“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies that threaten U.S. national security,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. The US Treasury published the proposal on Thursday. The outbound investment rule would widen limits on American money for chips, AI and […]

“I would not doubt for a minute that before very long you’re going to see an announcement,” cable billionaire John Malone said on Tuesday. Two days later, Semafor reported that Elon Musk had invested roughly $1bn in Skydance, the media group David Ellison formed from Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Rohan Goswami’s scoop cited people […]

“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing rights.” That is what Yuyuan Tantian, a WeChat account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV, said in a post late on Thursday. The post sets out how the China AI export controls proposed […]

“No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it… Oceans are different, sir.” That is what Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said when Donald Trump asked him to rename the Atlantic Ocean, according to Trump. The president told the story at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday. Trump said Pichai told him that oceans […]

AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of several flaws the safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research reported on Thursday. Each group sent one researcher inside OpenAI from 21 July to 11 August. They could see internal code, […]

OpenAI has lowered the valuation it is seeking for its new funding round to $1.25tn, from the $1.4tn it pitched earlier this month. Some investors had pushed back on the higher price, the Financial Times reported, citing documents it had seen. The company is close to raising up to $30bn at that valuation, which does […]

Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia, Epic Games said on Friday. That came a day after the Federal Court of Australia ordered Apple to let the game return. G’day, Australia. 🇦🇺 We’re back on the App Store. Drop in! https://t.co/7AUJ81BUSy Fortnite (@Fortnite) October 23, 2026 The same ruling forces Apple to let […]

The UK government will put £100m into a new AI Biosecurity Lab, which will use advanced AI to spot and respond to biological threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will add up to £200m between them, the Cabinet Office said on Saturday. The government called the lab the world’s first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. It will start with two […]

OpenAI has cut live web access from all training of its most advanced AI models. The models now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. “Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastructure,” OpenAI wrote, it believes […]

Malaysia could extend its ban on the Waze maps app from civil servants to the whole country, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday. A full ban would come only after officials look at other apps, he said. Anwar spoke to reporters in Kuala Lumpur, according to Bernama, the national news agency. Officials will check if […]