Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists
Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists

Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks sinc…

Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre
Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all da…

Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-E…

Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports
Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei repli…

EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November
EU set to name AWS and Azure DMA gatekeepers in November

The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, it said regulators are finishing an inve…

Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief execu…

California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC
California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC

OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric …

Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings
Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings

In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day. The law, SB 947, bars employe…

OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports
OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports

The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,…

GM’s Q3 sales drop 5.5% as its electric models collapse and Toyota closes to within 136,000
GM’s Q3 sales drop 5.5% as its electric models collapse and Toyota closes to within 136,000

GM’s third-quarter sales fell 5.5% and its electric models collapsed, with the Equinox EV down 92.4% to 1,905 cars after America ended its $7,500 purchase credit. Europe kept its mandates, where electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August and…