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TREE NEWS update: Amazon Web Services executive Desantis said the next generation of Trainium, AWS’s in-house AI chip line, will be “very unique.” The remark, made without further specification, points to continued development of AWS’s custom silicon for AI workloads. No timeline, performance figures or product details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on the idea of a coordinated industry pause on AI development, saying individual labs can act on their own. He argued that competition and potential liability already give AI developers reasons to prioritize safety, pointing to Meta’s decision to delay Muse as an example. Zuckerberg did not call for joint regulatory action.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has combined Claude Coworker and Claude Chat into a single application, the company said. The two products, previously offered separately, now operate as one app. No timeline, pricing or feature details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Hugging Face CEO said existing internet laws are probably sufficient to regulate advanced AI, adding that he does not think there is a need to reinvent the wheel. The remarks address how advanced AI should be governed as regulators worldwide weigh new rules for the technology.

TREE NEWS update: Google said it is making changes to improve search for publishers. The company framed the move as a response to publishers’ concerns about how their content appears in search results. No further terms, figures or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: U.S. Bancorp CEO Gunjan Kedia said a slowing AI arms race benefits companies actually deploying the tools. Speaking at a Barclays Plc conference, she said the bank’s use cases do not require the most complex frontier models, so a pause in model upgrades will not hurt its programs — and may help by giving it breathing room to fully use existing technology.

TREE NEWS update: Qingtianzu, a robot rental platform, said at its first ecosystem partner conference in Shanghai on Sept 16 that it aims to reach RMB 10 billion in cumulative platform revenue within three years. CEO Li Yiyan said the platform can currently dispatch more than 4,000 robots, expects 6,000 to 10,000 by year-end, and has booked nearly RMB 3.5 billion in cumulative GMV with 257 ecosystem partners.

TREE NEWS reports: Bank of America expects the AI-driven bond supply shock to fade over the next two years. The bank’s view points to a cooling in the wave of debt issuance tied to artificial intelligence financing, easing pressure on credit markets. No specific figures or timeline beyond the two-year window were given.

TREE NEWS update: DeepWay, together with STO Express, completed the express-delivery industry’s first L4 autonomous new-energy heavy truck road test on open public roads in the Yangtze River Delta. With no human intervention in the rear vehicle, the truck independently performed intelligent dispatch and full-scenario autonomous driving, moving beyond the traditional closed test-track setting.

TREE NEWS reports: The Cato Institute warned that pausing AI development would help dominant firms rather than improve safety, favoring voluntary safeguards instead. Block Chairman Jack Dorsey backed independent testing and narrowly justified restrictions. The two positions emerged as the debate over how to govern advanced AI sharpens.

TREE NEWS update: A Pentagon official named Michael said AI companies are underinvesting in security. The remark was made without further detail on which firms, programmes or figures were involved. No response from any AI company was given.

TREE NEWS update: US enterprise AI startup Arcee AI has raised a $150 million Series B round at a $1 billion pre-money valuation. Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and Emergence Capital led the round, with Microsoft’s M12, AI10 Ventures, Hitachi, IAG, P7 and Wipro participating. Founded in 2023, Arcee initially focused on fine-tuning and optimizing existing models before pivoting to building open-weight models from scratch; founder Mark McQuade is a former early Hugging Face employee.

TREE NEWS update: Zijin Mining said its wholly owned subsidiary Zijin Xiamen Equity will commit RMB 1 billion as a limited partner in the Xiamen Shidai Shenyuan Venture Capital Fund, taking a 20.4081% subscribed share. The fund has total committed capital of RMB 4.9 billion and will invest mainly in artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence, technology applications and frontier technology. The announcement was dated September 16.

TREE NEWS update: Zijin Mining said its wholly owned subsidiary Zijin Xiamen Equity plans to commit 1 billion yuan as a limited partner in the Xiamen Times Shenyuan Venture Capital Fund, taking a 20.4081% subscribed share. The fund has total committed capital of 4.9 billion yuan and will invest mainly in artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence, technology applications and frontier technology.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman warned that giving tools such as Anthropic’s Claude human-like traits raises the risk of such systems going out of control. Suleyman rejected the idea that AI systems could be conscious, saying consciousness is limited to humans and other living organisms. His Microsoft AI team published a manifesto to guide its own AI development, aiming to keep humans in control of the systems Microsoft builds.

TREE NEWS update: Bain Capital Ventures has raised $1.6 billion to back startups focused on the next phase of artificial intelligence. The fund will target early-stage companies in infrastructure, the physical world, and security and services — areas partner Enrique Salem expects to keep growing in importance even after artificial general intelligence is achieved. Salem said he expects fundraising activity to continue at a strong pace despite high costs and cybersecurity incidents facing the AI sector.

TREE NEWS update: Nubia’s NaviX Ultra, running the consumer version of the Doubao Phone Assistant, has officially gone on sale. In hands-on testing, the assistant could not yet perform in-app automated operations inside WeChat, Xiaohongshu, Meituan Waimai or Taobao under the SAEP protocol framework.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Brazilian President’s chief special adviser Celso Amorim in Beijing, praising Brazil’s decision to join the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. Wang said China is willing to work with Brazil to advance AI development that is beneficial, inclusive and beneficial to humanity, and called for deeper bilateral cooperation and stronger strategic coordination on major international and regional issues.

TREE NEWS update: Leapmotor unveiled its self-developed world-model assisted driving system at its 2026 technology day on September 16. Founder Zhu Jiangming said the company had delivered 350,000 vehicles equipped with lidar by the end of August. Leapmotor pledged free upgrades to the world-model smart-driving version, with lifetime free use, for all lidar-equipped owners, extending high-level assisted driving to models priced under 100,000 yuan including the A10.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI have launched an alliance focused on AI energy management. The three companies are behind the initiative, which is aimed at addressing the power demands of artificial intelligence. No further details on the alliance’s members, structure or timeline were disclosed.