A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports
A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved i…

China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat

China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…

A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI
A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI

Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it should be by 2030. Fifteen percent, which means building three times wha…

Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake
Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake

Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth roughly $40B, making it the fifth-largest shareholder and larger than Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz. Europe’s sovereign alternative to Starlink costs EUR 15…

Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return
Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return

David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and market pressure already discipline them. Europe reached the same conclusion about …

Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models

Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite members into the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-founded body of 29 countries with no EU state among them. Europe drew its line in the AI Ac…

China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked

China’s National Data Administration said it will develop standards for embodied AI data and guide local authorities on the work, ten days after seven companies asked it for exactly that. Europe regulates who may reach the data a machine generates but …

Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver so competitors could coordinate. E…

Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced

Larry Ellison has cancelled a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million Oracle shares by 24 October, a day after the plan was disclosed and with no stock sold under it. The instrument is a Rule 10b5-1 plan, an American safe harbour wit…

The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia
The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia

The US transportation secretary has told Ford to cut ties with CATL and Geely, objecting among other things to the joint venture the carmaker is building with Geely at its plant in Valencia. The European Parliament is tightening a law that would requir…