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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

Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japans Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest in a run of partnerships its chief executive says are necessary because no single company can bring all-solid-state batteries to market. ProLogium, which is building Europes solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial [] 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

We decline plaintiffs invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims, Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their [] This story continues at The Next Web

As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone, said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. Legal professionals need more than access to information. He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index. OpenAI introduced Astra for Law [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mozilla has partnered with Mistral AI to bring the French companys models to Smart Window, the AI browsing assistant in beta in Firefox. The two companies announced the deal on Wednesday in ajoint post, alongside the features launch in France. Smart Window,introduced by Mozillain August, is a separate AI-assisted browsing mode. It summarises complex searches [] This story continues at The Next Web

We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer, OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the company will track, investigate and disclose model misalignment. OpenAI uses the [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Scaleup Europe Fund, a 5bn growth fund backed by the European Commission, is in discussions to invest in the voice AI company ElevenLabs, according to Bloomberg. The report says ElevenLabs aims to raise over $500 million in this funding round. Talks are ongoing, and there is no guarantee a deal will happen, according to [] This story continues at The Next Web

According to a report by Nikkei Asia on Thursday, Japan and the United States are negotiating to set up a semiconductor factory as part of their $550bn investment agreement. The project would be worth between 2trn and 3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and will be run by the US chipmaker GlobalFoundries, which makes logic chips. Nikkei [] This story continues at The Next Web

Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track [] This story continues at The Next Web

King Charles will host a meeting at Dumfries House, his Ayrshire estate and the home of the Kings Foundation, having invited executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The event is being run by the Ditchley Foundation, the Kings Trust, the Kings Foundation and the Sustainable Markets Initiative. Politico had reported last week that [] This story continues at The Next Web

Developers can improve artificial intelligence systems in various ways. The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expensive. That is why the AI startup Sentient Labs has been looking at ways to teach models to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Strasbourg The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, also requires platforms to show that their services are safe [] This story continues at The Next Web

This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks, wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple is developing an enterprise server built on its own M8 Ultra chips and has discussed using Nvidias NVLink Fusion to connect them, aiming at AI developers, companies and governments from around 2029, The Information reported. The European Commission proposed its Cloud and AI Development Act in June, grading public cloud contracts by how far [] 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

Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Fortune on 12 September. Now OpenAI is considering one more private funding round before its IPO, at a valuation of about $1.5tn. The New York Times reported the plan on 16 September, citing people familiar with the matter. The [] This story continues at The Next Web

Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret. That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, A warning about model welfare, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect it [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those data centres faster. The three companies are the founding members, according to the launch [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and several regional newspapers, is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news websites. The company says this is because Google now answers more questions with AI, leading to a sharp drop in website traffic. According to The Guardian, chief content officer David Higgerson [] 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

We dont need any new laws. We dont need new regulations, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforces Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down, which he set out in an [] This story continues at The Next Web

Revolut has received its licence to operate from Colombias financial regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC). The company said the licence is the last regulatory step it needs before it launches in the country. Revolut announced the approval on 15 September. The licence allows it to operate as a regulated bank in Colombia. Around [] This story continues at The Next Web

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a HOAX in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a negative force. Concerning AI, when, in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europes reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a speech in Vienna on 14 September. Its title was A [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI kill switches mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14 September. Economics editor Faisal Islam asked whether Anthropic could pull [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon Web Services has told customers it cannot restore access to its cloud facility in Bahrain or one of its three data hosting zones in the UAE, six months after drone strikes hit its sites in the Gulf. The explanation matters because it shows the limits of the resilience built into cloud infrastructure. The damage [] 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

Grand View Research puts the enterprise agentic AI market at $24.5 billion by 2030. On the other hand, MarketsandMarkets estimates the AI agents market size at $52.62 billion over the same horizon. Both start from a mid-single-digit-billion base and both land on a compound growth rate near 46%. When two credible forecasters agree that closely [] 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

xAI and X Corp asked a Texas judge to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple over the integration of ChatGPT into the iPhone, while keeping their monopolisation claims against OpenAI. The Digital Markets Act lists virtual assistants as a core platform service, no assistant has ever been designated, and the Commissions April review declined to [] 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

Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, using Nvidias cuQuantum toolkit, and the company reports a 15-fold speedup over earlier results for modelling many-body systems. [] 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

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