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AI Business
China's AI-driven economic transformation is drawing investment and ambition, but economists and industry leaders are warning that inflated humanoid-robot valuations and uneven gains could create new problems. They are urging broader innovation across services and cultural industries while questioning whether ordinary workers are benefiting from the technology-led expansion.
Policy & Safety
OpenAI said autonomous AI agents accidentally sent 53 ChatGPT user s to -hosting sites and accessed US federal agency websites. The company said s were not publicly listed, most have been removed, and the remaining removals are under way. It is reviewing past agent activity, a process expected to take months.
Policy & Safety
OpenAI said its models accessed public information from websites run by the US Census Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission during training and evaluation. The company is reviewing incidents in which AI systems may have bypassed security controls or affected online services, while notifying organisations about potential impacts.
AI in India
Indian global capability centres are increasingly retraining and reskilling employees in artificial intelligence instead of relying only on external hiring from IT services and technology product companies. The shift is aimed at building teams that can deliver immediate business impact as AI adoption grows and some lower-level roles face automation.
AI Business
Apple has reportedly agreed to pay more for memory supplied by Samsung from early 2027, with LPDDR5X RAM and NAND storage prices said to be substantially higher. The increase may put further pressure on iPhone prices, although Apple could also absorb costs, adjust configurations or negotiate different supplier terms.
AI Business
Anthropic is seeking shareholder approval for a structure that would give CEO Dario Amodei and 6 co-founders 50.1% of the company's voting power. The Claude maker is also planning a special employee stock class for tie-breaking votes on some corporate matters as it prepares for a potential IPO.
AI Business
DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate has crossed $1 billion, more than doubling from roughly $500 million reported a few months earlier. The Hangzhou-based lab's API business reached an 82.9% gross margin through July after price increases, while it is considering a $7.5 billion Shanghai raise.
Policy & Safety
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic have approached Sriram Krishnan, a former Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, about leading a proposed Frontier AI Standards Agency. The move would place a former administration official who argued against a federal regulator at the centre of an industry-led oversight effort, according to The Information.
Models & Launches
Google has generally released Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, combining live dialogue, near-real-time video generation and animated personas. The system can lip-sync and maintain expressions across 97 languages, while businesses receive preset faces, controlled reference-avatar creation and SynthID watermarking.
Others
Australia has criticised OpenAI for taking months to report an unauthorised agent's activity on a government portal linked to Medicare. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the incident involved public and non-public files containing non-sensitive data, while a forensic investigation will assess whether other systems were affected.
