AI & Protest: A 69-year-old retired teacher in San Francisco, Wynd Kaufmyn, has become the first person jailed for an anti-AI protest after chaining and locking OpenAI’s office doors, saying she was “sounding the alarm” on AI risks. Western Sahara Tech & Energy: In Laayoune, ORNX Green Hydrogen has selected US engineering firm KBR for the Pre-FEED phase of a low-carbon ammonia project targeting ~560,000 tonnes/year, using ~900 MW of electrolyser capacity and supported by the US Trade and Development Agency. US-Morocco Infrastructure: US Embassy officials visited the Dakhla Atlantic Port, framing it as a trade and investment gateway and linking it to broader cooperation in energy, AI, critical minerals, and defense. UN Peacekeeping: UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Pakistan’s Maj Gen Jawwad Ahmed as the new MINURSO Force Commander, succeeding a Bangladeshi general. Sahrawi Cause & Digital Narratives: At a Polisario summer university in Boumerdes, Algerian academics urged Sahrawi cadres to use technology and social media to counter disinformation and highlight Western Sahara’s resource and sovereignty issues. Ceuta Migration Tech Debate: New analysis of Spain’s Ceuta crossing reports highlights contradictions around a “mysterious Algerian number,” arguing it points to coordination rather than leaderless mobilization.