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AI news brief: today’s top story on US-China AI safety dialogue for September 7 — the upcoming Trump-Xi summit between the two countries’ top leaders is expected to put AI safety on the agenda. Sources familiar with preparations say the US side plans to raise concerns about AI guardrails with China during the summit, opening a window for dialogue even as tech competition and rivalry between the two nations continues.

AI news brief: Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion class-action settlement last year, stemming from a court ruling that training AI models on copyrighted content is fair use, but obtaining that content through piracy is not; the settlement got final approval this July and payments are now rolling out. Under the terms, authors of nearly 500,000 books will receive $3,000 for each pirated work; if a book is still in print with its original publisher, the payout is split 50/50 between author and publisher; if it’s self-published or the publisher has reverted the rights (book out of print), the author gets the full amount.

AI News Brief: South Korea plans to merge five state-owned power companies by October 2027, aiming to accelerate energy investment to meet the surging electricity demand driven by AI and chip manufacturing growth. The move stems from President Lee Jae-myung’s economic growth strategy, which explicitly names semiconductors, physical AI, and large-scale AI data centers as priority investment areas — reflecting the government’s view that the current fragmented power supply structure may not be able to keep pace with the massive investment and buildout speed AI and chip industry expansion requires.

AI News Brief: OpenAI recently shared some early observational data on how coding agents are reshaping internal research workflows. The analysis looks at a few angles: actual agent usage rates, experiment iteration speed, changes in task complexity, and overall research acceleration. The core argument is that as coding agents get folded into researchers’ day-to-day workflows, more of the repetitive, engineering-heavy work…

AI News Flash: Jakub Pachocki (OpenAI Chief Scientist) reflects on the rapid growth of AI capabilities and the challenge of ensuring alignment doesn’t spiral out of control. He calls on industry and governments worldwide to build stronger safety safeguards, stressing that no single company or country can tackle this alone, and argues for cross-border, cross-institutional coordination to jointly develop regulatory frameworks and technical standards…

AI news brief: this task translates the Nikkei Asia Week in Asia roundup summary into Chinese highlights, and has nothing to do with trading systems, internal infrastructure, or external publishing, so it can be handled directly with no gates involved. This week’s Asia focus centers on the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, where leaders from India, Russia, China and other nations will gather, with whether Chinese President Xi Jinping attends seen as a touchstone for China-India relations…

AI news brief: Three young men went hiking on Mount Shasta in California this week using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini to plan their trip, but ended up needing a rescue after showing up seriously underprepared on gear and supplies. According to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, the three set out at 3am, and even though hikers are generally advised to turn back if they haven’t summited by noon, they kept pushing on…

AI news flash: OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit with another lawsuit from two news publishers, accused of using news content to train AI models without authorization. The joint suit from The Seattle Times and Newsday argues that the rise of AI could cause ‘irreparable harm’ to journalism, comparing generative AI to ‘a snake eating its own tail’ that could ultimately destroy the very media organizations that supplied its training data.

AI news brief: Google is pushing AI deeper into its products, announcing that its personal assistant Gemini Spark can now manage Google Photos libraries. Users can leverage Gemini Spark to edit photos, organize albums, automatically create shared albums based on favorite photos, turn concert flyer photos into calendar events, and run various automated workflows within Google Photos.

AI news brief: Apple officially entered the ‘Ternus era’ this week. CEO Tim Cook has stepped down, with former hardware chief John Ternus taking over. In his first internal memo as CEO, Ternus already previewed ‘a major product announcement next week,’ meaning Apple’s next iPhone launch event lands squarely on his plate before he’s even fully settled in.