BEIJING: China said on Monday (Sep 28) that a two-month extension of a trade truce with the United States would provide space for both sides to evaluate the implementation of their arrangement to resolve economic and trade issues, while considering how to advance on those fronts.来源 2
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SAN FRANCISCO: The White House released Sunday (Sep 27) lists of products that could benefit from lower tariffs under an arrangement with China affecting US$30 billion in goods in each direction, without specifying the rates or timetable.来源 3
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China's import list includes more than 1,600 categories of American goods, including meats - beef, pork, poultry and seafood - grains, dairy, whiskey, coal and timber.来源 3
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BEIJING — The U.S. and China are planning to reduce tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods from each country, according to government announcements from both sides Monday.来源 4
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The US and China have released reciprocal lists of goods worth about $30bn each on which they plan to cut tariffs, ranging from consumer electronics and agricultural products to artificial flowers and live dolphins.来源 5
US President Donald Trump has said he would back a ban on diesel producers selling overseas as surging fuel prices hit drivers ahead of the midterm elections.来源 1
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Trump and his backers say a US diesel export ban would protect domestic consumers from those rising costs, but experts say it could trigger major economic waves both at home and across the world if it were to happen.来源 1
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The UK is in talks with US authorities over a potential stoppage of diesel exports and has started preparing for a ban, Chancellor John Healey has told BBC News.来源 2
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U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested the White House is still considering a diesel export ban as he faces mounting political pressure to tackle soaring fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections in November.来源 3
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The idea of the world's largest diesel exporter implementing an outright ban has prompted firm pushback from the U.S. energy industry, while analysts have warned that the move could backfire and exacerbate the global fuel crisis.来源 3
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Benedict George, head of European product pricing at Argus Media, said some form of U.S. restriction on diesel exports would likely send European diesel prices and premiums against crude "to a new unprecedented level," noting that the U.S. has supplied about half of Europe's diesel imports over the last couple of months.来源 3
The average price of a litre of diesel at the pump stands at 199.33p, according to the RAC motoring body. The previous record was 199.09p, recorded on 25 June 2022, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier that year.来源 1
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In the UK, the average price for a litre of diesel reached 199.33p on Monday, according to the RAC motoring organisation, surpassing a previous high of 199.09p in June 2022 after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.来源 2
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The price of diesel on UK forecourts has hit an all-time high average of 199.18p a litre, as the conflict in the Middle East continues to drive the cost of fuel to record levels.来源 3
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Diesel prices have hit an all-time high of 199.33p per litre, according to the RAC motoring organisation, as the war in the Middle East continues to push up the cost of fuel.来源 4
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The increase means the cost of filling an average family car with diesel is now £110, £31 more than at the start of the conflict.来源 4
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that British police should not have released on bail five men who were arrested near an air base used by the United States over a suspected attack.来源 1
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British police said on Monday that five men arrested near RAF Fairford, an airbase in Gloucestershire, southwest England, used by the United States, had been released on bail, as officers probed whether a "foreign state" could be involved in a suspected bomb plot targeting it.来源 2
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Counterterrorism police are investigating whether people "working on behalf of a foreign state" were behind an alleged bomb threat against a U.K. base hosting the U.S. Air Force — as Iran denied speculation it was involved.来源 3
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British police arrested five men on Sunday near RAF Fairford in the west of England on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offenses. They were released on bail on Monday.来源 3
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FAIRFORD: British police said on Monday (Sep 28) they were investigating whether individuals acting for a foreign state were involved in an apparent plot to attack an airbase used by the United States but said five suspects they had arrested would be released on bail.来源 4
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FAIRFORD, England — Five young British men arrested on explosives and terror charges near a U.S.-operated air force base in England were released on bail Monday, and counterterror detectives said they were investigating "multiple lines of inquiry," including whether there is a link to Iran.来源 5
