A Shanghai-based company has begun making immersion DUV lithography machines, The Information reported. ASML shares dropped 6.5%. China's share of ASML sales fell to 14%.

Antares raised $470mn to put 1MW reactors on US military bases by 2028, the deadline set by executive order. No microreactor runs in the US yet.

Enigma raised $70M from Index and Ribbit to study how humans interact with robots. 100+ robots in hangars can be controlled online. Founded by ex-Unit 8200 hackers.

Nvidia has taken a substantial stake in Safe Superintelligence, a lab with no product. SSI says the money lets it 10x compute within 12 months.

The Open Secure AI Alliance has 37 members and no Chinese ones, though a Chinese open model is what contained the Hugging Face breach it was built on.

Dopl Technologies raised $6.3M to build a telerobotic ultrasound system. Sonographers operate remotely via haptic controllers. FDA clearance is next. 90% wait time reduction.

OpenAI will lease 88,000 sq ft at Dublin's Tropical Fruit Warehouse and add 250 jobs. Meta and TikTok recently cut Irish roles. Anthropic is also expanding there.

Sam Altman casts the AI race as democracies versus authoritarians. Dario Amodei’s Anthropic wants tighter chip export controls, not looser ones.

Porsche agreed to cut 5,000 more jobs by 2035, on top of 4,400 already announced. The VW subsidiary went from profit driver to crisis case. €2.1B in factory investment secured.

Cisco researchers bypassed AI safety filters on major chatbots within five turns to elicit biological weapon information. No model was fully resistant. CDC was also blocked.

Anthropic is the only major AI lab that hasn't signed the open-weights letter. In June it argued the same case, when Washington pulled Fable 5.

After an OpenAI model hacked it, Hugging Face wants the agents' full execution traces and $100mn of compute. OpenAI has not agreed to either demand.