Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax
Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax

Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex comput…

Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law
Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law

Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the fe…

Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him
Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone else in the job. A company spokesperson gave the confirmation to Sarah Pe…

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…

Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports
Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct kno…

Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force
Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force

Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that “whoe…

Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act
Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act

Barack Obama told a closed Democratic fundraiser last Thursday that artificial intelligence is “moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think it can be dangerous”.  The New York Times obtained a partial transcript from hi…

Amazon lets its advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT in a pilot with OpenAI
Amazon lets its advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT in a pilot with OpenAI

Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads announced the partnership with OpenAI in a blog post on 10 September. Select US advertisers are already testing it in a pilot. Advertisers who plan and run …

Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown
Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown

US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have …

Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad business on families’ data
Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad business on families’ data

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on subscribers and their children, then used it to build the advertising business it had said it would never run. The 66-page complaint wa…