Trump calls the AI backlash a Democratic hoax. Polling this week put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

Insta360 spent nearly 2 billion yuan, about $298.4m, on what it called strategic procurement of memory chips in the first half of this year. Richter said a similar figure is unavoidable in the coming ...

An OECD survey finds 67% of US firms use software to sanction workers, against 4% in Europe. Most of these tools are not AI.

Zuckerberg refused to join the AI pacing push, citing liability & competition. That is the argument plaintiffs now make against four rivals.

Four consumers allege Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to slow AI. The complaint is built from the companies' public statements.

Ternus described the perfect AI device at his first keynote, then said it is the iPhone. The real new hardware is a smaller Echo Show.

Altman, Huang and Cook are expected at Xi's state dinner. The same cast met in Beijing in May, and the licensed chips still are not moving.

Irregular says the breaches at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta were one issue. It told them in late July. They disclosed separately.

Bosworth says a small number of bad actors shape the Meta glasses debate. Meta is reportedly about to ship a camera-free version.

Jensen Huang told CBS the risk AI ends the world by 2030 is zero. Weeks ago he said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control.

Anthropic will pay Accenture to embed evaluators inside it, and says pooled or government funding would be better. No standards exist yet ...

OpenAI gave investors a $600bn compute target in February. A July deck says $856bn, while its projected cash burn improved to $278bn.