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Washington cut its flagship Korea exercise by 55% and killed an amphibious drill, citing Iran force constraints. Trump also cited Seoul's Iran policy. Both cannot be the binding reason.
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Anthropic's chief executive asked the industry to slow its most powerful models and said the pause needs China's cooperation. Beijing's foreign ministry called the idea fear-mongering three days before its own standards body warned about recursive self-improvement.
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In Ulanqab, an electrical engineer told the BBC the data centre site adds one phase every year and is now on its second. The siting logic is cheap land, cool air, and wind and solar capacity already standing in the grasslands.
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Tianmushan Laboratory says the wind tunnel work and the airframe are finished. The next flight is meant to measure a sonic boom on an aircraft sized for 10 to 15 passengers, well short of the airliner behind state media's 30-minute Beijing to Shanghai figure.
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Twenty-two provincial innovation centres opened within 14 months, and Wuhan alone logs 24,000 training entries a day. But Beijing's Shijingshan centre dropped its robot partner over weak data sales, so subsidy is still paying the bill.
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Neither Washington nor Beijing endorsed the proposal behind this month's frontier-lab consensus, which asks for evaluators inside labs, coordinated capability thresholds and international deals and ties how much anyone slows to how far ahead the US already is.
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Anthropic's CEO asked labs and governments to slow capability gains so safety work can catch up. Beijing called that fearmongering and a Cold War playbook. Trump said the US is ahead and whoever wins AI wins.
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UBTECH put a capacity number on the record for its new Liuzhou humanoid plant and left out the price, the shipments and the order book, so the cost case rests on its claim about Chinese component supply.
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Altman, Amodei and Musk asked for outside governance of frontier models in the same week Jensen Huang called the risk made up and Beijing called it fearmongering. What an auditor would measure is still an open question.
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Trump says the only guardrail AI needs is a strong and smart president. The controls a product team can actually cite are Anthropic's own plug-pulling, Microsoft AI's new outline and Monday's market selloff.
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AI stocks fell worldwide on Sept 14 after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow model progress and Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO. The deepest single-day drops landed on chip equipment and power suppliers.
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King Charles brings the leaders of Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic to Ayrshire this week to weigh a charter of principles the Ditchley Foundation has drafted for them. The push to slow down came from inside the labs.
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Chen Yixin's signed article calls Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber a serious risk to China's critical information infrastructure. It cites no incident, and only one of the two is sold to customers at all.
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Dario Amodei published a chip-export ask on Saturday. By Monday, China's commerce ministry was answering it in the language it normally reserves for Washington. State media gathered three researchers to make the case.
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A rare self-assessment from CETC's swarm institute grades China's program across five capability areas, and coordination between air, land and sea platforms is one of the places it says the work is unfinished.
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The demonstration line recovers 98 percent of the cesium and 95 percent of the rubidium from residue that lithium refiners used to discard, which ties two specialty metals to somebody else's lithium throughput rather than to their own demand.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
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United Imaging and Tianjin University say uMR Shenguan decodes, modulates and measures in one system. The specifications that would let anyone check that are not in the announcement.
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The state arms maker is showing a 90kg humanoid that copies an operator's motions in real time. The claim worth reading is not autonomy but a control layer that ports between bodies.
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At the 2026 World Robot Conference, AVIC showed a humanoid built for missile loading and NEXWISE a robot dog that fires restraining nets. The buyer being courted is not a factory.
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