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UK space strategy puts £7.8bn behind defence, satellites and ESA to 2030

The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by £7.8bn to 2030. It brings the government’s civil and military space spending under one plan. The government’s announcement on 8 September named national security and defence as its key pillars, alongside growth. The UK Space Strategy formally replaces the National Space Strategy of 2021. […]

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China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears

China’s foreign ministry has rejected the joint US intelligence advisory accusing Chinese developers of extracting capabilities from American frontier models at industrial scale, calling on Washington to stop making unfounded accusations and smears. Mao Ning, a ministry spokesperson, said China’s AI development is the result of high-level technological self-reliance and strength, according to accounts of her remarks. […]

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Bernie Sanders convenes a private Senate briefing on AI dangers

Bernie Sanders will convene a private, bipartisan briefing for senators on the risks of artificial intelligence on 16 September. Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra will address the room for an hour on Capitol Hill. The briefing was reported by Axios, byline Maria Curi. Sanders said AI has been receiving enormous attention in recent […]

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OpenAI asks Congress for mandatory national AI safety rules before it adjourns

OpenAI has called for mandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulation in the United States, setting out a list of requirements it wants imposed on itself and its competitors, and urging Congress to legislate before it adjourns. The proposal was published on Wednesday by Chris Lehane, the company’s chief global affairs officer. It asks for common testing […]

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Google and NASA JPL release an AI model that maps methane plumes worldwide

Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Methane Regulation ordered a satellite monitoring tool and a super-emitter alert system, but it covers only […]

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Google adds three features to its AI plans, and keeps a fourth for Americans

Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK, and Google has given no reason. Google has […]

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Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in another, which are not equivalent claims. Roughly half the total is MGX, the state-backed […]

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Tesla is building Superchargers only its robotaxis can use, five years after opening them

Tesla is building Supercharger stations dedicated to its robotaxi fleet, which currently uses public sites where operators plug the cars in by hand. Europe was where Tesla first opened the network to other brands, and its charging rules count only publicly accessible capacity. Tesla is building Supercharger stations dedicated to its robotaxi fleet, InsideEVs reported. […]

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Toyota recalls 10,000 C-HR EVs that may lose power, and none of them can update themselves

Toyota is recalling about 10,000 2026 C-HR electric crossovers in North America because a control unit can overcharge the traction battery under regenerative braking and shut the drive system down while driving. The fix is a software update the car cannot receive wirelessly, which European rules would document but not prevent. Toyota is recalling about […]

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A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address

HSCALE has signed a contract worth more than $1bn with an American cloud provider it will not name, for a Spanish data centre campus it will not locate. The company announced the deal this week. It describes the customer only as “a significant global cloud provider” and the site only as “a strategic metropolitan area […]

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