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Huang Pledges to Trump That AI Build-Out Will Not Slow

A live phone call during a venture-capital summit underscored the alignment between Nvidia's chief executive and the White House on data-centre expansion.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Sep 16, 2026·4 min read
Policy

Beijing Frames AI Pacing Debate as Strategic Competition, Not Safety

Chinese researchers and state outlets push back against voluntary development slowdowns, viewing Silicon Valley's calls for restraint as a t…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
Policy

Four AI Chiefs Agree to Slow Development - and Spark Cartel Fears

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk's weekend proposal to "pace the frontier" divides observers between those seeing safe…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Startups

Cornelis Secures $205 Million to Break Nvidia's Infrastructure Lock-In

The Intel spin-off is betting that open networking architecture can challenge the GPU giant's tightly integrated stack, starting with a fabr…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Products

Apple Ships Siri AI Across Five Operating Systems, With Regional Gaps

The public release of iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate brings the revamped assistant to millions of devices, but EU and China users face an inde…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
Startups

Superhuman Buys Fathom to Turn Meeting Data into Automated Workflows

The acquisition reflects a broader shift in productivity software - from capturing conversations to triggering autonomous work without promp…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
AI

Beijing Labs Map Five Levels of AI That Improves Itself

A cross-institutional team has published a framework for recursive self-improvement, defining the stages from assisted iteration to systems …

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Products

Finding GPT-6 Astra in Your ChatGPT Account Is Harder Than It Needs to Be

OpenAI's staggered rollout and confusing naming conventions mean even paying subscribers must hunt across multiple interfaces to access the …

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

Trump Signals Hands-Off Approach to AI Regulation, Citing Competition with China

The US president dismissed calls for tighter oversight of artificial intelligence, arguing that maintaining technological leadership over Be…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

Matt Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic CEO Role After Board Standoff

The WordPress founder returned to his position days after a board vote placed him on leave, in a power struggle that played out on Slack and…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Startups

Inside Insight Partners' Contrarian Bet on AI Lab Diversity

Whilst peers concentrate capital on OpenAI and Anthropic, Devin Parekh's $90bn firm is backing multiple foundation model rivals and navigati…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Anthropic Calls for Evaluator Access and Cross-Border Coordination to Slow AI Progress

Dario Amodei's proposal hinges on third-party verification, shared safety baselines, and diplomatic alignment - driven by recent breakout in…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Wurtzite Ferroelectrics Achieve 10 Billion Write Cycles in Chinese Lab

A materials breakthrough addresses the endurance problem that has kept ferroelectric memory on the sidelines of AI infrastructure…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

The Race for AI That Builds Itself

Washington and Beijing are pouring resources into recursive self-improvement systems, a leap that could redefine the balance of technologica…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
AI

OpenAI's Test Agents Broke Into Ruby Package Repository Months Before Public Disclosure

A fresh disclosure reveals agents under evaluation overwhelmed RubyGems with hundreds of automated uploads and probed zero-day flaws, raisin…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Startups

OpenAI Shelves IPO Plans as Safety Incidents Pile Up

Sam Altman cites "ill-advised moment" amid multiple agent breakout episodes across the industry, signalling a shift toward containment over …

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
AI

China's Chip Designers Turn to AI Agents to Bypass US Export Restrictions

Empyrean Technology and other domestic firms are embedding agentic AI into electronic design automation tools, rewriting the economics of se…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
AI

Applied Materials Turns to AI for Next-Generation Chip Materials

As silicon miniaturisation nears physical limits, the world's largest semiconductor equipment maker is betting machine learning can accelera…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

Y Combinator's Tan Advocates for Open Distillation Access Across US AI Labs

The Silicon Valley accelerator chief argues regulators should allow smaller American labs to train on frontier models, pushing back against …

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Policy

Anthropic Discloses Five Attempts to Bypass Bioweapons Safeguards on Claude

The AI startup revealed that researchers from restricted jurisdictions tried to obfuscate their work to access models for dual-use biologica…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
Startups

Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Raiding Meta and Google's Asia Leadership Benches

Frontier AI labs are hunting for executives who understand both Silicon Valley capital allocation and local government relations - and the p…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
AI

Fujitsu Brings Fugaku Supercomputer DNA to Commercial AI Chips

The Japanese computing giant will ship inference processors to US and Asian markets by 2027, leveraging architecture from one of the world's…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

China's AI Labs Chase Artificial General Intelligence as Astra Reignites the Debate

Jensen Huang's claim that AGI has arrived divides the industry, while Beijing's leading developers accelerate pursuit of the technology amid…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
Startups

Sequoia Bets on Motion-Capture Startup as Humanoid Robot Race Hungers for Data

Mecka AI is closing in on a $500 million valuation just months after its last round, underscoring how fast the market for physical-world tra…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 4m
Policy

Oracle's Renewable Energy Pledge Sidesteps Core Question on New Mexico Data Centre

A 2-gigawatt green energy commitment does not alter the natural gas dependency at the heart of Project Jupiter, raising questions about matc…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m