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Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world by 2030, and that the industry should go as fast as it can irrespective of anyone else. Weeks earlier he declined to call AI fears a hoax, described apocalyptic predictions as not grounded in science, and said companies should pause or [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade representative said chip export controls never came up. Five months [] This story continues at The Next Web

Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropics Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and an internal code repository, in under 72 hours. They disclosed privately, OpenAI patched the single sign-on flaw in about 14 hours, and the team was paid $6,500. Neither weakness was an AI vulnerability, and the research paper [] This story continues at The Next Web

The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense, the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of its characters, and the company barred under-18s from open-ended chat two months later. Disney has named Karandeep [] This story continues at The Next Web

Today, were introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for businesses, OpenAI said on 16 September. The biggest change is a test of Sponsored Agents. After clicking an ad in ChatGPT, a user can choose to start a conversation with an agent that a business sponsors, OpenAI announced. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Veridionhas raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the worlds businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate puts the graph at 642 million companies [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15, the [] This story continues at The Next Web

According to an exclusive Reuters report, based on information from three individuals involved in the talks, SK Hynix is negotiating a deal that would mark the first time the South Korean company manufactures memory chips in the United States. One possibility is for the company to lease part of Intels chip-making site in Ohio, and [] This story continues at The Next Web

In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industrys call for a slowdown. The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industrys efforts to pace the frontier of this disruptive technology, the Commission president said, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens, said Mark Zuckerberg in a post on X on Tuesday. In the context of these days, when everyone is talking about responsibility, the danger of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the countrys Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critical infrastructure and a target, he told Salesforce chief [] This story continues at The Next Web

There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into generalities. A childhood becomes happy. A marriage was good. A migration, a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk again teased combining Tesla and SpaceX, telling the All-In Summit who could imagine what action one might take when theres so much close collaboration in so many areas. Any such deal would very likely cross the EU merger thresholds, which would stop it being implemented until the European Commission cleared it. Elon Musk [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand. I too am extremely concerned by the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. I dont think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex computer chip in the world but cant figure out how to put [] This story continues at The Next Web

Grocery shopping has become a strange paradox of modern retail, where consumers can order dinner from their phones, receive groceries at their doors, and have previous baskets saved for instant repurchase. Yet the basic chore of deciding what to buy appears to remain stubbornly intact. The convenience revolution may have changed the logistics of grocery [] This story continues at The Next Web

Years before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal was already building mortgage software. Earlier in his career at Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. he developed ReverseSoft, a backend platform for reverse mortgage operations that, according to the company, was later adopted by lenders beyond Sun West. That work came after Agarwal had already spent time in several [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbots replies under the internal codename Project Lily, and did not answer when asked where it had told users. The Court of Justice held last September that a controllers duty to inform applies at collection and does not depend on whether [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisers, wiring the chatbot into portfolio and research tools from BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and iCapital, and says it will not give investment advice. Under MiFID II advice turns on a five-part test in which suitability can be implied rather than stated, and ESMA has told firms that using [] This story continues at The Next Web

Volkswagens Mission Efficiency concept set three certified records, including a 0.158 drag coefficient and a 1,278 km run from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charging stop. European rules count every battery car as zero at the tailpipe, and the proposed incentive for small electric cars excludes anything longer than 4.2 metres. Volkswagen says it has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Oracle began another fresh round of layoffs on Monday. Three affected employees and a copy of the notification email described the round to Business Insider, which reported that staff were told their role had been eliminated as part of a broader organizational change and that today is your last working day. Posts from people saying [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. Alignment will not come from behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission will present the EU Kids Act on Thursday, its legislative response to more than a year of pressure from member states and parents over the impact of social media on children. Ursula von der Leyen and Henna Virkkunen, the EUs technology chief, will introduce the proposal in Brussels. The central idea is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft has published a code of conduct for the models it builds itself, and the commitment at the centre of it is blunt. MAI models will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown. The document went up on Monday alongside a six-week public consultation. Three further behavioural commitments sit beside it. The models will not [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is the package service for the Ruby programming language. The confirmation followed a report by three AI researchers, published on Friday. It sets out [] This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce is taking the word Agentforce out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reversal undoes a rebrand that is less than a year old. [] This story continues at The Next Web

