Alibaba unveils its T-Head-designed Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claiming it is China’s most powerful chip and can be clustered in systems of up to 500,000 units to train frontier models in a challenge to Nvidia.
The Trump administration proposes a U.S.-China alert system for AI incidents with national-security implications before President Xi Jinping’s White House visit, as Chinese models such as DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax face allegations of industrial-scale distillation of U.S. frontier AI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismisses AI-driven human-extinction warnings as unscientific “doomsday narratives,” puts the chance of a 2030 apocalypse at 0%, and says he plans to discuss global AI standards with Xi Jinping at a Sept. 24 White House dinner.
Manus seeks $500 million at a $4 billion valuation in its first funding round since Beijing ordered the Chinese-founded AI startup to split from Meta Platforms, with negotiations still underway.
Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon are set to attend President Trump’s White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, with OpenAI confirming Altman’s presence.
Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson reject efforts to slow AI development as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, backed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, urges companies to “pace the frontier,” while Johnson warns emergency regulation could hand China the lead.
The OpenAI-Hugging Face clash intensifies calls for targeted AI safety rules and human-value alignment, while U.S. and Chinese officials resist OpenAI and Anthropic’s regulatory push over fears that frontier firms could use regulation to block rivals.
President Trump and China reject Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI, with Trump calling existential AI risks a “HOAX” and Beijing condemning proposed restrictions on China’s access to top AI chips as a Cold War tactic.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a globally coordinated AI “pacing” regime that gives independent evaluators such as METR employee-like access to frontier models, training pipelines and internal safety processes.
Anthropic adopts Dario Amodei’s plan to pace frontier AI development with embedded third-party safety evaluators and coordinated standards, while OpenAI considers slowing collaboration with rival labs and has paused some safety runs to strengthen security.