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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 Saturday, rather than through an executive order or official briefing. “He […]

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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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US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 55% against 6%, and the OECD attributes the gap to regulatory architecture. Most of […]

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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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TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends to keep oversight of the company’s privacy practices. Wu wrote that the order imposed […]

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Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO

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 […]

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Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full shutdown, in September 2024. Gavin Newsom signed […]

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Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs

Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material, the lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, came from Porsche’s own end-of-life packs. The EU Batteries Regulation will require only 6% recycled lithium and 6% recycled nickel in a new battery from August 2031. Porsche and the […]

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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 argument is that Chinese developers have not yet hit the safety […]

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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 confirmed. According to Reuters, citing three individuals familiar with the situation, the seven […]

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