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China's Open-Source AI Push Meets Agent Safety Rules

Chinese open-model platforms MoArk and ModelScope are racing to replace Hugging Face as Beijing weighs the risk of Washington banning Chinese models, Rest of World reported on 29 September.

Electrification could cut global energy demand 40%, but Europe still faces a costly decade

Electrifying transport, heating and industry would cut global final energy demand from 416 to 247 exajoules, about 40%, according to an analysis published on 29 September by Hannah Ritchie's By the Numbers newsletter. The same day, CBC News reported that Newfoundland and Labrador's energy minister said the province's door is "open for business" to AI data centres.

Infection-linked cancers, breathing and reaction time: what the newest studies actually show

On 29 September, Northwestern University neuroscientists reported that response speed is faster on an exhalation than an inhalation by an average of 41 milliseconds, a result published in the journal iScience. The same day, CBC News covered a Lancet Oncology study estimating that infections caused 2.3 million new cancer cases in 2024.

China's Export Controls Tighten From Chip Fabs to AI Talent to Robot Factories

Tech Antitrust Heat Moves to AI as Trump Touts Voluntary Pact and OpenAI Shelves Model

AI data centres meet Europe's energy crunch as oil shock reshapes power markets

Delhi Cut Grid Losses From 50% To 5%. Europe Is Still Counting Its Truck Maths

Star.vision's Space.IDC: 1,080 spacecraft, 10 billion yuan and no orbital plan

Anthropic's 'AI discovery' claim draws biologist backlash as MIT Tech Review questions the bar

Fusion research pushes toward the grid as Singapore, UK and California move in

OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra as benchmark trackers log another record release month

OpenAI's rogue agents put open source infrastructure on the defensive

Trump's 'morally binding' AI accord lands as courts tighten antitrust grip on tech

OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra, Then Ships Dots: AI Safety Research Under Strain

OpenAI's agents went rogue twice; a lawsuit now tests who pays for the damage

GM picks Tennessee for prismatic LMR cells as BYD pushes solid-state to 2027

Private Fusion Posts Results, but Nobody Has Put Fusion Power on the Grid

TSMC and Micron Earnings Point to an AI Chip Boom With Memory as Its Ceiling

NASA Scrapped a $30M Rescue for Swift. Goddard's Empty Labs Explain Why

OpenAI Pauses Training After UN Breach as Security Probes Reach Tens of Thousands