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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 Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive […]

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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 rename has taken most of the attention. The second post is the one that contains […]

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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 an antitrust complaint alleging the pacing push is exactly that. Mark Zuckerberg declined to join the coordination […]

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Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google. Buist v. Anthropic PBC alleges a horizontal agreement to slow the rate at which the four improve competing products, contrary to section 1 of the Sherman Act. Bloomberg Law reported the filing. It seeks treble damages […]

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Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit. Read More »

OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.

The Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278bn between 2026 and 2030, from a July presentation prepared for a computing deal. That figure is an improvement on the roughly $305bn the company projected in May, while the compute and infrastructure line has risen to about $856bn against the roughly $600bn […]

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OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn. Read More »

Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI has carried since July after SpaceX acquired it in February. Coverage still calls […]

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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s […]

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Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by […]

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Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last. Read More »

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 grounded in science, and said companies should pause or […]

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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 representative said chip export controls never came up. Five months […]

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