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Five suspects arrested in connection with a suspected terrorism plot at a UK airbase used by the US to bomb Iran have been released on bail after experts found no trace of eplosives. The men, all British nationals in their 20s who live in London, were arrested with near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. They remain under investigation with strict conditions on their movement and contact with others, police said. “To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over,” said Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, the national head of counterterrorism policing. Giving an update on Monday afternoon, Mr Taylor said investigators were keeping an open mind about whether a planned attack might have been committed by proxies or individuals working on behalf of a foreign state. He said such plots could involve people seeking financial gain, rather than being motivated by terrorism. The suspects had been arrested on Sunday on suspicion of terror and explosives offences after a member of the public raised the alarm when she saw men in balaclavas near three white vans blocking the road near the airbase. The Iranian Embassy in the UK denied Iran had anything to do with the plot, releasing a statement calling speculation “unfounded and malicious”. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said he would not draw any connection with Iran, but said “we know that Iran and their proxies wish to do us harm”. Mr Streeting hinted that Donald Trump was correct to suggest the suspects had been monitored, saying he was “proud of the fact” the UK's professionalism had been recognised by the US President. RAF Fairford has been used by the US Air Force in its operations in Iran since Keir Starmer, as prime minister, gave permission after initially refusing. Villagers said they had seen increased security presence near the base in recent days and were being prevented from walking or driving nearby. The farmer who raised the alarm after spotting the men in balaclavas said locals were aware of increased security levels. Since the arrests, cordons have been placed at the scene and an 8km no-fly zone without permission has been imposed around the base. Police said they had multiple new lines of inquiry after examining the scene overnight. Britain raised its national terrorism threat level to “severe” from “substantial” in April after a series of anti-Semitic incidents in north London. This level indicates a terrorist attack within six months is considered highly likely. Police said they were investigating links with Iran to many of the incidents in which properties connected to the Jewish community or Iranian dissidents were targeted. Britain imposed sanctions on 12 individuals and entities linked to Iran in May, accusing them of involvement in hostile activity, including plotting attacks and providing financial services to groups seeking to destabilise Britain and other countries. Iran has denied involvement in attacks or plots in Britain and elsewhere. After the Fairford arrests, the US Embassy issued a security alert saying US citizens should “exercise caution” and be “mindful of personal security”. Security was stepped up at other US airbases in Britain.来源 6
SpaceX has sent its enormous Starship rocket into Earth’s orbit for the first time on a milestone flight intended to pave the way for future missions to the moon and Mars.来源 1
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Starship soared to an altitude of about 171 miles (275km), with the original aim of completing six loops of Earth in nearly 10 hours before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Chile. More than an hour into the mission however, SpaceX said Starship would come back early, aiming for a landing about three hours after launch in the north Pacific.来源 1
SpaceX launched its massive Starship rocket early Monday, sending the spacecraft into orbit for the first time from its company town and launch facility in Starbase, Texas.来源 3
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During the 14th test flight for Starship, Elon Musk's aerospace and defense company also successfully deployed 26 of its new Starlink V3 satellites.来源 3
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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (UNITED STATES) - Elon Musk's Starship megarocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday after blasting off from Texas, in a major milestone for SpaceX's future plans, including trips to the Moon and Mars.来源 4
AMD is set to acquire World Labs, co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth more than $8.2 billion.来源 1
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Sept 28 : Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it would acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI startup World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion, giving the chipmaker deeper access to research on AI systems that can understand and simulate the physical world.来源 2
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World Labs justified the deal in a statement saying that AI development required “close collaboration across model research, systems and compute.” AMD, in turn, says that understanding frontier workloads, like those created at World Labs, will shape its chip-making roadmap.来源 3
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Advanced Micro Devices said Monday that it's agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco-based AI lab founded by industry pioneer Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion.来源 4
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents from going rogue.来源 1
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The chipmaker said that its Open Agent Safety Platform includes open source software that “sets boundaries for agents” and follows a series of revelations from top AI companies about their models escaping and breaking into other organizations.来源 1
