Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s 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. E…

Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced

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 wit…

The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia
The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia

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 requir…

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down

Dario Amodei has called on the AI industry to slow the pace at which it improves models, committing Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asking Washington for an antitrust waiver so competitors can coordinate on safety. Much of what he desc…

Oracle has set aside $700M more for job cuts it has not made yet
Oracle has set aside $700M more for job cuts it has not made yet

Oracle has raised the cost of its 2026 restructuring by $700M to about $2.8B, covering actions it says it expects to take, and disclosed a plan letting Larry Ellison sell 50 million shares by 24 October. Roughly 92,000 of its 141,000 staff work outside…

China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says
China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says

China’s AI industry is moving from competing on models to deploying agents, and the China Telecom Research Institute expects inference to reach 80% of the country’s compute market by 2029. Europe’s answer is seven gigafactories whose bids close in Nove…

Li Auto will launch in Europe this quarter, six years earlier than it said it would
Li Auto will launch in Europe this quarter, six years earlier than it said it would

Li Auto will show the Li 6 at next month’s 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 EU’s duty on Chinese electric cars expl…

Lawmaker demands federal action after 43 Tesla drivers were filmed asleep at the wheel
Lawmaker demands federal action after 43 Tesla drivers were filmed asleep at the wheel

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 Illin…

China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go
China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go

China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating its full-year total for 2025 with four months to spare, while domestic sales fell 25.6% in August. Europe absorbed much of the growth through plug-in hy…

Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software
Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software

Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Europe, with nobody in the driver’s seat and Uber taking the bookings. The pair want more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, but the only EU-wide appr…