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.

A known Dominion flaw lets shuffled ballot records be put back in order, and a Princeton researcher says a public AI assistant did the unshuffling and matched many voters to ballots from May's primary - Georgia says it has mitigated, advocates say not enough.

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.