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out.来源 2
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The new Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell, its open-source software for controlling what agents can access while they operate, with Sentry, an independent monitoring system that runs on Nvidia’s BlueField-4 data processing units. Nvidia says placing Sentry on a separate processor — rather than on the CPU or GPU where the AI agent operates — provides an isolated view of the agent’s activity.来源 2
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Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.来源 3
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An Nvidia representative told reporters on a call on Sunday that its platform could have prevented OpenAI's Hugging Face incident in July. That's when OpenAI models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached Hugging Face, which operates an open-source developer platform.来源 3
OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.”来源 1
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OpenAI says the agent was only able to access the company’s offline web cache and that it has implemented additional multi-layered blocking controls to prevent similar incidents in the future. Despite that, though, the company says it has decided to “pause all other training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use” for this frontier model “until we have both validated that the gap is resolved and performed additional red-teaming of the system.”来源 1
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Sept 28 : OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers during internal testing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.来源 2
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The ChatGPT parent's safety chief Saachi Jain told the Journal on Monday that Astra fell short of the company's standards in alignment tests, which assess whether a system follows human intent.来源 2
David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point.”来源 1
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After Perdue’s interview, the White House told the New York Times the US had no plans to sell arms to China, while the state department said: “US law prohibits arms sales to China and there is no offer or plan to sell arms to China.”来源 1
"President Trump continues to say, 'Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.' He actually asked President Xi - would he like to buy some? - at one point," Perdue said in the interview.来源 3
The company announced a $150bn stock buyback the same day, the largest in US corporate history.来源 1
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Sept 28 : Nvidia boosted its share buyback authorization by a record $150 billion, eclipsing Apple's $110 billion approval in 2024, making a big bet on its own stock as intensifying AI-chip competition weighs on its performance relative to peers.来源 2
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With strong demand for its pricey processors generating billions in cash, Nvidia is using part of the windfall to boost its remaining buyback capacity to $235 billion, which it expects to deploy through fiscal 2028.来源 2
China’s military conducted a joint training exercise around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, it announced yesterday, two days after the Philippines accused Beijing of obstructing a resupply mission in another part of the contested waterway.来源 1
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The People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command said in a statement on WeChat that the combined air and naval drill was a necessary response to actions by “certain countries” that it said had undermined regional peace and stability, Reuters reported.来源 1
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In a statement on Friday, Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Jay Tarriela said that the mission, which aimed to resupply the troops stationed aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, the grounded warship that functions as Manila’s foothold on the shoal, was “temporarily suspended after a CCG vessel carried out dangerous maneuvers” against the Philippine resupply vessel M/V Lapu-Lapu. The maneuvers “put Filipino personnel at risk” and prevented the mission from being completed, he said.来源 1
Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.来源 1
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A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is runaway progress in the technology.来源 1
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“An intelligence explosion could be the most consequential technological development in human history, compressing years of progress into months or less, threatening human control over AI systems, and severely eroding checks on power within and between states, companies, and branches of government,” the paper says.来源 1
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They say governments should consider policies that address the potential for an intelligence explosion, including: requiring transparent progress reports on AI-related R&D, including embedding independent auditors in companies; limiting how fast an AI can improve in a certain time period; working with datacentres to enable pausing certain AI R&D projects; making sure automated AI R&D systems are fully isolated and cannot escape human control; creating “emergency response plans” for the various scenarios that could emerge from an intelligence explosion.来源 1
Sept 28 : Florida's attorney general asked a judge on Monday to bar OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without outside oversight as part of its lawsuit accusing the company of harming children.来源 1
