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TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said data centers should be held to a certain standard of aesthetic design, adding that he believes they could be designed better. Huang also said he does not fear paying taxes, only becoming poor, and that nothing makes him happier than paying more tax, accepting that higher earnings bring higher taxes.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused Ray Dalio and Sam Altman of using ‘runaway AI’ narratives to avoid massive litigation risk under current laws. Huang said: ‘Don’t let this doomer narrative allow them to be exempt from existing laws. Read between the lines: they’re not actually asking for new laws, they want to escape the legal constraints we already have.’

TREE NEWS update: ZetaChain has voted to shut down its Layer 1 network and move the ZETA token to Solana, with the team planning to focus instead on Anuma, its private AI app. The migration still requires one more vote before it can proceed. No timeline for the shutdown or the token move was given.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced its image generation model Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20. MetaX subsequently announced it completed Day-Zero adaptation of the model, enabling support at launch. The adaptation means MetaX’s hardware can run Qwen-Image-2.1 from the day the model was released.

TREE NEWS update: Donald Trump said on Truth Social that he is removing “Supreme Intelligence” from his poll on renaming artificial intelligence, citing its likely association with the Supreme Court. The option was trailing “Superior Intelligence” and “Extreme Intelligence” badly, he said, leaving those two as the final choices. Trump launched the poll after arguing that “artificial intelligence” is not an accurate name.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin will appear online at ETHShanghai 2026 and deliver a keynote address, the conference announced. The event opens September 22 in Shanghai under the theme “The Renaissance of Ethereum,” covering Ethereum’s development, AI × Web3, decentralization and individual sovereignty, prediction markets, stablecoins and US equities on-chain. His talk extends his earlier argument that blockchain can serve as a privacy infrastructure layer for the AI agent era.

TREE NEWS update: White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios said AI leaders do not need anyone to slow the pace of AI model development, and that the US toolbox contains instruments to address AI safety concerns. Kratsios, a technology adviser to President Donald Trump, made the remarks in comments carried by Fox News.

TREE NEWS update: Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source image model that combines text-to-image generation and image editing in a single model, with a 7B-parameter visual generation component. The model natively supports generating and editing images with transparent backgrounds, handles up to 10 reference images, and is designed to balance output quality against inference cost.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced the image model Qwen-Image-2.1, which unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in a single model with a 7B-parameter visual generation component. The model natively supports transparent image generation and editing, accepts up to 10 reference images for multi-image composition, and adds local editing tools such as lasso selection and brushing. It also improves fidelity in portrait and product editing and text layout.

TREE NEWS update: China’s AI application penetration rate across key manufacturing scenarios reached 34.2% in the first half of 2026, the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Centre said at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, Anhui on September 20. The country’s two-way integration of industrialization and digitalization scored 67.1, placing it in a stage of coordinated digital, networked and intelligent development.

TREE NEWS update: President Donald Trump said the United States will create an ‘AI Force’ and appoint an AI czar, writing on Truth Social that the new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation. He did not give a timeline, a budget or name the official who would take the role.

TREE NEWS reports: AI agents entering corporate networks are shifting enterprise security’s control plane from networks and endpoints to identity, data and runtime, with vendors racing to quantify the shift. SailPoint said AI-driven ARR exceeded $70 million, with AI products contributing over 30% of net new ARR, while Palo Alto Networks posted quarterly revenue of $3.41 billion, up 34% year over year, and CrowdStrike’s revenue rose 26% with ARR up 25%.

TREE NEWS update: CapCut, ByteDance’s video editing app, launched a suite of multi-platform AI features and a new ‘AI Ultra’ subscription on September 20 at an AI creation event. The offering includes CapCut Hub and an AI assistant named ‘Xiaoying’, built as an all-scenario intelligent creation platform. The company said AI handles generation and repetitive tasks while creators retain final judgment.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has named Accenture as an embedded evaluator to help with its AI slowdown proposal. The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in the coming weeks with which it will also work. No financial terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Samsung Electronics is expected to at least double its HBM4 and HBM4E production next year from 2025 levels, analyst jukan of Citrini wrote on X. The company plans to raise outsourced cleaning of glass carriers used in HBM production from 20,000 wafers a month this year to 50,000 a month next year. Samsung began mass shipping HBM4 in February and in May provided 12-layer HBM4E samples to customers including Nvidia.

TREE NEWS reports: Harmony’s ONE token has surged nearly 500% since the project announced on September 6 that it would shut down its mainnet, trading at 0.00411 USDT with a 24-hour gain of 82.1%. Harmony has issued two proposals to fully close the Layer 1 mainnet launched in 2019, migrate the native ONE token to Ethereum, and pivot to an AI video editing business.

TREE NEWS reports: UBS now expects global AI capital expenditure to approach $1 trillion in 2026 and climb to about $1.4 trillion in 2027, with rising memory costs as the main driver. Memory-related spending is projected to jump from $71 billion in 2025 to $367 billion this year and $923 billion in 2027. Memory cost inflation accounts for roughly 60% of this year’s AI capex increase, and by 2027 will exceed the entire net increase in AI capex as other component spending declines.

TREE NEWS update: The “Chao Zhi Suan-1” computing satellite lifted off aboard a Lijian-1 Y18 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 12:03 on September 20 and reached its intended orbit, with the launch declared a complete success. The satellite uses laser communication to build a high-speed inter-satellite computing network, extending computing power into space. Founder and executive director Liu Mingtao said the project is China’s first integrated “first rocket, first satellite” computing satellite program.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will prioritize open-source foundation models and vertical industry models to strengthen the software and hardware base for next-generation smart manufacturing, Vice Minister Xin Guobin said at the opening of the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, Anhui, on September 20. The ministry will take next-generation smart manufacturing as its main direction, he said.

TREE NEWS update: AgiBot and Chimelong Group will open the world’s first large-scale embodied-intelligence theme park on September 24 at Chimelong Spaceship Park in Hengqin. More than 300 robots from AgiBot’s full lineup will begin work at the park on opening day.