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Fortune 34
Hong Kong-based Votee AI and other regions are building “sovereign AI” systems to avoid reliance on U.S.- or China-based AI and to cover local languages and needs.
ChinaTalk 1 month ago 28
The Trump-Xi AI safety dialogue announced in May has produced few details as both countries remain distrustful and past U.S.-China talks have repeatedly stalled over crises and unenforceable deliverables. The article cites 2022 and describes one enforcement problem from 2023, when a hotline call attempt during the spy balloon incident failed because the PLA did not connect. It recommends that officials start with tractable, technically aligned working-group topics—especially CBRNe risks—and broaden stakeholder input to reduce information gaps and improve the odds of progress at the September summit.
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17 October 2026
For all the talk of AI agents that can browse, plan, and finish the job, today’s reality check is on the web itself. Users of Meta’s Muse, xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct have reported being blocked when agents try to take actions at major sites—turning “autonomous” into “ask permission.” The practical fix is emerging in parallel: Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, its Firecracker microVM sandbox for running agent tasks, and said median create latency fell from 185 ms to 60 ms while host-escape mitigations hit 0 of 108 red-team runs. In other words, the stack is getting more careful about where code runs and what it can do, because the outside world is increasingly saying no.
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