Xi offered BRICS a China-led open-source AI community and model cooperation, yet the bloc's declaration ignored it and Beijing spent the summer debating whether to cut foreign access to Qwen, Doubao and GLM, an openness with a ceiling nobody has written down.

Obama told a private fundraiser that AI 'moving very fast in private hands' could be dangerous and urged Jeffries to build a public framework if Democrats win the House, making safety a 2028 platform plank; the quotes come from a partial transcript.

Apollo economists found real wages in AI-exposed jobs grew 6.7 points slower since 2023 with no measurable loss of employment, as labour's share of output hit a record-low 52.8% - though an EPI economist says the sample is too small to convince.