Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the …

Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports
Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports

Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took over on 1 September after Tim Cook’s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to …

NASA pays Boeing $359m to get Starliner flying, eyes crew return by 2028
NASA pays Boeing $359m to get Starliner flying, eyes crew return by 2028

NASA will pay Boeing $359m to help get its Starliner spacecraft flying again. It will also buy two more Starliner flights to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing announced the plan at a news conference on Monday, and NASA set it out in a st…

Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang
Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang

AI safety warnings are not “fake news”, Pope Leo XIV said on Monday. He told reporters the world should heed the concerns of AI experts. He spoke on his flight back to Rome after a four-day trip to France. He said he was not in “panic mode”, and that h…

Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary
Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. “I hope it’…

Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports
Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports

Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Democrat from California, shared a summary of the Human Control Over AI Act w…

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…

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports
Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter of that revenue came from just two customers. Reuters did not name them….

OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports
OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports

OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance wants to agree data centre standards with state and local officials in 20…

Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch
Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson …