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Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-china-gear-up-mid-september-ai-safety-dialogue-2026-09-04/
Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-times-authors-lawsuit
Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (Eve Bender/MobiHealthNews)

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/scancom-secures-220m-us-medical-imaging-expansion
Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tokens-consumer-rewards-credit-cards-telcos-deepseek/
Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987566/ai-civilizations-opeai-hugging-face-hack
The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/fff531fc-988c-4016-9b5b-25f2274f4d47?accessToken=zwAAAaBq_GUskdP_9TH8mIxAFtObWyXyJ09NRw.MEYCIQD09lhipznFC83rVxTx4ztMI_rtYxuK-2xpbJltH0yV8AIhALEtjnwE4yew40b3WfYJRD1cEh2sBy9ecksnl-0qFESV&sharetype=gift&token=2310df83-b6ea-4b36-9b05-d4b985b00bbf&syn-25a6b1a6=1
Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/8a708224-3a37-4d23-9f5c-158a73216018