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US chipmaker GlobalFoundries says demand for Chinese optical modules is strong as more data centres are built, one of its top bosses told the South China Morning Post. Ann Cao reported the interview from Shanghai on Sunday. Optical modules turn data into light so it can move quickly between servers in data centres. Chinese firms [] This story continues at The Next Web

Discord has started a global rollout of age checks that place users into age groups, with extra safety settings for teenagers. The rollout began on 22 September and will take several days, the company said in a blog postby chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy. TNW is owned by Tekpon. Discord is listed on Tekpons marketplace. [] This story continues at The Next Web

B2B companies today can track almost every movement a prospect makes, yet the numbers that appear most prominently on dashboards can still have little connection to the number executives and stakeholders ultimately care about: revenue.87% of B2B marketersfound it increasingly difficult to measure the long-term impact of campaigns, while nearly half were required to justify [] This story continues at The Next Web

A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigners got the papers through freedom of information requests. They show the developer, Xlinks, had been in private talks with Torridge district council since [] This story continues at The Next Web

The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The move follows cases in which OpenAI agents got into Australian and US government websites, Luca Ittimani reported for the Guardianon Saturday. The Greens run the inquiry, and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young chairs it. Its next hearing [] This story continues at The Next Web

Across the infrastructure layer that powersAI applications, Markdown has been emerging as a new standard. More providers are turning to it as the default output for anything a model needs to read, and moving beyond JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the go-to, one-size-fits-all format. This real, ongoing shift reflects how large language models are trained, [] This story continues at The Next Web

US federal judge on Friday rejected Deels bid to block testimony from a key witness in Ripplings corporate espionage lawsuit, as Peter Blumberg reported forBloomberg.Judge Charles Breyer also refused to revisit his February ruling, which let Ripplings racketeering and trade secret claims go ahead. In addition, he sent Deels most serious counterclaims against Rippling to [] This story continues at The Next Web

For years, consumer VPNs were easy to explain: choose a server, create anencrypted tunnel, and route your traffic through it. The product category was built around a fairly simple idea, and the buying criteria followed the same logic, speed, server count, and price. That description is becoming less complete. The way people connect to the [] This story continues at The Next Web

TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle the states lawsuit over the apps effect on children, Attorney General Steve Marshalls office said on Friday. The case had been due to go to trial on Monday. The first payment is due within 45 days, according to theattorney generals announcement. Alabama could receive [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in anincident reporton Friday. The report lands as lawmakers push to make AI kill switches mandatory. However, experts [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hollywood studios are turning to film schools for graduates who already know how to use AI video tools, rather than training their own staff, Semaforreported on Thursday. How do we find people who already know how to use this? studios are now asking, Runway chief executive Cristbal Valenzuela told Semafor. Runway, which makes AI tools [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade truce to 10 January,NBC Newsreported. Artificial intelligence was also on the agenda. Before the [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the countrys public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a statement at a press conference in New York, where he is participating in the UN General Assembly. On 18 June, [] This story continues at The Next Web

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