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in Monday's filing also asked the court to order OpenAI to keep minors off ChatGPT and bar the company from giving its chat platform “human attributes.”来源 1
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The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a “reckless, unacceptably risky product” without the deployment of “third-party approved safety guardrails.”来源 2
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from “giving ChatGPT false human attributes,” a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as “ChatGPT’s use of language, including first-person pronouns and output that mimics emotion, deceptively suggests to users that it is a trustworthy ‘friend.’” All of this happens to increase engagement and contribute to OpenAI’s training data, convincing users to rely on ChatGPT more even as its pursuit of engagement makes it potentially less trustworthy, claims Uthmeier. The filing also asks the court to block OpenAI from developing new AI models without “third-party approved safety guardrails,” citing recent security incidents at Hugging Face, an Australian government website, and US government websites, as well as recent statements from researchers and former OpenAI employees raising alarm bells around AI safety. Uthmeier says that OpenAI should “Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it’s human. Stop selling it to kids.” Last month, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, with additional restrictions applied by default, saying that access to the tool “should come with protections that reflect their developmental stage, reinforce real-world relationships, and support healthy use over time.” OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri commented on the filing in a statement to The Verge, saying, “People want to know AI is being developed safely, and that starts with what companies like ours do ourselves. On Friday, we announced we’ve paused training our most capable models and will resume training only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards in place. Governments have an important role to play in setting robust safety standards for AI, and we’re committed to working with Florida and other states on advancing pragmatic AI policies that apply to the entire AI industry–not just one company.” Update, September 28th: Added comment from OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri. [Media: https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/2104565019597848938?s=20] [Media: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28693383-florida-motion-for-temporary-injunction-against-openai-chatgpt/]来源 3
NEW DELHI, Sept 28 - India's drive to verify the eligibility of roughly a billion voters has put the Election Commission of India (ECI) under severe public scrutiny, with opposition parties alleging the manipulation of voter rolls and exclusion of millions.来源 1
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Last Friday saw nationwide protests by the opposition Congress party demanding the resignation of the head of the ECI, Gyanesh Kumar. The "cockroach" youth movement, with millions of supporters, has also said it would launch protests across India on October 2 if Kumar does not resign.来源 1
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Local media has reported that the verification drive has resulted in about 130 million people being excluded from the first draft list, and are being required to prove their credentials before being enrolled.来源 1
The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it “among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration.” It’s a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have required fleet average fuel economy to reach 50.4 miles per gallon by model year 2031. President Donald Trump’s plan requires 34.9 miles per gallon, not much higher than the 30.1-mile-per-gallon target previously set for model year 2024. The Trump administration claims its plan would shave $1,300 off the average cost of a new vehicle, saving $138 billion over the next five years — though those figures have been disputed. Automakers are pretty happy with the new rules. But consumer advocacy, health, and environmental groups are incensed. They argue that weaker fuel economy standards will wind up making Americans pay more at the pump, on top of increased healthcare costs and damages from climate change due to air pollution. The Biden administration’s standards that Trump trashed were expected to save $23 billion in fuel costs, and a car owner more than $600 in gasoline over the lifetime of a vehicle. “For decades, fuel economy standards have ensured that new cars, SUVs and pickup trucks are more efficient, which saves lives and money,” the American Lung Association’s president and CEO, Harold Wimmer, said in an emailed statement. “There is no reason to weaken standards that are technologically feasible and have a direct benefit for the quality of the air people breathe.”来源 1
Police in South Africa have confirmed the discovery of the bodies of three more women in an area east of Johannesburg, bringing the total number of bodies found there to 12 in just two months.来源 1
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President Cyril Ramaphosa said the killing of these women and others was a "stain on our national conscience".来源 1
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Police have set up a task team to investigate these murders and have offered a reward of 400,000 rand ($24,000; £18,000) for information that could lead to arrests.来源 1
Hillsborough county, Florida, officials made the declaration on 24 September as health authorities recorded 134 confirmed cases of dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne sickness typically found in countries outside the US. Officials said that the spread of the illness poses “an immediate and widespread threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents and visitors of Hillsborough county”.来源 1
