OpenAI says its Astra model is the first to hit the Critical tier of its Preparedness Framework, autonomously finding two zero-day vulnerabilities, yet the company still intends to release it with guardrails.
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John Ternus Becomes Apple CEO as Tim Cook Moves to Executive Chairman
Hardware engineer John Ternus formally became Apple’s chief executive on September 1, succeeding Tim Cook after 15 years and inheriting a company worth $4.6 trillion — and a deepening AI catch-up challenge.
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SEMICON Taiwan 2026 Opens With Record Exhibitors and AI at the Centre
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 opens September 2-4 in Taipei with more than 1,300 exhibitors and 4,300 booths, as the global semiconductor industry gathers to navigate AI-era demand pushing 300mm fab equipment spending toward $150 billion.
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Tencent-Backed Enflame to Complete China’s AI Chip IPO Quartet on STAR Market
Enflame Technology opens subscriptions September 2 for a 6-billion-yuan Shanghai STAR Market IPO, becoming the last of China’s four major GPU companies to go public as Beijing accelerates domestic chip development.
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White House Weighs Semiconductor Tariffs on Laptops, Servers and Consoles
The Trump administration is considering duties on finished products containing chips—laptops, data center servers and gaming consoles—as PC prices already sit more than 20% above year-ago levels.
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Nvidia Closes In on a $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Deal
Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that would give the chip giant control over the open-source AI hub used by more than a million developers worldwide.
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OpenAI Pulls DALL-E GPT From ChatGPT on August 30 as gpt-image-1 Takes Over
OpenAI retires its ChatGPT-native DALL-E GPT on August 30, directing users to the gpt-image-1-powered ChatGPT Images available across all subscription tiers.
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Amazon Closes Mechanical Turk After 21 Years as AI Replaces Human Labelers
Amazon will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending the 21-year-old platform Jeff Bezos called ‘artificial artificial intelligence.’
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China’s Top Internet Regulator Issues 2026–2030 Plan to Push Firms to Build AI Chips
China’s Cyberspace Administration has issued a 21-measure sectoral plan for 2026–2030 directing informatization and cybersecurity companies to develop advanced AI chips, improve foundation models, and pursue AI agents and embodied intelligence.
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Broadcom Lines Up $60 Billion in Debt to Finance AI Infrastructure Boom
Broadcom is raising more than $60 billion in debt — potentially $100 billion including junior tranches — for AI infrastructure projects involving Anthropic, part of a broader shift from corporate balance sheets to capital markets for AI scale-out.