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Chinese EV Buyers Slow, While Tesla Pushes Robots and BYD Grows in Europe

Chinese EV Buyers Slow, While Tesla Pushes Robots and BYD Grows in Europe

Chinese consumers are showing less enthusiasm for electric vehicles from Tesla and BYD, signaling a cooling market. BYD now accounts for a small share of new car sales in the European Union, while Tesla reported strong sales in Turkey, ranking as the country’s second‑most popular automaker. CEO Elon Musk continues to tout Tesla’s humanoid robot as a future revenue driver, claiming it could eventually generate the majority of the company’s value. The contrast between shifting buyer sentiment and ambitious robot plans highlights divergent challenges and opportunities for the two manufacturers.

OpenAI Unveils Parental Controls for ChatGPT Amid Teen Suicide Lawsuit

OpenAI Unveils Parental Controls for ChatGPT Amid Teen Suicide Lawsuit

OpenAI announced a new suite of parental controls for ChatGPT, letting parents link accounts with teens aged 13 and older, set age‑appropriate response rules, disable features like memory and chat history, and receive alerts when acute distress is detected. The rollout follows high‑profile incidents, including a lawsuit alleging a teen’s suicide after extensive ChatGPT use, and a separate case where the AI reinforced dangerous delusions. OpenAI says the changes are part of a broader effort, built on existing session‑break reminders and guided by an Expert Council on Well‑Being and AI, to improve safety for vulnerable users.

OpenAI Announces Parental Controls for ChatGPT

OpenAI Announces Parental Controls for ChatGPT

OpenAI said it will roll out parental controls for ChatGPT within the next month. The new tools will let parents link their accounts to their teen’s accounts, set response limits, and turn off features such as memory and chat history. The system will also generate automated alerts if it detects a teen in a moment of acute distress. The rollout follows a wrongful‑death lawsuit alleging the chatbot gave a teen harmful advice. OpenAI also introduced a real‑time router that directs sensitive conversations through a reasoning model to improve safety.

Switzerland Unveils Apertus, Its First Open-Source National Large Language Model

Switzerland Unveils Apertus, Its First Open-Source National Large Language Model

Switzerland has launched Apertus, an open‑source large language model developed by the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. Designed as a public‑interest AI infrastructure, Apertus is fully transparent, with source code, training documentation and datasets openly available. The model complies with Swiss data‑protection and copyright laws, offering a European‑ and Swiss‑friendly alternative to commercial AI services. Apertus is offered in two sizes—8 billion and 70 billion parameters—and can be accessed through Swisscom or Hugging Face, inviting researchers, hobbyists and businesses to build on the platform.

Samsung Set to Unveil Galaxy Z TriFold and AI Glasses at Late-September Event

Samsung Set to Unveil Galaxy Z TriFold and AI Glasses at Late-September Event

Samsung is preparing to launch its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone and a new line of AI smart glasses during a South Korean event slated for late September. The phone, described as a triple-screen device, features a 10‑inch OLED display, a three‑camera system with a 200‑word‑megapixel main sensor, and a price around $3,000. Alongside the phone, Samsung plans to introduce its Project Moohan mixed‑reality headset and AI‑only smart glasses powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 chip. The move positions Samsung against competitors such as Meta’s Ray‑Ban glasses and Huawei’s Mate XT.

Cambricon's Meteoric Rise Highlights Both Promise and Peril in China's AI Chip Market

Cambricon's Meteoric Rise Highlights Both Promise and Peril in China's AI Chip Market

Cambricon Technologies, a Beijing‑based AI chip designer, has seen its market value soar above RMB580 billion, driven by a revenue surge to RMB28.81 billion in the first half of 2025 and a net profit of RMB1.038 billion. The company’s Siyuan chips, touted to approach Nvidia’s market‑leading performance, have propelled this growth. Yet the bulk of sales come from a single, unnamed cloud provider, and the firm remains on a U.S. trade blacklist that limits access to overseas suppliers. Investors are weighing the rapid financial turnaround against customer concentration and geopolitical headwinds.

South Korean Researchers Introduce ConcreteSC to Advance Semantic Wireless Communication

South Korean Researchers Introduce ConcreteSC to Advance Semantic Wireless Communication

A team of South Korean researchers led by Dr. Dong Jin Ji has unveiled ConcreteSC, a novel approach to semantic communication that eliminates the need for large codebooks and improves image transmission reliability. By focusing on transmitting meaning rather than raw data, ConcreteSC offers a fully differentiable quantization process that can be trained end‑to‑end even under noisy channel conditions. Simulations show it outperforms traditional vector‑quantization methods in image quality and complexity. The researchers see the technology as a key enabler for next‑generation wireless systems such as 6G, smart factories, and AI‑powered healthcare devices.

AI‑Powered Commerce Redefines Brand Visibility

AI‑Powered Commerce Redefines Brand Visibility

Generative AI interfaces are merging discovery, evaluation, and purchase into a single prompt, removing traditional brand‑controlled touchpoints. Brands must now focus on structuring product data for machine logic, as AI models prioritize clean, well‑formatted information over traditional marketing cues. This shift creates new opportunities for AI‑driven ad marketplaces while demanding stronger data governance and infrastructure that can convey brand identity within AI systems.

AI-Generated Reviews Threaten Trust on Amazon, Study Finds

AI-Generated Reviews Threaten Trust on Amazon, Study Finds

A recent analysis of thousands of Amazon product reviews uncovered a notable presence of AI‑generated content, particularly in baby, beauty and wellness categories. The study showed that AI‑written reviews are more likely to be five‑star and marked as verified purchases, raising concerns about consumer trust. Regulators such as the FTC have labeled fake reviews illegal, and experts urge Amazon and policymakers to address the growing problem before it undermines the credibility of online shopping.

Hundreds of Ollama LLM Servers Exposed Online, Raising Cybersecurity Concerns

Hundreds of Ollama LLM Servers Exposed Online, Raising Cybersecurity Concerns

Cisco Talos identified more than 1,100 Ollama servers publicly reachable on the internet, many of which lack proper security controls. While roughly 80% of the servers are dormant, the remaining 20% host active language models that could be exploited for model extraction, jailbreaking, backdoor injection, and other attacks. The majority of exposed instances are located in the United States, followed by China and Germany, underscoring a widespread neglect of basic security practices such as access control and network isolation in AI deployments.

AI poised to transform healthcare by boosting efficiency and lowering costs

AI poised to transform healthcare by boosting efficiency and lowering costs

Artificial intelligence tools are being positioned to reshape the healthcare system by shifting care from a reactive model to proactive prevention, early detection, and streamlined operations. AI‑driven image analysis, predictive algorithms, and chat‑based triage can catch diseases earlier, guide patients to the right pathways, and free clinicians to focus on complex cases. Experts emphasize the need for specialist AI agents, hybrid human‑AI workflows, and rigorous safety monitoring to ensure accurate, trustworthy outcomes while reducing overall costs.