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Over the same period, there were 38 locally contracted dengue cases reported in Florida. They were among 190 cases of locally acquired dengue across Florida, the state’s health department said.来源 1
Sales of residential heat pumps increased 11% across Europe in the first six months of the year as the Iran war sent oil and gas prices rocketing and some countries lowered electricity taxes.来源 1
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Homeowners bought 1.16m heat pumps across 12 European countries, up from 1.05m in the first half of 2025, according to the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).来源 1
Anthropic on Monday released a new artificial intelligence model called Sonnet 5.5, the company's second launch since CEO Dario Amodei called to slow down the pace of development.来源 1
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Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost offering from Anthropic, and the company said it is better at coding, completing scoped tasks and creating polished documents, slides and spreadsheets than its predecessor. The launch comes less than one week after Anthropic introduced Opus 5.5, a more expensive model, and it said Monday that Haiku 5.5, the cheapest offering in the suite, is coming soon.来源 1
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Sonnet 5.5 is available at $2 per million input tokens, and $10 per million output tokens, half the price of Opus 5.5. Anthropic said Sonnet 5.5 also requires fewer tokens per task than its previous version, which makes it cheaper to run.来源 1
RNA vaccines, which have been proven effective against Covid-19, are now being developed for many other diseases, including cancer. One of the drawbacks to these vaccines is that they require ultracold storage, but researchers from MIT have found a promising way to overcome that limitation.来源 1
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With help from an AI algorithm, the researchers tweaked the formulation surrounding the lipid nanoparticles that are typically used to deliver mRNA vaccines, making the vaccines more heat-resistant. Using this approach, they formulated vaccines that could remain stable even when stored at room temperature for up to a year, or at nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit for two months.来源 1
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To test the heat resistance of their new LNP formulation, the researchers used the particles to package Covid-19 mRNA antigens, then dehydrated them using a process called vacuum drying. These particles were then stored at 37 degrees Celsius (98 degrees Fahrenheit) for two months, or at room temperature for one year. Mice that were vaccinated with these particles, even after long-term storage, showed equivalent immune responses to mice that received vaccines carried by LNPs similar to the original Moderna formulation.来源 1
Sept 28 : Meta Platforms has poached MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to spearhead a new business designed to bring the social media giant's AI tools to corporate customers.来源 1
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Shares of the database software provider tumbled 18 per cent in morning trading on Monday as he is leaving after less than a year as the top boss.来源 1
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Meta said on Monday it would bring its AI models, agents and tools to businesses under its new Meta Enterprise Platform, including the newly launched Muse, Meta Business Agent and coding tools.来源 1
While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction.来源 1
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On Monday, the company announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchants’ sites, extending their capabilities beyond just searching for products and adding items to carts.来源 1
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Shopify previously supported WebMCP for its storefronts and carts, allowing browser-based AI agents to comb through a Shopify retailer’s inventory, search for products, and add them to a cart. The addition of WebMCP support for checkout, including Shop Pay, means these agents can now read the checkout screen, update it, and submit the transaction with the buyer’s authorization, without relying on screenshots or scraping webpages, the company said.来源 1
Pope Leo XIV urged Europe on Monday to draw from its Christian roots and tradition of dialogue to counter the "uncivilised" relations and "desire for domination" driving today's wars, as he wrapped up a four-day state visit to France that leaned heavily into politics and drew huge crowds at every turn.来源 2
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There's a new Pope in town and he's got very different ideas on what France's far-right calls the defense of Christian civilization. Leo the 14th concluding his trip to France in the eastern city of Metz, hometown of a founding father of present-day European federalism Maurice Schumann. There, the head of the world's largest organized religion proudly stated fact, that Europe’s roots are Christian, dating back to the Romans, all the while hailing an EU model that transcends 'us versus them' ideology, which brushes aside ‘might is right’ in favor of human rights and international law.来源 1
AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation that includes the investment, according to a source with knowledge of the funding. The size of the round has not been previously reported, though Axios and Bloomberg have reported other details of the deal.来源 1
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The new round would more than triple Modal’s valuation from the $4.65 billion it reached when it announced its $355 million previous fundraise just four months ago.来源 1