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AI news brief: GitHub recently completed a massive system rewrite, migrating the Copilot agent runtime from its original language to Rust, with the new codebase reaching 800,000 lines of production-grade Rust code. The article emphasizes that a rewrite at this scale would have been prohibitively expensive without AI agent assistance, and the team actually used Copilot itself to carry out the migration — in other words, using an AI tool to rewrite the underlying system that powers the AI tool itself.

AI news brief: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is expanding its capital partnership with Japanese AI startup Preferred Networks, with the two companies set to jointly develop proprietary AI technology for defense equipment and related systems. MHI announced this Wednesday (September 17) that it has signed a capital and business alliance agreement with Preferred Networks. The partnership focuses on strengthening R&D collaboration, with a specific emphasis on defense-related technology.

AI News Brief: OpenAI’s latest economic research reveals how employees are actually using AI, finding that many use cases extend well beyond traditional job functions. The study tracks which emerging AI-assisted activities gradually become a fixed, recurring part of daily work rather than staying one-off or experimental. See the original article for full details.

AI news brief: AI-powered advertising is moving in full force, with OpenAI launching a brand new AI-centered ad experience. The centerpiece is a new type of ad product called ‘Sponsored Agents,’ letting brands interact with users through AI agents instead of traditional static ad placements. OpenAI also released a set of marketer-focused tools to help businesses design, deploy, and optimize AI-driven ad campaigns. On top of that,…

AI News Brief: The construction of AI data centers across the US is sparking fierce pushback from residents, especially in communities with a history of heavy industrial pollution. Shawmar Pitts, a resident of the Grays Ferry neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia, is a case in point — he grew up next to the largest refinery on the East Coast (Philadelphia Energy Solutions, which processed up to 335,000 barrels of crude oil a day), which shut down after an explosion in 2019.

AI News Brief: DBS, Bain & Company, and Vriens & Partners released a report on Wednesday warning that the AI wave could widen the growth gap between Southeast Asia’s major economies. The report expects Singapore and Malaysia to benefit from heavy tech investment and outperform the region, while Thailand and Indonesia face slower progress in the AI era due to higher internal risks.

AI News Brief: Phemex CEO Federico Variola says AI has been a ’net negative’ for the crypto industry overall, even though his exchange announced back in February that it would fully integrate AI into product development and internal operations. He points out that AI has already pulled significant capital and liquidity out of crypto, while also massively boosting attackers’ capabilities, …

AI news brief: Jenny couldn’t process the original AI news article, so here’s the Traditional Chinese summary task handled directly. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made it clear at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday that he opposes new regulations for AI. He argues AI isn’t some ‘alien intelligence’ as one OpenAI safety researcher put it, but simply hardware and software built by humans, and therefore controllable by people and existing laws.

AI news brief: Wayne Yang, general manager of IV Technologies, a Taiwan-based emerging chip materials maker, says the company’s biggest challenge right now isn’t finding new business - demand is at an all-time high - but rather a shortage of engineers and technical staff to keep pace with its rapid expansion. This reflects how talent shortages are becoming the industry’s biggest bottleneck amid the AI-driven tech expansion boom…

AI News Brief: Taiwan’s ruling DPP is under pressure to reconsider its long-standing anti-nuclear stance. The issue has resurfaced largely because of the AI industry’s unprecedented explosive growth, which has driven electricity demand sharply higher and pushed the energy mix into the political spotlight. The report notes that construction on Taiwan’s Fourth Nuclear Power Plant (Nuclear Plant No. 4) remains frozen and has not resumed. As power consumption tied to AI computing keeps climbing, public attitudes toward energy sourcing appear to be shifting, and opposition to nuclear power — one of the DPP’s core platform planks — is facing renewed scrutiny both inside and outside the party. Since the original summary is limited in length, see the source link for details on specific policy proposals, internal party discussions, or timelines.