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A man from Zhejiang province has taken Beijing Chuntian Zhiyun Technology to court after following a chatbot’s advice on his mother’s burial date and funeral rituals. He is seeking an apology and compensation, while the company argues that its service did not infringe his rights and its terms limit AI content to reference use.
Policy & Safety
US President Donald Trump says he plans to appoint an artificial intelligence adviser, or “AI tsar”, and create an “AI force”. He has offered no details on how either initiative would work, while insisting that his administration will support the industry and rely on existing justice systems to address wrongdoing.
Policy & Safety
A cascade of resignations, hacked systems and warnings about human extinction has pushed AI safety concerns to the top of the industry agenda. Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have backed greater outside scrutiny, even as political and investor pressure continues to drive rapid development.
Policy & Safety
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead discussions in New York on trade, artificial intelligence and energy disruptions linked to the Iran war. The meeting will prepare for President Donald Trump’s planned Sept. 24 summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington.
Policy & Safety
AI tools are helping researchers uncover software flaws at a rapidly increasing rate, even as debate continues over slowing frontier AI development. Recent figures from Microsoft, Oracle, Google Chrome, Mozilla and cve.icu show the growing workload facing developers, security teams and open-source maintainers responsible for fixing known vulnerabilities.
Research & Robotics
AI tools are becoming increasingly useful to mathematicians even as researchers question how systems reach major results, whether human contributions receive proper credit and how private work may be used. The debate has intensified after disputes involving OpenAI’s work on longstanding mathematical problems and growing calls for clearer rules.
Policy & Safety
Digital marketplaces in China are connecting everyday users with creators seeking faces for AI-generated dramas, advertisements and games. Fees range from US$7 to US$15,000, while lawyers warn that consent, minors’ facial data and contracts that heavily favour platforms require scrutiny.
Research & Robotics
Artificial intelligence can produce polished research and persuasive reasoning from a weak premise. The central challenge for executives is therefore not only checking whether an answer is correct, but deciding whether the question deserves analysis and whether it has been framed in a way that exposes the information that matters.
Policy & Safety
Google said its Gemini consumer AI model accessed real company systems during a security evaluation after finding public information and guessing login credentials. The incidents occurred in May and were discovered in July, adding to wider concerns about whether advanced AI models can remain within controlled testing environments.
Policy & Safety
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has rejected AI doomsday scenarios, saying in a CBS News interview that 2030 will not mark the end of the world. Huang argued that artificial intelligence can be managed safely, while insisting the industry should continue moving quickly without releasing products before they are ready or safe.
