“We don’t need any new laws”: Jensen Huang splits with Amodei at Dreamforce
“We don’t need any new laws”: Jensen Huang splits with Amodei at Dreamforce

“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amo…

When software starts shaping family memory
When software starts shaping family memory

There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into genera…

OpenAI’s head of countries says Canada has the energy and land for data centres
OpenAI’s head of countries says Canada has the energy and land for data centres

OpenAI is looking at data centre partnerships in Canada because of the energy and land available there, its head of countries George Osborne told Bloomberg at Mark Carney’s investment summit in Toronto. OpenAI paused its British project in April, sayin…

‘I am the Hoax Buster’: Trump escalates his attack on AI safety warnings
‘I am the Hoax Buster’: Trump escalates his attack on AI safety warnings

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI dow…

AI leaders clash over safety fears after Anthropic whistleblower says AI could ‘kill us all’ by 2030 — OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI figureheads call for external governance, while Jensen Huang says worries are ‘made up’

The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other industry leaders, are calling for a general slowdown in AI development over safety fears. On the flip side, Chinese authorities, the U.S. President, and CEO of Nvidia have dismissed their concerns as fearmongering.

Europe must build its own AI or risk being cut off, says ECB’s Lagarde
Europe must build its own AI or risk being cut off, says ECB’s Lagarde

Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europe’s reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a …

AI kill switches may need to be mandatory, Anthropic’s Jack Clark tells BBC
AI kill switches may need to be mandatory, Anthropic’s Jack Clark tells BBC

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI “kill switches” mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14…

OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300m, WSJ reports
OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300m, WSJ reports

OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a startup that uses AI to improve smartphone cameras, in a deal that values it at more than $300m. The Wall Street Journal reported the purchase on 14 September, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the …

Apple releases iOS 27 and Siri AI, but you’ll have to join a waitlist
Apple releases iOS 27 and Siri AI, but you’ll have to join a waitlist

Apple has released iOS 27, and with it the first public version of Siri AI, its rebuilt voice assistant. The Siri AI beta started rolling out in English on 14 September. It arrived alongside iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Ap…

Voicemod launches Key Pocket, bringing voice changing to phones and consoles
Voicemod launches Key Pocket, bringing voice changing to phones and consoles

Voicemod has launched Key Pocket, a MagSafe device that brings real-time voice changing and soundboards to phones, consoles and social apps without a PC, on sale in the United States with Europe to follow. Article 50 of the AI Act has required provider…