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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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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. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, […]

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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 programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their […]

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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 company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners […]

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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 cut off from its own models three weeks ago. OpenAI announced the […]

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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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Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent

“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour.” That warning sits inside the setup guide for Google Home MCP. Google opened it to […]

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OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index

“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index. OpenAI introduced Astra for Law […]

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Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production

“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens to notice.” Raindrop has raised a Series A led by CRV. That takes total […]

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