DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports

According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-me…

European AUDI buyers could be facing a lawsuit from … Audi
European AUDI buyers could be facing a lawsuit from … Audi

A joint venture between Chinese carmaker SAIC and German car brand Audi, the all-electric AUDI (all caps) brand has been turning heads in the Chinese market with solid all-weather performance, reasonable prices and plenty of chunky Teutonic style. Now,…

The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on S…

China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip
China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given a…

Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.

A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wen…

From 10-97% SOC in 9 minutes: Sunwoda joins the flash charging race
From 10-97% SOC in 9 minutes: Sunwoda joins the flash charging race

Chinese battery brand Sunwoda has just revealed a new EV battery charging system that can add 100 km (~62 miles) of range to an EV every minute, and can take a battery from from 10-97% SOC in less than 10 minutes. At room temperature.

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Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

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 repre…

Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech
Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech

“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a p…

Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035
Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035

“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is…

Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear
Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argu…