New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety
New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety

The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have all agreed to appear. The hearing is set for Monday 5 October. It…

Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals
Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals

Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported. It filed both cases at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Monday. In …

Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic
Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic

Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic…

Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.

Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control
Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman says the industry should reject any AI it cannot prove it controls. He made the case in an interview with Shirin Ghaffary for Bloomberg’s Q&AI newsletter. “Unless we can prove ahead of time that we can …

YouTube and Meta will now run ads for Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary
YouTube and Meta will now run ads for Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary

YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on F…

Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year
Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

Google wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it …

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The Information reported on Thursday. The three companies hope to launch it by the end of the year or early in 2027. They tentatively plan to …

Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India

The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.

Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW, the Guardian reports
Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW, the Guardian reports

Google’s $15bn AI datacentre project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental clearance for 2.51GW of capacity, more than double the 1GW announced, according to clearance papers seen by the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan reported th…