BRKZ is a technology-enabled building materials procurement platform in Saudi Arabia. It has announced $31 million in new capital to fuel its next phase of growth. That includes advancing its AI-powered pricing and fulfillment engine. It also includes rolling out embedded financing solutions for its network of contractors and suppliers. The funding includes $13 million [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropics commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver so competitors could coordinate. Europe has no waiver to grant, because Brussels abolished individual exemptions in 2004, and the only soft safe [] This story continues at The Next Web

Larry Ellison has cancelled a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million Oracle shares by 24 October, a day after the plan was disclosed and with no stock sold under it. The instrument is a Rule 10b5-1 plan, an American safe harbour with no European counterpart, because EU market abuse [] This story continues at The Next Web

The US transportation secretary has told Ford to cut ties with CATL and Geely, objecting among other things to the joint venture the carmaker is building with Geely at its plant in Valencia. The European Parliament is tightening a law that would require exactly that arrangement, forcing Chinese investors in strategic sectors into EU joint [] This story continues at The Next Web

Larry Ellison has been absent from Oracles earnings calls this year and is not on the billing for next months user conference, a year after the company promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-chief executives. Magouyrk built the cloud business whose European proposition is a sovereign region operated by EU legal entities, a product [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropics initial public offering, which seeks as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2trn and would be the largest listing in history. Three days earlier it returned as an investor in Mistrals EUR 3bn round, the largest ever raised by a European technology company [] This story continues at The Next Web

Li Auto will show the Li 6 at next months Paris Motor Show and start selling in Europe in the fourth quarter, six years earlier than its founder said it would. It is bringing only its battery models, because the EUs duty on Chinese electric cars explicitly covers extended-range vehicles, the type that make up [] This story continues at The Next Web

A US congressman has asked federal regulators what they intend to do about Tesla drivers who sleep while Full Self-Driving is switched on, demanding answers from the transportation secretary by 30 September. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who represents an Illinois district, wants to know whether Teslas cabin camera still works when a driver wears sunglasses or covers [] This story continues at The Next Web

Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK governments cloud buying framework, according to the Digital Marketplace. They cover conversational agents, transcription, dubbing and text-to-speech. Three months ago the same government signed an agreement with the company that committed it to buying nothing. TNW reported in June that the [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI is already changing how people find and buy things online, comparing prices, narrowing down options, doing in seconds what used to take an afternoon of tabs open. An AI agent could find a flight that fits your schedule, for example. Giving it permission to actually buy the ticket is a more complicated problem. That [] This story continues at The Next Web

The United Arab Emirates plans to invest 40bn ($46.4bn) in Germany, including in new data centres with a combined capacity of about one gigawatt. The two countries announced the package in a joint declaration on 10 September. UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was on a state visit to Germany, where he met [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the companys flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a converted microkitchen in Gradient Canopy, a building at the companys Mountain View headquarters. Some of the people said recent [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, with licensed market data built into the product. It is designed around the work financial analysts already do, including valuations, leveraged buyout models, buyer screening, earnings analysis, and pitchbooks. The product was announced on Thursday. It runs on GPT-6 Astra and was developed [] This story continues at The Next Web

California has banned personalised recommendation feeds and autoplay for users under 16, in a package of 13 bills signed on Thursday that also imposes crisis protocols, independent audits and annual risk assessments on companion chatbots. Governor Gavin Newsomsigned the packageon 10 September. The feed provisions prohibit serving minors content ranked on their own history and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for harm. The company said it detected and shut down these operations. They ran across cyberattacks, state surveillance, influence campaigns, conventional weapons work and biological research. It set out the cases in a threat intelligence report [] This story continues at The Next Web

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the matter. The Wall Street Journal followed on Thursday and reported [] This story continues at The Next Web

Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers it, and lack physiological signal. Her startup combines EEG data with clinician-defined guardrails to build something purpose-built for [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features rather than model research, including the ability to share the prompt alongside [] This story continues at The Next Web

Growth hacking was supposed to be dead. The term had a good run. Sean Ellis coined it in 2010, and for a decade it described the scrappy, slightly unholy tricks that built the consumer internet: Airbnb piggybacking on Craigslist, Dropbox handing out free storage for referrals, Hotmail signing every outgoing email with an ad for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus, as an advisory partner. His stated contribution is US connectivity from Silicon Valley, meaning talent, company connections and capital. Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures as an advisory [] This story continues at The Next Web

Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmakers that signed memoranda to supply the EUs AI gigafactories, a programme with roughly EUR 1B actually [] This story continues at The Next Web