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OpenAI and Google AI model access for Chinese firms sparks policy debate

OpenAI and Google have confirmed that they supplied advanced artificial intelligence services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, companies that the US government has accused of having links to China's military. The disclosures have renewed debate over whether Washington should tighten export controls on advanced AI models in addition to restrictions on semiconductor exports. The companies told the Financial Times that the services were provided legally through overseas subsidiaries. However, the arrangements have highlighted what critics describe as a gap in US efforts to limit China's access to cutting-edge AI technologies. OpenAI suspends Alibaba-linked API access OpenAI said it suspended API access for Alibaba-affiliated users last month following concerns over suspected misuse. According to the company, the suspension...

Invezz7/10/2026, 10:16:38 AMAI News
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Elliptic Announces Circle’s Participation in the Agentic Design Partner Program

Elliptic, the global leader in digital asset intelligence, today announced that an affiliate of Circle Internet Group, Inc. (‘Circle’) (NYSE:CRCL) has joined its Agentic Design Partner Program, bringing together infrastructure providers, compliance teams and technology leaders to help shape compliance solutions for autonomous, AI-driven financial activity. This momentum follows an investment from Circle Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Circle, and builds on a longstanding collaboration between the companies. Circle has been an Elliptic customer for multiple years and has expanded its use of Elliptic’s compliance capabilities across a range of digital asset initiatives. As stablecoins, tokenized assets and AI-powered applications become increasingly integrated into financial services, new compliance challenges are emerging. Elliptic’s agentic compliance layer addresses these challenges by combining unique datasets, a scalable query platform and a set of agents that can detect and process alerts at the speed of AI. These capabilities are designed to help organizations maintain auditable, compliance-ready oversight as autonomous systems increasingly participate in financial activity. The Agentic Design Partner Program reflects how Elliptic builds agentic compliance solutions. Elliptic believes agentic AI in regulated industries cannot be designed in isolation and must be built continuously with the compliance teams who operate it, because the transaction patterns, behavioral signals and failure modes of autonomous agents have no equivalent in human-paced finance. As autonomous systems increasingly participate in financial activity, compliance and risk management must evolve alongside them. We’re excited to support Elliptic as they develop infrastructure designed to help enterprises navigate these emerging challenges and build more confidently in an increasingly autonomous onchain economy. — Brian Schultz, VP of Corporate Development and Ventures at Circle Agentic Design partners can contribute real alert volumes, live transaction data and production-scale edge cases. In return, they help shape Elliptic's roadmap, get first access to new capabilities and help define the standard before the rest of the market catches up. Circle’s participation in the Agentic Design Partner Program provides Elliptic with operational insights and real-world feedback as it develops solutions for emerging on-chain financial workflows. To see how Elliptic already applies agentic AI in production, read how Elliptic's copilot automates compliance investigations while keeping analysts in control of every decision. The compliance challenge for agentic on-chain finance is not theoretical. It is being solved right now, by the teams building the infrastructure. Other vendors in this space are now claiming agentic compliance. The difference is where you build it. We are building with Circle from inside the infrastructure agents will run on, not shipping a product from the outside and hoping it fits. Circle’s participation in our Agentic Design Partner Program and Circle Ventures’ investment reinforce the importance of building agentic compliance infrastructure from within the systems and workflows these applications will rely on. —Simone Maini, CEO at Elliptic NoYes Artificial Intelligence 10 Jul, 2026

Financial It7/10/2026, 12:14:28 PMAI News
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AI Increasingly Becomes a Campaign Issue, Not Just a Campaign Tool

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly extending its influence beyond workplaces and military operations, becoming an increasingly important issue in American politics. As the U.S. heads into crucial congressional elections, AI is shaping campaign strategies, attracting massive financial backing, and fueling heated debates over regulation, jobs, and economic security.

Financialcontent7/10/2026, 2:05:00 PMAI News
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GPT-5.6 Beats Claude Fable 5 with Faster Output and Lower Costs

OpenAI’s latest release, GPT-5.6, introduces a tiered model structure designed to cater to diverse user needs while balancing performance and cost-efficiency. The three tiers, Sol, Terra and Luna, offer varying capabilities, from handling complex tasks like coding automation and multimodal processing in the premium Sol tier to supporting high-volume, repetitive operations with the economical Luna [...] The post GPT-5.6 Beats Claude Fable 5 with Faster Output and Lower Costs appeared first on Geeky Gadgets .

Geeky-gadgets7/10/2026, 1:17:00 PMAI News
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Hyundai Motor, Kia, GM Korea on verge of strike amid faltering wage talks

Hyundai Motor, Kia and General Motors (GM) Korea are edging closer to labor action amid their stalled wage negotiations, sparking concerns over production disruptions that could cost hundreds of billions of won. Hyundai Motor's union will stage a two-hour partial strike each day starting Monday, as it failed to find a breakthrough in its wage negotiation with the carmaker’s management. Unionized workers from the automaker are demanding management provide a performance bonus equivalent to 30 percent of the firm’s net profit last year — a figure seen by its management as highly excessive, as the carmaker suffered a net profit fall of more than 20 percent in 2025 in the aftermath of U.S.-imposed auto tariffs. This year’s negotiations have also stalled over a new contentious issue: manufacturing automation driven by advances in physical artificial intelligence (AI). Earlier this year, Hyundai Motor Group shared plans to gradually deploy Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robots across major production facilities in Korea and overseas, prompting strong opposition from the union. In respon

The Korea Times7/10/2026, 8:12:03 AMAI News

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