Four takeaways from day two of the UN General Assembly summit

Anthony Albanese and Volodymyr Zelenskyy embrace as they finalise a security deal. ( AAP: Mick Tsikas )

Link copied Share Share article 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 .