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US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he does not want to work with China on addressing artificial intelligence (AI) risks, arguing that cooperation could undermine America’s lead in the fast-moving technology. “Whoever wins superintelligence wins. You’re gonna have a winner and a loser, and you’re probably not gonna have a second place,” Trump said at the launch event for America.gov, a new AI-powered federal government portal. “We’re leading now over China and everyone else, and I want to...

America.gov for now functions like a chatbot comparable to ChatGPT or Claude, pointing users to official gov't websites.

The pact for transfer of technology was signed during Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s India visit in July

The US president continues to push back on calls to establish guardrails around artificial intelligence, arguing it will stifle growth.

Hong Kong businesses are lagging behind their mainland Chinese peers in adopting artificial intelligence, as entrenched legacy systems and a risk-averse corporate mindset slow the city’s digital transition, according to a senior executive at consultancy Accenture. Only 10 per cent of Hong Kong firms surveyed by Accenture had integrated generative AI across multiple business functions, compared with about 21 per cent of mainland enterprises, said Robert Hah, Hong Kong office lead at Accenture...

Beijing and Washington should first develop a common language around AI risks rather than seek to resolve their broader technology rivalry, a leading Chinese think tank has advised. The call from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, comes days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump agreed to formalise a new AI dialogue mechanism during their summit in Washington, their second such meeting...

US equity futures and Treasuries struggle for direction ahead of labor market data and a slew of Fedspeak that may offer clues on the rate outlook. Nvidia, Anthropic and Palantir CEOs are slated to attend a lunch with President Trump to discuss AI risks. The US enacts import ban on some Canadian goods. Colin Purdie of Manulife joins "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss market opportunities amid rising yields. (Source: Bloomberg)

The selloff in the US bond market deepened on Monday after President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to prolong the war’s energy shock. OpenAI is holding back a version of its Astra model while it establishes stronger safeguards for artificial intelligence development, flagging heightened risks after a spate of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. The Opening Trade has everything you need to know as markets open across Europe. With analysis you won't find anywhere else, we break down the biggest stories of the day and speak to top guests who have skin in the game. Hosted by Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Tom Mackenzie. (Source: Bloomberg)

¿Se puede apagar una IA que se vuelve demasiado poderosa? EE.UU. estudia exigir mecanismos de emergencia para detener modelos avanzados, pero expertos advierten que un simple interruptor podría no ser suficiente. (Source: Bloomberg)

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation at its new support services centre to handle laundry processing and meal production for public hospitals, aiming to boost efficiency and worker safety. The six-storey, 62,000-square-metre centre, which houses the central laundry and food production unit, opened its doors to the press for the first time on Tuesday since beginning operations in March last year. Located in Tung Chung on Lantau Island,...

Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, said Tuesday it will take delivery of a new Arctic research vessel, Mirai II, on Dec. 18. The delivery ceremony for the 13,000-ton icebreaker will take place at shipbuilder Japan Marine United Corp.'s Isogo plant in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, JAMSTEC said. After shakedo...

Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to invest 34.9 billion yuan (US$5.2 billion) in expansion, with a large portion of the capital going to domestic suppliers of chipmaking equipment, according to a source. The firm, listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market, would spend 24.1 billion yuan on a new technology research and development project and another 10.8 billion yuan on the second phase of a wafer testing base, according to a Monday stock filing. The...

The US and China need to improve communication, work together more closely and more fully embrace technology to stem risks associated with artificial intelligence, the founder of Nvidia said on Monday. “We should recognise that we’re competitors, and competitors are still able to collaborate,” said Jensen Huang, head of the world’s most valuable company, with a market capitalisation of about US$5.5 trillion. “This is such an important and consequential technology. It has the incredible...

US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by renowned Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, for US$8.2 billion in an all-stock deal, as the company steps up its rivalry with Nvidia. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday. Li, a Stanford University professor...

A Chinese team has set a world record for the most autonomous underwater drones operating at the same time, deploying more than a hundred of the small robots in a swimming pool test. The Guinness World Record for “most autonomous underwater vehicles operating simultaneously” was set by a team from Northwestern Polytechnical University in collaboration with Xian Tianhe Maritime Technologies. The trial involved a swarm of 116 autonomous underwater vehicles – called TH-618s, the university said in...

AI giant scraps planned released of GPT-6.1 Astra following concerns raised during internal testing, reports say.

Pope Leo on Monday ⁠said concerns that artificial intelligence ⁠could destroy the world are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, in an apparent rebuke of US President Donald Trump. The first US pope, who has warned of the dangers of AI throughout his 16-month papacy, also directly criticised technology CEOs ‌who argued there should be no guardrails on the technology. “I do think that the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously,” the pontiff...

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Emily Graffeo, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)

California jury finds Apple infringed two Taction patents but did not wilfully violate them; Apple plans to appeal.

Can AI replace your financial advisor? LPL Financial’s CEO says no,  but it can dramatically change the job. Rich Steinmeier joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why trust and empathy remain critical, how AI could automate much of an advisor’s behind-the-scenes workload, and why the technology race is helping drive further consolidation across wealth management. (Source: Bloomberg)

China’s top state research body has put artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies at the heart of its new five-year plan, unveiled on Monday, as global competition in science and technology heats up. The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s highest academic institution, laid out a detailed blueprint for research and technology development aligned with the country’s 15th five-year plan covering 2026 to 2030. The plan focuses on innovation in areas including artificial intelligence...

Amid intensifying debate over the risks posed by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, Chinese developers dominating the open-weight ecosystem are grappling with a unique problem: how to ensure their user-modifiable models remain safe once they are released. To address the challenge, Z.ai and Beijing-based safety consultancy Concordia AI released a report on open-weight AI risk management on Monday that they said offered “the first comprehensive, evidence-based foundation” for balancing...

China has produced an electron beam using a cutting-edge electron gun, taking a step towards building a “super microscope” that could help drive breakthroughs in everything from Alzheimer’s research to advanced microchips. The Hefei Advanced Light Facility (HALF) in central China’s Anhui province fired its first electron beam on September 20. Bunches of electrons generated by the gun were accelerated by a 192-metre (630-foot) linear accelerator until they reached 2.2 billion electron volts,...

Scott Kennedy is a senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. His areas of focus include China’s hi-tech drive, US-China relations and global economic governance. Open Questions first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. How would you characterise the outcomes of the China-US summit compared to expectations going in? Is it largely a continuation of that track or do you...

Boeing has issued an advisory to operators to reset the system following a missed approach as a precautionary measure to address the issue

The Vice-President was speaking at Amritapuri in Keralam during Vishwa Seva Dinam, organised on the occasion of the 73rd birthday celebrations of Mata Amritanandamayi

The programme was organised jointly by the Karnataka State Chapter of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA) and the Department of Radiology, Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, managed by the Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society.

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