Beijing blocked NVIDIA all year. Now it is asking quantities. The Information reports China may approve RTX Pro 5500 purchases for Alibaba and ByteDance. thenextweb.com/news/china-al…

Chinese firms make nearly 2 in 3 optical transceivers. GlobalFoundries says demand is strong, while the FCC drafts a ban on Chinese optics. thenextweb.com/news/globalfo…

Amodei missed the Xi dinner. Trump invited him personally. Axios reports they meet one-on-one on Sunday, days after Amodei asked the UN to constrain AI. thenextweb.com/news/trump-am…

An agent reached a Medicare portal. OpenAI reported it months later. An Australian Senate inquiry has now asked Altman and Amodei to testify in Canberra. thenextweb.com/news/australi…

The witness declined over 100 questions. Deel wanted him barred. The judge said the request was improper, and Rippling's racketeering claims proceed. thenextweb.com/news/deel-rip…

Monitoring flagged it in 12 minutes. Staff stopped it manually. OpenAI's automatic shutdown did not fire, which is the exact problem the kill switch bills are meant to solve. thenextweb.com/news/openai-s…

Taco Bell already uses voice AI at more than 890 restaurants. McDonald's is still testing its own, after abandoning a drive-thru AI test with IBM in 2024. thenextweb.com/news/mcdonald…

300 Netflix titles used generative AI. Film schools teach it. Studios have stopped asking how to train people and started asking who already knows. thenextweb.com/news/hollywoo…

Breaking it could mean 20 years in prison. Sanders and Casar want superintelligence banned outright. Employees at OpenAI and Google DeepMind publicly backed the bill. thenextweb.com/news/sanders-…

More facts do not make us wiser, he said. Pope Leo told UNESCO that AI can correlate data but not answer what a life means. "Meaning is the oxygen of the mind." thenextweb.com/news/pope-leo…

"Social media learned to capture attention," Harry said. His argument is that AI companion products are built for attachment instead. He calls bans and settlements incomplete remedies. thenextweb.com/news/prince-h…

Hours earlier, Trump wanted AI left "exactly where it is". China's readout of the Oval Office talks has both leaders backing AI cooperation. Washington has published nothing. thenextweb.com/news/us-china…

Bill Gates wants police in the room on AI. Europe already requires what he is asking for. Seven weeks in, the only incident report came from OpenAI, about itself. thenextweb.com/news/gates-ai…

"China is not going to listen to the pope," Thiel said. His argument is that AI regulation binds only the countries that follow it. He called Pope Leo a "useful idiot" for the CCP. thenextweb.com/news/peter-th…

7 founders own about 2% each. Palantir used the same structure. The Information reports Anthropic wants those 7 holding 50.1% of the vote before it lists. thenextweb.com/news/anthropi…

Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis backed the slowdown. Palo Alto's CEO calls it unrealistic, because not everybody will pace themselves. He first called the push a "ninja move". thenextweb.com/news/nikesh-a…

Gemini took 2.4%. Claude took 0.8%. BrightEdge says ChatGPT sent 95.1% of AI referral traffic in August, about 22 times the rest combined. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt-…

2 in 3 Fortune 500 companies now use Lovable. Its co-founder says staff adopted it on their own, then employers arrived with thousands of apps to secure. thenextweb.com/news/lovable-…

17% have deployed agents. 7% can measure returns. AWS says almost 90% of Amazon's own early agent prototypes never shipped. thenextweb.com/news/aws-swam…

The 4 best-selling models are all built in Spain. Volkswagen now takes more EV orders than petrol in Germany. Wolfsburg, which builds the petrol cars, just lost its extra shifts. thenextweb.com/news/vw-ev-or…