The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is
The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Satu…

Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.
Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology. The second called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The re…

Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.
Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regulation, and said the industry’s safety shift is responsible rather than self-interested. He spoke the same day four consumers filed …

Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.
Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.

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 ground…

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…

Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings
Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings

“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…

Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex
Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

“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 progr…

Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His co…

OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off
OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off

“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cu…

Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports
Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports

Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of China’s largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on which ones is still unknown, and the trip itself has not been officially co…