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TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI is seeking clarity from Congress on whether slowing down AI development is legal under antitrust law, amid researchers calling for restraint and experts warning that competition leads companies to overlook risks. The company is asking lawmakers to clarify how antitrust law applies to slowing development for AI safety reasons.

TREE NEWS reports: Situational Awareness has begun building relationships with new prime brokers, most recently starting work with specialist brokerage Clear Street, people familiar with the matter said. The firm is rebuilding large trading positions in technology stocks including AMD, Intel, SK Hynix and SanDisk, as well as AI startups such as CoreWeave.

TREE NEWS reports: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness has resumed buying options, paying hundreds of millions of dollars in premiums, CNBC’s David Faber said, citing unnamed sources. The positions include names common in Leopold Aschenbrenner’s prior portfolio such as SK Hynix, SanDisk, Advanced Micro, Bloom Energy and CoreWeave. It remains unclear whether Aschenbrenner raised new capital for the public-market investments.

TREE NEWS update: Chengdu’s economy and information technology bureau has published a draft ‘Token Voucher’ implementation plan for public comment over 30 days. Under the plan, a single entity’s voucher support would cover up to 30% of actual purchase costs, rising to 50% for small and micro enterprises, capped at 2 million yuan per entity, with total citywide issuance limited to 100 million yuan per year.

TREE NEWS update: A research team at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, used two-dimensional van der Waals heterojunction interface engineering to achieve atomic-layer slip of just 0.1 nanometres, producing a ten-million-fold change in resistance. The breakthrough addresses the trade-off between high on/off ratio and durability in sliding ferroelectric tunnel junctions. The findings were published on September 11 in the journal Science.

TREE NEWS reports: AI agents have reduced a Bitcoin quantum attack benchmark by 86%. The item flags crypto majors trading shakily ahead of this morning’s CPI print while on-chain activity builds toward another potentially big weekend. No further figures, actors or dates were provided in the material.

TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek said it will continue offering API access to DeepSeek V4 Pro after September 14, 2026, citing user demand. Pricing for the service remains unchanged, and the company said it will give separate notice of any future adjustments. The Chinese AI developer had previously signaled the model’s API service would end on that date.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has identified a group in Yemen using its Claude AI model to assist in the development of missile and rocket systems. The company disclosed the finding, marking a case in which its model was linked to weapons-related work.

TREE NEWS update: Inspur Information’s board approved a private placement on September 11, 2026, to raise up to RMB 9 billion from no more than 35 specified investors. Proceeds are earmarked for next-generation AI infrastructure for agent-scale applications (RMB 2.6B), liquid-cooled green computing clusters (RMB 1.4B), multi-agent storage-compute fusion technology (RMB 1.4B), high-density computing equipment manufacturing (RMB 0.9B) and working capital (RMB 2.7B). The issuance still requires regulatory approvals.

TREE NEWS update: A research team led by Academician Hao Yue of Xidian University, working with scholars from City University of Hong Kong and Fudan University, reported a new breakthrough in the study of ferroelectric material failure on July 11, published in the journal Science. The work links atomic-scale defect behavior to device-scale reliability, offering a new physical basis for developing highly reliable, high-density wurtzite ferroelectric memory.

TREE NEWS update: China’s State Council Executive Meeting, chaired by Premier Li Qiang, called for rational layout and orderly development of computing infrastructure. The meeting urged further improvements to computing infrastructure and active promotion of research, development and application of key technologies and equipment, aiming to build a multi-tiered, networked computing power system.

TREE NEWS update: DiDi Enterprise unveiled its end-to-end business travel support program ‘Super Save’ along with an AI cross-enterprise collaboration solution at its 2026 Business Travel Service Conference on September 10. The unit has served more than 1 million companies and 85 million workplace employees to date; data shows connected firms cut total travel costs by an average 30% and reduce time spent on trip planning and expense reimbursement by 60%.

TREE NEWS update: Sinovatio announced its shares rose more than 20% cumulatively over September 10-11, 2026, closing at 23.51 yuan with a rolling P/E of 494.16x versus the software and IT services sector’s 58.31x. The company said its AI application products, built around the AI WorkForce platform for government and enterprise clients, remain at an early commercialization stage and accounted for no more than 2% of first-half 2026 revenue. Concerted-action shareholders Guangdong Hongtu, Nanjing Hongtu, Kunshan Hongtu and Zhengzhou Bairui cut a combined 1.698 million shares, or 0.9944% of total shares, with the reduction plan still underway.

TREE NEWS update: At the Space Computing Innovation Development forum of the 2026 China Computing Conference, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute formally established the “Space Computing Key Technologies and Scenario Verification Laboratory.” The lab is described as the industry’s first dedicated to key space-computing technologies and integrated multi-scenario verification.

TREE NEWS reports: A crowdsourced challenge involving more than 100 researchers and AI agents cut the estimated quantum cost of a key step in attacking Bitcoin and Ethereum by more than half, driving a quantum benchmark down 86% over two months. The figure now sits well below Google’s March estimate.

TREE NEWS update: Baidu’s no-code platform Miaoda launched a no-code app order marketplace on September 11, connecting enterprises’ real needs in business processes and marketing with OPC (one-person company) creators. The platform aims to push AI applications beyond development toward actual use and sale.

TREE NEWS update: Zhipu plans to place about 21.97 million H shares at HK$714 per share. The Chinese AI company’s Hong Kong-listed stock placement would raise roughly HK$15.7 billion based on the stated price and share count. No further terms of the deal were disclosed in the filing.

TREE NEWS reports: Zhipu plans to place approximately 21.97 million H shares at HK$714 each. Based on the offered price and share count, this Hong Kong-listed share placement by the Chinese AI company would raise about HK$15.7 billion. The filing does not disclose further terms of the transaction.

TREE NEWS update: Embodied intelligence company Kinetix AI (超维动力) has closed an angel-plus funding round of more than RMB 500 million, with Vertex Ventures, Fangguang Capital and Wanshi Capital among the investors. The proceeds will accelerate iteration across its data, model and hardware stack and push embodied-intelligence products toward deployment.

TREE NEWS update: China has officially launched data property rights registration, the National Data Administration said, issuing “identity certificates” for data across various forms. The registration clarifies who holds the data, what it can be used for and who may use it, as the country pushes to speed the circulation and use of data as a new production factor.