both sides needed to stop, but noted that Russia was the aggressor.
Abrupt ending: The meeting, which lasted over two hours, ended abruptly with Trump reportedly saying, “I think we’re done.” The discussion was described as “not easy” and even “bad” by some sources.
Prior tense meetings: This was not the first contentious encounter. In February 2025, another White House meeting between the two leaders reportedly devolved into a shouting match over a potential minerals deal and Trump’s perception that Zelenskyy was ungrateful. [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]Aftermath and reactions:
Mixed messages from Zelenskyy: While some reports indicated Zelenskyy left the meeting early and declined to speak to reporters, he later posted on social media that the conversation was “pointed” but could help end the war. He also appeared on Fox News to express thanks for U.S. support and state that Ukraine was ready for peace.
Putin meeting planned: Trump indicated his plans for an upcoming meeting with Putin in Budapest, citing a good relationship with Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán. When asked, he said Zelenskyy was not likely to be included in the meeting.
European support: European leaders quickly rallied behind Zelenskyy after the meeting, reaffirming their support for Ukraine. [3, 7, 8, 9, 10]AI responses may include mistakes.
[1] euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/…
[2] turkiyetoday.com/world/trump…
[3] cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…
[4] npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-557…
[5] pbs.org/newshour/politics/wa…
[6] houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2…
[7] npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-531…
[8] facebook.com/awesomeitv/post…
[9] abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum…
[10] wbal.com/trump-to-host-zelen…Zelenskyy at a “tense” meeting in Washington – Google Search google.com/search?q=Zelensky…
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 18, 2025
#Zelenskyy at a “tense” meeting in #Washington – #AIOverview
google.com/search?q=Zelensky…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump had a “tense” and “uncomfortable” meeting at the White House on October 17, 2025, according to sources. The conflict reportedly centered on Zelenskyy’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles, which Trump declined to provide after speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. [1, 2, 3]Details of the meeting:
Missile request declined: Zelenskyy had hoped to secure a commitment for long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, but Trump pushed back and showed no flexibility on the issue, citing concerns about depleting U.S. military stockpiles and the risk of escalation.
Timing after Putin call: The meeting took place a day after Trump had a lengthy phone call with Putin. Sources noted Trump’s attitude seemed to have shifted after that conversation.
Call for a ceasefire: Following the meeting, Trump posted on social media calling on Ukraine and Russia to “stop where they are” and end the war. Zelenskyy later agreed that both sides needed to stop, but noted that Russia was the aggressor.
Abrupt ending: The meeting, which lasted over two hours, ended abruptly with Trump reportedly saying, “I think we’re done.” The discussion was described as “not easy” and even “bad” by some sources.
Prior tense meetings: This was not the first contentious encounter. In February 2025, another White House meeting between the two leaders reportedly devolved into a shouting match over a potential minerals deal and Trump’s perception that Zelenskyy was ungrateful. [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]Aftermath and reactions:
Mixed messages from Zelenskyy: While some reports indicated Zelenskyy left the meeting early and declined to speak to reporters, he later posted on social media that the conversation was “pointed” but could help end the war. He also appeared on Fox News to express thanks for U.S. support and state that Ukraine was ready for peace.
Putin meeting planned: Trump indicated his plans for an upcoming meeting with Putin in Budapest, citing a good relationship with Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán. When asked, he said Zelenskyy was not likely to be included in the meeting.
European support: European leaders quickly rallied behind Zelenskyy after the meeting, reaffirming their support for Ukraine. [3, 7, 8, 9, 10]AI responses may include mistakes.
[1] euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/…
[2] turkiyetoday.com/world/trump…
[3] cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…
[4] npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-557…
[5] pbs.org/newshour/politics/wa…
[6] houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2…
[7] npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-531…
[8] facebook.com/awesomeitv/post…
[9] abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum…
[10] wbal.com/trump-to-host-zelen…Zelenskyy at a “tense” meeting in Washington – Google Search google.com/search?q=Zelensky…
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 18, 2025
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- BCG Global Chief AI Ethics Officer Steven Mills said employees crave AI training.
- The consulting giant’s research shows most employees want roughly five hours of training.
- Once workers learn the basics, Mills said, that’s when the real value begins.
Companies that want to successfully deploy AI can’t just throw workers into the deep end.
“What we found is that employees want about five hours of hands-on training, and coaching, and mentoring,” Boston Consulting Group Global Chief AI Ethics Officer Steven Mills told Business Insider. “Only about a third are actually getting that.”
Mills, who spoke to Business Insider on the sidelines of Semafor’s World Economic Summit, said the real value starts once employees see what AI can do.
“What we see is once they get the taste of value, let’s say they start using it to help them edit bullet points for an email or something, and they’re like, oh, that actually works really well,” he said. “And so they instantly start thinking about how else they could use it, and so it creates this virtuous cycle. It’s like the more value they get, the more they use it, and it amplifies.”
Last month, BCG released a report that found that only 5% of companies are deriving value from AI. Mills, who also leads BCG’s Center for Digital Government, said the onus is really on companies “to reimagine the art of the possible,” instead of just treating AI like another tool.
“A big thing that organizations are not doing is stepping back and saying, ‘How do we really reimagine our business processes, our service offerings, now that we have AI?'” Mills said. “This is a really transformational tool. It can do new things that we could never ever do before, so we shouldn’t just shove it into a legacy human-centric process.”
At BCG, Mills works with governments worldwide. He said that the growing adoption of AI in the private sector is helping push public officials to do the same.
“I think governments have been sort of a beat behind, but they’re actually playing catch-up really, really fast in a way that I don’t know that we’ve seen before,” Mills said.
Leading AI companies, including OpenAI, which partners with BCG, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, have offered their AI agents at almost no cost to federal agencies. Mills said that this affordable access will soon yield significant dividends.
“I think you’ll see a big hockey stick in terms of rate of adoption here soon. I just think there’s a need,” Mills said. “If people want to use this technology, they use it in their private lives now. They want access to it at work.”
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If Douglas Troutman is confirmed, the top four toxics office at the environmental agency will be held by ex-lobbyists
The US Senate is poised to approve Donald Trump’s nomination of an industry lobbyist to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office.
If the nominee, Douglas Troutman, is confirmed, the top four toxics office positions at the EPA will be held by former chemical industry lobbyists, raising new fears about the health and safety of the American public, consumers and workers, campaigners say.
Stoats have been an existential threat to Orkney’s rare birds but technology is helping to eradicate them
At first, the stoat looks like a faint smudge in the distance. But, as it jumps closer, its sleek body is identified by a heat-detecting camera and, with it, an alert goes out to Orkney’s stoat hunters.
Aided by an artificial intelligence programme trained to detect a stoat’s sinuous shape and movement, trapping teams are dispatched with the explicit aim of finding and killing it. It is the most sophisticated technology deployed in one of the world’s largest mammal eradication projects, which has the aim of detecting the few stoats left on Orkney.