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• Tencent-backed TikTok rival launches a children’s short video app

  12-12-2019 09:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  After TikTok’s massive success on its home turf in China (where it’s known as Doyuin), its local competitors are gearing up to rival it by launching apps designed for specific audiences. A report from South China Morning Post suggests that TikTok challenger Kuaishou has launched a short video creation app aimed at children, called Kuaishou Qingchunji. The app focuses on educational and child psychology-based content. Plus, it has a curated news section for teens. The
  
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• US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council

  23-09-2026 22:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivers the US statement after the meeting’s four briefers from science and industry. “The frontier of […]
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• Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers

  23-09-2026 22:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language models effectively photocopied the entire internet to build their answers, without linking […]
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• Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders

  23-09-2026 22:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New […]
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• Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says

  23-09-2026 22:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  “It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said self-driving cars, not robots, will be the […]
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• Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons

  23-09-2026 22:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global security issue. Amodei is the third briefer at the meeting in […]
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• Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power

  23-09-2026 22:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies building the most powerful systems have no convincing answer to the risks they pose. Bengio, who co-chairs the UN’s scientific panel on AI, is opening a […]
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• Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down

  23-09-2026 22:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk from AI is acceptable. Altman is the second briefer at the meeting, which France convened. According to the Security Council Report, it is […]
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• Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

  23-09-2026 21:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic says Claude has found a previously undescribed enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. Next to the enzyme’s gene sits a long run of repeating DNA that resembles a CRISPR array. The company does not yet know what the system does. Anthropic announced the result on Wednesday in a […]
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• UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk

  23-09-2026 21:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built by leading companies have, in recent months, acted in ways that violate their instructions. Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s scientific panel on AI, is briefing […]
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• Live: UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk

  23-09-2026 21:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built by leading companies have, in recent months, acted in ways that violate their instructions. Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s scientific panel on AI, is briefing […]
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• DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW

  23-09-2026 20:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government’s lawyers justified President Donald Trump’s decision to ban the three organizations. They stated that […]
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• UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it

  23-09-2026 20:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annual conference at the Wynn Las Vegas, to make the case for that manual. He […]
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• Waymo will pay riders $2.85 to also take public transport

  23-09-2026 20:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Waymo will issue $2.85 in credit to San Francisco Bay Area riders who take a robotaxi and a public transport journey within two hours of each other, provided they pay with a Visa card. In Hamburg the same connection is arranged by the transit operator itself, which leads the autonomous shuttle project and lists the […]
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• Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030

  23-09-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away from sensitive public sector data. Microsoft will spend $10B through 2030 across Saudi […]
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• DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale

  23-09-2026 19:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes a day and states that agent execution is untrustworthy and that no single mechanism can prevent all misbehaviour. Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by […]
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• OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product

  23-09-2026 18:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We’re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities,” Sam Yam wrote on X. The Patreon co-founder started the company 13 years ago and served as its technology chief. Yam announced on Tuesday […]
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• OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI

  23-09-2026 18:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,” OpenAI wrote on Monday. OpenAI set this out in a proposal published on 21 September. In it, the company calls on the United States to lead an effort with other countries to develop global […]
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• A study of 47 million inspections says old EVs hold up better

  23-09-2026 18:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Electric cars above 120,000 miles failed Britain’s MOT roadworthiness test 32% less often than petrol and diesel equivalents, in a study of 47.4 million inspections by the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. The advantage reverses at low mileage, and the test does not examine the battery at all. Electric cars above 120,000 miles fail […]
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• Geely’s new EV charger hits 2.25 megawatts

  23-09-2026 18:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Geely has revealed a fifth-generation charging system peaking at 2,250 kW, which it says takes new Lynk & Co and Zeekr models from 10 to 70% in four minutes and 30 seconds. Under AFIR a charging pool on Europe’s core network must provide 600 kW in total by 2027. Geely has revealed a fifth-generation Smart […]
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• Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe

  23-09-2026 18:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced on […]
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• Google’s new Gemini TTS models can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio

  23-09-2026 17:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio,” Google wrote in its announcement. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on Wednesday. Both are rolling out from today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. They […]
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• Nexo report points to operational friction as the biggest investor barrier

  23-09-2026 17:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nexo, a premier digital assets wealth platform, today published “The Future of Digital Wealth 2026” report. The main finding shows operational friction, not conviction, is the biggest barrier keeping high-net-worth investors in the U.S., U.K., and Argentina from building real wealth with crypto. The report also debuts the Crypto Integration Index (CII). It is a […]
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• Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship

  23-09-2026 17:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Don’t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don’t ship the product,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein on The New York Times’ podcast. Klein interviewed Huang at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, and The New York Times published the episode on Wednesday. Much of the conversation turned on […]
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• Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick

  23-09-2026 17:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesday a plugin that lets independent sellers run their Amazon business from an outside AI assistant. […]
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• YouTube will let you build your own homepage feeds with AI prompts

  23-09-2026 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We pride ourselves on the fact that because we’ve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing opportunities for them,” YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told The Wall Street Journal, asked about the platform’s rivalry with Netflix. YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of […]
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• Top mathematicians will advise OpenAI on releasing its AI maths results

  23-09-2026 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  “We are currently facing the very specific challenge of advising OpenAI on how to coordinate the release of a large number of significant results in mathematics that they report have been produced by their internal model,” the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence wrote in its launch statement. OpenAI announced the group on Monday. […]
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• OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine

  23-09-2026 16:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on,” said Sasha Baker, head of national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine […]
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• ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports

  23-09-2026 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  “A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business,” Nscale wrote in the prospectus for its New York listing. The prospectus, filed with the US […]
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• Upwind acquires Aegis as cybersecurity firm builds new AI Security Labs

  23-09-2026 16:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  The cybersecurity industry is increasingly focused on how artificial intelligence can reshape both defensive technology and the threat landscape. Upwind is responding by acquiring AI security startup Aegis and launching a new research and engineering initiative, as first reported by Axios. Aegis co-founders Omri Limor and Saar Ankonina will lead the new Upwind AI Security […]
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