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…

Apply AI Summit brings Europe’s push for real-world AI adoption to Brussels [Sponsored]

When it comes to AI, Europe is home to exceptional tech talent, innovation, and world-class research. However, while AI is increasingly being deployed across European businesses and the public sector,…

Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
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 Wen…

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 …

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.
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 produc…

Kash Patel says that AI use at the FBI has ‘increased by 605%’ since he became director — claims that every major tech player is ’embedded’ in the agency

FBI Director Kash Patel stated in an interview that he’s responsible for a “605% increase” in the bureau’s usage of AI. The problem is that it’s hard to pin down what the figure refers to.

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